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Meted Poems - Poems about Meted

Though an atheist

...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation

After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories: meted, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse

Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine

...Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine...

until courtesy amazing grace interceded
in the doggone guise 
of Canis lupus familiaris
unwittingly timely deliverance
v...
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Categories: meted, adventure, angel, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberC S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress

...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.'  all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories: meted, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThis is What I Call a Loyal Love

...“There is no loyalty greater than the love of a loyal dog.” By Author
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                                   This is What I call Loyal L...
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Categories: meted, dog, feelings, love,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberMusing on the Death Penalty

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A double murderer
Shot before a firing squad
Justice or revenge?

An eye for an eye
So, the old law book conveys
Punishment for sin

Society’s way
To rid town square of wrongs
Yet, death ...
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Categories: meted, 12th grade, abuse, death,
Form: Haiku



Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii

...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Pun...
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Categories: meted, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDumpster Fire Pharma

...Sanity meted in batches
With healthcare served up in patches
It’s a dumpster dive
Just staying alive
To rely on raccoons playing with matches...
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Categories: meted, business, crazy, drug, health,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberShow Me Your Justice

...Lord, I know your love,
but show me Your justice.
I know the day will come
when probation is done,
and everyone will see
their eternal destiny
justice meted out in judgment reality...

I know...
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Categories: meted, god, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberThe Pilfered Peck

...Peter Piper was ever punctilious, like minty nature's painstaking paintings,
Or the palsied skies of one pretty evening, in the hour of the sun's fainting.

Peter lived upon a small, ferti...
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Categories: meted, color, fantasy, farm, food,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberInner Sanctum

...Placed Fist in:
Pick a Title, Vol 41 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edwrad Ibeh


                                        Inner Sanctum

                             In the very depth of my heart...
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Categories: meted, feelings, god, humanity, men,
Form: Verse

Neigh say being corralled and cult shod

...Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowd...
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Categories: meted, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled

...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...

with kidnapping little boy 
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.

The deadly scourge of  
one obsessive/compulsive di...
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Categories: meted, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity Redux

...Reflections upon mine gender identity redux

Although heterosexual 
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations 
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine 
showcasing undersize
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Categories: meted, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist,
Form: Free verse

Ankaba

...Time got tired of been here
numbering the scars
meted in the past
scars of lost lot
binding failure in tandem
opening up wounds
wounds too deep to heal
suppressing the joy of the now
so much,...
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Categories: meted, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberContrasting Moods - Fiction

...Surrounded by four walls.	
I feel disgust and despair.
Why can’t I snap out of it?
For listen: The city hums with listless life.
Hospitals thrive with dying patients,
oft with self inflicted ...
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Categories: meted, depression, prayer,
Form: Free verse

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