Best Tarnishes Poems

Bastille


Many years ago
They stormed the Bastille
Two hundred and one lost their lives
The tennis court oath however survived

Jacques had his heart with the masses
Necker could not be dismissed so easily
The storming of the Bastille was to be
The birth of a nation for all men free

And free...

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How many people on this planet may
be able to declare they’ve known true love?
I do not mean the kind that goes away
when things get bad because there’s plenty of
that kind of love! It’s often based on lust,
for give it time. . . the sparkle it...

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The People from Those ****-Hole Countries

The people from “those” ****-Hole countries, eh??
Really?? Really?? You don’t say?? I didn’t know that!!
 
This is a recent stream of consciousness comment, which
constitutes a new low in the American political discourse,
courtesy of, none other than “America’s Infamous Circus-
Show Master”...

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What are the things that tarnishes wishes
Which is when I became deeply suspicious
Was it a word in a poem I recently read?
Which way by word was I being lead?

Maybe such a word was useless and trite
In poem not perfect or fit exactly right
So at it...

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Everybody lies; it's part of the norm,
for truth, like a coin, tarnishes with age.
Honesty, being a stickler for form,
is best portrayed in movies or on stage.

Everybody cries; it's what humans do,
it is all part of love's ultimate price.
And the pain of betrayal's nothing new,
lovers oft...

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He is an ant,nonentity and an entertainer,
He walks half naked in torn clothes,
dance openly in the market square
to music that is not there,
The crowd applaud with amusement.

He has no home
dump hill or underground tunnel serves as his niche,
has many relatives who come to
watch him display,
He...

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Man Walks In Darkness

    Sad excuse, not a plus
    just ask Simon Cowell
    Freedom found on a bus,
    words of Colin Powell
    Darkness and deceit, joined happily racing hand in...

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Statue and Mercury



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I cry for you democracy dear
          will i ever see you, ever
          i mourn for freedom that will never be
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Life at its beginning is white for all
Cleanly and perfect- singular in design
Warm fed and comfortable
But life through the ages tarnishes the white
Sometimes as sudden as a bucket of black paint
Drenched and permeated and you soak for days
You try to get white and clean but
There...

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As the tree loose its leaves in winter and hibernation draws closer
And the clock of time speeds towards the end of my life
I hope you will be patient with me
Understanding that old age slows you down
Steals your eyesight
Consumes your senses
Tarnishes your pride
Diminishes your spirit 
Break...

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i wear this ring of rage like a noose around my neck
i tightens round my twisted thoughts until my mind's train wrecked
i wear this ring of rage and it cuts off circulation
love and light seem dark and dire
i'm headed for destruction
i wear this ring of...

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There is a universal catastrophic problem.
No nation or continents want to help solve them.
There are deft defying tribulations.
This affects us all not just those poor nations.
Famine and diseases plague every form of life.
I pray to my Lord Jesus Christ.
We as a people pretend to care.
I...

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Being a prostitute,
                                     Is not a substitute-
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(let go
of that rhythmic well- dodging
dream-filled pennies of false hopes

silence describes the endless trip
from handtowater
how oxygen tarnishes copper plate

drowning
sinking into stone surrounded confinement
to lay motionless
on the bottom

there the struggle ends
from a fall
to a swaying plummet

and then hope
abandoned
below crushing weight of desire)

Pennies only purchase passage....

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