Journalistic Poems

a newspaper the guardian

...A Newspaper


Once upon a time, the Guardian was a famous newspaper 
it was democratic, to a certain extent, and readers are 
invited to give their view, but with moderation and niceness
 If no...
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Categories: journalistic, 8th grade, age, america,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberWhat We Know

...It's a constant barrage coming at us, all the
    Information feeding us to consume.
So much so, that there's plenty of leftovers and scraps,
    And we start looking for the shovels and a broom.
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Categories: journalistic, judgement,
Form: Narrative


Word Heard On The Third

...He saw several loving what they heard and it bothered him.
They were dancing and having a grand ole
thyme. People clapping, dancing, getting along and singing along with the music.
It bothered him...
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Categories: journalistic, adventure, leadership, music,
Form: Ballad

WHISPERING JOURNALISTIC THOUGHTS IN A QUIET PLACE WHERE I DWELL

...WHISPERING JOURNALISTIC THOUGHTS IN A QUIET PLACE WHERE I DWELL

down deep where unseen is unseen
way far away where not a soud can be heard
in a place where oblivion is oblivious to oblivion
i ...
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Categories: journalistic, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Running the Gauntlet

...~Running the Gauntlet ~
Simplistic in its structure…
Nearly amateurish…
Unpolished attempt…
Superficial…
Facile…
Without subtlety…
Nonsensical…
Journalistic attempt at prose…
Lack of complex...
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Categories: journalistic, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberNews

...From a very young age, I observed that my father
was one who took great delight in being informed.
Before we obtained a television, his major sources
of information were radio and newspaper. He wa...
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Categories: journalistic, child, father,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Five W's

...Historically,They are known to be
The foundation of journalistic integrity.
Though lately, many might argue
They've been replaced, with opinion's severity.

Who, could cause this metamorphism,
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Categories: journalistic, confusion, integrity,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberViral Times

...Much that we see in the news doesn’t rhyme
Reporters commit journalistic crime
Filling us full of false fact
To control how we should act
As we navigate through a viral time...
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Categories: journalistic, abuse, bullying, corruption, hate,
Form: Limerick

Journalistic Integrity Fake News Slam

...Call yourself a journalist ?

I very much doubt you could even spell the word correctly

The devil's in the tabloid detail

Gossip and fake news

And how many time's a lie is read

So i rem...
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Categories: journalistic, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThey Say Not a Good Beach Day

...On the TV 
Talent getting paid a salary fee 
In control of distributing information 
Monitoring backstage scripted decisions
Dude was inland 
Miles from the ocean sand 
Reading a line not as a ...
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Categories: journalistic, beach, ocean, peace, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme

An Obscenity Trial

...An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
 
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the "co...
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Categories: journalistic, poems, poetry, poets, society,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberParrot Ting Reflection From a Barry University Graduate

...There has been much about being on a stage 
Since I started dealing with that adult style wage 
The Orange one used to welcome the new year 
With an evening date filled with cheer 

Now it says ...
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Categories: journalistic, football, games, holiday, how
Form: Rhyme

Lies To Withstand

...Journalistic integrity…
  give me a break

Your lies are on fire,
  there’s hell at the gate

Journalistic integrity,
  the wages of sin

All truth has been twisted,
  your speech has worn ...
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Categories: journalistic, truth,
Form: Rhyme

An Everlasting Photo

...An old picture appears 
on the screen. Students 
stare at the raw reality.
The professor praises
the photographer’s 
precision and perfection.	
But Kevin is criticized 
at the end as usual.

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Categories: journalistic, sad,
Form: Free verse

Triggernomics

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Lot of money being made in death sales,
plenty pints of iron-copper deposits
Body bags coin-wrapped
are rolling out of the blood bank sin-ters
to the holey pocket hospitals

Everybod...
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Categories: journalistic, death, metaphor, truth, visionary,
Form: Elegy

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