Long Demoted Poems

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Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents

Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...

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Categories: demoted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse


There Was No Escape

Treat others how you like to
for they will treat you how you want to
be ready for absolution for it will come
I have seen it plenty of times and it is done
I know you want to...

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Categories: demoted, angel,
Form: Free verse

I'M Back

Last year you beat me up
And poured vinegar in my cup
Last year you humiliate me
And hire criminals to torment me.
Last year you deny my friends and families
The natural right to be happy
My children went to...

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Categories: demoted, blessing, character, corruption, courage, happy, miracle, time,
Form: Free verse

HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025

HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025

No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
even converted from skeptic to orthodox Judaism,
and strictly followed the...

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Categories: demoted, 7th grade, 8th grade, america, death, family,
Form: Free verse
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Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 3

Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as...

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Categories: demoted, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry


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Keep Moving On

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door". ~ Milton Berle

When demoted from                       ...

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Categories: demoted, dedication, moving on,
Form: Free verse

Shogun Series Bill's Side 11 Richard Pickett Story

(Continued from Bill's side 10“)
     
    "Never  mind that. I know you well enough to know you know what you’re doing. 
Just stick with me and keep...

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Categories: demoted, adventureme, work, me, work,
Form: Narrative

Facebook and the Monster - Part 2 of 2

(Part 2 - please see Part 1 first thank you)

And those of us who feel just plain lost in today’s modern world
Believe me you are not alone 
Might look at Dave’s life and think that...

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Categories: demoted, betrayal, divorce, marriage,
Form: Rhyme

Eyecandy

I’m not afraid of rejection 
I’m afraid of the phoenix that will rise from my spine with the threat of treason 
Suppress the flame and walk away 
Use your once tempted fingers to point yourself...

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Categories: demoted, anger, emotions, extended metaphor, integrity, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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Slave Virtues

They were hated, berated, and degraded                             ...

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Categories: demoted, america, black african american, endurance, strength,
Form: Couplet
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Keep Moving On

Extra committed; yet excommunicated. Highly dedicated; yet not facilitated.                          ...

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Categories: demoted, bible, christian, courage,
Form: Couplet
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This Buds For You

-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-

A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a joker, a smoker, a midnight stroker  
<-------How, about that,...

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Categories: demoted, abuse, addiction, anger, conflict, inspiration, pride, slam,
Form: Free verse

Onerous Task Confronts Teachers and Parents Part One

The following reasonable obsolete rhyme
verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue
courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue
wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus
nevertheless September 1st, 2020
signals resumption of school year back in vogue.

Challenges abound as millions of...

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Categories: demoted, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form: Rhyme
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Wilted Tree

Many of us celebrate the time when Jesus lay in his feeding trough

Own a place in our home do not have to knock on so many doors


Put up Nordic fir cut from woods or plastic...

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Categories: demoted, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Runaway Train

While others writers think of love
you’ve shat on that pure white dove.
Before on and on, I must go,
I’m telling others of what I know.

Love to ride the ‘Royal Scotsman,”
but this train I’m on is full...

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Categories: demoted, life, satireheart, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme

Tattarrattat- a Palindrome

Tattarrattat


…amazing how things change over time, from a simple knock at someone’s door, smoke signals, walking & serenading to the Pony Express, and now Cell Phones…what next, microchip implants?


Tattarrattat of sounds making universal calling to...

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Categories: demoted, community, culture, relationship,
Form: Free verse
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Wide-Eyed Children

mother star beams as she beholds her errant brood
  six diverse, rocky planets
  the innermost, a dense, two-faced, frosty furnace
  the outermost, pulverised
  much interfered with by a jovial neighbour
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demoted, children, innocence, planet, uplifting,
Form: Verse

Don'T Reed

Anxiety peak's as mundane attention seeks.
Fear and excitement compete as boredom seeps.
This powerful small action is not an option I possess.
My desire to please is within reach, the winner of an underdog's match.
Adrenaline a premature...

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Categories: demoted, life,
Form: Free verse

Shut Up and Live Your Life

You came down to this protest,
you cannot let anything rest,
paid for it by special interests;
shut up and live your life.

You still have this childish need
to scream ‘right side of history!’
you bought into that sophistry?
just shut...

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Categories: demoted, anger, crazy, how i feel, life, political,
Form: Rhyme

Side Effect of Pluto's Demotion

It was called a planet when I was young
Placed in the Milky Way  after the "big bang"

Pluto is the Roman's underworld god
Hades to the Greek now that isn't really bad

Discovered by American Clyde Tombaugh...

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© John Boak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: demoted, education, philosophy, world, education, planet,
Form: Lyric
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A Sport and the Book

Somewhere resting in a room 
There was social enthusiasm gloom 
Feeling trapped 
Inside the flat 
Continuing developing creatively 
Writing books literary 
Putting all in place 
Having credible worth newspaper space 
With an innocent look 
And...

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Categories: demoted, books, football, games, literature, meaningful, relationship, soccer,
Form: Rhyme
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It's Friday


It's a bad day.
It's a good day.
It's an irony.
It's an agony.
IT'S FRIDAY!

It seems like the truth has taken flight,
And deception has turned wrong into right.
IT'S FRIDAY!

You have strutted upon the stage of life.
You have played...

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Categories: demoted, anxiety, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
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Not Squared Away

Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right 
                       
“Not Squared-Away”

Crawling and...

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Categories: demoted, devotion, humor, military,
Form: Narrative

Pluto Slam It Planet

Pluto Slam It Planet  

It was Aug. 26, 2006 in Prague
Some guys got together for grog
Astronomers by name, came for a game
To vote on the matters of science
Instead they gave Pluto its shame

To their...

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Categories: demoted, abuse, betrayal, celebrity, hope, image, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Metamorphose

METAMORPHOSE

In every party there is a parting
Plants an exception in every reception
To dilute every unwanted salute
At the same time device any vice
Then fill up my cup till it spill
No dismay if I don't have it...

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Categories: demoted, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
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