Privation Poems - Poems about Privation

...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence, with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway. Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ......Read the rest...

...Cells work is play to resiliently thrive only in organic systems. Individual yolked cells each with her own ego-governor survive healthy together and divide tragically apart More like symb......Read the rest...

...I told the world about my cure Nobody gave a damn For a moment, I felt just like a god I’m reminded I’m a man That boulder that’s upon your back? It’s a tiny pebble, bro How big you think t......Read the rest...

...Helpless I inhale Suffering the substance of my wrongs The burdens brought by choice They tie my feet; I cannot tread I gasp A quick respite To consume a virtue Only for a fleeting mo......Read the rest...

...26. A stationary bicycle Never travels very far. Nor sniffs the meadow flowers Or sets the evening star. It is far from me to criticize The direction that you ought... But it seems a helle......Read the rest...

...We gregarious beings live to expand and the most admirable thing is that we grow faster when we move together. When we share life with pals and loved ones, every moment becomes a treasure worth wrapp......Read the rest...

...an Arabian sonnet Greetings to one who cries for salvation; God hears the tears of your desolation. Crying for our Lord’s shield from privation strength comes, Messiah gives confirmation. On......Read the rest...

...As Socrates calmed the council by speaking up, Í, slow and aged, being sentenced to drink from the cup. Being condemned by truth as guilty iniquity, injustice phenomena throughout antiquity. Í ab......Read the rest...

...~ I am a Conservative Here is who I am and what I stand for ~ C onserving what is worth preserving O pen to changing what's not working N ot willing to throw out the......Read the rest...

...The same shriek he made Escaping the womb face first In that cow dung smeared hut Was still echoing in her heart When he frantically whimpered In subdued feeble scuffle for life Fraughting desp......Read the rest...

...long have I wandered through waxes and wanes, fire cast of love's primal seduction songs from afar bearing storms of white stars forming only to seek new construction. while long are inci......Read the rest...

...The world a stage, Shakespeare noted. And we the imposter, in our final call. A few catch our last show. Unwitting, they s on cue, our fatal prelude, our convulsive caricature, our final s......Read the rest...

...When we’re off to a war, we are full of elation. But that feeling is subject to rising deflation. Once we’ve lived through privation and have prayed for salvation, we are left wi......Read the rest...

...Nearly ten o'clock, Capitol Hill, inside the SCIF (specially designed for classified purpose): House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff was hosting an esoteric hearing featuring a deposition......Read the rest...

...At the edge of a wood, in days of summertime, Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time; Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter, Could no longer earn their bread and butter. Late one night, a conve......Read the rest...