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Cheapened Poems - Poems about Cheapened

Dispensations of Grace

...Hard considerations for the future of mankind 
The bard sings commiserations as he looks for what he cannot find
A shard of intimidations hurled toward the innocent and kind 
A card that invokes i...
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Categories: cheapened, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBunch of limericks and other funny tricks I

..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche...
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Categories: cheapened, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberPutrid Peace Plan for Israel

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Lasting peace since time began, was never won nor made by man.
Treaties are made, then hastily broken, like cheapened, tin cans.

Israel was just offered to capitulate to all inhumane, dem...
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Categories: cheapened, abuse, anti bullying, how
Form: Rhyme

Love Is Not Always Love, Part I

...I hear folks say it, “Love is love,”
a mantra they like to repeat,
it’s said with such vapid sureness
you’d think it was bleatings of sheep.
But if you stop to think of it,
turn the thought over...
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Categories: cheapened, emotions, evil, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnother Dumb Poem

...In a world of confusion 
Sitting here musing
Advanced as we are 
Have we gone to far
What ever you need to know 
Your knowledge you wish to grow
Look at your phone it will show
The time of tec...
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Categories: cheapened, baby, child,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberPulp Diction

...I've had enough of the usless drivel, hypersenitivity and endless snivels
We're more fulfilled I hear so often, yet the fruit on show to me seems rotten!
A girl of 9 cut down by a gun, floods of dr...
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Categories: cheapened, abuse, allegory, anger, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTime For Change

...I believe there are still honest politicians
Who try to do their best for our country,
While others, out of grandiose ambitions
Couldn’t give a fig, to put it rather bluntly.
Some fas...
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Categories: cheapened, change, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse

False Truths

...Let me bring it to your attention and surprise
Of the foolish things purported to be wise
Lofty language and personalities are their guise
A hope seller's haven of clout and enterprise
Claiming s...
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Categories: cheapened, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Am I a Snob

...Am I a snob 



Going for lunch at the downstairs restaurant 
the staff was busy and had no time to greet us 
the food we had ordered beforehand arrive an hour late
I had a glass of wine but o...
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Categories: cheapened, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse

Throne of Pain

...Broken feelings…
My chest of gold
A torments ransom
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer deep...
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Categories: cheapened, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Love Like Codeine

...your love was pure
pure like fire
ephemeral and fleeting
and bore a desire

now lost and broken
contemptuous of what's cheapened
I dream of illusions
though I am not sleeping

your love was...
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Categories: cheapened, humor, humorous, lonely, lost
Form: Ode

Throne of Pain

...Broken feelings
My chest of gold
A ransom of torment
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer dee...
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Categories: cheapened, feelings, pain,
Form: Free verse

My Hijab

...I am a real Muslim woman 
The one that obey the rules of my unseen God 
And give total submission to the prophet teaching 
To wear hijab and be free from all conundrum of life 

I am a real Musl...
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Categories: cheapened, women,
Form: Free verse

Primal Beat

...merciless genocide 
     slaughter of native peoples 
     wrought with (super) wanton zeal
feeble ability to thwart 

     "discoverers" rapine wicked onslaught 
     merely ratcheted wrecked ...
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Categories: cheapened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberMiss Teenage Hawaii

...My birthright are the emerald islands in the sparkling
Waters of the Pacific Ocean,
With the beckoning sun, the cresting waves, and the jeweled sands,
A paradise in the lore of sailors far and wid...
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Categories: cheapened, angst, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

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