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Expediency Poems - Poems about Expediency

Premium Member kiss from angels on high
...A pink blotch on her forehead It was left by angels dear Kisses from her benefactors Insuring she’d arrive safely hear Is that a birthmark? Many said Kiss from angels on high, said Fred He was ......

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Categories: expediency, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member another abcedarian for fun
...all automatic alligators arrive arrogantly barely behave beautifully but brazenly carousing with creepy cruddy crocodiles desperately denying despicable wiles effectively expediting expediency f......

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Categories: expediency, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member Writing
...I try to be humble when it comes to evaluating poetry, reminding myself, that my penned gems may seem paste to others – addicted to cuneiform glitter, my mining deeply within our shared reality ......

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Categories: expediency, addiction, creation, culture, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Madder Than the Other Hatters
...There was much chatter about the new mad hatter He is madder than the other, said my sister and brother I want to meet him, I told them, intrigued by the new him. He was a bit crazier than expecte......

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Categories: expediency, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voice of Conscience
...“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience". Mahatma Gandhi “Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is......

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Categories: expediency, courage,
Form: Verse



Beneath Life
...Constrained by the sober exercise of judgment, And dignified by deliberation and privacy. I yanked my soul out of its secret chamber, And held it to the mirror of my eye. To see it like a star......

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Categories: expediency, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Hiroshima Poems I
...Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic b......

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Categories: expediency, child, children, eulogy, father,
Form: Verse
The Last Acorn
...How mighty did she stand tall and regal, stately on the land within her branches stretched a view along the earth's great edge in the curve unseen lay God the architect; but life itself is de......

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Categories: expediency, age, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Febrile Fantasies
...Forgo friendships built on sand dunes Scattered in the desert of expediency Driven by greed and ceaseless searches for fortunes Flying in air balloons of inefficiency. Forgo fantasies caught u......

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Categories: expediency, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To Guru Gobind Singh
...You were primarily a spiritualist, But circumstances made you a noble warrior: Your father, Guru Teg Bahadur, was treacherously beheaded. You had to contend invaders from the Western frontier ......

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Categories: expediency, faith, religion, , western,
Form: Free verse
Purple Proses For Her
...Sympathetic purpled eyed Suzan influenced by what came before it ......

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Categories: expediency, allusion, angst, color, culture,
Form: Free verse
Forgive Us, Dr King
...You died for our equal treatment, and we demand "affirmative action." You died for integration, and we justify segregation when we throw public brawls and destroy property. You died to stop the......

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Categories: expediency, africa, betrayal, black african
Form: Epic
Plain Talk--Not
...I view it as unseemly to use high-sounding language to make an impression. I perceive it to be ostentatious to marshal words vainglorious in succession. It is a determinant of consternation, if ......

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Categories: expediency, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gamblers and Mourners 'Round the World
...The gamblers and the mourners Explore the vagaries of fate, The expediency of life Dangling in the capitol rotunda Like a hanged man His hair standing on end, His boots in the air. Write, si......

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Categories: expediency, allusion, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Micro-Feasting
...Micro-Feasting by Odin Roark To propagate the dung heap of ignorance, Is to place on low simmer A main course of illiteracy. How festive the chefs of mental starvat......

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Categories: expediency, language,
Form: Prose Poetry

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