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Expendable Poems - Poems about Expendable

Cemetery

...Get too close and i tend to push away
Come real close and ill be prayin that you stay 
ion fk with these hos
from them i breakaway
my phone look like a funeral
all these dead bod-ays
contact na...
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Categories: expendable, break up, change, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPeter Periwinkle

...“Peter Periwinkle had a car accident,”
my brother said,
as if reading it aloud 
from the back
of a cereal box.
It took me three full seconds
to realize
he meant our father.

We were...
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Categories: expendable, 1st grade, brother, dad,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMissing out

...in a world of make believe
of people hooked on games
and scenarios seen on screens
people have become expendable

everyone is now jaded
content in their isolation
closing in onto themselves
w...
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Categories: expendable, friendship, stress, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPAWN

...
                                    carved from ivory
                               placed in peril at your whim~
                                     expendable
                      ...
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Categories: expendable, games,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberMute, No More

...Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day. After centuries of relentless struggle, are women happier today…? Can’t say! Despite all claims to equality and progress, women are still at the back se...
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Categories: expendable, abuse, cry, endurance,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberExpendable

...

At certain times
it is comforting to know
that none of us
are necessary.
Life is ample,
blind, unconscious
of any loss,
compensating
for any absence.
For who takes note
of a missing bla...
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Categories: expendable, life,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberOur Time Will Come

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In broad day light
In plain sight
The rain has fallen 
And evaporated free
Speech over night
Riotous murder
Blame the simpletons
Protect the perpetrators
Who’ve political value
Kill the pr...
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Categories: expendable, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPie-in-the-sky-Pin-a-tail-on-a-donkey

...Democrats like Damocles Sword's imminent jeopardized positions of power hail her rise,
Decades of teamsters support, NO, Harris-Demos few endorsed her in the public's eyes,
Democrats today are like...
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Categories: expendable, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Rain of Pain

...Rain falls like the tears of some unseen god. 
Tapping against my window like the persistent fingers of a pianist. 
The music is out of tune, and the wind provides the groaning song. 
I'm so used ...
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Categories: expendable, angst, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse

New Season 19

...Slowly spring unfolded.The trees all abud now and througout the forest floor
Daffodils had sprung up it seemed overnight.Looking over at Arlis holding his daughter with a look of total besotted love...
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Categories: expendable, adventure, celebration,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWords Phrases Phrases Words

...I'm sure you've heard the expression
In love with love
Well that's me through and through
Nothing in life is more important
It can take over one's whole being
But there's a bunch of luna...
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Categories: expendable, poems,
Form: Free verse

Argh No More Medicare

...ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!

A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out....
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Categories: expendable, 12th grade, absence, america,
Form: Free verse

A Work In Progress

...I walk up to the microphone,
it’s one of those old-time microphones
that almost hides the face.

As yet my unspoken words
are pauses between mute lips.
I am a work in progress,
layers have to ...
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Categories: expendable, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Genes Futility

...Gene futility

 How can we look at a child and kill it, by using “it”
we have distanced ourselves from the child they are no longer
unique, but just an expendable extension of us.
The intense lo...
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Categories: expendable, abortion, anger, child,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberIndolence

...An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints...
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Categories: expendable, boyfriend, grandmother, happiness, morning,
Form: Free verse

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