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Disadvantage Poems - Poems about Disadvantage

The skin I have vs the skin you have
...The skin I have Black Vs The skin they wanted White It was like a lifelong competition With only one condition Whiteness wins And well blackness Loses So from young they Indoctrinated us Into believi......

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Categories: disadvantage, color, corruption, discrimination, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ambassadors - Hans Holbein the Younger
...I appreciate knowing nothing trying to let the weight of the world rest somewhere out of sight viewable only through a glass tube or a scientific device operated with skill al......

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Categories: disadvantage, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



The State of Dis Union
...Welcome to The State of Dis Union. Here are some “dis” words to describe The State of Dis Union. Dismantle, disruptive, disagree, disrespectful, distract, Disappointing, disable, discredit, disre......

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Categories: disadvantage, america, betrayal, corruption, how
Form: Narrative
Allusion Over Realism
...No question is harder than this alarming dialogue must I completely forget each joy given to me? Fear is the adversary; it suggests I remain free: no vision is equal to this imagination so vague!......

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Categories: disadvantage, allusion, conflict, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Critterature: Common Denominators
...A walrus, a whale, and a wildebeest Have a few things in common to comment on: They've never read Byron, or Shelley, or Keats, They don't like asparagus, broccoli, or beets, Or waiting in line to......

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Categories: disadvantage, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Do Not Waste Your Time with that Antiquated Tunnel
...The antiquated train tunnel had not been working for years. Paranormal researchers asked about it, but we did not encourage them. No one I knew had seen anything strange or weird there. I have cla......

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Categories: disadvantage, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
ME BEING A GROWN-UP
...ME BEING A GROWN-UP Every day my life was changing I didn't realize how fast it was happening Sometimes I wonder where all the time go It seems like I was a child not so long ago In this life,......

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Categories: disadvantage, age, feelings, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
How to attach a shower curtain
...How to attach a shower curtain... I revisit rather than write from scratch a poem crafted May twenty third two thousand and twenty since the following words apropos and amply serve a duplicat......

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Categories: disadvantage, abuse, angel, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member BETRAYAL AFTER BETRAYAL
...Applause…applause for a magical dove transformed coming out from betrayal after betrayal Once - well that can happen Twice - hmm, wow, scratch the head Third t......

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Categories: disadvantage, abuse, christian,
Form: Didactic
A Temporary Key
... I remember holding you, ever so closely. I remember loving you ever so slowly. I seem to have savored the taste. In my mind I often retrace. I can think of nothing b......

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Categories: disadvantage, betrayal, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Was a Jump, Skip and a Hop
...i ignored their existence, except for one snapshot. i didn’t know you could shop. i was not caught up in the spiral, the velocity, the thunder to the top. where was i? i was a jump, skip and a h......

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Categories: disadvantage, america, death, remember,
Form: Couplet
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding
...I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding... the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens, after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity. How did the human species ma......

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Categories: disadvantage, africa, america, anger, april,
Form: Free verse
Lift Voices Rejoices
...LIFE VOICES REJOICE MY PEOPLE TO A OPEN DOOR TO OPEN LIGHT STRAIGHT POINT TO A TREASURE TO ANOTHER WE NEED EACH OTHER TO SERVER HUMANITY REACH EACH ONE TEACH ONE TO A HIGHER LISTEN LEVEL FOR A NATURA......

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Categories: disadvantage, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Kindness Bestower
...March 24 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Samuel 9-12 Key Verse– 2Samuel 9:3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God un......

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Categories: disadvantage, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy Day After
...I’ve written about the day before Christmas…then added Christmas Day into the mix… So it only seems appropriate that I write about December 26. So…happy day after Christmas…like Christmas it’s a ......

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Categories: disadvantage, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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