Affront Poems - Poems about Affront

Private War Profits are Hiding?

...In the space a forgotten person is left to entertain
The remainder of civilization has been acquired 
The unfinished civilized area per "your" affront, complaint, insult 
Inflammatory remarks is c...

Cause for mitigation of extreme stipulation

...The dilapidated building wavers the hindsight
In a single city
Hidden conformity owns?
A previous creation of economy
Current currency in ink creates no mad article
One must adhere in the thick ...

The Silent KISS

...
Silence before a kiss expected, is no surprise.
It whispers echoed promises, foretold in eyes.
Put on hold, until two hearts come closer together.
Face-to-face, breath in breath, fragile as feat...

New from dyslexic temple mount

...New from dyslexic temple mount...

of one mortal university 
undergraduate built in madly
the brainchild of one Forest Hadley
an a Ford able game paid top dollar
after being purchased by Milton...

A Broken Mirror

...A battered pier glass, the length of a running lightning,
The width of a Caesarean window,
And next to an agelong, framed
Daguerreotype, lies face down across
A musty room.
Shafts and rods of ro...

Sold Out

...

   The yard sale was great.
   Sold everything in my place.
   Now to start over new.
   Influencers tell me what to do.
   Have a need for food, shelter, and clothes.
   They say that's not...

Motives to Confront

...
Selfish aims in kindness-guise… I dare to confront
As my soul welcomes challenges with hope
Triumphantly while thankful spirit does cope
Surmounting trials of grievous affront.

Target...

Atrocity

...
Whether the Indigenous People,
robed in leathers, head dressed in feathers,
who had their own sovereign nations,
wanted it or not,
June 2nd 1924,
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
condes...

Purpose?

...Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.—		and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—

to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
s...

Tossci Bolt '

...Harshly treated at 'so called' court.. whose only scales
Are visual.' In pure truth' such ruling is naught..No precedent of goodlaw given .' The judge surely needs to
Be forgiven.' Such blatent an ...

Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch

...Habit is Heaven's tame redress:
it tugs down the skirts of Happiness.
—Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch

Till, conquered by gusts of cold air,
as Winter approaches, I find,
on...

Snow In April

...
It is a pitiful display
To belong where you don’t belong
Wanting to rule a former day

A worn out tune of a love song
No longer loved by the crowd
Down with the old King, so long!

The bliz...

drought reigns supreme across much of the United States

...drought reigns supreme across much of the United States...,

where sorely needed precipitation
necessitates affected population
to perform a collective rain dance
(decked out in electronically s...

drought reigns supreme across much of the United States

...drought reigns supreme across much of the United States...,

where sorely needed precipitation
necessitates affected population
to perform a collective rain dance
(decked out in electronically s...

What will you give up

...What are you prepared to give up to save our marriage?
What are you prepared to give up to save the planet?
What are you prepared to give up to save money?
What are you prepared to give up to have...

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