Standards Poems

Don't Play Funky

Standing there with your glistening hair,
miniskirt tempting all eyes around,
say you’re just going out the unwind
with you friends, hottest club in the town.
Looks can kill and I’m thinking that you
mean to draw every wandering eye,
as if you do not have a man here,
as if you’re on the hunt for a guy.

Don’t play funky with me,

You Made Me Dauntless

You made me Dauntless


Part of me is half full and empty
Like a right-handed person trying to be lefty
Trying to scribble down the chaotic memory
Of the hurt I got from ignoring me totally
 
I try to break my own rules and standards
‘Cause I thought you’re the ace in a card
I dive too deep into the false hope

Won't Take That

She gave her word and I just believed,
was the best thing that happened to me,
but, before long, on camera I see
her sneaking with a man who lives up the street.

Probed her for truth, but, oh, she just lie,
never had a hint of guilt in her eyes,
how can someone feel that justified,
even showed her the tape,

Double standards

zero tolerance
for stupidity
yet here I am
putting up
with your
shenanigans



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Good Standards

Good Standards 
Generous 
Courteous 
Manners 
Meaningful 
Respectful 
With Balance 
Encouragement 
No Conflict 
Honest 
Dependable 
Good Standards 
Noble 
Good Spirited 
Patient 
Good Morals 
Good listener 
Positive Compass 
Understanding 
Open-minded 
Don’t take life for granted 
Good Samaritan

Angelic Standards Trashed

     Angel Reese plays basketball for the Chicago Sky
          She talks trash like an overwrought magpie

     The media compares her to the great Caitlin Clark
          ~ though almost all

The world we live in today

Tennis star Sinner’s no sinner,
But Phogat is, and no winner,
Sinner’s sans intention,
She should learn a lesson,
Are rules for the First World’s honour?
____________________________ 
Happenings |19.08.2024| world, today
Poet’s note: The tennis star Sinner was found positive twice for a banned substance. But his was not an intentional crime, and so he is pardoned. Yet Olympic wrestler Vinesh

A Political Machine Two Standards

A Political Machine
Two Standards
Tom Wright
7-5-2016

After laying out charges
the FBI suddenly flipped,
Now Lady Justice has had
her blindfold stripped.

Someone lent his opinion
on a two year old mystery,
A day now ordained
to be written in our history;

This day it was proven
you can be, too big to fail,
For a free pass was given
that have sent some to jail.

Delving into the

Standards

Double standards is a thing 
Judge all the judgments you’ve been judging 
And you who calls others “unfair”
Will find it hard to bear
That you are perpetrating victims
Whose thoughts clash with your very dreams

Going and coming around is a real event 
And in the wake of the latter you term it “different.”
Scampering for whatever grace you

STANDARDS

“STANDARDS”

Let’s talk about the standards of the general society,
And not just society, the beliefs, normalizations and false norms believed by variety,
We live in a new world now whereas being your most authentic self is not just enough,
And then you begin to question yourself and society calls your bluff,
The truth however is that everything the society

Standards and values

Today's standards don't hold the value they use to-our forefathers are rolling in their graves

Standard

           In the depths of desolation where death 
is presiding in a smug kind of cocoon of parasite,
lies, a heart of calcified care, buried deep inside 
a grim stalactite of unrequited tears.
Apathy's icy grip holds tight holding back 
the meaning of your days and times

Double Standards

The silence is deafening.
The Devil capers madly.
Soldiers revel in atrocities.
Demons slaughter the innocents.

The silence becomes thunderous.
Beasts brutalise the oppressed.
Their resistance is legendary.
Famine stalks the rubble.

The silence is shattered!
Strangers fight the iniquity.
Nations condemn the deaths.
… Still the murders continue.

The silence is deafening…
How is this “war”?
The victims are blamed.
The “chosen people”, praised.

Are all lives not equal?

Beauty Standards

Oh my god she's so fat, 
her stomach has rolls. 
And her thighs shake when she walks, 
unbelievable that, 
someone would comment on someone's folds. 
“Her double chin is visible when she talks.”  
Eating in front of someone and pray, 
pray that they don't judge me 
"she probably eats too much" they say 
people

Community Standards

Naked in the Palaestra, 
Wrestler Leontiskos, of Messene,
Was awarded laurels with the required three falls,
Having broken two of his opponent’s fingers.
He was applauded as a hero of the games.
A lyric ode was composed to document his triumph.
It was the highlight of his career.

Naked in the Palestra, 
Streaker Leon MacBride, of Manayunk,
Was awarded ninety days community

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