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Common Man Poems - Poems about Common Man

Premium Member Fanfares of the Common Man
At the breakdown of ages man disappears and reappears In the form of an easy-to-use scheme Over the last half-century, man has been replaced By technocratic ideas of what a man is But the real man can no longer fit into these forms, which have shrunk like old clothes. At the breakdown of ages, man is left to himself. Politicians and their...

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Categories: common man, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Common Man
You've a funny gate my friend, I don't mean to offend.. have you broken something recently? it's of little concern, thank you in a while, maybe you'll see won't be needin' it anyway. Can't make out what your saying, or what you mean.., have you lost your voice, can't you speak? yes, though I daren't above a whisper though...

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Categories: common man, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse



The Common Man
to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen The common man gets up in the morning To work in. order to feed his family, The common man struggles to make ends meet Not letting his family go hungry, The common man prays for his family daily From any hurt harm or danger That's what the common man does. The common loves his wife and kids, Holding...

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Categories: common man, hero, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
War of the Common Man
WAR OF THE COMMON MAN I live in the Land of America where no politician stays honest. Everything they promise us becomes a lie to keep our salaries uncertain and modest. The government taxes more than we can afford. Politicians claim there's no choice. They're taking away all our freedoms. The poor have no money or voice. There'll be a Day of Rebellion. Blood will...

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Categories: common man, america, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
An Ordinary Man
Every Day, My Father got up early And sat there, in the dark, like a mushroom, And thought, and thought, and thought… And... grieved... He would not be the hero that he'd hoped, An ordinary fellow with flat feet... What DID he think? enveloped in the pre-dawn hush? Perhaps he thought up all the ways that he would live the day, And do some...

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Categories: common man, appreciation, father, memory, men,
Form: Free verse



The Common Man
He may not be famous or rich, no not he Born into oppression, struggled to be free Toiled in the fields, and factories too With his back bent in hard labor, all day through. Though but a footnote in his generation Only one person, he helped build a nation A woman at his side, they worked hand in hand With faith in...

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Categories: common man, inspirational, tribute,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Common Man I Am
Common Man I Am common man I am divinely made within sin I'm just so common 2/15/18 written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018© Haiku from anthology “Actually Happening My True Testimony Reality”...

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Categories: common man, community, corruption, creation, destiny,
Form: Haiku
Song of a Common Man
REVISED When I was young I ignored age and never thought of passing time or viewed the products of its rage upon this changing face of mine. At that age blessed through life to go, to walk high peaks close to the sun, and think the clock was moving slow above where the dark valleys run. Slower the step with shortened stride descending to the...

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Categories: common man, age, destiny, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
No Fanfare For This Common Man
zealotry yawping within un pretentious sporty, quirky, oddly, manly, kooky, impisly, gummy, edgy, dorky, cocky, belly airs to disseminate, a quick literary flourishing brushstroke no on nest to dog lie 'n, tie gears (tigers) boot this chap bears, who copped,...

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Categories: common man, adventure, animal, blessing, body,
Form: I do not know?
Life of Common Man
Home and office are limited, the point of my life. More work than me and no more prize. Money is also limited to me, no other arrangement's. Salary does not get much bank and balance is empty. The home is expensive now,the family is a also expecting me How to tell them my pain,their hopes are in the future. So,those who...

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Categories: common man, aubade, august, bangla, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Common Man Biography
The life of a common man Left to his own ways He shares his life through words From the edges of a page Inside his story produces A long-winded tale expressed But fine is its story intertwined With life’s long road impressed This man has no longer a page That is empty of life’s journey Every detail is written down And it surely feels like plenty-- Of...

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Categories: common man, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Common Man
Begin Thus spoke the Premier in a solemn voice Announced the implementation of a new plan There are too many scams, I had no choice It is to benefit the common man At the stroke of midnight when the corrupt sleep Their misdeeds in the past sixty-year span Will be exposed when the new changes creep It is to benefit the common man The...

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Categories: common man, men,
Form: Rhyme
On Fanfare For the Common Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVB0B1_Ts Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" Drums play ears listen Visions display eyes glisten. The quiet burns as freedom yearns. Trumpeters announce man's every ounce. Distant thunder sounds love should abound. Embrace the words, the message of life's echo, its solitary vestige. Here we live and proudly stand the everyday un-common man Struggling to...

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Categories: common man, humanity, obituary,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry For the Common Man
It's 3 P.M, Sitting, staring at the reruns of Jeopardy and Seinfield a microwave steak and some potatoes sit gingerly on the tray, crunchy and frozen.... It's 5 P.M., a bottle of room temperature beer cuddles itself around my hands some potato chips spread across my lap..... the television remote and I sit inches apart yet, the separation feels like...

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Categories: common man, anger, anxiety, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poems For the Common Man
He wrote poems for the common man, That everyone could understand. Gave us life in rhyming works of art. Brought smiles that could lead to tears. Made us face our hidden fears. Touched our souls then led us to our heart. He painted skies with blues and grays. With images that danced in haze, To songs that whispered through the winds of...

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Categories: common man, blessing, inspiration, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

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