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Deprival Poems - Poems about Deprival


The Way To Prosperity

...In the world of diversity and disparity,
Hard would be, to see tranquility
Abandoning, God-given equality,
Oh! It would be a bitter reality

Survival of the fittest, deprival of the weakest,
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Categories: deprival, discrimination, peace, spring, success,
Form: Free verse

An Outcry

...The countryside was their homeland, 
Buried in the rich soils were their sons’ navel strings, 
Nothing of their history was bland,
Not even the stain on their names or grit on their rings.

They...
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Categories: deprival, hope, slavery,
Form: Rhyme



I Understand, a Poem For Granddad

...I understand,
Each time you held our little hands,
How lucky we were and yet,
Such moments that glow midst the hearts swirling core,
Are the easiest to forget.

I understand,
When you wrapped ...
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Categories: deprival, absence, appreciation, grandfather, grief,
Form: Rhyme

Mariah of Magdala

...Continuation of 
Part IV: FORGIVENESS

Today Mariah of Magdala,
It's written not only of you but of your enemies
Do you discover Mariah of Magdala
We are all alike
In pitch dark, we hide our d...
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Categories: deprival, appreciation, blessing, celebration, community,
Form: Narrative

Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

...Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam. 

I u...
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Categories: deprival, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme



I Need Quiet

...Quiet! Everything around is too loud
I can’t stand to be in this crowd
Their voices go silent but I can still see their mouths moving
They’re giggling, obviously find something amusing

Are they...
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Categories: deprival, anxiety, bereavement, child, deep,
Form: Lyric

Jealious Rivalry

...Jealious Rivalry

To preserve a Politician's personal survival
Realize they may be jealous of another rival;
When challenged by
Much harder must try.
And do expose all without having a deprival...
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Categories: deprival, allegory, analogy, political,
Form: Limerick

Genius Forsaken

...Days further plagued by deprival 
Evermore is as the numbing slumber
Inspirations with it, they are 
The fruits which wither
And the fish that writhes 
Withdrawn from what's vital
The waters of l...
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Categories: deprival, god, poetry, writing,
Form: Classicism

Maria De Medeiros

...Her presence vale of privy
Amid mere, less gentle eve
A summer lost, arid supple, a longing
Among a velvet morning mistarl breeze

Deprival chills left within perfume, a wakes
Atmospheres sheerly...
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Categories: deprival, people,
Form: Rhyme

Let Go, Never Give Up

...Another day passes by
Sun sets, Suns rise
Skies fly by
Parallel to the 
Ambitious eye,
Lie in between what we are searching for
Truth is never certain, it seems that's
all they're searching fo...
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Categories: deprival, art, devotion, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things