Boycotted Poems

Premium MemberBoycott Divest and Sanction

...Correction the ice cream giants Ben and  Jerry are not members of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel! But they are Jewish and  BDS supporters! The movement is reaching out towar...
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Categories: boycotted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberAlphabet On Display

...Abominable Aborigine
Boycotted Baltimore’s Bakery
Canady Canola’s Cannery
Decoded deceitful debauchery

Endless energetic energy
Forwarded farmyard frolicking for a fee
Geographically greeting...
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Categories: boycotted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian


The Tragedy of 1948

...the tragedy of 1948 

Israel declared statehood the west was happy
the Jews had suffered much and deserved a state
the fact that 700 thousand Palestinians lost 
their homeland was overlooked.
W...
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Categories: boycotted, anti bullying, arabic, best
Form: Blank verse

What the Rabble Have Done

...They taxed us without our consent,
we who though we were Englishmen,
said we had no say in governance,
so we simply boycotted them,
threw their tea into the harbor,
let them know that we’d had e...
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Categories: boycotted, adventure, america, england, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member1984

...What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and

Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen

Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high

While Band Ai...
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Categories: boycotted, conflict,
Form: Free verse


The Way I Am

...A casualty of a personality similarity, apparently,
though it's not apparent to me, 
maybe in a parallel reality with unparalleled insanity.

My motto is true individuality breeds pure originalit...
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Categories: boycotted, change, character, courage, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Like Being Oblivious

...I boycotted the news
many years ago, maybe
thirty, or forty

If other people would
stop talking about it,
I would have no clue
about
politics or
school shootings.

I like being oblivious.
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Categories: boycotted, magic, peace, self,
Form: Free verse

Nra Game

...Parent boycotted schools across the USA
And not for one day

They are demanding better gun laws
Eliminating the assault weapon flaw

Military hardware is not for hunting game
Dead children is ...
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Categories: boycotted, environment, high school, innocence,
Form: Limerick

The Poem and the Poet

...I boycotted searching for the right persons
I am out to find the right relationship
That If a must I date or fall for
Should be one who gear me towards my life goals
Maybe a poetess yes or a swee...
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Categories: boycotted, friendship love, i love
Form: Ballad

Forest Adventure

...I moved deep into the forests not my home
There lived liberal minded monkeys
They sat me on a heap of banana peelings
And lectured me about flora and fauna life

Young liberal monkeys edged me a...
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Categories: boycotted, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberHistory Times

...Once upon an evolving time
we were a great first nation,
or second nation,
depending on your historical perspective,
but definitely not a third nation
although some cooperative economists
thoug...
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Categories: boycotted, community, health, history, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Once Upon a Time

...Once upon a time in times forgotten
A land saw great conspiracy
nameless deleted scores of people
leaders sabotaged investigations

Journalists boycotted meetings
and refused to pen down issues...
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Categories: boycotted, leadership, power, satire,
Form: Elegy

Drop the Mic

...Ida-        “I was the first one not to move on the train
              I won a settlement, for my emotional pain”

Rosa-       “But I was the one who went down in history
              So I’ll s...
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Categories: boycotted, books, pain,
Form: Narrative

Forgiveness

...You ask for my forgiveness,
Saying it was done in grief,
What was it then,
When you boycotted my shower,
My wedding,
My house warming party,
My baby shower,
The birth of my son
(Your first great gran...
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Categories: boycotted, family, grandmother,
Form: Free verse

The Times Were Changing: the Eighties

...The hair now had bright colors
With music, came a rap craze
The style of dress was so different
Things changed in so many ways

Malls had become the hot spots
As video games made the scene
The...
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Categories: boycotted, history, life
Form: Quatrain

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