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Xenophobia Pt 1
TITLE:
       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit tart...

Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...

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Categories: american dream, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Paul and Sarah
He was born in backwoods Missouri.
1840 the year he arrived.
Conflict, sickness and hard times prevailed.
Through it all he grew strong and survived.
Skills to live were a gift from his father.
Faith in God from his mother...

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Categories: american dream, adventure, america, blessing, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Purity-Love
Freed from my mind
I escape it
I end time
I think it
I think nothing of it
I believe in you
I believe in the American Dream
I think of it
I think nothing
I know you are something
How is it found 
Where...

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Categories: american dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...

Oddly enough even 
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping 
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...

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Categories: american dream, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Manifesto
You may find my manifesto on healthcare in America hostile
and I don’t give a damn or crap for I am telling the truth.
Healthcare in America is a multi-billion dollar industry for
profit because it does not...

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Categories: american dream, america, care, health,
Form: Free verse



Thankfulness
Thankfulness: the opposite of complaining
This isn’t going to come easily, it will take a little training
It’s the concept of being content with all that we own
And being grateful for all the love that God has...

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Categories: american dream, thanksgiving, god, people, change, giving, god, life,
Form: ABC
Ode De Purge
Not too long ago
                         I had a  beautiful friend
 ...

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Categories: american dream, judgement,
Form: Lyric
The Loser's Heart
Never count your chicken before they hatch because you cannot tell what is hiding around the back, never build your hopes too high or place your dreams above the sky, when in doubt, do your...

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Categories: american dream, america, career, endurance, environment, history, international, river,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member body box - what i am now v2
if you saw me
the way i see myself
maybe you'd get it.

"count your calories,
read the nutrition panels,
diet,
exercise,"
i know. 

believe me,
i know. 

"it's for your health,"
turns into 
a chase
after my...
after your
ideal weight for me.
but you say it's...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: american dream, anti bullying, body, dark, death, life, slam,
Form: Free verse
Read This If You Care About the World
Read this if you care about the world ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Imprisonment is meant for the sadistic, inhumane acts of evil and destruction of man kind in itself. To be locked away with nothing but your thoughts your...

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Categories: american dream, absence, abuse, allusion, anger, anxiety, betrayal, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !

Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
	Anyone can ‘make it’  
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional

Always susceptible to its 
	Achilles heel of...

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© Mel Gill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: american dream, conflict, corruption, leadership, power, racism, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Internet Dating Profile
I am a singular event 
Occupying a particular span of time. 
I am a concrete mystic 
And an incurable skeptic 
Seeking an approximation 
Of peace and domestic tranquility. 
I am a Slavic soul brother 
Living...

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Categories: american dream, internet, relationship,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties

Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between to rethink.

The day begins with boring...

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Categories: american dream, america, culture, education, history, perspective, society, usa,
Form: Verse
Motion Sickness
My people love marching!
Attending rain dancing parades,
doing a bunch of fire-breathing talking
Little drummer boys and girls
playing foot soldier pretend grown up
Just defending the truth,
those marionette walkers will yell at you
in designer protest fashion
Motion activate the...

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Categories: american dream, allusion, culture, leadership, truth,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Time
Know that! growing pains are tough for us even the gains are games 
                     ...

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Categories: american dream, adventure, age, beauty, care, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
Illumination
I am still here waiting
Waiting for something to happen
I am still here waiting
Waiting for you to come
Christmas has come and gone
And here I am still waiting on the wet lawn
Daybreak stares desperately in my eyes
As...

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Categories: american dream, courage, december, endurance, farewell, goodbye, identity, love,
Form: Narrative
Riches To Rags
I have heard of it,
I was in it,
I have imagined it,
But I am yet to experience it.

What is this dream?
Who is this dream for?
Is it a dream for the wealthy and the powerful?
The politicians and...

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Categories: american dream, courage, devotion, dream, freedom, political, success, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make America Great Again - MAGA
“Make America Great Again (MAGA)”

Make America Great Again (MAGA)
Where shall we begin 
MAGA has a negative connotation
Greatness has never been in this nation 

A segment of the population focused on gaslighting us
Expecting the minority races...

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© Floyd Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: american dream, abuse, betrayal, courage,
Form: Rhyme
You Can’t Take What You Can’t Give
I’ll handle the rejection as a merit in my spirit, as I did once when I was a kid. 
The townspeople will turn all of the sprinklers on when spring has made its arrival apparent...

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Categories: american dream, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety, corruption, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Let It Begin With Me
I remember  being a Narcissist was  bad form when I young                      ...

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Categories: american dream, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Immigrant Mother's Lament
When we arrived at the U.S. border as a family
We were far from welcomed in, we were made an example of
Ripped apart by ICE-cold border patrol officers. Our cries
Fell on deaf ears. I have no...

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Categories: american dream, child, family, humanity, innocence, longing, mother, political,
Form: Political Verse
The Freedom Caucus
The Freedom Caucus

Like staunch sentinels they stand 
Around a center speaker, a white-haired man 
With microphone poised and voice steady
To speak of a vote and not being ready.

“We have bad news regarding the bill
To fund...

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Categories: american dream, political,
Form: Rhyme
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2
(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim Sularz)

Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flimsy bridge sways to...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: american dream, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain
The Image (Va Tech Reflection)
All of the images
Sending mixed messages
Massacring the masses
\while we view hindsight through rose-colored glasses
And all the whispers stop
Silence thick as the sound of a pin drops
Moment of silence for all of the victims
The same silence...

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Categories: american dream, life, recovery from..., social, words, world, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All About Life
Know that! growing pains are tough for us
even the gains are games some time for fun
Let us refrain from the reason and shut up!
Allow me to explain windy roads instead so let us begin With...

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Categories: american dream, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, devotion, emotions, history, seasons,
Form: Narrative

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