Poems About America by Top Critiquers
#America
Secrets Buried in their Assholes!
#lies
#corruption
#politics
#America
#rhyming
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Venture a Highway
(For old souls always young at heart)
Not sure why there is nostalgia
For days long gone
and for some of us...never lived
Driving the open road
The wind
Freedom and endless possibilities ahead
Perhaps it’s the harmonies
Echoing from a timeless era
Taking us down some memory lane
Venture a highway
With open heart
Reminiscent of simpler but happier days
Maybe that’s why we’re sentimental
We long to get lost in innocence and youth
Like counting cars passing by
Or falling...
Not sure why there is nostalgia
For days long gone
and for some of us...never lived
Driving the open road
The wind
Freedom and endless possibilities ahead
Perhaps it’s the harmonies
Echoing from a timeless era
Taking us down some memory lane
Venture a highway
With open heart
Reminiscent of simpler but happier days
Maybe that’s why we’re sentimental
We long to get lost in innocence and youth
Like counting cars passing by
Or falling...
#America
#music
#memories #nostalgia
#memories #nostalgia
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Sexuality, Space Junk, Parts and Labor
The world is sex
Not necessarily procreation
Heathens get away with just desserts
Out on the perimeter there are observers
Wondering about these objects at high altitudes
America keeps shooting them down
Space junk collected
One wonders what's inside ?
Dogs have it right
Sniffing each other, tails wagging
It's parts and labor for them
We wish sometimes to be on that leash
Not necessarily procreation
Heathens get away with just desserts
Out on the perimeter there are observers
Wondering about these objects at high altitudes
America keeps shooting them down
Space junk collected
One wonders what's inside ?
Dogs have it right
Sniffing each other, tails wagging
It's parts and labor for them
We wish sometimes to be on that leash
#sex
#America
#universe
#animals
#astronomy
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Tragedy of the Commons
The essence of prosperity is property rights.
Reservations, more often than not
have neither property worth harvesting—
according to developers; or, property rights
to construct or expand their own livelihood
It's a 'Tragedy of the Commons'—
tribal land is communal, which means
owning a clear land title for your residence
especially if a trailor park or mill house
can be filled with legal obstacles
You can't build, or improve your home
if you can't use the land as collateral;
ergo, If everyone owns the...
Reservations, more often than not
have neither property worth harvesting—
according to developers; or, property rights
to construct or expand their own livelihood
It's a 'Tragedy of the Commons'—
tribal land is communal, which means
owning a clear land title for your residence
especially if a trailor park or mill house
can be filled with legal obstacles
You can't build, or improve your home
if you can't use the land as collateral;
ergo, If everyone owns the...
#corruption
#politics
#America
#inequality
#poverty
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Ensconced
Let recollection lapse lazily aft
Into ruinous bone white driftwood heaps
Clogging the sea of Twenty Three and Me
With ancient piles of obsolete craft
Sown of raw emotion and what that reaps
When calendars course to futurity
And tacking into continuum squall
Takes everything that a human has got,
Rewarded only with sinking debris
Or a gunwale full of cankerous gall
Inking the Captain's log of caustic thought,
But as we sail from the past, we flee,
And hope to settle in some stable place
Where a level surface won't spill a drink ...
Into ruinous bone white driftwood heaps
Clogging the sea of Twenty Three and Me
With ancient piles of obsolete craft
Sown of raw emotion and what that reaps
When calendars course to futurity
And tacking into continuum squall
Takes everything that a human has got,
Rewarded only with sinking debris
Or a gunwale full of cankerous gall
Inking the Captain's log of caustic thought,
But as we sail from the past, we flee,
And hope to settle in some stable place
Where a level surface won't spill a drink ...
#America
#culture
#tradition
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by the slice
I feel it!
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
#America
#city
#prison
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State of Our Union
let’s talk about fear
of hearing excuses
for not trying harder
because all that matters
is that you’re fighting for
yourself and self-respect
you’re better than this
you owe it; to grow up
life isn’t fair
and sometimes
you have to swallow
your selfish pride
after a $2 pay cut
I am still thankful
to have a full time
job with benefits
but damned if I’m not
miffed and expressing it
right in the face
of upper management
damn near making ...
of hearing excuses
for not trying harder
because all that matters
is that you’re fighting for
yourself and self-respect
you’re better than this
you owe it; to grow up
life isn’t fair
and sometimes
you have to swallow
your selfish pride
after a $2 pay cut
I am still thankful
to have a full time
job with benefits
but damned if I’m not
miffed and expressing it
right in the face
of upper management
damn near making ...
#America
#money
#culture
#poverty
#college
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Future Whispers To The Dawn Of The Past...
Body centered, inhaling, exhaling, Dragon Blood incense bellowing, purple candle burning
Eye closing, reversing, blackness churning
Elevated, cognitive lifted, I proudly breathe as a French Haitian Creole intellectual and with blessings, gifted
Devoid the temple of all negative strife, earthly contentions
Visions passing of several dimensions
Who are you, monsieur, to you have invaded my space in the universal of man’s time
Were you ordained by the secrets of Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, God’s seeds planted to harvest the land of milk,...
Eye closing, reversing, blackness churning
Elevated, cognitive lifted, I proudly breathe as a French Haitian Creole intellectual and with blessings, gifted
Devoid the temple of all negative strife, earthly contentions
Visions passing of several dimensions
Who are you, monsieur, to you have invaded my space in the universal of man’s time
Were you ordained by the secrets of Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, God’s seeds planted to harvest the land of milk,...
#America
#Buddhist
#spiritual #culture
#spiritual #culture
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Machine Guns in the Park
I love my new park
It has two half basketball courts.
A lake.
A wide u-shaped fountain,
where one can sit on benches
comforted by the sound
of rivulets of water cascading down stone.
That is as long as one isn't interrupted by the staccato of machine gun fire
Fake is better than the real thing.
Far, far better.
But a plastic machine gun
complete with real sound effects! (sans the tortured, terrorized screams of innocent people- maybe that costs extra)
in the hands of a four year old
is disconcerting. ...
It has two half basketball courts.
A lake.
A wide u-shaped fountain,
where one can sit on benches
comforted by the sound
of rivulets of water cascading down stone.
That is as long as one isn't interrupted by the staccato of machine gun fire
Fake is better than the real thing.
Far, far better.
But a plastic machine gun
complete with real sound effects! (sans the tortured, terrorized screams of innocent people- maybe that costs extra)
in the hands of a four year old
is disconcerting. ...
#anger
#GunControl
#America
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My time for silence has passed... We the People, Have Spoken
INSURRECTION and SEDITION are not freedom.
Make no mistake,
THIS IS AN ATTEMPTED COUP.
Instigated by a colossal liar of
all the lies...
It's more than sameful.
What's happening at the capital building
is a national disgrace
and completely despicable.
Ever single person
breaking into the capital building
should be arrested
and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
PERIOD.
Freedom Is fighting for your
RIGHT TO VOTE
and making sure that it counts
and is not thrown away do to ego ...
Make no mistake,
THIS IS AN ATTEMPTED COUP.
Instigated by a colossal liar of
all the lies...
It's more than sameful.
What's happening at the capital building
is a national disgrace
and completely despicable.
Ever single person
breaking into the capital building
should be arrested
and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
PERIOD.
Freedom Is fighting for your
RIGHT TO VOTE
and making sure that it counts
and is not thrown away do to ego ...
#anger
#corruption
#politics
#America
#CallToAction
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America Is Weeping
America...
A nation once united is now divided
With a presidential election still undecided
Claims that it was rigged are reigning high
The coronavirus cases are still climbing
To a hefty million of them nation wide
It's plain to see America is weeping and
Longing for some peace and stability
Or perhaps just the return to normalcy
Remembering all the while we're still free
No masks for some nor social distancing
Could they be the simple
cause of the spread of the disease
With 245k deaths...
A nation once united is now divided
With a presidential election still undecided
Claims that it was rigged are reigning high
The coronavirus cases are still climbing
To a hefty million of them nation wide
It's plain to see America is weeping and
Longing for some peace and stability
Or perhaps just the return to normalcy
Remembering all the while we're still free
No masks for some nor social distancing
Could they be the simple
cause of the spread of the disease
With 245k deaths...
#conflict
#America
#freedom #despair
#freedom #despair
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US Election 2024
Sorry world,
I no longer believe a word anyone says about anything,
and I do not have the energy to argue with nitwits anymore.
For the third election in a row the claims will be evil versus evil, liar versus liar, corrupt versus corrupt, and they aren't necessarily wrong on either side about the other.
If it isn't obvious by now that this system is designed to provide terrible choices for voters, which became transparent when the Democrats shafted Sanders, the person whom really most Americans supported, America will never get there, and the only way it will change now...
I no longer believe a word anyone says about anything,
and I do not have the energy to argue with nitwits anymore.
For the third election in a row the claims will be evil versus evil, liar versus liar, corrupt versus corrupt, and they aren't necessarily wrong on either side about the other.
If it isn't obvious by now that this system is designed to provide terrible choices for voters, which became transparent when the Democrats shafted Sanders, the person whom really most Americans supported, America will never get there, and the only way it will change now...
#violence
#politics
#war #America
#war #America
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