Repressing Poems

Resisting The Repressing

...Resisting The Repression

Competition between a brother and sister
Rendition of an eighties song all about how much he miss her 
War of attrition between two countries facing off without a resist...
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Categories: repressing, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRightWing UnWoken

...It's not enough to say,
with however much great might,
America's Religious Right
is wrong
to flap fight wings
and even bite
against Earth's spirit natured Left.

All sacred EarthTribes
could...
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Categories: repressing, america, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse


Premium MemberRat trap

...The ancient scriptures are both boon and bane
on one hand holding out a ray of hope
yet also becoming a thought form chain
letting us not with light of truth elope.
Each breath we take anchors us...
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Categories: repressing, faith, irony, religion, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

All that Sass and Vinegar You are deserving of Love and Kindness

...Written with compassion and understanding for a person who is struggling with various issues. Life is difficult for most of us... Some more than others. Let's try to show kindness to all... Even the ...
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Categories: repressing, angel, destiny, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Juxtaposed Coast

...Fabricated coast, they arranged a brigade
Aggregated to oppose, braving the waves
Saturated stones, awaiting decay
Exaggerated to juxtapose,
The real contained by the fake.

Professing control,...
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Categories: repressing, environment, extended metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberMy Social Science Seminar

...I asked my Sacred Arts and Science professor
why seminars work and play better in feminist circles
than claustrophobic minion lines
of lectured from teacher's desk
above

S/he sings
in rings
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Categories: repressing, art, education, green, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth

...Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...

and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones 
subject courtesy senescence 
upon...
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Categories: repressing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMasculine V Patriarchal

...What looks sexy
and aesthetically pleasing
on Society's well-endowed Page

May not feel so hot
when StraightWhite Daddy's capital-headed
economic fornication systems
lead toward Great White Fa...
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Categories: repressing, black love, god, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Suicide

...Friends make memories 
Love ones draw smiles on hearts
The beautiful days created are hard to wipe 
Great and happy moments stay longer than birthmarks

But what happens when you lose a love one...
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Categories: repressing, depression, goodbye, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse

Debits and Credits

...One year ago Dictator Putin’s
Massed military might 
Invaded the Ukraine
Not really expecting any fight.
One year later, with increasing 
Frustration and despair,
Putin’s battered conscript arm...
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Categories: repressing, anger, history, political, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRewarding Inclusion

...I doubt it was a philosopher,
more likely an emperor,
but possibly both,
who first explored this sad relationship
between exclusion
and punishment,
colonialism
feeding repression.

I'll bet ...
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Categories: repressing, depression, happiness, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberRhymes With Honali

...Ere Kyser
was Kaiser
or Söze
the records
a german
germaine
an immigrant
they granted him
a pass
some eight generations past
first, depressing
later, repressing
regressing
turning generat...
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Categories: repressing, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhen Coempathic

...When I feel compassion
with my positive needs
for love
health
trust
safety,

When I feel compassion
for my fears
wounds
negative fortress wants
to overpower perceived threats
against my e...
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Categories: repressing, health, humor, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberIt Is My Impression

...I would just like to say
that it is my impression
that longer hair
and other flamboyant affectations
are male dominant immersions
from sadly dull camouflage
into the birthright
and left
of hi...
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Categories: repressing, caregiving, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberSmall Powers Everywhere

...This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

Wide and longing
for committed dialogue
not surrounded
by elitist debate,

Win/lose games,
Zero-sum asinine assumptions
requiring ego-infes...
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Categories: repressing, anger, beauty, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse

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