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Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Innocent Until Proven Guilty Poems - Poems about Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Weakness Son, it Lives in the Eyes
...Feel the fear rushing through your pulse I'm sure it's nothing like the pain I was forced to endure I'm sure it's nothing but a misplaced heart beat Like what happens when you're lying But I'm......
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Matthew Bailey
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
corruption, introspection, perspective, repetition,
Form:
Free verse
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
...Before you condemn me, hear my side, Don't be too quick to judge, before you decide. I'm not a criminal, I'm not a thief, Don't make me suffer for someone else's misbelief. Prove me guilty befo......
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Matt Starking
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Holding Back Tears
...No one believes the child who no longer cries but they don’t know I have no tears left in my eyes. No one believes the child who never weeps but they don’t know I always have to sneak. No one bel......
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Harriet Ward
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
abuse, child abuse, mother
Form:
Free verse
Parachutist
...Once upon a time but not right now or ever A parachutist climbed the short oak tree On private property not yours or mine The sign read, “Trespassers will be shot on sight” (sight unseen) Our......
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Earl Schumacker
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
conflict, confusion, image, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
Disarray
...Head spinning, hands to the brow, eyes searching, nothing is found. No whistleblower in sight, not here, not there, not anywhere! But wait!! There’s a crime that has been committed somewhere! Nerv......
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Heidi Sands
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
angst, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Police and Snipers
...Whatever was in their heads May have pushed them over the edge What they call fear Means turning a deaf ear Than becoming nebulous about the facts When their motive was clear Grief has no c......
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Lara Wash
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
fear,
Form:
Lyric
Jurisprudence
...Across the cracked concrete slabs, past a fallen dogwoods left lying like so much litter; at the red brick base of the courthouse, the jurors strode. Through the doors too heavy for a mere woman......
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Debbie Guzzi
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
introspection, politicallonging,
Form:
Free verse
On the Shooting of a Congresswoman
...On the Shooting of a Congresswoman By Elton Camp (Note: A person is assumed innocent until proven guilty. This is based solely on news reports and does not claim that the suspect is actual......
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Elton Camp
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
peoplewrite, write,
Form:
Rhyme
The Process Or Kafka's Dream Part 1 (Revised)
...Across the cracked concrete slabs, past a fallen dogwood left lying like so much litter at the red brick base of the court house; the jurors strode. Through the doors too heavy for a mere wom......
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Debbie Guzzi
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
allegory, education, politicallonging,
Form:
Narrative
Above the Law
...in this civilized democratic society we have the law a system of checks and balances that our forefathers had foresaw but today we have the rich and powerful, the elitist ones who think that they'......
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Louise Nelson
Categories:
innocent until proven guilty,
people, social,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue