Wanted Poems

Wanted

Arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024. Accused Last name: Netanyahu. Accused First name: Benjamin.
Charges: Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October
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Categories: wanted, evil,
Form: Haibun

MOST WANTED

Money the most wanted 
Money on my mind 
All the time
Steadily thinking 
How to make more money 
Because if you don't have it
You can't live fine.

Money a necessity 
Because money answers all things
I know it can't buy a life
But can give one a life
Which is good living 
You can't do well
Without it while living.

Money the
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Categories: wanted, africa, creation, deep, truth,
Form: Narrative


Just want ,wanted to be heard

World knows the seven deadly sins-
lust,gluttony,greed,sloth,wrath,envy,pride.
A woman basic need to understood and being
heard  is  more deadly a sin
which burn the mind and heart to ashes.
Even the pious man  and lay man
has no difference when ridiculing
woman for her pain and emotions.
Has to smile beautifully  and talk sweetly
though burning alive inside and out.
He
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Categories: wanted, anger, character, cry,
Form: Free verse

Ode to the Voice I Never Wanted to Hear

Oh, the joy of telemarketers,
Who call you up without a care,
With offers they believe are clever,
But really just provoke despair.

They call with grand insurance plans,
Covid kits and credit schemes,
As if I’m some prized target
For their automated dreams.

“End-of-life” expense protection —
Oh, what a cheery nightly theme!
I nod along sarcastically
Inside my caller-haunted dreams.

And then there’s Medicare, of
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Categories: wanted, business, funny, hello, humorous,
Form: Ode

They Wanted an A-Bomb

For 46 years - prideful and hateful 
Wrath, envy, spreading the net
Building an A-Bomb, a decision fateful
A sword to be held, like eternal threat

Destruction, murder, elimination
Iran, to wipe Israel off the map
A sordid task for the whole nation
Stubborn threats, boasts, contempt

It was their purpose, the goal, the aim
To end every Jew on planet Earth
Fanned hot
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Categories: wanted, war,
Form: Rhyme


The girl who had a voice bigger than hatred But a heart that wanted to be accepted

She was the girl that went unnoticed
She kept herself small, she didn't want to be the focus
But deep in her pockets
Her biggest secret
She was a poet

It wasn't some big revelation
Like she had already known it
Her lack of confidence wouldn't let her do it
But little did she know she was already chosen
When she was born her
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Categories: wanted, poems, poetry, poets, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI wanted it

I used to have a huge appetite for shopping
Would purchase things I rarely or never used
Accumulated a houseful of rare junk
Needless items that fit nowhere and no one
Time-wasting at thrift stores, garage sales and malls
Easy to do
Delighted in this idiocy
I somehow outgrew this habit eventually
Time showed me other things to do; new avenues of delight
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Categories: wanted, life,
Form: Acrostic

I never wanted to grow up

I’ve never wanted to grow up.
I’ve always been the girl who sighed
At birthday candles instead of making wishes.
The girl who whispered,
“Wow… another year,”
Like time was something cruel,
Not a gift.

The girl who stared out car windows
And thought,
“I wish time would slow down.”
“I want to be 12 again.”
I missed being small.
I missed the color of childhood—
Not just
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Categories: wanted, 12th grade, age, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwanted to be a grandma and live in the country

Neighbor’s voice floats over
A dog barks from a faraway place
Tweets of birds captures my attention
I always wanted to be a grandma
Met that goal ten times

Moreover, I wanted to live in the country
I have done that for the past twenty years
There is nothing more relaxing than sitting in the country
With two dogs at my feet
Waiting for
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Categories: wanted, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Only Wanted You

I only wanted to love you
So you would love me too,
Until you stopped loving yourself too,
The you that I always knew.

Then all of the feelings which once grew
Withered away by devastating words of slew
When you had chosen to let anger brew,
I decided I would remake myself anew.

I only wanted to love you for you
So I
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Categories: wanted, break up, feelings, first
Form: Quatrain

Premium Membermom wanted to change Lenores hairdo

Lenore was a grumpy teenage girl with rainbow hair
She was miffed with her mom, and she did not care
Her mother wanted her to comb and tame her mane
That did not interest the artistic grumpy queen of Cain

Lenore stomped around until her feet swelled up
Refused to feed the cat or water her Daddy’s pup
I love my
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Categories: wanted, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHe Wanted to Develop a Cure All for Cancer

A panacea for cancer is what I’m all about
What about Alzheimer’s, the jealous one asked in a shout
Let’s not forget chicken pox, heart attacks and leprosy
The scientist ran from his lab, to watch monotone TV

He wanted to eliminate all the diseases, of course
But opposition was as stubborn as Farmer Joe's plow horse
The naysayers were yelling
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Categories: wanted, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHe wanted to Domesticate his Lovely Wife

He wanted to domesticate his lovely wife
This misogynist plan caused him lots of strife
She went after him with a sharpened carving knife
Ruined my life! He laments. She ruined my life!
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Categories: wanted, husband, wife,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberThe Dupable wanted the Despot

Let’s crack down
On the cracked brained crackpot
Lunatic ideas that are certifiably crackers
Screwball cuckoo nuts and such ways
Sure, his is crafty and cunning
A nonsensical narcissist
Mad in a somber maniacal manner
But wait say the dupable, we want this despot
We voted for him -anything is better than a woman
Besides, we enjoy his despicable bullying ways
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Categories: wanted, political, usa,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI wanted to disappear like smoke into the unknown air

I wanted to disappear like smoke into the unknown air, where lines aren't drawn and nothing is known,
Into a realm where rules don't bind us and failures leave no shadows in the tried soul,
But this world is a vast ocean of beauty drowned in a community with a feigned smile,
Where our minds are drained by
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Categories: wanted, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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