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Dispossession Poems - Poems about Dispossession

Once the Giant of Africa
...Once the giant of Africa, Now a nation lost, without a map. The people, once proud and free, Now trapped, in chains, without the key. The land, once green and lush, Now barren, as if struck by......

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Categories: dispossession, growth,
Form: Other
A Darker Shade of Light
... ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY “We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we work and pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty......

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Categories: dispossession, children, freedom, sorry, symbolism,
Form: Narrative



Patience Worth and Poet's Manifest
...I The prose & prosaic lives pursuing career From apartheid in Africa to US freedoms (1983) Poets voices muted, too much hunger The luxury of democracy, enduring systems Of dispossession, of marg......

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Categories: dispossession, africa, conflict, education, environment,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member My Concerns
...Expressions of my concerns for you, pulling you close to me but despite that you continue to sleep on me from your journey of the unaccountable. A road to seek your individuality you often express, ......

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Categories: dispossession, absence, anxiety, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Die Lorelei By Heinrich Heine - 1797-1856, Translated By T Wignesan
...Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)- Translated by T. Wignesan For Regina von Degenfeld at Waibstadt -in respect and unending sufferance- (Heine, a German Jewish lyrical and satiric p......

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Categories: dispossession, angst, fear, gothic, song,
Form: Quatrain



After the Hurricane
...Rest now… To idle from natures’ merciless dispossession Lifeless muscles slump Still now, Though exhausted from the blow Perhaps you are the same; Now we are one. Breathless, windless, airless......

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Categories: dispossession, nature,
Form: Free verse
Gutter Pavement Runway Flight
...They elude me now ...words Drinking befits a drowning man possessed Swimming off this broken page Baton winning in a relay race I breached the ribbon sliced with chest Joy! I gasped Grown t......

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Categories: dispossession, addiction, appreciation, day, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breathing By Design
...The logical conclusion of overpopulating overly-competitive and aggressive human natural dominant trends, of suicide and other irrationalities and errors in self/other-enculturation through evolu......

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Categories: dispossession, earth, love, passion, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Primal Questions
...Do I want to only look at new ones, never been used, or is that a too restrictive market, too competitively priced for virginity of place and relationship on Earth? And, is such redemptively-int......

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Categories: dispossession, career, change, destiny, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Meditation As Medication
...Polypathic genius, thought Bucky Fuller, grows polycultural Plan A intelligence. Paths creolizing cultures co-arise composing comprehensive consciousness. Plan A sometimes feels alien to......

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Categories: dispossession, birth, creation, culture, destiny,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Love Manifesto
...It is love, not loss, we expect, we long for and belong with, we seek within a cooperative economic network rather than a competitive gain-over-loss capital-rooted value system. Love evolves ......

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Categories: dispossession, community, culture, destiny, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Why Is It
...Why is it: we plant gardens but we garden plants? we call natural medicines drugs and we call unnaturally produced drugs medicines? we label our disease-addicted corporate-insurance comple......

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Categories: dispossession, culture, earth, garden, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Family Therapy
...Feminist ecotherapists, deeply immersed in polycultural ecology, a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics, remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots. A self-isolating, o......

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Categories: dispossession, addiction, endurance, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Father Time's Interview
...Hi. We don't have a lot of time, or, well, I guess you do, but I don't, so let's plunge right into the first big question: Which came first, form or function? False dichotomy. No such thing a......

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Categories: dispossession, allegory, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Universal Credit Union
...Stepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today to ask what could I invest in with least risk and greatest potential for self-optimizing return? He invited me to sit down to consider coope......

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Categories: dispossession, earth, nature, psychological, science,
Form: Free verse

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