Suppressive Poems | Examples


Tell Yourself the Truth

Jealousy and envy differs;

 

Jealousy is mild;

Envy is wild.

 

Jealousy may not be seen;

Envy is a sin.

 

Jealousy progresses;

Envy regresses.

 

Jealousy is suppressive;

Envy is expressive.

 

Jealousy admires;

Envy conspires.



Jealousy imitates;

Envy eliminates.

 

Jealousy wishes to heal;

Envy wishes to kill.
Categories: suppressive, 9th grade,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberAugust Is So Mean This Year

August has clutched us by the throats and given us a shake.
Anything outside this month needs no oven to bake.
She is straight out of Mars, warlike and suppressive for sure.
Her heat index is outrageous, her motive is pure.

She wants us to submit, to recognize her as the queen.
She is as ruthless this month as I have ever seen.
I wake up and look at the calendar and moan.
August is still here I tell my dogs, who also bemoan.

She keeps us in our houses after ten o’clock each day.
The corn and wheat and barley are shriveled up they say.
The grass is brown, the flowers are trying not to die.
August, why are you so mean, I truly wonder why.
Categories: suppressive, august, summer,
Form: Personification


A Shifted Responsibility

A sunken face on all sides pale,
As the owner’s head keep supporting a pail,
Then, to the also saddled younger,
He flung a suffocating order:
That he his own suppressive load take over,
And if he so wished bear it forever,
But must not any bitter tale,
Dare to their daddy tell,
About a sudden disgraceful inability,
Or a shifted responsibility,
As all hearers would judge it disguised hostility,
And to him ascribe lesser agility.
Categories: suppressive, bullying, business, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Memories

My memories... They glisten like dew on brilliant blades of grass bathed in the morning sun...Each of them twinkling from that place where memories dwell... 
Some are faded from the weather and the heavy, suppressive time... 
Some hide in the shadows, cowering into the forgotten,
while others taunt me, refusing to succumb to age or dementia... 
All these memories... 
My own little pieces of immortality... 
My own little curses...
My own little gifts...
Categories: suppressive, memory,
Form: Free verse

Oh' Dear Mother

Look upon her blackness 
And be filled with delight 
Her blackness
A beacon among the insipid faces 
around her
Proudly she walks
Proudly she sways 
with unsurpassed conviction 
A sensuous black lily
Swaying in the wind
The daughter of Africa 
Within her soft belly 
Sleeps her children
She wears her blackness like a queen
This daughter of Africa 
Taught us to be the captain of 
whatever course we choose to plot
Not to let suppressive objectives 
derive your path
Not to be rendered subservient,
Docile and therefore subjugated
To mental assassination 
To n'oublie jamais d'où tu viens
Because you have to be 
Before you can know
What u stand for
This daughter of Africa.
Categories: suppressive, dedication, family, mother,
Form: Cinqku


Sweet Sweet Disconnect

when
scientology has 
deemed you an
enemy for being
antisocial, for 
being a POTENTIAL
TROUBLE 
SOURCE (PTS), for
getting in the way
of the 
BRIDGE TO TOTAL
FREEDOM for
others---you are now
a suppressive person (SP),
you bring the whole 
bloody cult down, don’t
ya know you got to 
stop making all those 
that drop their gold coins
in the coffer feel like they
have wasted their lives &
money on something just 
as fictional & ridiculous
as moses, christ or 
muhammad, but you have
shelled out some major dough
to do so---a committee of 
evidence has a file on you &
they are going to bring you 
before the High Court!  you
will be forbidden to have
any contact with those 
designated SP’s if you are 
not found to be one yourself &
you will be followed & you 
will wading in the dung of the
jehovah’s witness whose been
dis-fellowshipped, you will be
withering in the dark with
the excommunicated mormons,
you will be cast out like the
proverbial leper & you will be
alone with no one that you 
once knew by your side---but,
you will be free to breathe a 
rational breath once again.
Categories: suppressive, life
Form: Free verse

A Dark Place

These dark streets, filled with shades
What little light enters soon fades
Cool and damp like the deepest cave
So musty it is like an earthy grave

The air is suppressive to one and all
Filled by songs designed to enthral
Pulling in all those who pass by
And keeping them in here for all time

These dark streets are paved with pain
Of every single soul that they retain
The damp cobbles are black tombstones
And the fences and gates are made of bones

A world filled with death and decay
Where the very walls scream with dismay
Nothing grows in this place so oppressive
Welcome to the world of the manic depressive
Categories: suppressive, life, world, dark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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