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Civilize Poems - Poems about Civilize

Barbaric Yawps
...My mind is tribal, I hunt in the mud and slurry, I track the stars in a wooden chariot made from the ribs of a blood-clan crib. My thoughts are armored, yet as articulated as any youthful flesh......

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Categories: civilize, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Total War
...Tread not on me, brother! To live is to expand. Deterrence! Slay the Other! Cold core countermand! Boots a-click-clack, cobblestone. Midnight raid and how! Help the boy to hold his own! Sacr......

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Categories: civilize, strength,
Form: Rhyme



COME ON OKPE
...Come on OKPE and rise to the mountain top How long will thy remain in the valley Thy had been stuck and stagnant for ages By the trauma's and flaws of our ancestors Liberate your people from dece......

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Categories: civilize, africa, community, courage, culture,
Form: Pastoral
The Legend of Big Indian, Part Ii
......For years they both lived there in the crisp mountain air, the rolling ridges were their home, it was not written down, so what pleasures they found are only to history known. Come several......

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Categories: civilize, america, history, loss, lost
Form: Narrative
I Hear Music Ancient Music
...I The Reeds rest in water by faith You may recall Baby Moses' name Or you may forget the Prince of Egypt And his name, "Up from Reeds" THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Also sings to and in the Weeds Th......

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Categories: civilize, allegory, international, metaphor, music,
Form: Ekphrasis



Roar of a Lioness
...I do not have a perfect life Blue, brown, yellow, black... Orange and silver, civilize my emotions Correspond to justify my ambiguity Like a swarm of bees, protecting its hive I have succumbed t......

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Categories: civilize, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member This Has Got To Stop
...This has got to stop: Killing our citizens and Police Officers. Fourteen and thirteen year olds by their counterparts, this must stop. We have lost two very virbrant Officers of the Polic......

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Categories: civilize, anger, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Bwana Wanna Boogie
...Bwana wanna boogie on safari. Bwana wanna porter fetch his gun. Bwana wanna bag a bloody trophy. Bwana wanna kill it just for fun. Bwana wanna rumble through the jungle. Bwana wanna rummage t......

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Categories: civilize, allegory,
Form: Lyric
Wait and See
...A wonder why some people does behave suh Greedy foh dem mattie own Always want but never like to give I can't live with these people no moe Dem does get on my nerve now A de thinking dem go......

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Categories: civilize, betrayal, conflict, corruption, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Icarus Falling
...To take to wings of virtue, peace, philanthropy and truth White in purity and eyes that spread beset the flight to take To greater heights imagined dreams too lofty to the test Be not the single s......

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Categories: civilize, analogy, courage, destiny, motivation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Native People
...Noble heritage they cannot erase Ancestor’s plight laid bare for all to see Tribal identity etched in each face Invincible spirit their pedigree Various......

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Categories: civilize, conflict, courage, discrimination, murder,
Form: Acrostic
Asinine Alcohol
...Asinine alcohol alters me into a paper sniper Ready to bounce and pounce on any challenger Who dares to dance his lance in the path of my pied piper Primed to civilize and sanitise viewpoints of ......

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Categories: civilize, poems,
Form: Free verse
How It Strikes a Contemporary
...(On 28 June 1914, in the Balkan town of Sarajevo, an attempt to assassinate a royal Austrian duke failed miserably ... or did it? Gabriel Princips, one of the plotters, stopped for a coffee and b......

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Categories: civilize, history,
Form: Blank verse
Wrote This Before They Finally Realized
...Christopher Colombus- Celebrating Genocide You stepped foot on the birth canal of my ancestors, pure, sacred, loved. you smiled.. proceeded with greed. your civilization like disease. my people soon were infected your protest to "civilize" a free nation took flight on the wings of a lie. you told us were sent by a god. this god, we wondered, why did he send you to destroy us? haven't you said he was holy? haven't you said......

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Categories: civilize, betrayal, holocaust, nonsense, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentment
...are you free, humanity, by power of love or in chain by love of power or by lack of it? a student of The School of Resentment asks… back in time, at such dominant spaces called Shunganun......

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Categories: civilize, community, home, native american,
Form: I do not know?

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