The simplification of a traffic jam
In an office
Finish print job
And release document to document owner
Mail fraud in possession of access
Whom accessed file of document owner wrong
Is in hearing
No hearing of printer job
No crime in owning document
Homekey fraud
Interpreted in California as economy
Unemployed printers?
City does and does not operate hotels
Business transacts in appropriation of funds
and ink press powers
In time observation
Of collection is willing
Thank you again for sharing your feedback and helping us shape California's future.
Sincerely,
Governor Gavin Newsom
Obstructing journalism
Very literal
The homeless point at and time move
Down generation gymnastic snatch skills
Front lines of tinder relocate shift reward visuals
Out the house dodge
Grades good bye byes
The position of rest is with buzzing provocations,
Depict mind as it like, full of vibrations,
The pattern will not be drew to so easily
Let all winter our feelings from fire to the dale for water lilly,
Opportunity comes at ones through this pages,
Frisking frivolities edge to edge no matter rages,
Even a mother wouldn't be indulged with her offspring role early,
She became patient and let the time cover it enduringly,
If a nibble wanted to reach the position,
Must mimic mother's wishes for appropriation,
O! Dear friend surely I became still-stone
And hobbling to reach my flowers with a beacon.
BORROW BORROW
Mebo mebo
Borrow borrow nation of the world
They cant stop
The wont stop
The whole nation is plunged in debt
The nation never stops borrowing
The world keeps lending
The agony is never ending
Billions today
Trillions tomorrow
But we still need more
Pouring money into meaningless pursuits
If a nation plunges her people into debts
One expects developments
But none in sight
Please what animal is accused again?
Okay lets go for another two billion dollars
This time we use it for farming
Along the way
An antelope will come and eat the money
An antelope building a multi-billionaira mansion in his village
Or one adding to his fleet of cars
At the end when appropriation is done
Only one percent development is recorded
Shall we go for another loan?
This time for education
Pay educators well
Or continue the same tradition?
Meeeh! Educators are good
Because tomorrow
A snake will do the swallow
And we continue promising everybody a better life.
Shall we go for another loan?
All the morals and ethics in the world
As principles and values unfurled,
Mean nothing without appropriation
Into heart and soul with approbation.
We must absorb truth into our being
So inner light we are always seeing
As our guide into the next dimension,
Believing in eternity as a life extension,
Our truth must become as real inside
As real, right now, all in eternity reside.
FIFTH PLACE WINNER
Written April 24, 2022
submitted to "Our Truth" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
SECOND THOUGHTS
comprehensive
yet
idiosyncratic
souvenirs
with unfailingly
interesting
but insular
an artefact
so
intricate
& exquisite
perfect&
precise
a miniaturism
palm-sized
auspicious
an
appropriation
with
appreciation of
reality
almost
revelatory
that breathes
& transforms
novelty
into
a reality
so
comprehensive &
often
charmingly
decorative
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
a world without words
appropriation sulking
no tango to dance
A white girl
with blue hair
and black lips
takes a selfie with Pandora's box.
Across the galaxy
light years away
an alien is pissed off
telepathically crackling
cultural appropriation!
Cultural ownership,
disproportionately lavished upon kings,
the occasional ecopolitical queen,
white male Republican Senators,
elite corporate CEOs
overdriving inside monocultural management
feeding consumer acquisitive appetites
Leads to cultural entitlement
Elitely leads to cultural appropriation,
where I win appropriate proportions
at your loser disproportionate misfortune,
And,
sometimes to multicultural creolization,
where everyone wins Golden Rules
co-arisingly together.
The floral crepe falling like snow
In the still humid heat of Atlanta
Distant chirps of new born flight
Interrupt the cloudless sky
I am surrounded by the slow morn crawl
Uncharted steps of the sleepy eye
A change is creeping on steel framed knees
The new foliage is planned
The human taming of nature
An unkind progress
That cloaks the underclass with appropriation
My root is made brittle
By the channeled flow of finance
What is a future without a past
But just a moment that is designed not to last
With eye to the present
I summon scrutiny to the lamb
Be mindful of the wolf
His promise only serves his hand.
John Quincy Adams, our Sixth President,
to meet with Mole People, planned a descent
down to the center of Earth where they stayed.
Left office too soon...expedition not made.
January 23, 2019
For: Educate Me With Humor - Leader Clerihew Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Andrea Dietrich
"John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) American diplomat and
Sixth President of the United States of America 1825-1829.
No doubt U.S. presidents use their position of power to do
some strange things, but John Quincy Adams just may win
the award for the weirdest appropriation of tax dollars.
Believe it or not, John Quincy Adams, our Sixth President,
authorized an expedition to the center of the Earth to search
for the mole people who he believed inhabited the bowels
of the planet."
Link: https://historydaily.org/the-president-and-the-mole-people
Stairrafer)................ beyond the rules and regulations and restrictions, we have to recognize the mean spirited ways of men, those who wish to involve themselves in every aspect of human existence.
Deffrion).....turn your face to me when you speak, people often think this is an act of a fool, or of a coward, talk to me face to face.
Stairrafer)..... You wish me to curse you but I won't engage in verbal combatants: (pausing) follow my orders and everything will be alright.
Interrupting.......Sorburg).......Both of you are equally foolish! The Belgium Ship Pragnus has violated the realm of space by mining on the asteroid Magmus Seiver, here's the official statement, Resource appropriation, of wrongful Space activities The exploitation of natural resources, This goes beyond the realms of space, these are moral dilemmas!
my symbolic house
my purple castle
invaded by red clowns
a dialogue
contradicting personal icons
denying synthesis
denying art
trespassing
poaching
unbalancing decentring crucifiers
tearing the paper they make of my mind
tearing tissue
cells sinew flesh blood
a pavlov’s laboratory
for a crowd
appropriation
depersonalisation
obliteration
constructs and betrayals ad infinitum
a teleological structuralism
for others
SBaquie1988
I can't believe that he could claim
A poem by Edgar Allan Poe,
Titled as is, but with his name!
That is plagiarism, we know!
Wallace Stevens, Stephen Foster,
Thomas Moore, Sir Philip Sidney,
Famous authors whose works are here-
Posted as this guy's poetry!
Plagiarists steal written work,
And thrive with inadequacy.
Their minds are warped, there evil lurks,
They're crooks, that is seen quite clearly!
When someone would post as his own
The writings of well-known authors,
Then to the whole world he makes known
He's a pathetic pretender!
Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~02.27.16
Note: Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts,ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. It is "intellectual property theft" . ---"It’s robbing people of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions—what’s called intellectual property—everything from trade secrets and proprietary products and parts to movies and music and software." (Source: FBI-www.fbi.bgov/about-us/investigate)
If I could sing a song of furtherance,
There would be a score and a door;
Demonstration would exemplify,
What we learn and store.
Appropriation would be reason,
And rationality would be king,
People-centred values would eschew,
Those bad characters who writhe and sin.
The road to freedom would be broad,
Paved with happiness and concern,
And justice would always return,
That which you deserved, did earn.
There would be a Named Person,
For every child in every family,
Who saw growth as a societal thing,
And not as a household anomaly.
Liberty would be understood,
To have come from the two world wars,
And information and data would be accessible:
Some personal, to others it would so have bars.
School assemblies would be humanistic,
Promoting people-centred values;
Love would be the foundation,
Of differently able equals.
Free speech would uphold the many,
Who unquestioned identities would scratch,
And valour would also be defined as,
That one-another acceptance match.
Evolution would offer hope and respect,
Set our friendships and kind way;
And all society would accommodate,
The progressive changes of the day.
WORDS THAT STRIVE TO RHYME
“Listless” in “Perfect isolation” I “Collide”
“Soul gazing”
“Escape from self” as the “Child inside”-
“Obsessive compulsive poet”
“Heavens heartbeat” an “Interlude” with
“Angels”
“Scent to remind me” as “Trophy tears”
“Kiss the sky”
“An obedient mind” traces “Déjà vu” –“Air travel”
“Half way around the world”
“Oceans odd overtures” reveal “Mosaic”
“Pansy shells on Pismo beach”
“Longing” for “Appropriation” an “Acquittal”
"A Genesis week”
“Phoenix rising” with “Love on hold”
“Lost rings and broken toes”
“Giant monsters” start a “Grasshopper showcase”
“Grace”
“Loves flight-Feather light” echoes “Harvest moon”
“I am a Poem”
(Compiled from titles of my recently penned poetry)
© Kim van Breda—April 2014
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