For Every Sheep in the Flock
...Grant me sunrise, cruel warden
Would you deny me that which makes us human?
What violent hatred grips your heart
To demean and dehumanize so freely and purely
How is it that you dream, violent ...
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Categories:
dehumanize, anti bullying, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
The Waste of Cruelty
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Written: April 28, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
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When cruelty becomes a badge of honor
empathy transforms into an act of defian...
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Categories:
dehumanize, adventure, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Live and Die
...We walk with the information of
quasars and the discernment of protoplasm.
Each day we live and die, each day our tears run dry.
Information is the rubble, the clutter of our civil war.
Reali...
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Categories:
dehumanize, cry, death, fear, hate,
Form: Free verse
Code of Contempt
...Emboldened by whispers,
echoes curdled in algorithmic rot—
electronic voices hiss their sermons,
venom soaked in coded politeness,
dripping beneath polished avatars.
Hate seeps
through curate...
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Categories:
dehumanize, anger, hate, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Healing Kiss
...“A life of disharmony with nature will dehumanize us. Never ignore nature’s power to heal and restore and fuel us with new enthusiasm. The younger generation, glued to the cyber space do not know wha...
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Categories:
dehumanize, appreciation, happiness, nature,
Form: Free verse
Palestine will be Free!!!
...POEM: Welcome to Palestine. The land of the prophets and the martyrs.
Let’s show show some respect, and bow down in humility…
Gaza may be small, but their angels are all over and as far...
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Categories:
dehumanize, allah, christian, freedom, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
Resurrection Sunday In-Between
...I howl with wolves I’ll be back somehow
My heart bruised like the sky that hour before sunrise
When sparrows find yoke in the universe
But blossom as copper in the Apple trees
Filling the cold mo...
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Categories:
dehumanize, christian, easter, jesus, religious,
Form: Free verse
Cold
...All I need is a heart cold as steal
Take away anything that makes me feel
Take away the love I need
The thoughts that plant their seed
Dehumanize t he man I am today
Not to care what anyone...
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Categories:
dehumanize, bird, birth,
Form: Rhyme
My Freedom
...My Freedom is,
Looking at the world,
with child-like wonder,
compassionate loving and
Spiritual eyes.
My Freedom is,
Watching dandelion seeds
Blow by me on a ...
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Categories:
dehumanize, confidence, encouraging, freedom, humanity,
Form: Free verse
I Used To Be a Predator
...I used to be predator, wanting to save prey.
Recognizing my own rescuing personality in them.
Understanding their sorrow, which they cover up with mirth.
I could see the light in their eyes was ...
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Categories:
dehumanize, self,
Form: Free verse
Rehumanize the Dehumanized
...How to rehumanize the dehumanized?
That is the crux of the problem.
A perplexing question.
A philosophical quandary.
Let’s not dehumanize them in the first place an eight-year-old suggested.
Wha...
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Categories:
dehumanize, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Crisis
...The NBA was on strike,
Everyone is in the fight.
Racial injustice rages on,
It’s urgent for change to come.
Black man paralyzed with seven pops,
No actions are taken to make a stop.
White ma...
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Categories:
dehumanize, black african american, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Wearing Facemasks Doth Dehumanize Socialization
...Understandable... the sensible
(three ringed circuitous) logic
to trumpet necessity
each individual moost heed
bedecking, cloaking donning,
ludicrous interloper facial covering,
(I prefer sport...
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Categories:
dehumanize, 12th grade, caregiving, heaven,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Taste of Death
...They say that at 5:00 p.m.
the dead come back to life
Were they actually dead --
Do they really revive?
Also, that sleep is a taste of death
Pray tell, is it?
Does it taste like dea...
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Categories:
dehumanize, death, god, humanity, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Harlot
...Some act as though a person completely loses their humanity after they let you stick your in them, what a deranged way to be to dehumanize people, devalue people because they gave into a primitive ...
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Categories:
dehumanize, deep, for her, lust,
Form: Free verse
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