Outlawed Poems

Premium MemberEdicts of Silent Concession

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A wall patched with lies
keeps the cracks from widening
but mementos fall
books, portraits, medals, and gifts—
gravity claims all relics

curtains shroud the crimes
centuries of stifled scre...
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Categories: outlawed, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Our Restless GenZees Winds That Scatter and Gather

...They are a generation that is disillusioned and disgruntled with the Status Quo
Ever they are faulting the old guard for running our most beloved country down
Most of them are very techno savvy and...
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Categories: outlawed, africa, change, conflict, future,
Form: Narrative


Big Mo

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When a horrible commissioner
was suddenly fired,
team owners interviewed
Big Mo.
They told him,
You're hired.

Changes he made to the game
were made right away.
Protests which followed
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Categories: outlawed, baseball,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBORN IN THE USA MARRIED IN THE USA

...SINGING IN THE CHIOR OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL ST  PATRICKS CHURCH FINALLY MEETING MY NEW HUSBAND FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WERE ENGAGED 2015 VOLUNTEERING ALL OVER POLK COUNTY IN LAKELAND WITH THE MILITAR...
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Categories: outlawed, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberOutlaw Band of Clatter

...The youth have teeth like tigers or tight ropes
Abundant mess of forest hair,    d u r e s s
They charge the strings with their electric hopes
And bloody drum with battered sticks possess

(Refr...
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Categories: outlawed, age, music,
Form: Lyric


Premium MemberDeprived of Your Love

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                                         Deprived of Your Love

                         Deprived of Your love since the dawn of time
                                O Lord, I wander in wild w...
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Categories: outlawed, god, life, son, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThere's a dead horse in my bathtub

...I resist the urge to write of what I allegedly know for I am unsure of where I gathered the information and therefor unsure of whether I know it or not.  As you can see this poses a strange conundrum...
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Categories: outlawed, humor,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberChristmas Pud!

...It’s Christmas day
Hip hip hooray
With festive cheer
And our family here
The feast begins
Amidst all our grins

Crackers pulled, mottos read
Fancy hats upon each head
With turkey eaten
We’l...
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Categories: outlawed, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSalt Of The Earth

...empathizers of what's possible vs hate women club with nothing plausible

asking to raise the price of insulin~ heartless if you ask the sick’s opinion

hungry to bring Trump down to size~ should...
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Categories: outlawed, america, analogy, appreciation, political,
Form: Monoku

politics today suspensions

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In their house
Pluralism  is outlawed
six months party suspension
for voting against Child poverty
Humanity verboten
The Kings speech has won

no broad church then
are they like the Torie...
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Categories: outlawed, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sweat of Thy Face

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                           The Sweat of Thy Face

When we were young, we were given a charge by the Almighty…
 “ Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.”
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Categories: outlawed, america, vanity, work,
Form: Didactic

Young People

...Written By:  D. Collins 6/4/24



Please wake up and open your eyes.
To a man my age abortion doesn't apply.
Confederates outla...
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Categories: outlawed, youth,
Form: Rhyme

The Leftist New America and World

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    Police will work for the government, not the community.

They will stalk the homeless, be merciless mercenaries, entrepreneur, agents provocateur.

Women will be bought and sold. Even s...
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Categories: outlawed, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Last Organ Grinder

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The street organ grinder was a musical novelty popular in the 19th century.
It consisted of a barrel organ strapped to the body, it was heavy, and had a
stick to stand it up, a crank wheel ...
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Categories: outlawed, history,
Form: Haibun

Street Music

...STREET MUSIC

Manhattan, in nineteen thirty six
And a growing Italian population
Poor immigrants, no job no food
And so impossible not to intrude
Yet there was strong motivation
Out on the str...
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Categories: outlawed, music, society,
Form: Rhyme

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