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Deferment Poems - Poems about Deferment
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The fine art of making excuses
...The fine art of making excuses which achievement, deportment, endorsement, and indictment (more serious than rigging an election) jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors) not reason enough ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
deferment,
animal, appreciation, autumn, business,
Form:
Free verse
Corpses May Stay Long At Mortuary
...Can’t a rich corpse remain in a fridge While the bereaved have gaps to still bridge? The outrage that descends on faces Varies with minds, background and races, Deferment of interment a choice; ......
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Chinedum Ekwobi
Categories:
deferment,
death, education, god, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Petaluma Joke Extended Part 2 Depends On Your Own Individual Point of View
...So going back to the beginning in reference to whence i started If you are asking me which 1 i think you think i am On the evidence i have just provided i choose rather to judge you on acti......
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Christopher Flaherty
Categories:
deferment,
anger, love,
Form:
Free verse
Things I Despise
...Arrogance fostered by entitlement Bigotry in all its forms Conceit beyond all reasonable norms Demanding attitude of deferment. Entitlement, did I mention this? Forgetting an appointment, in......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
deferment,
anti bullying, how i
Form:
Abecedarian
What We Leave Behind
...Too often someone stretches the truth until it becomes the lie and then defends its falsehood for all to hear and believe in but some wiser ones sense the truth that lay hidden grab it by its ......
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DM Babbit
Categories:
deferment,
america,
Form:
Blank verse
What If
...What if....? Death was a lottery, With a Powerball price of a million dollars Will people still queue up to play? What if death was a clock, and you had one option To either fast forward, pa......
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Harry Biosah
Categories:
deferment,
art, death, extended metaphor,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Working In Roleplay
...I know this sounds like theater of the absurd, but I wonder if healthy role play might be left-brain's work ethic inviting right-brain's first and last impassioned word. We might pretend our L......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
deferment,
culture, health, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom
... Freedom, Written: by Tom Wright 1/24/03 The first draft had it's inauguration at Calvary. Jesus, being classified 4-A, shed His blood to make men free. He didn't die because he wan......
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Tom Wright
Categories:
deferment,
conflict, courage, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Responsible Parents
...Dear Dad dear mum, I take this time Writing my letter now, to thank all of you For your own maximum, support and care No one knows how, you loved and cared Forty K you sent, to buy the charter ......
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Moses Kisiang'Ani Makhakha
Categories:
deferment,
character, children, corruption, education,
Form:
I do not know?
Reflections
...REFLECTIONS Dr. James E. Martin The year was nineteen sixty six, I decided it was time for a major fix. The war in Viet Nam was going strong, I knew that for me it wouldn’t be long. School ......
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Drjim Martin
Categories:
deferment,
adventure, america, inspiration, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Revitalize and Rejuvenate Regeneration
...Drivel and dribble lives sometimes derange Pain and strain at times swim within range No reason in any season life to imprison No matter the dose, cause and pause of treason. Drivel and drizzl......
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John Sensele
Categories:
deferment,
poems,
Form:
Free verse
A 15-Year-Old Marine
...While unwilling to fight in Vietnam, there were thousands who fled to Canada to avoid th......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
deferment,
america, history, kid, memorial
Form:
Narrative
A Vessel Overflowing
...This boat is full, A vessel overflowing. In darkness people talk. A child is crying. I close my eyes, Lock out the world. I envision drab gloom As sunlight on my begging husk; The d......
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Darren White
Categories:
deferment,
dark, death, deep, endurance,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Killing Cicada Killers
...There are things in my life of which I'm not proud But my letting friends down tops the list, I guess I could let my mind walk in a cloud But the friends that I've lost are still missed. Friendshi......
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Brian Johnston
Categories:
deferment,
friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Thaw Me
...Thaw me from memory: Suddenly the hard shell crumbles The raw yolk leaks from my fingers in disgust Expired years and anger tumbles - This hardening shell in a deferment of memory An eggless sen......
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David Smalling
Categories:
deferment,
lifeanger, me,
Form:
Free verse
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