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Jeremiad Poems - Poems about Jeremiad


A love story of Jeremiad
Take my soul and set it free Am not asking for perpetuity or eternity Even just one second would be enough For I crave freedom , freedom & freedom For I am painted to be an independent work of art A masterpiece. A reason for apocalypse. Not a rising star but a pulsar , a nebula promising catastrophe For just a...

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Categories: jeremiad, art, extended metaphor, flower,
Form: Free verse
Questions of Balance: a Jeremiad
QUESTIONS OF BALANCE: A JEREMIAD Why is it at 70 politicians are still underage To assume political offices And at 30 youths are overage to begin a professional career? What divine strength hath a leader at 75 When a mandatory retirement awaits civil servants at 65? Why should the government empowers the youths with $75 in 2 years And expects them all...

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Categories: jeremiad, abuse, africa, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Free verse



A Jeremiad For Our Times
Alas! O woe! Jeremy, Jeremy, Will gloom make you your own worst enemy? Now is the time to recall your own name, which was once shared by a prophet of fame. He purchased a plot in the besieged Holy Land though soon it would fall to the enemy's hand. Though suffering sorely in a foul and dark mire from his noble mission...

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Categories: jeremiad, bible, england, heartbroken,
Form: Elegy
A Rapper's Jeremiad
Mother taught me her proverbs to ring like a bell in the chapel of my brain Better days are coming – angels filling the sky with joyous refrain The darkest hour is here before dawn – I am in drought looking for rain Mother look again – can’t you see how black I am, charcoal until the fire...

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Categories: jeremiad, satirefire, fire, me,
Form: Verse
Jeremiad
A crimson dragon- fly, Why! never seen one of those before, here; - my Beach, these febriled oh- pressive days, re-bleaching to a 14Mil-Shill only "Ernst & Friends" only know; so I meande this other, other tres Yoga place, Ma- ma & young Swan - Proustian? - decide to shore, so smooth, they, as if guide, tethered below, two Windfanned- down SnowFeathers, as from...

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Categories: jeremiad, allegory, animals, introspection, lost
Form: Haiku



Jeremiad (In Loving Memorie of Boy Dill)
The first time I met you I loved you. You took me with you to a field of paper flowers. We laughed an played all day. But nanny came and said it was time to go inside. The sun faded, the field turned to ashes and my love diminished. You saw the world but never breathed it's pure air. You left me standing on that front...

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Categories: jeremiad, death, imagination, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?

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