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Placard Poems - Poems about Placard

Premium MemberOm

...Om

ID-entity 
 Is
  Meaning-less,

Like 
 All 
   Generality.

Why Should 
We Nameless
Have Names?

A Show 
 Of 
  Convenience,

Like 
 Any 
  Machine,

A Placard...
A Lie -
...
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Categories: placard, life,
Form: Free verse

indecisions

...I'm blind to the fact that that I know absolutely nothing.
2nd guessing my every first thought.  When I'm more then certain
That both can reside in the same idea. Meaning that the 3rd option must b...
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Categories: placard, for her,
Form: Free verse



Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream

...The following account predicated on partial fact and a healthy dose of prevarication with an attendant overactive imagination.

Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dre...
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Categories: placard, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThinking About Back in Black

...Ladies and Gentlemen, his time came much sooner 
Then we could have imagined, now mourning this crooner
On the verge of this pinnacle, about to be on top
I speak of the memorial of one Reginald Be...
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Categories: placard, color, music,
Form: Couplet

This life

...This life

Yet again, Trump has been targeted for assassination 
it has gotten to the point where one feels sympathy 
for this brave man, whose many flaws have become
a bull's for this, I blame ...
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Categories: placard, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Dramatic Verse



The Undying Voices

...1952. Curfew was on and roads were vacant.
Some armed hands were still haunting there
To hush every possible roar or uprising rant
With the spiteful hammer of thunderous fear.

But a murmur of r...
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Categories: placard, conflict, history,
Form: Metrical Tale

Near the Docks

...Near the old docks in Genoa where old dwellings stand close together making streets narrow and families live is
lived rather noisily, where women hang laundry to dry on small terraces or on window l...
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Categories: placard, blessing, christian, confidence, food,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberPapa's Cup

...The old stained coffee cup mocks me
It is old enough to protest
But fortunately
Cannot shout
Nor hold a placard.

We’ve been together
Through several generations
Of offspring
Thus, the PAPA
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Categories: placard, children, family, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Jamboree

...Jamboree

Young catholic people from far-flung places are arriving 
in Lisbon, plain young boys and girls looking sober smiling
and waving to the camera.

Dressed in jeans and T. shirts that sa...
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Categories: placard, birth, books, career,
Form: Burlesque

Memaw

...Hey lady, memaw. Boy do I have a lot of questions for you. Questions like what's your favorite color? Who's your favorite band? I know you love your rock music. I know you liked Freddy Mercury. Now i...
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Categories: placard, death, deep, family, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoverty

...Humans' prominent promises were shattered
Mingling, striking, searing, poorly down-pattered
They react quickly and pause to stay conscious
And in the face of denial, that's just obnoxi...
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Categories: placard, analogy, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHitchiker From Another World

...1
Sunday, an overarching day both raw edge conduit and 
coarse grain shelter for that soul in torment,
it’s when psyches plagued by doubt face those  
sudden twists and turns we call bizarre,
th...
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Categories: placard, art, change, character, city,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPlacard

... He got down from the train with baggage
Walked out through a dirty soiled passage
His attention was captured
By a bold lettered Placard;
‘KEEP THE TOWN CLEAN’ atop piles of garbage!
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Categories: placard, cheer up, satire,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPrayer For Victory

...Lord, lead us victoriously* this year with Your salvation
Having Your gift of eternal life possession…
Help us grow as Your children unto perfection
Through Your sanctification with our ho...
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Categories: placard, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Forgetting

...Once long ago I drove off and forgot 
my children.  They were home, tucked safe in bed.
I was far across town when I noticed
then rushed home at light-speed to retrieve them.

Now I am older, my...
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Categories: placard, analogy,
Form: Bio

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