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Defacto Poems - Poems about Defacto
Dear global leaders keep on rockin in the free world
...Dear global leaders - keep on rockin' in the free world after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms, especially affecting marginalized groups of people. I vote for more lenient, pro......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
defacto,
america, atheist, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier Tell tale indelible woe y'all privy to learn yours truly harbors traces of the masterful impregnable prepubescent wall still extant scads of decades si......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
defacto,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
This Is How
... This is How (the Dastardly Deed Went Down) Brown shirts, black boots Shaved conscience, paramilitary spooks Marching turncoat lockstep to the Bennie Arn band, fo......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
defacto,
freedom, political, power, violence,
Form:
Ode
Ted Charlotte Wilbur and Jane Go For Defacto
...for Ted it is defacto for Wendy it is marriage they cannot agree until a baby carriage because Ted’s mother wears the pants and he quickly folds for Charlotte it is defacto for John it is ma......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
defacto,
marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Between Scylla and Charybdis
...Greek mythological drama flourishes, nee thrives within noggin of yours truly gods and goddesses sporting Hellenic origins purportedly cavort higgledy-piggledy rampantly running ragged rum......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
defacto,
allegory, analogy, destiny, fire,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Traces of the masterful impregnable prepubescent wall still extant scads of decades since complex edifice erected to force tall permanently leaving me unmoored, marooned, and furloughed ready fo......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
defacto,
analogy, discrimination, heartbreak, image,
Form:
Free verse
Harumph To Holiday Hoopla Phish Pshaw
...Harumph To Holiday Hoopla – Phish Pshaw! Relieved of fatherhood Saint Nick schtick found me to relinquish ratty outfit, and stow away zee bras like padding and "FAKE flowing beard, ah...don't ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
defacto,
angel, childhood, christmas, conflict,
Form:
Political Verse
A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
...A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over When your poems reside in a shoe, like mine, pounding the pavement to nowhere. The onset of blisters isn't imagined. Those blisters take ro......
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Connie Pachecho
Categories:
defacto,
change, sad, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Power of Attorney Goes Wrong
...BE CAREFUL WHO YOU GIVE POWER OF ATTORNEY TO, COS THEY CAN TURN ON YOU, AND MAKE YOUR LIFE INTO HELL 2016 Frank hangs on the hook at University. He willed his body to science. Frank got a girlfri......
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Don Johnson
Categories:
defacto,
adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
...The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh, trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra, saying with thri......
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Justin Bordner
Categories:
defacto,
adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
His Burning Bride
...HIS BURNING BRIDE Certainly it is him The incessant coughs give him out ; He is in the balcony Wrapping and kissing his defacto bride . His dejure wife snores From her side he steals him out ; No......
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Kayod5 Kayode
Categories:
defacto,
addiction,
Form:
Free verse
The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Three -
..." A close friend was betrayed by one of the Chiefs and was tortured to death by being roasted slowly while strung up high on a tree branch. His misery was rich. His name was Red Spirit in Englis......
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Justin Bordner
Categories:
defacto,
creation,
Form:
Ode
The Funky Train 2
...The nation is very rich indeed But, Wounded out of loss direction; Wounded out of lack of ambition, Weeping out of lack of impulse; Wounded out of lack of imagination, Ingeniously exhu......
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Afolabi Taiwo
Categories:
defacto,
urbanloss, cry, loss,
Form:
Free verse