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Expendable Poems - Poems about Expendable

Premium Member Mute, 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 Member Expendable
... 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 Member Our Time Will Come
... 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 Member Pie-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 Member The 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 Member Words 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 Member Indolence
...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
Last Words
...Let's be kind with our words and the hearts of others. Live, love and learn. No regrets. Blessings. Last words By Michelle Morris 08/05/2023 If these are our last words Let them be words of......

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Categories: expendable, break up, heart, love,
Form: Lyric
A Chill Through the Heart
...So alone in the crowd with the people all around me So alone in the dark with the lights all around me Feeling the chill tearing my chest In the neck deep water of the mountain crest Seeing ......

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Categories: expendable, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil Alive and Well
...They are dying in the gutters of China, welded into apartment cages – children dismembered from the arms of pleading mothers, protesters pushed back by tanks~ oh well, a few get squashed... ......

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Categories: expendable, evil, freedom, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Cement Trucks
...In the end it was too slow, afflicted by either age or illness or simply distracted, flew head first into the eye of a headlight. Flung contorted, neck bent back, snapped of life, it died cl......

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Categories: expendable, loss,
Form: Free verse

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