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Lifers Poems - Poems about Lifers
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Etched In Stone
...Humanity born on the bone of an earthen mound froze graphics on cave walls hail their Ice Age strive, wall carvings speak three trees, a forest be sound, harsh times craft crept the charge......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
lifers,
bible, imagery, spoken word,
Form:
Quintain (English)
A Grain of Sand
..."The World is smaller because the people are closer," ... by the Poet. There's something singular needs to be said, mind the conduct or stature -- latter's best, the subject at hand ......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
lifers,
allusion, analogy, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Israel Vs Hamas
...Could conditions terribly sad Lead captives to do something bad When a sheriff not cool Won’t let compassion rule Do lifers in prison go mad? Did structure that forms Gaza’s pen Encourage t......
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Duke Beaufort
Categories:
lifers,
abuse, anti bullying, forgiveness,
Form:
Limerick
Fliers - Flight With Words and Letters
...I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE) & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?). A poem about a simp......
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Anil Deo
Categories:
lifers,
12th grade, africa, america,
Form:
Didactic
Support To Abort
...Rights we are born into are being stripped. Ability to plan one’s parenthood is ripped. By replacing mid-election a progressive. With this barbaric right wing repressive. Our American fami......
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Adam Segal
Categories:
lifers,
abortion, betrayal, birth, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Just One Among Many
...A certain thirty-nine-year-old man who is blatantly Pro-Life Never thought it worthwhile to take for himself the wife Confessed to me that he has ten children by the same woman He has ......
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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
lifers,
child abuse, perspective,
Form:
Couplet
It's Back My Chronic Companion Returns
...Not sure how fond I am of this write very different style to my usual genre. #experimenting Well look whos back again My old compardra My closest companion chronic pain What a lovely way to ......
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Sarah Cope
Categories:
lifers,
anxiety, dark, emotions, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom
...I have written the following to voice my opinion of what the United States of America is supposed to be, where it is now, and where it is going, if We the People, through the power of the vote, that ......
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Franklin Price
Categories:
lifers,
america, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Seasonings
...*Image of Twilight New Moon by Novocom. AUDIO: Soundtrack from the film, 'The Evening Star' with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson Seasonings ......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
lifers,
appreciation, creation, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
One Minute Birding
...Spare a minute to know about those perky creatures and their special features Lifers, twitcher, tertial and lores are nothing but the birding terms Introduce, birding to the children, As tha......
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Supraja Kannan
Categories:
lifers,
beauty, bird, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Up, Chicago
...Wake up, Chicago, before it's too late Murders are rising at an alarming rate Multiple car-jackings every day We're a criminal's paradise -- hey, hey! As for classroom education, give me a ......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
lifers,
chicago, future, perspective, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Trump Is Almost Gone
...Trump is Almost Gone By Franklin Price 01/07/2020 Trump is almost gone Just thirteen days away The Swamp controls the government Will make We the People pay Four long years they've fought ......
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Franklin Price
Categories:
lifers,
abuse, america, bullying, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Essential Reading
...When asked by my nephew for an essential reading list for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design, my Taoist thoughts went back to Unitarian-Universalist Yin/Yang pre-history, when Earth produced a t......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
lifers,
community, destiny, earth, health,
Form:
Political Verse
I Dislike Litterers
...I dislike litterers I see them, the cow-like chewers Always spilling and always littering How can these large lifers be so reckless The environment is helpless I see them smear the earth They a......
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Michelo Mweetwa
Categories:
lifers,
care, earth, earth day,
Form:
Free verse
Justify Anything With Religion
...Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Surely the most pious, learned Christian in all the land Came out today with a most scholarly shocker For which I find it hard to do aught but mock her S......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
lifers,
abortion, christian, faith, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
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