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No Deal
...You can’t make a deal with a Judas As tenured they govern on high Like the British who sought our indenture With graft and self-interest they lie You can’t play the game any longer Whe......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
self interest,
corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
Tsunami of Corruption
... The ground trembles not with tectonic shift, but with the weight of undeclared wealth, the silent accretion in offshore accounts, a pressure building beneath the veneer of governance. Whisp......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
self interest,
political,
Form:
Free verse
Looking For Owls
... When nightfall dips in palest of gold I feel a sense of indignity, As owl's melody loses its eloquence Through the absence of a safe abode; Where quietude calls for avian coos The kind ......
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Nette Onclaud
Categories:
self interest,
bird, dedication,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Beneath The Surface Of A Whim
...Wave a magic wand and poof! Try to put the genie back in the bottle Oops, too late…now everyone’s laughing More like heads shaking in disbelief Wear the rough edges of your plan down With the fi......
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Christopher Delegans
Categories:
self interest,
political,
Form:
Free verse
Where is the Love?
...Where is the Love? Where? Maybe the love is a hidden substance. Or just the exceptional can experience the love? This is injustice. Where is tho God? Where is Him? I am here! – Said Satan. He......
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Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
self interest,
fate, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
WE GO 2 WAR
...WE GO 2 WAR - Hughes/Maldonado, FUNK, 2008 -------------------------------------------- War is just decision made in comfort of palatial rooms fed by self-interest, ego, fear, fame, hatred, ......
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thriveni c mysore
Categories:
self interest,
war,
Form:
Etheree
INFERNAL COMBUSTION AGAIN
...We go on burning fossil fuel thinking that nature we can fool. No lessons do we seem to learn as more and more carbon we burn. Despite seeing climate warming the see-o-two we’re still dumping. ......
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Tony Hargreaves
Categories:
self interest,
destiny, environment, pollution,
Form:
Rhyme
Where is the Peace?
...Where is Peace? When will the world learn? When? When will the humanity learn? When? Blood ocean everywhere Blood, everywhere West and East East and West Don’t find peace and love Why? T......
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Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
self interest,
fate, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse
Digging or Gold
...When you have money the world stops to listen The content no matter gratuity bound The dollars indulgent as charlatans glisten Self-interest the mantra — with greed to compound (Septa R5 ......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
self interest,
pain,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kindness Creed
...Kindness consists of love in action, not just feelings of warm fuzzies. It’s done not in self-interest, but is repaid in other ways. Staying selfless, not selfish, not transacting one-sidedly, ......
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Mark Stucky
Categories:
self interest,
conflict, courage, friendship, giving,
Form:
Free verse
Family is a Promise
...Family is...a promise, Family is...a responsibility, When there is respect, love, Only then it has stability. Homes with lust for money, With no love, only self-interest. What better they ......
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Shoummojit Roy
Categories:
self interest,
family,
Form:
Rhyme
Scandinavia
...Scandinavia Finland is the whitest country in the world I read and according to the article in the Sunday paper, happy in their whiteness People in Scandinavia tend to be pale-faced Sweden ......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
self interest,
absence, africa, art, beach,
Form:
Blank verse
All in self are sunk
...Birds fruitless trees forsake, Swans and cranes leave dried lake, Courtesans scarce to wealth-less cling, Counsellors leave a corrupt king, Honey bees flee from lifeless flower, Beasts forsa......
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Aniruddha Pathak
Categories:
self interest,
love, self, world,
Form:
Free verse
platitudeness
...the platitudinizes I have woken up to the world we inhabit so, much double-speak, self-interest, egotism and tame excuses make me physically ill For many, it is about getting the upper hand ......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
self interest,
absence, allusion, baptism, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Souled out'
...England Britain call it what you will? has been passed to The hands of idiotical shills!! World take notice! (Watch this space) sovereign lands; now hold Your place.! Resist the evil of a (global......
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Joe Maverick
Categories:
self interest,
assonance, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
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