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Red Tape Poems - Poems about Red Tape

Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lair
... Let’s pester Uncle Fester After dafter Luxon Pushed the button Welcomed every glutton To the isles of mutton Theme of the meme Team New Zealand It does seem No longer a ......

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Categories: red tape, money,
Form: Rhyme
Tired
...I’m tired. Not the kind you sleep off— the kind that settles in your bones like a storm that never passes. I’m tired of checking the volume of my laughter like it’s a detonator. Of reading t......

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Categories: red tape, abuse, betrayal, inspirational,
Form: Spoken Word



Amaze me
... You think I escape I promise, you’re wrong This, devil red, tape More thick than it’s long When my lids flutter In slumber, I drift As with a stutter The problem won’t lift The horror......

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Categories: red tape, anxiety, depression, dream,
Form: Rhyme
colored folks
...Crying Fix the damn house She done Paid to me Ain’t gonna happen When rent come? Please don’t drag the pope across the Carpet irish boy Nana He lying Born military Gonna die military? ......

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Categories: red tape, absence, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manifesto
... Written: December 27, 2024 For Contest Sponsored by: Hilo Poet _________________________________ At dawn of a place cocooned once in avarice silver-haired sav......

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Categories: red tape, america, angst, health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gravity
...Gravity is the enemy… It holds me down. It keeps my soul from flying, knocks me to the ground. And struggling against the force will only hurt And yet I cannot stay here, face down in the dirt. ......

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Categories: red tape, fear, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Threadbare
...thin moon hangs in the blurring light when the red tape of work ends day's end before darkness darts onto idling pillows a too slight shine to navigate the strain of living wounds unstitched ......

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Categories: red tape, change, dark, firework, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Better World
...Love grows deep within one's heart Let us all just come together instead of growing further apart We must not allow hatred to become the norm Let's send out waves of warmth and happiness to weathe......

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Categories: red tape, people, world,
Form: Rhyme
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
...The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink of symphonic symphonies yearning to break free, d......

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Categories: red tape, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Chapter 12-- Damian and Polly: They Meet At the Club and the Adrianna Reunion
...It was a cool winter night. While Things were heating up inside. Damian relaxed in the comfort area While he witnessed, CJ and Julius Have the dance floor. Damian scouted Around. There was a yo......

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Categories: red tape, color, confidence,
Form: Prose
Meet Me On the Moon
...Now for some good news, that we might have missed. It ain't no riot or pandemic, so maybe didn't make your list. For the first time in history, a commercial craft flew to space. Bringing huma......

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Categories: red tape, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Red
...RED States/Blue States Finances: RED or Black? Cincinnati REDS Boston RED Socks Chicago White Socks Detroit RED Wings RED Blood Cells White Blood Cells RED Tape RED Cars RED Socks I have......

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Categories: red tape, red,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bureaucracy
...Bureaucracy comes... But it never seems to go It brings along attached to it Endless tales of woe Copious piles of paperwork (Mostly useless forms) And calls that go unanswered Are typically t......

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Categories: red tape, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colorwheel
...We looked at the world through rose-colored glasses, sped through the night under blue moons, parked in cars and gave boys the green light. Explored gray areas, dreamed of golden boys, painted ......

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Categories: red tape, cheer up, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Caretaker's Prayer
...Father and Mother give us this day for calmness and composure and peace of mind to be mindful to remember our dear loved ones are not in a clear state of ......

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Categories: red tape, abuse, addiction, age, anxiety,
Form: Bio

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