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Embargoes
Embargoes Poems - Poems about Embargoes
Gladiator Games
...The arena is built lie by lie, sobs by sobs. Names don't matter. A game is still a game, called by any other name. Children with ribs like shattered shields do not volunteer; they are raised f......
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abdul Mannan
Categories:
embargoes,
allegory, dark, world,
Form:
Free verse
If there was just one thing I could change
... "After the Port Arthur Massacre, mass shooting in Tasmania, Australia, on April 28–29, 1996, that left 35 people dead and some 18 wounded, it led to stricter gun controls, notably a ban on all ful......
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Speaks Volumes
Categories:
embargoes,
world,
Form:
Narrative
The Fourth Reich
... Davos visiting prostitute spends her unbeknownst last hours wide eyed in a strange new World. As she smiles to her John, a BlackRock Assassin, who watches his boss approach the stage......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
embargoes,
dark,
Form:
Other
When I Was Twentysomething 1980s
...I saw a man die who took a stance I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance I saw the boycotts and the embargoes I saw trafficking in human cargos I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil and......
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Keith D Trestrail
Categories:
embargoes,
history, world,
Form:
Couplet
Persius Flaccus Redux
...Suppose we ran it by a friendly Martian (I’d say “by Martial”, but he wouldn’t be gentle). You crave Armani, Hugo Boss, Versacci and that Hilfiger who’s naff, naff. Are you mental? This myth o......
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Michael Coy
Categories:
embargoes,
satire,
Form:
Quatrain
Enigma
...Life restricts my living, Death prevents my end... The world, a phantasm, too much embargoes in it, that neither let me fly, nor let me die.... The moments to cherish, forever perish.... Am......
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Mibdah Mir
Categories:
embargoes,
life, loneliness, lonely, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Sanity
...Waking up to reality Hurts like reaching into insanity Embracing your insecurity Risking your sense of purity Establishing a base of obscurity In my mind I erase my clemency Sew a new seed of......
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Bilal Hb
Categories:
embargoes,
confusion
Form:
Acrostic