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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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Categories: embargoes, allegory, dark, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: embargoes, dark,
Form: Other
Premium Member 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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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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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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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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Categories: embargoes, confusion
Form: Acrostic

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