Inclusive Development For All
...Development should be inclusive:
From far flung to the urban
From countryside to cityside
From the least to the greatest
From local to international arena
It's like a road, a railway
A blueprin...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, future, patriotic, people, political,
Form: Political Verse
My Apology to Hamas
...I asked you to love
I assumed you wanted only war
I told you to use goodwill
use sweets and desserts and festivities
shower them with kindness
they will share what they stole
I was naive
I b...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Divine Salutation
...Behind the guise of the masks & words
lay a truth concealed by clever nouns & verbs
Now a fire's lit to match the lies with truth
bearing an eternal flame lighting a wick with proof
From the tree...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, introspection, leadership, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Visionary
...He talks and acts accordingly
On his beliefs and visions
He spans through successes
Failures and break-ups
He embarks on countless trips
To the realm of ideas
And crystallizes them
To profit t...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, confidence, inspirational, success,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Constable
...John Constable famed for his Haywain
later loved painting the wind&rain*
in many ways ahead of his time
&with which conniseurs of art still chime
*https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/consta...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Sublime Sondheim
...A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on a writer sublime.
// Stephen Sondheim wr...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, death, music,
Form: Epitaph
Chemo Sabe
...When lifting hair was not a crime
Tonto was ahead of his time
He saw a bald Ranger
Whose mask made him stranger
A real pandemic paradigm!...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, humor,
Form: Limerick
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and Quotes
...LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES
These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the curren...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, art, eulogy, nature, poems,
Form: Epigram
Presidential 'Foodie'
...Ronald Reagan in his prime
Was a foodie, way ahead of his time
Though others thought it 'kvetch-able'
He daringly labeled ketchup, on meat, a vegetable!
January 23, 2019
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Categories:
ahead of his time, food, leadership,
Form: Clerihew
Eternal Sadness Rewritten
...It shouted to him from the rooftops and he was prepared to jump
‘Go out with a deafening bang’ for the bell had told crashing demise
Sadness and bitter oblivion pointed the way from screaming n...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, depression, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
In a Heartbeat
...My first love
Was born
One hundred and one years before me
He never made it to thirty
He was ahead of his time and my time too
What's a poor girl to do?
I resurrect him in my own poetry
In h...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, first love, poets,
Form: Free verse
My Dad
...My dad was really ahead of his time
Thought of as strange, a real scary kind
When people are different
They cause bewilderment
To be feared if they can't be defined...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, pride,
Form: Limerick
It's Off To Mars We Go
...Space travel is already taking place
in minds all around the world
looking on like alien creatures
but way ahead of the rest of us
talking to themselves, wondering where we are
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Categories:
ahead of his time, space,
Form: Rhyme
It's Off To Mars We Go
...Space travel is already taking place
in minds all around the world
looked on as kookaburras
but way ahead of the rest of us
talk to themselves, wonder where we are
the weather'...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, space,
Form: Free verse
Bleecker Street
...Bleecker Street, a name associated with New York City in the section of Soho
But makes Bleecker Street many don’t know
Just what made Bleecker Street unique?
It’s straight out history is what make...
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Categories:
ahead of his time, adventure, beauty, celebrity, character,
Form: Rhyme
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