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It Only Takes One Finger
... Hamas, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Russia, Ukraine. China, Taiwan, North Korea, it’s becoming too insane. Old man Biden or old man Trump, might be another squeaker. It seems like hate keep......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
...ODE TO MONEYLENDERS Oh, what designs can one possess Lending succour to those with naught Such desperate need one must confess And how hard one must have fought When courtesy has no more cur......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, anxiety, journey, sympathy,
Form: Ode
The Recepticle : One of a kind
...Recepticle: One of a kind It was a thoughtful gift in the shape of her heart Symbolic inscription- "Love's Everlasting Hopes" kept next to the front door In shadow, in half-light. She k......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, beautiful, care, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Fly
...See them crawling all over the ceiling Pointing their slender anther in the air, Their bugling eyes covered in a pound of flesh Waiting to plunge to their sacramental death And the wind with a m......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, animal, culture, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Pound Of Flesh
...Living in one renting the other Owning them both then to discover As owner I’m captive the tenant is free In debt to the banker —remortgaging me (The New Room: January, 2024) ......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, prison,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Home for my heart
...A visitor in my own skin stopping by as a guest Rented out happiness with no permanent address As searched for stability I found a place to invest This pulsating pound of flesh beating in my ch......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, angst, encouraging, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war After extorting pound of flesh lifetime humiliation drummed into captives hammering indelible nightmare no amount of therapy can expunge. Lifetime traum......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cancel Culture
...When Cancel Culture comes to town What more is there to do? Do you fight, or just give in? It’s always up to you. But if we bow before the woke Our heads will surely roll As they demand their......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, humor, perspective, social,
Form: Rhyme
Death N Taxes Ii
...I have heard all your excuses I have listened to all your pleas It is time to pay the pipers With the sweet tears of your misery Ahh the suffering You have to surrender all your taxes Now i......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, allegory, allusion, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unbreakable Bound
...Unbreakable Bound The heart it is breaking how I feel this- unbreakable bound The tiny room where Napoleon yielded his life and honor- Far behind the purple curtain as tourists gawk ......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, art, deep, humanity, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
Death and Taxes
...Someone once said “The only assurances in life is death and taxes!” I’ll let you read the fine print, I’ll send the faxes All there is; is death and taxes! Watch me grind my sliver axes Watch ......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Nigeria's Flawed 2023 Polls
...Well, so they tell us- the political gladiators and heavy weights. That in permanent servitude we must remain. They create a void in our stomachs, which they momentarily fill with what they c......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, political, satire,
Form: Free verse
Redemption and Remorse
...Men and women by choices made, Remorse resides, a haunting shade. Within the depths a troubled soul, The pound of flesh does take its toll. A symphony of tomorrow's past, Melancholy notes that......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboying Along
...It's been a long ride; beneath me a phantom horse wheezes its lungs blown. I chose a slow death not some youthful suicide. Illness and a life misused took its pound of flesh, the surgeons k......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, poetry,
Form: Free verse
New World, New System
...A new world, A new home for all, Everyone on equal footing, Even distribution of resources, None needs necessities, I’m not held by the pangs of hunger, My brother doesn’t dwell in shanties, T......Read the rest...
Categories: pound of flesh, change, earth, humanity,
Form: Free verse

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