There's no rainbow being Critical
...The wind blows the ashes
Sitting in the apparent Sunshine
I thought I was also getting the moonshine
but I hadn't the last laugh
being critical about my sister
trying to gain my fathers favour
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Categories:
criticising, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
SHE - POTD
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She looks down her nose
At the locals in the town square
As she sips tea from her fine china cup
Pinky in the air
Criticising and complaining
Judging one and all
Negativity runs through her...
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Categories:
criticising, judgement, pain, sad, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Social graces
...Save me some of that please
the social graces
Cause I can't pretend like I don't have favour
While I'm here criticising the social graces
For I've never been in the in crowd
I had to always ...
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Categories:
criticising, appreciation, life, love, people,
Form: Free verse
A Genuine Gesture
...Genuine gesture from the heart
Is all that it takes on your part,
Ripples of kindness, to restart ~
And you can bring in... change!
Say a nice word, give an applause,
Ere critici...
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Categories:
criticising, change, motivation, simple, smile,
Form: Verse
Walk In My Shoes
...WALK IN MY SHOES
Will you live my life for me you seem to do so
Already constantly telling me what I should do
Life can be tough for me at times I dont show
Knowing I have to hear you always cr...
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Categories:
criticising, anxiety, care, depression,
Form: Acrostic
I Cannot Write Happy Syllables Anymore
...// i cannot write happy syllables anymore
the need to create a change
is fuelling literature in the insides
of my naive skin
i collect unwritten prompts
from dearth to abundance
surviving t...
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Categories:
criticising, allusion, angst,
Form: Free verse
Think Before You Criticise Your Children
...She listened to her mother talking
Her mother was as usual criticising her in front of all
As her mother went on and on
girls sadness was clearly evident on her face
It was pricking her deep insi...
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Categories:
criticising, angst, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Degradation of Environment
...He sat on a wooden chair
In front of him was a wooden table
On it was placed some paper
a bottle of packaged drinking water
Some disposable glasses
He had invited people attend his lecture on de...
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Categories:
criticising, nature,
Form: Free verse
I Thought I Was In Control
...It's not about me, it's all about you.
Every choice, every decision, every breath is all taken with you unwantedly occupying each and every square inch of my space.
I cannot move without you weighi...
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Categories:
criticising, corruption, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
A Poets Duty
...My dedication to Beth Evans
For her
A poet's duty poetry contest
7th October 2020
A poet's duty
Can come in many different guises
Depends on who or what you
yourself as an individual ar...
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Categories:
criticising, deep, trust,
Form: Free verse
Handling Criticism
... All those who criticize tarnish their image in front of everyone
Criticisms in print are best left undeleted, more they are read, more defamed their writers become
If we ignore critici...
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Categories:
criticising, abuse, allegory,
Form: List
Outcast
...My thoughts hits deeper than I expected
More like a forlorn and lonely figure
I think too hard and felt the world is against me
How harsh it is, they all made me feel like an outcast
Could this ...
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Categories:
criticising, absence, adventure, allegory, anger,
Form: Free verse
Woman In Chains
...A band of gold
bound them together
At first Sue’s blissfully happy
but little by little
he starts controlling
every aspect of her life
eroding her self confidence
by criticising ...
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Categories:
criticising, abuse, relationship, violence,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Understanding Why
...Why are we sanitising gambling,
Why are we legitimising gangs,
Why are we legalising harmful drugs,
Why are we marginalising so many,
Why are we maximising profits,
Why are we criticising anybo...
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Categories:
criticising, addiction, analogy, assonance, bereavement,
Form: Political Verse
Charity Begins At Home
...Many people'll give to strangers, folks they've never met,
While to and for their closest, they conveniently forget.
Many people will give to others on the world's other side,
But when their own a...
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Categories:
criticising, care, giving,
Form: Rhyme
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