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Best Turn A Blind Eye Poems

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Life Is Like a Pizza Pie
Your life is like a pizza pie, 
With wisdom you should long or yearn; 
It is not just a food to eat,
But also a lesson...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, poems,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Faith and Chocolate
our God is bountiful because


Jesus is Robin Hood turning the tables in the forest temple

and Friday treasures an island of hope in my child’s mind

‘you...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, god,
Form: Free verse
Syrian Refugees
SYRIAN REFUGEES

I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees

I'm watching the desperate faces
The terror and hunger...

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© Jim Bates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn a blind eye, political, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tainted Hearts
So many people suffer 
as they condemn others with extreme hate
raping hearts violently shredding inner purity 
inside deep council cries as ugly visions hurt
tainted with...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, christian, cry, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire and Ice

Embers and snowflakes, fire and ice;
     opposites joined in many ways.
          Embers...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, metaphor, war, weather, world,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member One Vision of a World Turned Upside Down
A silver shawl hangs heavy over the mountain 
sky grey clouds shooting gun barrel smoke hiding sunlight 

Looking out towards the ocean dreaming in wild...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, blessing, hope, love, love
Form: Couplet
Feelings My Feelings
26th &27th January 2012
By Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian)

Alone I sat on the wet sands,
Of the Sernabatim beach lands.
The sun reflected blue sky,
On the greenish grey waters...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, inspirational, nature, passion, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Consumed By Shadows
Are we truly masters of our own destiny
Or are we lost, left slipping on the edge of fate
Bloody and bruised knuckles just trying for dear...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, life, life, world, life,
Form: Free verse
Bending Backward
Bending Backward



We seem to bend backward
Where the truth is told
We seem to lean forward
To coruscating gold.
When conscience is dead
Our blunt nerve is teased
When cruelty fills...

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Categories: turn a blind eye,
Form: Ballad
Stray Dog
He who is born in the ruthless streets of a busy city
I am without a home
A family
Nor a companion
I am all alone

My homes differ from...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, animal, dog, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Doom
They don’t believe the Earth is dying
Slowly, painfully, day by day
They think that money can fix the problems
For the few they admit, they sit and...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, life, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Ja You Are So Right
What temprate joy began with

Such afterglow took away

Once forensic dissertation 
dismantling the evidence sends

When massaged vanity and 
guily platitudes are subsidised
overcome by inertial reality

As fraud...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, slam,
Form: Free verse
Alienation
I am a stranger in an alien land,
Always searching  for eternal youth,
Controlled by an aristocracy with
Little time for honesty and truth.
The food banks are...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, christmas, class, humanity, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Patrick Oflanagan
Patrick O’Flanagan’s covert shenanigans
Make people ask where he gets to at night
There’s a perception that Patrick O’Flanagan
Visits a door with a glowing red light

What people...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, age, dance, humorous, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Shackles of Apartheid
I look all round me and I’m engulfed by shame 
I see people chanting freedom 
But they have nothing tangible to show they are free...

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Categories: turn a blind eye, africa,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs