Long Tradeoff Poems
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AppearancesThe distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...
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Categories:
tradeoff, city, cry, dark, death, depression, pain,
Form:
Free verse
What Would You Do IfWhat if you were born in the 1800's?
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Categories:
tradeoff, abuse, america, analogy, black african american, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Thorn PricksIt was not the first time, nor would it be the last, but who's elated about ...
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Categories:
tradeoff, fruit,
Form:
Narrative
LeftLeft.
Plans left unfinished
Give too much say too much
Words filled with meaning
Maybe too much
Maybe too heavy
Maybe too repetitive
Spilled
Scattered
And washed like rainwater down dirty streets
Good intentions mixing with dirt and trash
Stepped over, walked through
Acknowledged...
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Categories:
tradeoff, angst, break up, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
I Am a SlaveMy ancestors had years of struggle
Trying to blend into their masters ideas
And to secure a slot in masters good books
They fought hard to disown who they are
Just to prove themselves worthy
Of their masters colonizing philosophy
I,...
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Categories:
tradeoff, abuse, betrayal, conflict, cousin, crazy, culture,
Form:
Free verse
We StarveLike in a dungeon we live,
Full of dissatisfaction and high charges of stuff
With no sign of reduction but expansion
As if we were victims of famine
In a famished land.
The rainbows of intercession speak not,
And the markets,...
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Categories:
tradeoff, anxiety, corruption, depression, feelings, independence day, people,
Form:
Free verse
As the Church Bells RangThen she had it all now she walks alone having since traded all treasured vows
Stumbling badly on things gone wrong ailing in grievance, " indelible thoughts"
Faded yesteryears filled with banished woes appearing like ruthless...
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Categories:
tradeoff, blessing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Tradeoffstretching taut in summersault
bending over the back bends
the ends of the middle
at the middle of the end
blinded blinders - the two-timers
left just right the hill climbers
seen clear as a piece of glass
left to see...
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Categories:
tradeoff, introspection, people, political, house,
Form:
Couplet
Trophy Wife
I and I
be a hard working man
Laying de bricks by day,
and collecting de cab fare by night
Gon save enough money, mon
buy me a beautiful trophy wife
Don't git me wrong now,
ain't talking 'bout no slavery
Trophy woman...
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Categories:
tradeoff, beautiful, poverty, truth, wife,
Form:
Light Verse
THE GRADIENTDarwin's animal is writing poetry,
Nietzsche's Ubermensch is learning idolatry.
Cockroach won't leave early,
He will wait for the bread crumbs dearly.
The embezzler is talking riches,
His nightmares are all about witches.
"THE GRADIENT" decides, "THE GRADIENT" presides,
"THE GRADIENT" is...
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Categories:
tradeoff, betrayal, corruption, creation, peace, philosophy, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Romantic PoemHe's the classic busiest bummed bee,
Work members close enough not to swallow,
Some business pursues far from his body,
Their thoughts cease, naught his, she always, follow.
She soar the skies as her duty's promise,
Perpetuity o'er her trusting...
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Categories:
tradeoff, analogy, death, extended metaphor, fate, love, romantic
Form:
Sonnet