Demean Poems

Premium MemberGet Off Your Knees, Marlon

...Pitifully, he calls her again and again
Brando yelling, "STELLA" from his knees.
Like he ever meant something to her...
Stop groveling like a fool. She was a tease.

She doesn't come from Kansas...
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Categories: demean, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

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: demean, life,
Form: Rhyme


Alterations of Communications

...Alterations Of Gommunications

Alterations of deep invigoration that pull me out of this dream
Calibrations of computations that numerically demean 
Annotations of misco ordination that stifle th...
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Categories: demean, life,
Form: Rhyme

Communion With The Self

...Communion With The Self



Communion with the elements of the self that went missing 

Reunion with the moments left on the shelf while reminiscing 

Confusion that surrounds good health and ...
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Categories: demean, life,
Form: Rhyme

Monopolising Youth and Sorrow

...Monopolising Youth And Sorrow



Elevations of my soul soar toward the remnants of a dream 

Revelations on growing old pour out from behind a stifled scream 

Contemplations on what is sold ...
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Categories: demean, life,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberArmored Isolation

...As tattered night surrenders to the morning 
amidst a bruised and beaten sky. 
The hazy heavens weep their misty warning 
of love’s intent to pass me by. 
The rain, symbolic of my sorrow, 
defea...
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Categories: demean, character, endurance, feelings, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

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: demean, anti bullying, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse

Our skin is not a costume

...Our pain is not your entertainment 
We don't exist purely for your amusement 
My skin is not a costume 
Don't treat us like we are some display In a showroom

We won't apologise for our presence...
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Categories: demean, anger, appreciation, celebration, race,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCruel Cutting Comments

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A poetry virgin... that was me
going through a purple patch,
a dismal dark period in life
Desperately needing an outlet
to focus on instead of the now...
this trying time I had t...
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Categories: demean, anti bullying, how i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPride

...Do not wear pride like a necklace
For God detests pride and arrogance 

Pride does not go unpunished 
Pride leads to disgrace 

Humility is rewarded with wisdom 
While pride begets destruction...
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Categories: demean, abuse, christian, corruption, evil,
Form: Free verse

When in-laws clash

...My blade is sharper, so they claim.
And his hoe is blunt.
Each voice raised is struggling to rise above the noise,
eyeing for supremacy,
living to convince,
competing for dominance,
quarreling ...
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Categories: demean, conflict, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAmbition - in Kamalas own words

...What if I can see it, smell it, almost touch it,
That gilded throne where I will proudly sit,
Would people think me mad,
Is my ambition so preposterous and bad.

And why not me, have I not earne...
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Categories: demean, irony, miracle, parody, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberA Lament for Fathers

...Who has bewitched thee, thou noble ones?
Chosen to be the head of thy race,
to fulfill thy creator’s will,
through siring, supporting, and securing a clan.

Prophet, priest, prince, and patriarc...
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Categories: demean, dad, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTit For Tat Don't Do That

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Jon Stewart, sometimes host of The Daily Show ridicules Trump,
then dares jump to the other side and does the same to Biden.
His viewers won't buy that second one, all caterwauling,
You...
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Categories: demean, america,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTHE POWER IN OUR WORDS

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It’s odd…when you stop to think about it…
once it’s formed within our mind
how a word…any word
has no meaning until it has been read…
until is has been heard.

Our words on paper have no mean...
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Categories: demean, words,
Form: Rhyme

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