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Playpens Poems - Poems about Playpens

ANOTHER HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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Today is my birthday…a time to reflect not only on this past year
but on my life as well….
as I look back on the 72 years upon this planet I have dwelled.

To ask myself if I am happy with my l...

Categories: playpens, birthday,
Form: Rhyme

God's Children Are Not For Sale

...Today our world is threatened by,
An evil that should make us cry.
It’s vicious as a tidal wave,
And involves men who trade in slaves.

Their victims are young girls and boys,
whom they abduct ...

Categories: playpens, betrayal, child abuse, children,
Form: Rhyme

Hermetic Justice

...Chickens we consign to coops
    Pigs we pack into pens
  Horses we corral in a stable
    Cows we stick in a shed

  Our children play in spacious playpens
    at night, like roses, they sleep...

Categories: playpens, animal, children, fun, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Living On Mars

...Living on Mars will soon be common
Nothing exciting or unusual
Hope I'm still around to see the day
I'll probably run out of fuel

Living alongside those little green men
Can we deciphe...

Categories: playpens, space,
Form: Rhyme

Brooches

...Wayward stars seduce
with a wink and spumante brooch
enticing us to come in for a closer look..
to frolic in inter-dimensional playpens
swap stories of peace and plagues 
love -lust and rage 
w...

Categories: playpens, god, planet, travel,
Form: Free verse

Unquestioned

...Can imagination be taught,
or intuition defined

Can wishes be repackaged
as hope

Can children rekindle
a dream never fired

Can the past and future
reverse

Can what is and what isn’t,
...

Categories: playpens, life,
Form: Free verse

A Hen To Men

...A hen to men

Mama's driving along to Seattle looking for her
runaway daughter, when out of the blue she
hears the radio host reading a poem written
by PP that's fast becoming a hit on social me...

Categories: playpens, angst, daughter, lost,
Form: Footle

Futility

...FUTILITY

strange this…
relentless
scurrying
about of 
preposterous
professionals

persistently
unyielding
they stab steal
and penetrate
 
peculiar the…
meaningless
meande...

Categories: playpens, destiny, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Fair Weather Parents

...“It’s all in a day’s work
 Tryin’ hard to defend
 The time that I spend alone.”
     ~ Chaka Khan, “What ‘Cha Gonna Do For Me” from the album  UNSUPPORTED CODE What ‘Cha Gonna Do For Me UNSUPPORTE...

Categories: playpens, betrayal, childhood, family, home,
Form: Verse

Surrogate

...Harlots on Harleys
Barbies on broomsticks
Midgets on widgets
Buddha on Broadway

Leaders in leotards
Players in playpens
Twinkies in Slinkies
Christ in Cabaret

Temptation of teddies
Tyran...

Categories: playpens, allegory, funny, introspection, life,
Form: Quatrain