Usable Poems

The elegance of privilege

...Privilege is elegant 
Graceful, as it glides like a breeze 
Unnoticed by those who catches its attention 
Noticed by those who live in the shadow
Although it's voice not loud 
It's presence dema...
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Categories: usable, discrimination, power, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse

Damaged

...They stick labels on broken things that say damaged

Damaged but still usable 
because why would you throw something away when it’s just a little broken, battered or bruised, we pride ourselves in...
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Categories: usable, abuse, cry, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse


Stillness in The Storm

...Stillness in the Storm

It isn't too far from a conceivable image, 
To perceive the vast and forgotten knowledge;
What was and still is a, yet-lost tho recoverable innate and 
usable norm,
We h...
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Categories: usable, extended metaphor,
Form: Political Verse

They got the whole world in their hands

...They got the whole world in their hands

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to...
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Categories: usable, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membergeorgia

...It’s summer in Georgia, yeah, it’s warm.

In high school, they said Shakespeare
once called Georgia, "sulfurous and hot."
He wasn’t wrong.

The careless sky is letting in all of the heat.
We s...
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Categories: usable, fun, humor, summer, sun,
Form: Free verse


The Genisis of the Daleks Part 2

...They found it profitable.
the extraction of wastewater foam to be mixed
with Detergent and using air pressure
to create a rich lather.
then mixing it with the
wastewater foam. It is then
redpie...
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Categories: usable, creation, film, music, science,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberConfronting Inner Demons

...Written: September 2nd, 2023
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In the depths of one's mind, foes reside.
Within oneself—a war cannot be denied.
Refers t...
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Categories: usable, analogy, bereavement, character, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhere I Stood

...Immeasurable is the growth possible in being understood
An acorn takes decades to produce usable hardwood
A pupil of hard lessons am I, just as anyone else should
Professors in my life range from ...
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Categories: usable, care, metaphor, strength, tree,
Form: Monorhyme

Explicating a Quote

...Who does not live to serve
   does not fit to be a life companion.
After all, what is unserviceable,
is not usable......
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Categories: usable, allusion, analogy, appreciation, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Satanology 6 Satan and Animals

...Bias has for animals better named Beasts:
Creatures that could us shake in strong seats
They are the ones Satan ably schemes their use
In battles real rather than a ruse…

And he had been chiefl...
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Categories: usable, animal, evil, fear, religion,
Form: Rhyme

I Draw a Line

...i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many
thieves now 
in the world to be 
constantly distracted

i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too m...
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Categories: usable, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

When the Best Is Not Available

...The house shelters me with a thatch:
A building with a terrible patch
But with a good door I could latch
Against foes who troubles hatch
And powers only Jesus can match:
The wizards not letting ...
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Categories: usable, 9th grade, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLandsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 84

...“Look,” Lumi shouted over the wind, and pointing off to their right.  Jutting above the clouds was the peak of a large mountain.  He shifted the team in that direction.  As the sleigh grew close he d...
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Categories: usable, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

White Lie

...The not-true that may from lips spring
 And in nearby and far-off ears ring;
Usually saving an innocent skin,
Scarcely for this reason a sin;
With usable sounds and alphabets
The trapped setting...
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Categories: usable, care, evil, god, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShould the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 5

...Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged w...
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Categories: usable, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry

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