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Downsized Poems - Poems about Downsized

Premium Member A thousand cuts
...Severing of ties with our allies. Court orders blatantly defied. Plans to privatize, those federal agencies now downsized.. Green card holders traumatized.. A thousand cuts. A thousand bleeds. ......

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Categories: downsized, america, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Fall Apart
...Tonight, King's dream might be final fantasy, we have our skins of flight. In their bones of might white sons stamp supremacy. Asserting primacy, pallid enforcers inflict their morta......

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Categories: downsized, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree, things aren't the same as they used to be. When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail, I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale. Such an inj......

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Categories: downsized, dark,
Form: Rhyme
VULNERABLE - SAME POEM - DIFFERENT FORM
...VULNERABLE Being of a certain age and classed as vulnerable, The Government decreed that I should stay indoors. Perversely, just a month before, my doctor recommended That I sh......

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Categories: downsized, age, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Musings Of A Mouse
...Last night I was human. I was my "normal" self. Somehow, I've shrunk by five-foot-one! Now I'm a mouse upon a shelf. My heart sinks as I look down Upon the cat that was my friend. No purrs. M......

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Categories: downsized, animal, dream, muse,
Form: Rhyme



Amma
...Dedicated to Ed Sheeran Inside the glass the dry leaf was manifested, as a skeleton is prominent with all the inside structure and artistry. I went to the voting center. I had nothing , comp......

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Categories: downsized, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Regressive Progress
...In Shaker Heights, Ohio, founding fathers co-invested in: Change doesn't happen without planning This, despite unstraight unwhite unmale volatile experiences feeling sometimes victimized ......

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Categories: downsized, fear, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
A Consistently Poor Wage
...A consistently poor wage Licenses rage: An ugly fight against the cage, Steady enveloping of stagnant wage, A temper warning every wedge, Rising while lowered with vintage. Hirers open a ster......

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Categories: downsized, anxiety, bullying, business, career,
Form: Rhyme
Connection
...As the passion engaged the love came upon the stars the wind blows directly into the river the passionate of the two were just beneath the sea a spiral downsized into a deep love stars abov......

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Categories: downsized, deep, dream, flower, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plasma State-
...something biting at my feet something tasting mighty sweet I'm in this to deep the flooding waters these tears I'm crying am I alive or dying I'm trying to relate to love and no......

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Categories: downsized, adventure, analogy, bereavement, cheer
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mrs Potato Head
...Mrs Potato Head Mrs Potato Head's image surprised That can't be me it's someone else I see I still feel young in my heart and pint-sized The mirror tells lies, i......

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Categories: downsized, allusion, body, image,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Bird Songs
...They were like sweet melodies on special assignment from heaven. Perhaps they were Nightingales greeting both me and the dawn. Oh, how I miss those singing birds where we used to live. We made our......

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Categories: downsized, bird, song,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Communication
...Communication Talking, Singing, Dancing, Writing, Drawing, Praying, Signing, Listening, Seeing, Reading, Cooing, Touching, Bridges in a list few, That allow One to Two. Or Expansion of One, I......

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Categories: downsized, celebration, cheer up, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Downsized Darkness
...DOWNSIZED DARKNESS somewhere out of sight I see the darkness downsized down to the size of … a marble like broken glass that shalled be walked on 2/21/18 written by James Edward Lee Sr.©20......

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Categories: downsized, anxiety, dark,
Form: Haiku
Own It
...Innocence has its travails of Losing the true identity of Being touchy versus being sensitive. I ruined many beautiful moments Forsook my joys to reel in entanglements Of lively public banter......

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Categories: downsized, care, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme

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