Degradations Poems

No Respite

...No Respite

No respite for one who comes as broken as I am 
Quietly contrite I passively question the morality of man 
Without delight I mention that it’s possible to take a stand
It’s close to ...
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Categories: degradations, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNo More: the Crimson Flow

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"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all ...
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Categories: degradations, bible, encouraging, gender, how
Form: Dramatic Verse


Premium MemberFor Hamas And The IDF -- Life Is Holy

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What a simple
and beautiful premise- - - - -
Everything That Lives Is Holy!
If only we
as the human race
could follow it
and give Life the respect
that it deserves
We'd have no more
de...
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Categories: degradations, international, leadership, political, violence,
Form: Free verse

Simulations and Symphonies

...Simulations and Symphonies

Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need i...
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Categories: degradations, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDisordered Sons and Fathers

...May all sacred,
but not quite omnipotent,
fathers learn this day
as we impatiently correct
our stress-disordered sons

That respect is earned,
so maybe disrespect is too
positive and negative...
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Categories: degradations, age, father son, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum


The Tower Block

...The elevator shudders -
then a muted ping as narrow doors slide open,
the conveyance only lifts one person at a time,
               when it descends it is always empty.

I've been here before,
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Categories: degradations, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Conceived Illusions

...Most confining and to the decencies, 
Feebled feelings and enslaved alternates,
Oddly detached, from them degradations,
Of whimpered whines and conceived illusions.

The reliance on the diminish...
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Categories: degradations, anger, anxiety, betrayal, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

Flowers Every Morning

...After giving thanks to God for the glory of the presence of a new day, I gaze upon colors of wonderful beauty.
As the poles of the earth shift, so should humanity by the renewing of the mind, th...
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Categories: degradations, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Rat Rat Armadillo Part Ways

..."Are we gonna turn around,"
said the Armadillo to the rat?
Rat just snuffled following its twitching nose
rushing toward the miasma of offal piles, 
of excrement and defilement.

"I prefer clea...
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Categories: degradations, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Colossus Part 2dedicated To All Who Served and All Who Are Serving Our Country

...Take care of her 
Keeping toes and ties off the ground
Beware of those with savage intent
To draw her down
Beware those of quisling heart
Who seek only to pillage then plunder her 
All those fa...
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Categories: degradations, america, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme

Times Are Edging In, a Time To Reset

...Times are Edging in, a time to Reset

The thick, meticulous and dreary cyclone evades, 
the once osculate atmosphere;
With a dubiousness and vengeance in his eyes 
As of a dry Namibian December ...
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Categories: degradations, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWithout

...The sun descended and his heart grew cold.
There were no sympathy cards to unfold.

Vacancy held a former lover's face.
A funeral's closure never took place.

Rapidly released from my hopeless ...
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Categories: degradations, absence, grief, loss, lost
Form: Couplet

Heaven Cries

...HEAVEN  CRIES


Oh pitter and patter
you crystal drops from God,
and renew all Life's vitality !

Cleanse away the sooty degradations !
Of the technocrats cemented cities-
so all can breath ...
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Categories: degradations, america, care, desire, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Vocal Late Charge

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Accusatory high-pitched voices
singing in the masculine reign
Humiliated pride getting drenched 
by doubtful, male chauvinist disdain
Emotional double octave level of pain,
bitter ......
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Categories: degradations, abuse, perspective, truth, women,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberHey Descarte Was My Brother, Dummy

...Forecast aplenties with no degradations announced vertically, religiously or otherwise could have englanced my intuities to a mind over marketed by nomin al periods of intellectual cell growth, idea ...
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Categories: degradations, allegory, appreciation, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse

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