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Common People Poems - Poems about Common People

Premium MemberThe World Is Bleeding

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    The world is bleeding, each must agree :
    Chaotic commotion ! Indeed.
      Seems ‘Morality’ to bury :
    Humanity is killed by greed.

    All around running corruption -
    The wor...
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Categories: common people, how i feel,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberLive Free, Stay Good

...There are 144,000 persons living in an open land.  All are freemen and women.  They have everything they needed to survive until one day when almost all people needed something else to quench their t...
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Categories: common people, life,
Form: Prose



Premium MemberBlessed

...Our church for common people
Stands here in the yard
Its shining silver steeple
Is crowned with two hearts
With hand on heart, our faith
Does not require a cross 
We’re of the gentlest race
Ou...
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Categories: common people, endurance, heartbroken, hope, i
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAzure Vistas

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"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...
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Categories: common people, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

WITHOUT STRESS

... The married want 
a divorce.
   There's a cowboy who
 can't ride a horse.

   The lonely want 
to be loved.
   The guilty don’t want
to be judged.

   The kids want 
to grow-up.
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Categories: common people, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFanfares 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Over the last half-century, man has been replaced
By technocratic ideas of what a man is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 ma...
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Categories: common people, political,
Form: Free verse

the academic

...The academic
Chris Hedge is an active academic to the left of
Politics, who often lament that we common people know nothing about what the greedy Capitalists are up to when seeking wealth and more ...
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Categories: common people, absence, abuse, birthday, character,
Form: Free verse

To The Common People

...This is to the humble barbers, humble farmers,

average Joannas & Joes

who give their all, day in day out,

but who most will never know

You all deserve recognition,

whether people know ...
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Categories: common people, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

The World Has Turned

...When the years has passed by with Trump as our Guiding light. The path that is righteous during his time was ripped from people who Listened to the Harsh Words of the Main Media outlets of the World....
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Categories: common people, 12th grade, america, anger,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberWilliam Wordsworth

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English poet, William Wordsworth,
wrote to serve the common people on the earth.
Along with Samuel Coleridge, the Romantic Age he started.
Support for free thought his words imparted....
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Categories: common people, poets,
Form: Clerihew

Premium MemberBILOCATION

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         BILOCATION

    This is a happenstance of early last Century . An Indian saint was renowned
    to have power of bilocation . An European was waiting for his wife to visit
    India . ...
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Categories: common people, adventure, miracle,
Form: Haibun

The Common Poet

...I have conversed with the common man
in warm and well-worn pubs.
I have been a ribald, and a leery lout,
a seducer of barmaids.
I have been common,
the way a city pidgin is common,
its scabbed ...
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Categories: common people, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Fallen Heroes

...Fallen heroes 
By Michelle Morris
02/10/2021 

It's so sad, the fallen heroes;
Those we once looked up to, so high;
From pedestals, they topple down
To the hell created storms... 

No use tr...
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Categories: common people, corruption, hero, humanity, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Sock Drawer Poets

...Sock drawer poets they called us,
All our scribblings secreted away,
Composed then filed unread,
Hidden from the light of day.
And then along came the Tablet
And universal broadband,
Fast Inter...
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Categories: common people, poems, poetry, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBlinkn Winkn and Nod

...This looks like Blink’n Wink’n and Nod the old-timer said.
He was a lifelong reader, this guy we call Frankenstein Fred.
I thought it was Wink’n Blink’n and Sod, I said to rile him up.
He rolled h...
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Categories: common people, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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