Of Their Own Poems - Poems about Of Their Own

...A contagious illness regarded as being caused by sin Like a rag soiled by sewage filth, meant only to be thrown The sick suffered each moment like a fish without a fin. He did not have, even in hi......Read the rest...

...What can I do for you to notice? Does more of my red blood need to be shed and spread for you to notice? Do I need to throw away more of myself for you to even give a thought? I whimper in pain,......Read the rest...

...And so it is that on this day, I can loud and proudly say, I’m one hundred! I’m one hundred! I still remember the dust bowl, and now I’ve reached this lofty goal. I’m one hundred! I’m one hu......Read the rest...

...Let no man ever put asunder Dominate, exploit, or plunder The freedoms of this institution Promised in the Constitution The laws enacted throughout the land That are fought by those wi......Read the rest...

...We entered the post today the hall was filled with so many disabled veterans and their families many lost their medical benefits due to living situation some were homeless some moved in with family m......Read the rest...

... In the twelth hour We're pursuing generational wealth From a generation who stole Everything from us The clock ticks closer to doom But we're no closer to finding our own reality When......Read the rest...

... They put you in jail But this is America The land of the free Rich people have wealth And politicians steal it Lining their pockets With record prophets They surely forgot Jesus Par......Read the rest...

...You've lifted a new mantra of American education by staking your future on the fate of war & peace, making university presidents tremble and pro-Israel legislators cringe in anger -- you've intrud......Read the rest...

...Emaciated test-tube mutations Raised apart in pristine distillations Conceived in dexedrine celebrations and the crazed, ecstatic inhalations of the professor’s choicest pheromones Right-......Read the rest...

...Opposite ends of the spectrum yet somehow still makes sense Balancing the equation without coming at my own expense What used to be one or the other is now showing signs of decay Black and white......Read the rest...

...My dad loved that car. It was old and I was young. I got a scratch one day. I almost drove away. With that old car. But then he would be sad. But at least then… He wouldn’t know. Sadly, I di......Read the rest...

...Soon the forest would reveal its dark secret and I don't want to be there again to see instead I'd be walking the world on my own cuz I already know what's in there I told myself so many time "d......Read the rest...

...A little over a year ago, I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk in front of our house. The fall resulted in a badly torn rotator cuff that ended in surgery. After surgery, I was given some pretty......Read the rest...

...They were exhibited as strange curiosities, They all had a face, a name, an identity on this land soiled by negrophobia. They looked without seeing, their eyes lost in the ruins of their humanity......Read the rest...

...I Old Age, take me not as thy fugitive, For long I’ve been thy earnest votary, But now that approaches life’s fateful eve, Ye oft make me rethink my loyalty. Youth when slips by leaves a last......Read the rest...