Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no3
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Don't give a jot or
A sod this lot
On your tod..just nod
Seedier greedier leaders
Stun..Shun the Needier
Not just down trodden
Sodden...run roughshod
Beseech each of those c...
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Categories:
abuses, society,
Form: Free verse
Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version
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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?
Mister rich lister Blister
Sinister Mandarin Minister
Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman
Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem
Podium pandemonium
Needs Imodium....
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Categories:
abuses, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Jagged Edges No More
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The jagged edges tear apart
The cornerstones of her heart
Each day, there's an emotional dart
Thrown by her counterpart
The husband's venom impart
And sadly, she's his push cart
Whe...
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Categories:
abuses, abuse, angst, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
The Second Coming,Delayed
...The ass on high protein diet
Thinks he can really fight the beast
The beast has lost his instincts and
He is struggling to just live
The genius is being mocked
Mediocrity is being preserved ...
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Categories:
abuses, angst,
Form: Free verse
FOR FUTURE FATHER'S DAYS
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Yesterday Deborah and I joined a large diverse group of people in Asheville, North Carolina
(the line of people stretched as far as we could see)
In a peaceful protest of our president, our gover...
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Categories:
abuses, fathers day,
Form: Rhyme
The Harmattan Winds Of The Incorruptible People
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I’m talking about the beautiful country of Burkina Faso
Formally known as the Republic of Upper Volta, the newcomer on the plateau
The new country with a charismatic and highly compete...
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Categories:
abuses, africa, america, black african
Form: Rhyme
The Media Wedge
...They (the Legacy media) persist in their use of deceptive practices with the intent to obfuscate what is true. They conveniently avoid facts, that are known, intending to mislead those who are superf...
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Categories:
abuses, abuse, corruption, trust,
Form: I do not know?
Plagued By Memories
...Memories of whip-lashing words
steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil
my soul a weeping blistered sore
my heart a gangrene amputee
pus-green-memories rupture to plague me
infection still...
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Categories:
abuses, abuse, dark, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse
End Life Pays The Pain
...Silent pain is the most violent one
No hysterics, no tears
Just mere silent
Outside nothing displayed
I don't want to say anything
I don't want to feel anything.
Tremendous pain is the most...
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Categories:
abuses, age, health, life, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
It All Went South
...Into me
When will they see
I shall let myself be
Inertwine in revolution
Searching for peace
Why has it become so hard
Almost 50 years to the day
Alone I sit
Ponder it all
I need it to end
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Categories:
abuses, age, childhood, loneliness, remember,
Form: Free verse
When Will Democracy Be True
...Even it is painful to see my country
I keep my inner wounds within myself
Because bad people love to put salt
In a wounds place for ointment
Envy hurt people's feeling
They inflect sadness inst...
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Categories:
abuses, conflict, leadership, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
He Had to Change
...An old man’s pride was set aside when he came to realize,
The arrogance of his youth was grounded in untruth.
The government he believed in was corrupted from within.
It tore at his very soul, yet...
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Categories:
abuses, change,
Form: Free verse
In Color
...Sometimes I hate seeing pictures of myself when I was younger. Baby pictures, homecoming photos, the embarrassing high school Facebook selfies. The nostalgia is there, sure. But when I look at that g...
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Categories:
abuses, absence, abuse, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
WHEN GOD CHOOSES
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WHEN GOD CHOOSES
Who can be against who God chooses
Who can council the Lord God Most High
He does what He wills
Fear not, just be still,
To His will all men must comply
Who can lay a ...
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Categories:
abuses, god, heart, political, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR TEACHING US MANY THINGS
...October 16 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Mark 6-7
Key Verse – Mark 6:34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were a...
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Categories:
abuses, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
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