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Newsweek Poems - Poems about Newsweek


No Brave New World

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  In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, 
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, 
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness 
wronged-vaped, winged
to the w...
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Categories: newsweek, art,
Form: Rhyme

Upmteenth Re Inspection Revisited

...Upmteenth (re:) inspection revisited...

I experience dread-nought
until April 19th, 2022 becomes yesterday
when troubles with management
here at Highland Manor
hoop fully temporarily alleviate...
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Categories: newsweek, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse



15 and 16

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"15 and 16"


she was taken
from a distance
removed, she watched 
her mother die
15

the sky bleeds
blue now

echoes in the 
cloudy eyes of 
a helpless mother 
wa...
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Categories: newsweek, abuse, humanity, innocence, sky,
Form: Free verse

Relief Courtesy Dreaded Re: Inspection Not Revisited Until May 2022

...Relief courtesy dreaded (re:) inspection not revisited until May 2022

Anticipatory anxiety put on high alert
when the warden gave less than a week
courtesy spluttering tone of voice
she did ang...
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Categories: newsweek, anger, anxiety, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Otta Sight Generations

...Hey babe, we're gonna go far.
All 'cause I am tried of working
for the man's with smelly Cuban
Imported cigars.  He must honestly
spend a small fortune on them.

We've been living much too long...
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Categories: newsweek, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Indonesia

...Indonesia 


In 1965 I read an article in Newsweek 
a mass killing of communists, 
about a million, men, women and children. 
The writer of this article concluded with:
the communists had brought thi...
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Categories: newsweek, anniversary, dark, war,
Form: Prose Poetry

Rednecks

...Rednecks 
Long time ago when a man called Goldwater was 
running for president, I was walking along a road 
just outside Mobile, Alabama. What I was doing 
there is long forgotten but I recall ha...
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Categories: newsweek, adventure, history, me, me,
Form: Blank verse

Heartache and Poetry

...Looking down at my writing pad, I know my poetry is quite unique.
Like bombs over Baghdad, this poem needs to grace the pages of Newsweek!
I'm sexier than Sinbad, yet you weren't interested in my t...
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Categories: newsweek, loss, lost love, sadheart,
Form: Rhyme

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