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Best You Get What You Deserve Poems

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Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme



Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feigned Flames
The moon dances 
on lonely nights,
to astral beams of
the clear quartz milky way~
I lay in an olive meadow
designed in fragrant
promises,
hidden between thorns 
and thistles disguised
as...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Please
~PLEASE~
 
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
 
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song! 
Don't worry mommy,...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Rule the World
Real women
Understand a very simple yet important concept.
Love begins at home.
Everything else just follows.

To eliminate
Hatred from the world
Entails raising children with love and guidance.

Women deserve...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, power,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member In the Flesh
Introducing: Casarah Nance & Poet Destroyer

Scars of empty promises are darkened by your kiss.
Torturous touches are meant to soothe my pain.
It is without gain, without...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, adventure, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Just a Man
You sat there crying with tears rolling down you face
Asked me why I didn’t show you any compassion
All I could say was that: 
‘I’m just...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: you get what you deserve, absence, lost love, love
Form: Prose
Premium Member Unloved
She cocooned herself
Spinning the thread tightly
Around her troubled mind
Knowing out there
Out there were the people
Who watched her unwind
Who could not be kind
Losing ground
Every day
She fought...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, crazy,
Form: Free verse
A Poet With a Priceless Pen
I am poet with a priceless pen
born to burnish the beauty of men.
I wonder what mortal mirrors reflect...
For me, all races deserve respect.

I often hear...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, analogy, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member We All Belong
I was told that I should die, because of the color of my skin.
It didn’t matter what I thought or even what I believed in.
I...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Life Not Lived
I am not remembered in any form or way
Undeserving of their love and respect.
I understand, and yet I grieve.
For myself.

For what I lost
Ignoring the ones...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seamstress of Time
I have a special story I wish to share
About a seamstress beautiful and fair

She would fade away turning into smoke
Of her amazing beauty, no man...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, dedication, devotion, faith, history,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -

- JANUARY -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grading On the Curve
I’ve been told, I deserve so much,
for the work I've done, for the lives I touch.

I would like to say, my dear friend,
what I deserve,...

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Categories: you get what you deserve, inspirational, jesus, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things