Innocence Destroyed Children Are Not Brides
...Often hidden or ignored, child brides and sex slaves are still a current global problem; as is child abuse in varying ways, including child labour. Heartbreaking and unacceptable.
Girls Not Bride...
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Categories:
unicef, abuse, child, child abuse,
Form: Lyric
Halloween - Repost
...The hallowed evening is deafeningly here
Goblins and witches' loud shrieks are near,
Shelled corn raining down our outer wall
Our whimpering dog is cringing in the hall,
Some snotty-n...
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Categories:
unicef, halloween,
Form: Couplet
Summer
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“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys...
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Categories:
unicef, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Epic
You Really Think I'M Done - In Trump's Own Words
...Impeached, indicted, discredited, expunged,
Forsaken and little short of being hanged,
Does the punishment truly fit the crime,
Inciting sedition and for that I need do time?
Are they crazy or ...
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Categories:
unicef, anxiety, goodbye, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Kind Once Again
...human reason accords to climate
change realigns direction
world health reunites bold vision
sharing and caring become nor...
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Categories:
unicef, society,
Form: Free verse
Halloween
...Hallowed evening is deafeningly here
Goblins and witches loud shrieks are near
Shelled corn raining down our outer wall
Our whimpering dog is cringing in the hall
Some snotty-nosed kid bangs on t...
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Categories:
unicef, halloween,
Form: Couplet
Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers
If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s ou...
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Categories:
unicef, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Humanity's Shame
...Starving children die
Peacefully the greedy sleep
Humanity's shame!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
10 July 2018
* According to UNICEF more than 15.000 children die each d...
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Categories:
unicef, children, death, grief,
Form: Haiku
Clicktivism By Patrick Magee
...You’re probably wondering how I did it? How did I cure cancer? Science, medicine, the dark arts? No, I took a photo of myself without any makeup on a posted it to Facebook. Through doing that, I rais...
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Categories:
unicef, internet, irony, spoken word,
Form: Blank verse
Each Stab Wound
...From each stab wound we unkindly inflict upon our planet it is our blood that is spilled!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
01 November 2016
*In its last report UNICEF declares that 2...
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Categories:
unicef, environment, men, pollution,
Form: Monoku
Afghanistan
...Afghanistan…the land of occupation…?
From Britain…to Russia…to America…no love…a dove…?
Some military actions…referential contractions…
Moral destruction…resistance of fractions…
Country so poor…...
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Categories:
unicef, inspiration, drug,
Form: ABC
Unsung Hero Audrey
...Unsung Hero Audrey
Audrey Hepburn, not just another pretty face
Eloquent little girl, fragile beauty, boundless grace
Danced upon the stage and world
A young star started out with humble voice...
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Categories:
unicef, africa, beautiful, blessing, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Stop Child Labor Now
...Why subject them to danger and risk?
If they represent something so special
Why not attend to them with such brisk?
Especially, when things look crucial
Every child is an important element
It’s been ...
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Categories:
unicef, abuse, africa, change, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Choice Was His
...There stood that tall gumball machine
With those colorful round bubblegum balls
With the clear glass pedestal encasing circular rings
So you can watch the gumball fall
In his eight-year-old lit...
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Categories:
unicef, father, son,
Form: Rhyme
Address To Miss Mosquito
...Address to miss mosquito(A free verse pun)
Miss mosquito why?why do all these?
your species-Anopheles breed freely,
And ours are hindered with impunity,
You multiply and feed on our haemoglobin,
Whi...
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Categories:
unicef, health,
Form: Free verse
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