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Best Usurpation Poems

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Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, Usurpation
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.

Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self...

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Categories: usurpation, abuse, anger, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sacred Ecology
I first ran across this term
Sacred Ecology
while reading Gregory Bateson
sharing a phylogenic
and holonic 
creolization
of ecosystemic language
with others speaking of and with integrity
as more primal and...

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Categories: usurpation, destiny, earth, games, gender,
Form: Political Verse
A Tyrant's Respondent
A Tyrant's Respondent

If a tyrant has no power;
then tease him.
If he has few followers;
then mock them.
If a tyrant's men try usurpation;
then slaughter them.
And when he...

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Categories: usurpation, philosophy, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Speaking To No
what do i say to No?
when i know what not to do
but i know not what to do.

when Winter dies into Spring
and i must share...

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© Sam Toil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: usurpation, philosophy, society,
Form: Free verse
Solstice
The usurpation of the annual right of solstice
by a quarrelsome religious upstart,
Lead to the re-designation of the celebration
due to its now newly designated Holy part.

In...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: usurpation, funny, holiday,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Good Society
Is there a doctor in the house?
A cryptic message from the uniting nations,
looking for yet another credentialed ecotherapist
to surgically remove all our economic and political...

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Categories: usurpation, community, earth, health, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Glittery Oblivion
The corridor is darkly invasive
usurpation knows not where it steers,
my nightgown caught on wildfire, 
ending was indubitably a flimsy inferno
dreaming phantasma went up in smoke
i...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: usurpation, allegory, dream, hyperbole, imagination,
Form: Imagism
A Mingled Tale
The foliage unruffled, 		 the tree trunks utterly baffled
                ...

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Categories: usurpation, earth, environment,
Form: Ballad
Lost In Humanity
Aggressive, befitting candor,
defies empathetic fervor.
Grave honesty is just,
kindness literally must not.
Omen partakes ***** retribution,
savoring tantamount usurpation.
Vulgar words expound,
yields to zero...

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Categories: usurpation, introspection, loss, society, word
Form: Abecedarian
Pacific Papa Pedals Perspicacious Persiflage Panacea
the following sloop of words rowed and towed together as they 
came into my periscoptic poop deck with slight emendation 
from thee oar ridge in...

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Categories: usurpation, addiction, allusion, america, angst,
Form: Alliteration
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years
As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...

Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what...

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Categories: usurpation, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Time Is Truth
Tell you an approach to rid of your doubts without 
Practicing divination by tortoise’s shell and yarrow.
It takes three days of fire to single a...

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Categories: usurpation, philosophy, time, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Awaiting My Modified Pea Nile Sent Tense
No way to dodge fiat decreeing death sentence 
for this rambling man
cheesy alias con commit tented mouse élan
Who felt unready to kick the can
On account...

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Categories: usurpation, absence, adventure, angst, dad,
Form: Free verse
Electorate On Tenterhooks Until
Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2020 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning November third two thousand twenty
heightened tensions will strain...

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Categories: usurpation, 12th grade, bullying, change,
Form: Free verse
Trumpasaurus Extinction Highly Unlikely
Huge life like mockup 
rigged up to bark
dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity
diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf
pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words
greets visitors at formerly named
Mosquito State...

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Categories: usurpation, allusion, anger, animal, anti
Form: Rhyme

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