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Deterrents Poems - Poems about Deterrents

Premium Member Too Much of a Bad Thing
... Like herbicides and pesticides and other chemical deterrents advertized to keep certain foods looking perfect and free of any blemish or defect will in time (like any other crime) increase......

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Categories: deterrents, dark, humor,
Form: Didactic
Here’s what I should have done
... I should have heard all the indications that the level of danger was low; no shots fired, no weapons, no anger or injuries, and no screaming, just a possible exchange of counterfeit currency. I ......

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Categories: deterrents, corruption, hate, power,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Evaporating promises
...Diplomacy can be a fig leaf for surrender A wolf agrees to postpone the dismember If you want peace, prepare for war Peacetime is what aggressors use it for. Countries have interests, leaders h......

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Categories: deterrents, evil, fear, freedom, rights,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Too much of a good thing sniffed
...The farmer looked on sown fields with dismay, Be-spotted with tiny holes in despoiled array. Each spot where mice had dug up and eaten. Wheat seeds sown with mice-controls well beaten. The farm......

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Categories: deterrents, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maelstrom
...Midst mild and wild tumults like eddy, vortex, swirl, and whirl, A maelstrom is a summation of curl and twirl and hurl; Weather and season get amalgamated with currents, Winds, storms, gales, squa......

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Categories: deterrents, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Rhyme



Advice From a Zooplankton
...Like a shy zooplankton, I float along Carried by fierce currents. I struggle but fear makes for strong, harsh deterrents This life feels microscopic, the dri......

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Categories: deterrents, animal, change, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Fatalism
...*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay. Of Fatalism 'Tis past the eleventh hour, As time ..., Here in the bunker, I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway, Walked I, aw......

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Categories: deterrents, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Brightness Catches My Eye
...Tall, gray, trees stand together like statues Across the winter’s landscape of hills Some snow still clings to the arms of branches Reaching wide, reaching far and wide! Today, there is no wind i......

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Categories: deterrents, appreciation, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ignorance Roars In Turmoil
...We are shaped from silence. I am struck by life's upheaval loudness, We've been sucked into the abyss. The deterrents proceed to extensiveness. We're still utterly annihilated and ......

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Categories: deterrents, analogy, appreciation, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Remember Suspenders
...Do you remember this? Suspenders for a teenage miss, Real boa constrictors, Our hip inhibitors, Teen boy deterrents, That's what they meant, Elastic girdles vanished too, I remember suspende......

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Categories: deterrents, angst, for teens, fun,
Form: Free verse
Aah How Great the Taste of Water
...Aah... how great the taste of water... After lounging in bed until late morning/early afternoon we (the missus and I) felt restless as garden variety buffoon or think chrysalis itching to e......

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Categories: deterrents, 7th grade, death, humorous,
Form: Free verse
In Summer Re I Haint Getting Undressed
...In summer re: I haint getting undressed! Hence donning entire wardrobe, Saint Nick outfit including, while trumpeting think spring argh only about four plus months away lest some big bird will......

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Categories: deterrents, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Adieux
...After three decades and a kicking more, I deem it glaring waste and blatant loss To play sad part of second servile fiddle In elite cadres agleam with ersatz gloss. Whatever charged scrolls att......

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Categories: deterrents, allegory, allusion, anger, betrayal,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Indescribable Joy
...An emotional spark ignites desires within. And embellished by dreams, feelings of love begin. Fantasies cater to the naive hopes of youth. And subjected to lies, the heart aches for ......

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Categories: deterrents, 12th grade, angel, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Stumbling Over Deterrents
...stumbling tripping over bumps in the road is common place within this existence must learn to avoid these temporary deterrents that come up along this journey......

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Categories: deterrents, change,
Form: Lyric

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