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ChangesToo many people are sick and dying;
So many families are upset and crying.
Violence has erupted and lives are devastated:
The world is filled with fear and hatred.
2021 is finally here:
We need to make some drastic changes...
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Categories:
anti bullying, change, corruption,
Form: Verse
How did we come to thisWhen I was a child,
I thought like a child, played like a child,
free of worry and stress, innocently happy.
I dreamt of knights and dragons,
of spaceships and adventure,
my Chi clear and peaceful as the sea.
But now...
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Categories:
anxiety, betrayal, change, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
We the PeopleWe are the people of the past and the present that you have failed to represent.
We freeze in fear of the current fate of our vitality and of our future fertility
We are those that pay...
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Categories:
america, betrayal, corruption, fate,
Form: Political Verse
Truth beliesI know not what the tongues have twisted,
I know not what the eyes have forseen,
I know not what the ears have heard,
All is known what's nothing but an illusion.
When the words that fell...
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Categories:
corruption, discrimination, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
Transfer of PowerI dream a world of contrasts and evolution
Bold smartness and resolution
In so much as:
Flat things are flat for all people,
and shades of gray are not adulterated by photoshopping.
Facts and opinions regain their identities.
Deception is an...
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Categories:
corruption, dream, political,
Form: Free verse
The Brooding StormDark black ominous clouds move slowly across the mortal sphere.
A promising downpour threatens the unrest souls.
Thunderous voices of indigenous cultural split the mortal sphere.
This brooding storm, created from fallacies that suffocated the truth.
Forceful winds of...
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Categories:
corruption,
Form: Free verse
The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )
Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
teeming in the angry hordes they may,
forget to pay...
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Categories:
art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism
InaugurationInauguration..
A preliminary message
Ignited the chaos..featuring
Sharpness and compression and
Macabre hilarity.. penetrating our
Heart of Democracy..the wounding
Was not out there on the steps and rooms..
Those horrors seemed to harbor.. in the
Moment..dark facades of fascism..
Until a...
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Categories:
confidence, conflict, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse
when you just don't caremore cash
for this fake life that is my soul, less
the less i bleed, the better for hollow
and now they're dead
strangled by the web of fame
I want some caramel popcorn.
...
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Categories:
corruption, anti bullying, birthday, books,
Form: Free verse
Bluebeard - InaugurationDid you know? Did you see? Did you hear?
Did you think? Did you hope? Did you sneer?
For today is the day
that Bluebeard goes away!
Bid adieu to his mountainous rear!
...
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Categories:
corruption, farewell, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
denial casts 1st stone
Categories:
corruption, judgement, poets,
Form: Tanka
no room at the top
so the penny drops
and the buck finally...
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Categories:
allusion, america, corruption, goodbye,
Form: Senryu
The Journey of CrackersTwelve Voyagers in transit,
In the highways of Lokoja enroute Abuja,
One man wanted the natural breeze,
Another man wanted a treat to the ACs,
The others absolutely wanted nothing.
The first man got up, and
Slid the windows open,
After a...
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Categories:
conflict, corruption, hilarious, journey,
Form: Didactic
Our page in historyThis page in our history will not read too well in the future.
Tomorrow’s scholars will sigh and balk when they try to argue or justify.
Great minds of the future will not understand how...
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Categories:
corruption, courage, destiny, fear,
Form: Free verse
You were Everything for meYou were everything for me
And in our short stop in heaven I found my own light
Shining brighter
‘Sensational’ you made me feel
2021
Modern love
But alas-
Restricted;
Restriction, funny thing,
For it is only in the mind.
Overthinking
Overthink
For-see that...
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Categories:
break up, conflict, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Specific Types of Corruption Poems
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