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Best Tables Are Turned Poems


Once the Tables Have Turned
You may be sitting high and mighty now my friend 
but you will not always be 
for your unearned happiness will one day end 
should you live long enough, you'll definitely see. 
Your only interests in life is having fun 
you're the life of the...

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Categories: tables are turned, education, irony, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
When the Tables Have Turned
The sky touches the ground. 

                                       The...

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Categories: tables are turned, faith, life, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
The Tables Have Turned
A Kid roamed free on the streets last week,
Doing mean and illegal acts,
He apparently robbed a corner store,
But nobody knows the facts.
He never bothered to go to school,
For the past – what – seven years?
Instead he smoked illegal drugs,
And drunk too many beers.

He looked like...

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Categories: tables are turned, anger, character, evil, school,
Form: Rhyme

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Tables Have Turned
All I knew was pain
The way a fall bruised torn leg remained 
Intact back together again
I stand

No crutches to hold
Affirmative message made morals to grow
not related
Generated 

Injections made whole
Inserting manufactured drugs FDA protested and sold
Bold laced given mysteries
Blindsided consumers greed

Elevated markets crash dummy dense 
Signals...

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Categories: tables are turned, hope, drug,
Form: Free verse

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