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Complicity Poems - Poems about Complicity

Premium Member Under the vast sky of illusions, we are actors wearing masks of stars and ephemeral shadows
...Under the vast sky of illusions, we are actors wearing masks of stars and ephemeral shadows, Our gazes meet through mirrors of mist, seeking reflections of hidden desires, We are magicians of an il......

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Categories: complicity, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
TO YOU, THE TRAITORS
...To all those house *******, alienated by the darkness of the Republic, You have forgotten the horrors of slavery and colonization, To believe in the delusions of assimilation and integration. Know......

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Categories: complicity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Liar! Liar!
...This is the woman who repeatedly told us for over two years Joe was as sharp and active as ever, there is no crisis at the border, Joe’s record inflation was caused by Trump, the bungled Afghanis......

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Categories: complicity, corruption, political,
Form: Political Verse
How Can We Not Have This Conversation
...How can we not have this conversation where footprints of the poor vanish beneath the boots of investors, and the river sings only to those who can afford its luxury? In Chobe, the elephants......

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Categories: complicity, community, conflict, corruption, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member There will be days when no one will grasp the depth of your hidden feelings
...There will be days when no one will grasp the depth of your hidden feelings, and that's okay, a silent complicity that embraces your soul like a cloak of mystery, days when your words will get lost......

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Categories: complicity, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If only this could last forever
... feels so close I could walk up and with my finger touch the moon seems like nothing else exists and i’m alone swaddled in a tranquility that’s magnificent and surreal i can feel it pulsa......

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Categories: complicity, moon, peace, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery, Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real. I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes, Their innocence smashed, fa......

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Categories: complicity, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation
...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”) by Gunter Grass translation by Michael R. Burch Why have I remained silent, so long, failing to mention something openly practiced in war games w......

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Categories: complicity, international, islamic, jewish, silence,
Form: Free verse
Why We Speak
...To triumph, all the wicked need is our silence as they pursue their tyranny. For in that silence, we will sadly find that our path lies beside complicity. True courage stands and speaks its min......

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Categories: complicity, political, social, society, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Leather Piecemeal
...As mortal veils dissolved, our bodies merged in the ossuary's somber symphonies, two mistress awakened by the velvet-wrapped cadavers, our disinvested hands tracing syllabic patterns across the olive......

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Categories: complicity, art, beautiful, beauty, cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shadows We Feed
...Listen up, because we're diving deep Into the mind where corruption sleeps It's not just out there, it's in here too In the choices we make, in what we do Power whispers, "Just a little more" ......

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Categories: complicity, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the heart of inner wanderings hides, alas, a tormented soul
...In the heart of inner wanderings hides, alas, a tormented soul, Wilted by anguishes woven at the edge of the mind, where the thread breaks. In verses, the silhouette of an overwhelming sadness take......

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Categories: complicity, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Draw Add Wet View
... Blossoms line my laden descent down to the perked watering hole that plays empty theater, awaiting my creative path, a royal welcome - represented by accumed variety and presumed ......

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Categories: complicity, art,
Form: Rhyme
A Motivation To Declare Life
...When youth is so vibrant and sets us aglow, and no words are mentioned through sorrow: we are the seekers of wild adventures, pushing hard beyond all boundaries! In the prime of everything that......

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Categories: complicity, betrayal, desire, heaven, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Double Standards
...The silence is deafening. The Devil capers madly. Soldiers revel in atrocities. Demons slaughter the innocents. The silence becomes thunderous. Beasts brutalise the oppressed. Their resistanc......

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Categories: complicity, courage, loss, war,
Form: Free verse

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