Ostracization Poems


Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust

...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away f...
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Categories: ostracization, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide

...neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
rather yours truly doth thrive
on keeping the ethos, mythos,
and pathos of Pigpen alive
subjected to eternal
abomination, brutalization,
condemnatio...
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Categories: ostracization, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme


Scrounging For Boogers Wrought My Damn Nostrils Nearly To Bust

...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

My humblest apology if the following account
doth gross thee out forlorn childhood of mine 
found further ostracization of me tant...
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Categories: ostracization, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLearning From Loss

...The hardest losses
are those too late to repair
what has been win/win time lost
to despair

Just as love
cannot co-arise
where fear grows 
fully uprisen
a prison
predicting anger's nearby
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Categories: ostracization, addiction, anger, fear, happiness,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberSacred Spacemaking

...Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace

Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely ...
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Categories: ostracization, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum


Premium MemberTo a Superior Judge

...I could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice 
against restorative healing.

I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correc...
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Categories: ostracization, anxiety, blue, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberThe Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Glove

...It occasionally  occurs to me,

as I distractedly remove my right dominant
Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Glove,
after yet another young adult diaper change,

Perhaps getting lovingly laid
by a lifeti...
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Categories: ostracization, care, caregiving, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse

Between Scylla and Charybdis

...Greek mythological
drama flourishes,
nee thrives within
noggin of yours truly
gods and goddesses
sporting Hellenic origins

purportedly cavort
higgledy-piggledy
rampantly running ragged
rum...
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Categories: ostracization, allegory, analogy, destiny, fire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Memory Houses Soul Asylum Vestige

...Memory houses soul asylum vestige...
where complex edifice once anchoring
venerated Glen Elm demesne once stood,
now nothing except vinyl city!

I recall breathtaking, expansive, incredible
num...
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Categories: ostracization, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio

Neither Ostracize Nor Stigmatize

...Rejoice not when her financial muscle dwindles
Gout her feet and hand joints assails
A kleptomaniac her little cash swindles
The love of her life from away sails 

Rendering her social, financia...
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Categories: ostracization, poems,
Form: Free verse

No Shucking Small Talk

...Contains More Than Kernel Of Truthful 

alienation, expulsion, ostracization 
     from body politick 
     if member of society resistant, 
     indifferent, adamant, et cetera   

despite di...
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Categories: ostracization, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberRed and Green Christians

...Let's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.

This is true of radical jihad...
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Categories: ostracization, addiction, bible, hate, health,
Form: Political Verse

Certain

...a lack of compassion 
drives the “sane” to be “sinister”---
ne’er was a truth so certain to be
than to deprive a person of freedom &
then wonder what will happen as a 
result, or to force them under ...
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Categories: ostracization, life,
Form: Free verse

The Development of Dead Eyes: Part I

...most people trouncing round the empire 
walk with a sense of respect built by
the accumulation of things,
built by the constant reassertion of one’s
personality publicly,
pronouncing themselves a 
fu...
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Categories: ostracization, life, , western,
Form: Free verse
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