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Institutionalized Poems - Poems about Institutionalized

Premium MemberBanned Book Club VI

...Conservatives’ banning’s apropos of nothing
At twelve when he delt with this
shouldn't have to jump through hoops
should’ve been able to explore when a teen
But because of many conservative group...
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Categories: institutionalized, books,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConditioned

...This cold scheduled grey life 
Has me so on point and on task
The tunnel vision is nauseating 
The horse blinders debilitating 
Want for what, wish for who 
An existence built to hypnotize
Time...
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Categories: institutionalized, depression, life, repetition,
Form: Free verse



I AM INNOCENT

...This family I was born in was assigned to destroyed my life
I presently can't rent an apartment, be sheltered or work
So many lies has been told to keep me from prospering
Identity theft, fraud, f...
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Categories: institutionalized, america, corruption, discrimination, innocence,
Form: Free verse

War Fought In The Shadows

...The War Fought in The Shadows
It’s one that little spoken of
Many are the lives we’ve lost
Many are the Valliant soldiers
Who soldier on in the Gods abode
They have made Genna their home

It w...
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Categories: institutionalized, community, conflict, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Cousins

...We were children that played, laughed, and cried together
ages that range different by years to decades
we all chattered or complained about each other
family gatherings brought us back together; ...
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Categories: institutionalized, cousin, culture, dark, growing
Form: Free verse



Institutionalized War

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It's an institutionalized war against a black man,  
Yet we celebrate deceit, glorify the shallow plan,  
Brothers lost in lust, in lies, in shame,  
Building a broken nation, feeding a hollow...
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Categories: institutionalized, allusion, anger, anxiety, art,
Form: Political Verse

awakening verse,

...Its an institutionalized war against a black man yet a fellow black man is glorifying his brother man who cheat and lie to his wife and family, this is bull how are we building the nation with lustfu...
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Categories: institutionalized, beautiful, betrayal, confidence, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop

...Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop

My humble apology
for inducing thee
to manure yourself 
thru figurative following poop,
best flushed down the toilet 
of the b...
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Categories: institutionalized, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBabangida

...In this mess, we called a country, the destroyers lived among us
 Babangida once terrorized all with Khaki, the effect of failure affects all,
 Ruled as a tyrant forgetting the...
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Categories: institutionalized, adventure, anger, angst, animal,
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberBabangida

...In this mess, we called a country, the destroyers lived among 
Babangida once terrorized us with Khaki, failures affect all,
Ruled as a tyrant forgetting the future, had power ...
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Categories: institutionalized, allegory, anti bullying, corruption,
Form: Narrative

The First Tv

...The first TV was small, red, and Russian.
The first TV was a brown coffin with a small eye.
The first TV was institutionalized
it lived behind bars, it was white and black
and always mad about it...
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Categories: institutionalized, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat a Lecher Does

...She was twenty-two-years old
childlike, but not childish
her mind was not as deep thinking as many
but she was empathetic and kind
goodness oozed out of her
she was the victim of a lecherous rel...
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Categories: institutionalized, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPtmd 2

...laminated love
    institutionalized us
dead marriage-go-round...
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Categories: institutionalized, abuse, anger, divorce, emotions,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberOf Allegorical Echoers

...(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)

We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the sh...
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Categories: institutionalized, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose

Premium MemberMake America Great

...When the colonists felt that with the king of Great Britain they could no longer reason,
Their leaders signed the Declaration of Independence, though they knew it was treason.
Because of their beli...
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Categories: institutionalized, discrimination, history, patriotic, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

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