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Society Standards
Society has exactly no bounds.
Now many of you males and females judge yourself by the pound.
Scared to be your own person because society expects you to look a way, act a way, and be a way.
"Every look you take in the mirror distorts your vision...

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Categories: standards, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Double Standards Withstanding
I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.

Eyes closed to the importance of veracity,
You belabor simplicity with objectivity denounced
As you are drawn only to the iconoclastic.
I long to visualize cronyism obliterated.


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Categories: standards, allegory, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Double Standards
When one makes viable peace 
Between erstwhile colonial whites 
And erstwhile colonized blacks 
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such was the case in South Africa. 

‘It is all for the greater good’
The activists will proclaim
The judges proudly pronounce
‘The triumph...

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Categories: standards, conflict, peace, political,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Double Standards
You don't miss a slice off a cut loaf
At least that's what most cheaters would say. 
But they're not talking about their wives
Because in their minds they have surmised
That their wives would never view life this way

So if this is a carved in stone fact...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Beauty Standards
Mirror mirror on the wall, tell me the beauty standard that society set for all.
  Telling a woman how to behave, submitting all stereotypes and make her feel 
               ...

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© Sonu Sonu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gold Political Nutrition Standards
If political scientists study power relationships,
could economists study interior and exterior communications
for cooperative/competitive nurturing for/against
empowerment/disempowerment
integral win/win health association
through disintegrating
pathologica win/losel 
dissociation trends?

Both political and economic researchers,
one and all together,
of sound neurologically wealthy
monotheistic AnthroMind
and ecologically healthy 
polytheistic EarthBody
regenerating ribonucleic integrity's
co-invested win/win
eco-politically empowering potential.

Our not-so-hidden cooperative DNA-crown
RNA-rooted...

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Categories: standards, beautiful, culture, health, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Double Standards
In a situational disaster 
disintegrating faster 
I need a little chat
with a mate, I got a bastard!

Who can't give his hand,
time is precious on demand,
not a fan of understanding, 
he'll dis you and abandon.

Write it off as senseless,
and somewhat unimportant,
distance himself from involvement
and ignore it.

When...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, people, perspective, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty Standards
Oh my god she's so fat, 
her stomach has rolls. 
And her thighs shake when she walks, 
unbelievable that, 
someone would comment on someone's folds. 
“Her double chin is visible when she talks.”  
Eating in front of someone and pray, 
pray that they don't...

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Categories: standards, beauty, endurance, hate, identity,
Form: Free verse
Standards Must Be Maintained
Standards Must Be Maintained

By Elton Camp

Many unworthy persons at Downton Abbey reside
Including insufferable snobs who are hard to abide
The earl can’t manage to keep the finances afloat
His countess, on an aristocratic title does dote

Lady Mary seems to bring the kiss of death to men
Which suitor...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, angst, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
Double Standards
Now this is a double standard
I lend her my shirt and don't squawk 
Later, I borrow just one dress
Then it is like "We need to talk"

Santa knows when you are asleep
And he knows when you are awake
But if I knew, that about you
My freedom would...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
New Relationships, New Standards
Another piece to someone new.
Hopefully they procede with caution.
Please dont hurt me
My heart has been though enough
Show it love, kindness,
Cause it to soar...not fall
Failure would cause utter destruction.
Well, for me anyway.
But I have faith in you.
I have faith in us.
Dont lie to me. I dont...

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Categories: standards, faith, girlfriend-boyfriend, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Higher Standards
I love, am loved by God.
Soul you heal with God's love.
I've grown up from the pit of low level thinking and
low level receiving.
I can learn to appreciate the lessons that I have
learned so that I may go on and obtain higher standards
in my spiritual walk...

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Categories: standards, change, courage, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Standards
I have always been in love with the idea of love.

How the light would be brighter and skies more blue,

birds singing and flowers all over the mountains.

But then I saw you and your eyes so full of darkness

and I found comfort in the stars

and I...

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Categories: standards, art, devotion, love, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Double Standards
The expectations given to me I 
have not met
Unlike others I can't always 
forgive and forget
Like the time you said whole 
heap of lies to me
And you wonder why I have an 
issue with honesty
I haven't quite met up to your 
dreams
But all that glitters...

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Categories: standards, painme, time, me, time,
Form: Rhyme
Pretty Is
When she was six years old,
she tried to make her hair look like 
how a friend’s did in school
but her coils wouldn’t kink anymore.
Her mama caught her
and asked her what she was doing.
She said: “Making my hair pretty.” 

Her mama said; 

“Pretty is fair skin;...

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Categories: standards, beautiful, beauty, black african
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry