World Economy

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Welding nations around globe
Objective being price stability
Raising standards of living
Lowering poverty, increasing prosperity
Developing nations growing fast

Emerging markets bring opportunity
Creating jobs and money
Optimal usage of resources
Net incomes spirally increase
Of common man, with
Many needs getting satisfied
Yielding a secure livelihood


-written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 10

Police Brutality

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Punishing innocent people
Optimised power misuse
Liberty unlawfully thrusted
Increasing criminal activities
Corrupted officials who
Encourage other sinners

Bribes taken regularly
Ragging impoverished folks
Unilaterally tuned mindset
Terror to everyone
Abrasion of ethics
Lies tarnishing uniform
Indictment is required
They should be
Yelled proper punishment


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 4

Technology

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Time saving techniques rule
Emerged out of necessity
Connecting people around globe
Hoisting more accurate results
Nowadays taken for granted
Obedient machines perform tasks
Living made easy, but
Only when used intelligently
Gain is ensured; today's
Youth admire its potential

 
-written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 7

Suicide bombers

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Skeptical group of people
Uneducated in moral ethics
Inspired by wrong notions
Cruelty in worst form
Innocent people brutally murdered
Desecrating faiths, their aim
Encouraging hatred amongst men

Bloodshed created without remorse
Obscured-minded men are lured
Mentored to breed terror
Bombs twiddled like toys
Envisioning salvation for sacrifice
Religions of all preach
Serenity; they never realise


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 5

Neglected Elders

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Not even a letter
Echo from the children
Grey with worry parents
Live without support or
Ease, abandoned by all
Comfort they had sacrificed
To provide and give
Everything their kids required
Desperately they now survive

Eagerly awaiting better times
Languishing sadly in despondent
Domains, weak and ailing
Envisioning the good days
Reasoning what went wrong
Sleeping in painful solitude


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 12

Inhumanity

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Innumerous calamities strike hard
Natural and unnatural ones
Hundreds of lives perish
Under cruel human nature
Money counts more than
An innocent child surviving
Nefarious activites victimize women
Infants burned to death
Turning a blind eye
Yesterday ignored, laughed away


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 9

Child Abuse

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Chided for being childish
Holed up in darkness
Innocent little kids are
Lashed, forced to obey
Dread filled with blood

Anger, violence of grown-ups
Borne with subdued fear
Unseen tragedies often heard
Silently kept under wraps
Echo voices! save lives


- written for Acrostic Only ; Prompt 2