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Travesties Poems - Poems about Travesties

God Alone Plan and Mysterious Ways

...Why do such travesties happen and
continue to occur

To living human being people such as us

As loss , loneliness , misery and pain 

For what exact purpose and who's gain

If God was and i...
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Categories: travesties, faith, loss, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn Reparations

...Can we ever truly right the wrongs of the past?
Seems to me what was done cannot be undone,
And I am not a proponent of crippling remorse
So, let’s just face facts, as they were, and r...
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Categories: travesties, america, angst, feelings, how
Form: Blank verse



Premium MemberAbecedarian Alliteration

...An abecedarian Australian animal activist
Bagged bodacious big bucks
Caustically criticizing crocodiles,
Driving darling dragons
Essentially extinct. Eschewing
Fact, fabricating fanciful fiction...
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Categories: travesties, animal, silly,
Form: Abecedarian

Coming To Term

...COMING TO TERM IN THE USA  2022 Laraine Kentridge Lasdon

who are we to talk of women’s rights
or the travesties of cultures of bans
when our Supreme court becomes
a pawn of pandering politics
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Categories: travesties, america, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNow That I'm Old

...I understand that in your mindset
You think you’re entitled to judge me
Though you know nothing of my life

My youth is gone and spent
I couldn't solve the problems of the world
I don't think I...
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Categories: travesties, age, integrity, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberUntitled

...No hymn is sung to praise
The beauty now undone by time;
Where once the lauds and gracious
Prose were flung out, as will be
These travesties of nature's levity.
Then does all beauty fade, thus
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Categories: travesties, beauty, time,
Form: Free verse

Year of the Mask

...At last you've been laid to rest, twenty~twenty
A plague on mankind with tragedies aplenty
Since February, you've given up total control
abandoning us as a wicked germ took its toll
You'll be rem...
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Categories: travesties, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberClutching At Straws

...A loving father once said of his now deceased son, "I shall go to him,                                                                 but he shall not return to ME"*.  It was his way of acknowledgin...
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Categories: travesties, analogy, bible, break up,
Form: Rhyme

Cooler

...There is a fine line between visceral hatred and love. What side am I on?
Sweat runs into my eyes mixed with my tears and anger. Angry at myself or at it? Hard to say. I see only in a tint of gray. ...
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Categories: travesties, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Nightmare and the Chaos Raven Sent Into Poe's Poetic World

...The Nightmare And The Chaos Raven Sent Into Poe's Poetic World

Waking into delusions of long dead rainbows and slow dying clouds
hard fallen mountains, enchanted winds and long black veiled shrou...
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Categories: travesties, appreciation, art, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Superpower

...I have little control
over the world's travesties
I have power
over little more
than my thoughts
my words my actions
so put away that sharp tongue
so as to never sting or slash
best choose to...
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Categories: travesties, heart, integrity, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBe Us the Sentinel

...I sing to the Sun with a thousand songs to atone
For her loss of strength and glow that's faded thin
And has exiled the strength of her rightful throne
To convey the sunset in the demise of our ch...
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Categories: travesties, earth, environment, eulogy, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

Ss Single and Searching

...Deep into the sunflower,
Shirking away in facade.
Alas!
The It in the search for it,
But the constellations know better.
Soon draws in the daily winter;
When the flowers wilt and fall;
As it s...
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Categories: travesties, 1st grade, blue, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYour Inner Child

...Listen to your inner voice,
return to childhood and
let those instincts free.
Become a child once more.

See things through their eyes
like unicorns, fairies and elves.
Do not stop and analyse...
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Categories: travesties, child, imagination, life,
Form: Verse

The Looking Glass

...Marching through the storm
Taking up arms against the night
Erasing sense & losing form
Without sight there is no right

Judging the world from my podium  
Sitting up high away from sympathy 
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Categories: travesties, allegory, appreciation, desire, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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