Get 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
Armored 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
Cruel 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
Pride
...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
Ambition - 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
A 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
Tit 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
THE 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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