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Discontents Poems - Poems about Discontents

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: discontents, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberScars in Heaven, Casting Crowns

...Three has ruled the roost for so long...
Four, boxed in so, has forgotten its role.

So picture five lingering outside, waiting
Thinking itself only a star

None seeing what keys are needed
To...
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Categories: discontents, america, destiny, future, life,
Form: Free verse



After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about

...After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about...

I decided to title my piece
a concatenation of a few different notions
incorporating fictional romance
alluding to myself and spous...
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Categories: discontents, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along

...Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...

as his stronghold diminishes.

Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to revea...
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Categories: discontents, america, animal, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).

neverth...
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Categories: discontents, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse



I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press

...I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press...

for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory and visual material
publicized in The Nation
magazine J...
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Categories: discontents, adventure, america, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse

As a mortal man of threescore and five years

...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories: discontents, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of ti...
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Categories: discontents, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing 
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product 
eternally preserved within 
annals, chroni...
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Categories: discontents, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Saturday, September 23, 2023

...Saturday, September 23, 2023  

Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.

After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn E...
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Categories: discontents, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUkraine, Winter of Discontent

...“Ukraine, Winter of Discontent”

The many winters of our discontents   
Lie in trenches with the dead.
Mothers in pain.
Boys lost in vain.
Nothing plainly gained.

What empire will repent?
S...
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Categories: discontents, evil, hate, mother, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUsing Discretion

...It is important we do not get our knickers in a pinch
And wind up acting like the mean, old Grinch
Especially during this season of happiness and cheer,
Let’s lay aside our nasties and ...
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Categories: discontents, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Ghost Towns Criss Cross Wide World

...Information superhighway bumper to binary bumper. 
Stark contrast versus deserted macadam thoroughfares.
Magnification rendered visualization coronavirus
alias covid 19 courtesy electron microscop...
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Categories: discontents, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Missile Poised To Strike

...Hidden under crop circle
resembling an ampersand
hides sheathed silo - obscured,
said symbol adorned every armband
of national socialist, yet weapons

of mass destruction) bland
lee, blatantly...
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Categories: discontents, america, anxiety, farewell, judgement,
Form: Political Verse

Common Thread First Strand Za

...alternate long worded title – the grudge holder from one generation to the next for all intents and purposes remains the same, and thus interestingly enough, they can easily be a pinch hitter for man...
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Categories: discontents, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse

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