what works for the underclass
...The underclass falls into things
Appreciating food when it comes along
Grateful for a cup of coffee or a hot roast beef sandwich
They do not beg any more
Their relatives are tapped out
Do-good...
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Categories:
gooder, usa,
Form: Free verse
Oak Soak Coke Folk Cloak Smoke Broke Bloke
...A wizened boy who lived at seventy-two Oak
Relaxed in his tub with a lemon salt soak
Ate a curly pretzel, downed a harsh throat coke
An honest child who sprang from truthful folk
Dressed himsel...
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Categories:
gooder, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Without Within
...
"Without Within"
It just takes one over-zealous do-gooder
to set the dominos of destruction on a roll
and the war begins
without within
within without
heaven w...
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Categories:
gooder, muse,
Form: Free verse
Maude and Me
...he might have been a felon, a freak, a frizzle wiper or a fraud.
we did not know him actually said speaker, young judgmental Maude.
he had a look about him that made me clutch my purse.
she assess...
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Categories:
gooder, women,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting For Santa
...I sat on the edge of the roof, studying the horizon
Waiting for the do-gooder, who makes me wretch
He will not be ho-ho-ho-ing after I get finished here.
I feel something protruding from my left i...
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Categories:
gooder, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
You Really Think I'M Done - In Trump's Own Words
...Impeached, indicted, discredited, expunged,
Forsaken and little short of being hanged,
Does the punishment truly fit the crime,
Inciting sedition and for that I need do time?
Are they crazy or ...
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Categories:
gooder, anxiety, goodbye, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Day Dreams
...Out on the land of the Red Fox Farm
About 3 miles down, past the barn
There’s a girl sporting overalls and a ponytail
She’s headed to dream on her favorite hay bale
Climbing up on it ready to rel...
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Categories:
gooder, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
He Said He Would Take Care of Me
...He said he would take care of me.
I am his younger third cousin, so I believed him.
He was an Elvis wanta-be.
I was fourteen, so I thought he was an always-was.
He did not look after me like he s...
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Categories:
gooder, drug, hope,
Form: Narrative
Heroes Undone
...Heroes Undone
We train men up to go to war.
We train them to fight and kill,
the enemy.
The people…
in foreign and domestic lands,
that have no honor,
and care not for law.
We tell y...
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Categories:
gooder, allah, america, angel, anti
Form: Narrative
The Devil Loves a Do-Gooder
...The devil loves a do-gooder,
One who expects everyone to come to order,
Because their vision is much broader.
The devil loves those with good intention,
As they are likely to have a poor sense ...
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Categories:
gooder, analogy, anger, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Imagism
Fundamental Choice
...You can't love what
and whom
you don't know.
But,
you can choose,
become used to,
become heavily invested in,
become committed to,
then become addicted to hating whatever
and whomever
y...
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Categories:
gooder, appreciation, hate, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Young Lady From Leeds
...A selfish young lady from Leeds
Made fun of all who did good deeds
and then she got sick
pain two miles thick
where a do-gooder met all her needs...
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Categories:
gooder, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
gooder, celebrity, courage, culture, desire,
Form: Classicism
Superman Exposed
...Superman was originally portrayed as a superhero
Fighting crime, being a do-gooder for wee kiddos
Well big people too
But here's juicy news
Molested young chickies while using a *****<>
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Categories:
gooder, myth,
Form: Limerick
Thank You
...I would like to take this opportunity
to thank a few members of the Poetry Soup community,
for their offer to help me pay a debt I didn't deserve to receive,
thanks to a group of do gooder hero wa...
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Categories:
gooder, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
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