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Eg Poems - Poems about Eg

THE CRY OF A MOSQUITO

...A mosquito once cried 
Why do you all always 
Clap your hands 
Whenever you see any of us
Some of you buy chemicals 
To get rid of us
When you all know we're harmless and homeless.

An insect...
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Categories: eg, africa, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative

RADIOING

...Knowledge empowers
Ignorance rules
Story-line
Never underestimate
Be the observer
Using discernment
God made everything
Good and bad.


A reason and purpose
As above so below
Day and nigh...
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Categories: eg, africa, community, deep, education,
Form: Pastoral



Electric Anticipation

...I can feel it. 
It’s not quite tangible, 
Just out of reach,
Yet nonetheless real. 
Like a sixth sense on my sixth sense. 
The anticipation hangs in the air, 
The thick, jelly like, immovable a...
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Categories: eg, anxiety, power,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration

...Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 196...
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Categories: eg, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberGod Alone Is

...‘Mind negates, obscuring’ truth in a thought fog
Being but brazen attempts of our ego
To bemuse and confuse by such ruse, veiling light of God

‘So that under’ cloak of darkn...
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Categories: eg, god, spiritual,
Form: Verse



5

...
"5" 

benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world 

grace, a name 
whispered before 
a meal shared

5 fingers 
on each hand
steeples, hiding people 

g...
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Categories: eg, war,
Form: Free verse

Exits Exist

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"Exits Exist"



prophecies materialised
bad dreams of tomorrow
arrived vaporising today

the higher ones 
prepared their exit plans
they thought they were gods

but...
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Categories: eg, humanity, peace, religious, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

The Mute Hearts of Babylon

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"The Mute Hearts of Babylon"



the day 
the poets died
a cloud past
over the eyes
of those 
who required
the dance
in music

storms
calmly stole 
electric love 
...
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Categories: eg, freedom, future, muse, music,
Form: Free verse

The Lady In White

...This is a poem about addiction and the life style that goes hand in hand with
 the addict. The Lady In White is a metaphor that the addicts choice is a White 
 powder or rocky substance. E.G. Metha...
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Categories: eg, addiction,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat Are Words - a Florilegium Poem

...What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.

Lend me your ear and draw your heart near;
my words might seer, but h...
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Categories: eg, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form: Other

Time Passage

...In these lives, let the seconds run
it soon reached the minutes.
the hours, eg days, the years
and centuries...
I remember well...
looks like it was
yesterday... !...
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Categories: allegory, allusion, analogy, imagery,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberBrocken Spectre - a Florilegium Poem

...The root word for religion is not kind – 
Latin verb that means to tie or to bind – 
as it tends to play tricks on anyone’s mind. 

For some, the edicts lash; they merc...
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Categories: eg, introspection, poetry, religion,
Form: Other

Names For Countries Or Planets

...NAMES   FOR  COUNTRIES  OR  PLANETS


I can understand and sympathise with famous cities 
Being named after animals eg Buffalo or Phoenix, if they must; 
But when whole countries are named after...
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Categories: eg, sky,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHow I Organize a Rally

...No Holding Up Signs,
No Chanting,
No Looting, No Crimes,
No Soliciting,
They approach you, not you them,
then you hand them the literature for the cause of this organized event,
and if per chan...
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Categories: eg, political, self,
Form: Rhyme

The Emasculation of Man

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"The Emasculation of Man"
 


The world goes by loudly
emasculated man 
sees nothing 
for what it’s worth
ignorant and 
pumelling chests
goril...
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Categories: eg, humanity, i am, pride,
Form: Free verse

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