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Turn A Blind Eye Poems - Poems about Turn A Blind Eye

The skin I have vs the skin you have
...The skin I have Black Vs The skin they wanted White It was like a lifelong competition With only one condition Whiteness wins And well blackness Loses So from young they Indoctrinated us Into believi......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, color, corruption, discrimination, history,
Form: Free verse
Silent Abuse
...Please explain to me why those beatings survived, Remembering the fear and terror in their eyes, And being a child there was nothing I could do, Except taught him towards me instead of you, Even ......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, abuse, anger, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Clowns Drive A Camaro
...Intro Clowns drive a Camaro and the World is full of clowns/ By the end of 2023, Camaro’s will run the town/ Even the clown haters wanna join the Camaro line/ Back to back to back we about to tea......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, appreciation, car, career, character,
Form: Lyric
RepubliCAN’T
...Who wants the lime light and attention focused on them for being an outcast? Not I said the chicken. If you allow your core values, integrity and beliefs to be altered, changed or persuaded by thr......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, bullying, corruption, fear, life,
Form: Narrative
Rape culprits
...At a young age, they start to rape. It is a disaster in the Cape. At 15 he starts to rape. There is no way to escape. At 15 he rapes the kids in the home. They are close like bees in a honeyco......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Didactic



The soldier
... Proud to defend his country, the place of his birth. To unite with other soldiers and prove his worth. A band of brothers they quickly became. putting aside differences to achieve their ai......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, anxiety, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Not so Non-Profit
...I was referred to your organization for shelter what was offered was totally helter skelter first week a birdie gave the scoop of the place a dirty dark seedy operation without any grace Your ......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, abuse, community, dark, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Streets of Solitude
...I would have sought some beautiful retreat, Remote from cities and the din of men, ~ Some tranquil shore where lake and forest meet By limpid stream or flower-lit, sylvan glen, And would have rea......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Animating Inner Vibrance
...Betwixt the pulse of our heartbeat Simply present, head-heart linking Dwelling in time stretched blissful peace Awareness becomes unblinking Till your fatal entry My heart leaps with indignat......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, abuse, addiction, anxiety, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member A mother couldn't save her own
...In the darkness of that moment, I stood alone, Begging for help as I faced the unknown, But you, my mother, chose to turn a blind eye, Leaving me to suffer, wondering why. Your addiction had cl......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, abuse, addiction, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Predatory Suspense
...Screech of owl with shrieking caterwauling doesn’t startle me at all until wings shroud the sky. My blessed-courage takes cover real fast as the rodent alongside’s encroached on by talons. ......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, bird, scary,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member The Vows of Gasoline and Forgiveness
...Truth has been backwashed with elongated shadow polluting the masses with exaggeration and lie They've made corruption just a bit more palatable maintaining power, they've great lust for us to div......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Under the Overpass
...wings could drive you crazy under the overpass, the crows gather one by one, flapping it is a perfect day, stuck underneath where cars borrow the bird’s view without a whisper or toll, torrent ......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, bird,
Form: Free verse
war machine
...  the rich becomes the mighty power, they sit sheltered inside their ivory tower. we swallow all the lies, and start to believe as their machine spins it`s blinding feed . their justifica......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
The World's Wronged Me
...The world’s wronged me, I hear me say, And my faith has begun to fray. I wonder where God's presence lies, And why He seems to turn a blind eye. I've cried out in my pain and doubt, But have yet......

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Categories: turn a blind eye, pain,
Form: Other

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