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Subservience Poems - Poems about Subservience

Premium MemberAI: panacea or pain

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a Curtal Sonnet 

AI is like a womb with genetics
men carefully crafting its lines of code~
intelligence is commonplace in halls
of sterility and clean of ethics;
there is no God to ...
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Categories: subservience, science,
Form: Other

Passing Through The Moment

...Passing Through The Moment 

Aesthetic communion for an artist in a ghetto
Prosthetic student union that is only there for the power show 
Anaesthetic ex-communion for a doctor who does not want ...
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Categories: subservience, life,
Form: Rhyme Royal



HUMAN BREAKDOWN

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     Total freedom of expression
  that incites death, suicide,
     and destruction.
  it is not freedom, but terrorism...,
      subservience
       and slavery...
    it is not a thing...
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Categories: subservience, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Human to numbers

...caught or accused; arrested
handcuffed, fingerprinted, mugshot
processed through, bunk or cot
cell, cellmate(s), population 
will there be a bond or nah?
anticipation for hearing: fearing
postp...
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Categories: subservience, abuse, dark, money, prison,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStrayed Sheep

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Reigning in cluster the edge of steep scarp,
the flock of mine sprawls so very proud.
I’m a meek loner in the midst of them all,
for each one is happy to be in the crowd.

As I’m secluded in...
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Categories: subservience, analogy, identity, lonely,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberXmas Tide

...Xmas tide, 
a time for familial gatherings,
The golden chain of friendship 
…and companions
Sweet on each other,
parading arm in arm
Together to share a feast and gift giving

...Nativity sce...
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Categories: subservience, character, christmas, lonely, longing,
Form: Haibun

Chicken

...I, the egg, split me open
And show the blood on my yolk
Men's brains would be better scrambled
Than left to hatch

Into wars over who cracks who
And who gets to pour their batter 
Into another...
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Categories: subservience, bible, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Free verse

The Price of Freedom

...Consider for a moment freedom as a greedy banker. It does not sell the country perpetual security, liberty and happiness, it loans those qualities at a high rate of investment, and it does not allow ...
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Categories: subservience, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPersephone

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Struggling
With carrying branches to dry for kindling,
Cursing
the seemingly extra long winter and those
who keep bringing it;
a shadow drifts over me like a primordial raven,
and a rush of...
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Categories: subservience, mythology,
Form: Free verse

My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and ...
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Categories: subservience, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Neigh say being corralled and cult shod

...Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowd...
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Categories: subservience, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Delivery

...A living poem, not yet written,
not yet visible, haunts the periphery
of the inner eye.

She is as light as a feather,
though she has a deep-set gravity,
her presence impels my mind toward her....
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Categories: subservience, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMonarchs and Moneybags

...Rascals and Ragamuffins

Scoundrels and Scallywags

Each bows in subservience

To Monarchs and Moneybags...
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Categories: subservience, slavery,
Form: Rhyme

Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent

...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounde...
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Categories: subservience, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...My nascent poetic tribute to black history month

more apropos and alternately titled: 
praise to thee people 
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancemen...
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Categories: subservience, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Rhyme

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