Production machines
...Efficiency, anxiety
Result, vanity
Success, burnout
Alienation, disguise
Unconscious, relapse
Control, coact
Apologist: own merit!
Arbitrary, reclusive
Circus, bread
Conscious, blurred
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Categories:
apologist, anxiety, conflict, depression, life,
Form: Rhyme
Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds
...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...
regarding President elect
Donald John Trump.
As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious d...
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Categories:
apologist, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Dr L Milton Hankins
...Milton was a person you couldn't help but like.
Almost every time I wrote a Triolet
He'd stop by and visit and once said,
"You know how I love the triolets!"
A gentle soul, shared gentle words...
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Categories:
apologist, tribute,
Form: Triolet
Instruments of Mercy
...*Image of People of the Dawn by Pixabay.
Instruments of Mercy
Amidst the wailing whiplashed 'neath a moonlit plight,
Against the cowered beast of demons gnashing white,
Angst me...
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Categories:
apologist, angst, fate,
Form: Couplet
Clip Rhyme
...See the lashing of the Singer,
I think he's angry at the sindlinger.
He finds it hard to see the awful,
Overshadowed by the gloomy belgian waffle.
Who is that wavering near the horrible?
I t...
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Categories:
apologist, 10th grade, addiction, bible,
Form: Rhyme
The Big Table
...This table is for eagles only
where the tough- dirty-necessary decisions are made.
Every now and again an asp raises its rage
it has to be engaged with one way or another.
You haven't the stomach...
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Categories:
apologist, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse
A Little More Love
...I'm not even sure how I should start this
This is a lot different than writing about my own hardships
I'm not writing about relationship breakups or being in love with a girl
I'm writing about the...
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Categories:
apologist, community, confusion, tribute, violence,
Form: Free verse
Children of Xenophobia
...Children of Xenophobia
Children eating bullets and firecrackers
Beggars of smile and laughter
Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams
Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans
Overstaye...
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Categories:
apologist, abuse, addiction, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Bugs Win
...Jerry Packard was an entomologist
for which he was far from an apologist.
He's glad he faced down
his professor's frown
for refusing to become a proctologist...
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Categories:
apologist, career, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Sour Harvest
...there was a proud resident
who gave her neighbours
a torrid time because she
was well-connected and big
an apologist and a menace
she was a law unto herself
none could tell her to reduce
th...
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Categories:
apologist, betrayal, bullying, political, pride,
Form: Free verse
Tattoo Mama
...Tina-Louise dashed into a tattoo parlor
And asked for some ink in the shape of a flower.
Much below the knees so my mom doesn’t holler;
Would you hurry-up please, I’ve only one hour.
Seein...
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Categories:
apologist, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Homelessness, Taoistically Speaking
...Social uselessness is a virtue of its own,
Those we cast aside, glance at and then away from quickly,
Lest they notice, and smell our guilt,
Are free to live immodestly,
There being no need for p...
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Categories:
apologist, introspection, life, nature, people,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Marla Ruzicka
...Died in Baghdad, April 17, 2005
Nothing can stop her!
Not a rocket
or an improvised
explosive devise
in spite
of her untimely
death.
Just 28
and amongst
the Greats.
Unyeilding campaig...
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Categories:
apologist, death, history, loss, love,
Form: Free verse