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Put Upon Poems - Poems about Put Upon

Premium MemberHOW DO WE LAUGH AND DANCE AND SING

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How do we find time to laugh, to dance, to sing in times as uncertain as these?
When so many men, women and children in the world live under a sword of Damocles.

For me it goes back to when I w...
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Categories: put upon, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii

...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Pun...
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Categories: put upon, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMON TEESA MON THE CURSE OF THE CARIBBEAN BAKERY

...RASTA MY ASSASIN MURDERED AT MY FEET RETURNED WITH A PILE OF GRAVEYARD DIRT SEARCHING FOR THE OWNERS OF THE BAKERY A BAKERY ALREADY SOLD SWINDLED FROM THE OWNER IN THE END A CURSE PUT UPON ANYONE WHO...
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Categories: put upon, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberI cannot play Poker

...Some people can play poker
Not me
My thoughts and feelings sit at the edge of my face
Jumping on the necks and backs of people
If you disgust me, my disgust might take a bite out of you

If I l...
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Categories: put upon, me,
Form: Free verse

Hope For What The Future Bring

...The sun came out
It's sunny after the rain
The rainbow appear
At the background
It means it's a sign
Of good luck and goodwill
After the outpouring
There's smile put upon our face....
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Categories: put upon, dream, faith, hope,
Form: Light Verse



Premium MemberLIFT EACH OTHER UP

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May we be blessed to understand
on every continent, 
in every country, 
city 
and town…
We are put upon this Earth to lift each other up
not
to put each other down....
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Categories: put upon, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

What the Boys Thought

...When we were just young kids hanging around 
the one grocery store there was in town 
drinking Yoo-Hoo and chewing Bazooka Joe 

While we were joking, cussing and spitting
playing baseball, swim...
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Categories: put upon, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Kill It Before It Grows

...Somewhere the snooty scholars of the world
quietly locked inside their dusty hall
Under the dim light of a candle’s flame
decide which label to put upon us all

I see them now with my book in th...
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Categories: put upon, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Secret Love, Two Searching Eyes

...*Secret love, two searching eyes*

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The early morning's languorous mild sun 
Seemed jaded from a nightlong tiring jog, 
And liked dawn's dew-mixed mirth nor glee of smog,
Nor some stray passin...
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Categories: put upon, childhood, feelings, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Wake Up In the Morning

...I sleep with You
wake up with You and  them 
Because we don't have problem 
As all of us are belonging to You.
We continue breathing because of You.
Being empowered and protected  by You, 
love...
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Categories: put upon, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis

...Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis

Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday 
during month of May
can be traced back 
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mot...
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Categories: put upon, absence, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Scattered

...Siblings scatter here and yon,
All that one-time nearness gone,
Though many did feel put-upon;
Still, closeness might endure.

They choose to live in different states
With different life styles...
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Categories: put upon, brother, sister,
Form: Rhyme

Cobwebs

...Emotional cobwebs broken apart
Feelings of ghosts kept in the dark 
Who guides the path of a broken heart
Waywardly distant and constantly on guard

Looking for light for the will to make it thr...
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Categories: put upon, faith, future, god,
Form: Rhyme

Daffodil Brain

...So peculiar
It springs up its head
On late Winter’s bed.  
This morning it was
That fence in my hand;

I'm pulling on her
where put upon, few see.
Smart on its petals, color vies,

Look on ...
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Categories: put upon, daffodils, dark, deep, earth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAll Things New

...Subjected to futility,
poor Eden now must wait.
Misunderstanding deity,
she’s put upon of late.
Imagining she’s mother now,
she suffers little ones.
Her clarity won’t be restored
until again H...
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Categories: put upon, creation, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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