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Best Untouchables Poems

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Premium Member The Untouchables
Long to touch the rows  u p o n  rows of coneflowers,
but the bees, they b u z z, and the butterflies own.
Favorite...

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Categories: untouchables, garden,
Form: Rhyme



Untouchables
In this poor life we’ve been condemned to die,
Forever stuck in our unwanted caste;
Pawns, broken by society,
Hunched at the pyramid's base we lie;
We are the...

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© Erica Rose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untouchables, corruption, life, poverty, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: untouchables, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Domino Effect
At long last
the woman in her rebelled!    
Overcoming fear and shame
she spoke out
not in a whisper
but loud, clear; determined
to end the torment...

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Categories: untouchables, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mirror World
Oh in the mirror world, she dances on a stag all her own,
A reflected ballerina, stepping ever lightly in the shaded
Silhouettes of yesterday, twin figures...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untouchables, beauty, devotion, friendship, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"



A writer writes of people 
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all

like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors...

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Categories: untouchables, depression, family, friendship, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Greatest Valentine
The greatest Valentine this world has ever know
Is Christ whose depth of love the cross has shown
It is this humble man from Galilee
Who loved and...

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Categories: untouchables, jesus,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Touch, Taboo
I sip Long Island Tea, watch your bare knees upon the tiles,
      the suits and Blaneks pass you, unaffected by...

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Categories: untouchables, people, prejudice, society, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
evolves from enthymematic roots
toward mutually empathic,
darkly transparent
nondual dark energy

Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
pregnant...

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Categories: untouchables, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Worthless Pawns
The faded shacks stretch 'neath the stained grey sky,
As stagnant urine and disease creep in.
Hunched at the pyramid's tight base we lie;
Looked down upon by...

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© Erica Rose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untouchables, class, death, hindi, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member They Called Him Diamond
They Called Him Diamond

They called him Diamond still do and his colour is black like 
scorched earth frozen shadows of hell shafted and grafted on...

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Categories: untouchables, power,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Kissing Deep Salt
Dealing with deep touching issues sleepless nights worried
lovingly do not understand my head anymore teardrops keep falling weakness 
cut from finest silk cannot take this...

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Categories: untouchables, conflict, courage, devotion, emotions,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Unicorns Are Us
“Unicorns are Us” 

You can only imagine
the furore 
when magick
hit the score
the Party, not impressed,
was not for witches
too big for their
britches on brooms,
said all the...

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Categories: untouchables, magic, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Brahman Nemesis
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untouchables, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Teresa
Swarms of flies infest teary eyes,
the untouchables have no worth.
And live and die in the gutters,
shunned by society since birth.

The sick occupy the shadows,
where death...

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Categories: untouchables, angst, blessing, caregiving, christian,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things