Arbiters Poems

Premium MemberMasques of Tyranny

...Tyranny wears no single face—
it dances in silk and iron,
in laughter rippling through marble halls,
in jeweled cups brimming with poison.

Here stand five shadows cloaked in power:
the Jade Em...
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Categories: arbiters, dark, evil, fate,
Form: Ode

The Fall of YouTube

...Any institution that rewards mediocrity over true talent based on race, shall have the number of it's days cut by twain.
For the Universe corrects itself and all that doth not deserve to be remember...
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Categories: arbiters, america, computer, discrimination, power,
Form: Rhyme


Woodpeckers in Silence

...The stench of puerile self-aggrandizement wafts through the air, a noxious cloud of platitudes and pomp, as the pusillanimous pustules of pseudo-intellectualism congregate to lavish accolades upon on...
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Categories: arbiters, dark,
Form: Free verse

Sans sixth psychic sense

...Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States st...
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Categories: arbiters, abuse, america, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGod's Givers

...All creatures in the world are born givers
They’re sprinkled salts giving tastes on earth
They generously offer services or in kinds
Others give themselves for all mankind
Among them, cheerfu...
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Categories: arbiters, love,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberDiversity Delusion

...Do not the ones who preach diversity create the same conundrum as the ones who preach segregation?

To whom must I defer to define what or how society should look like or be organized as?

What a...
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Categories: arbiters, america, courage, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf Ever I Had a Country: Lxxxii - 82

...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXXII

    for Carlos Bousoño, the eminent Spanish critic, poet and professor
           who maintained that if you don't like the "humorist",
      you're not likel...
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Categories: arbiters, humor, poetry, writing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

But If Thought Corrupts Language, Language Can Also Corrupt Thought

...A glass stands upon a table, 
Watched by arbiters of existential
State.
They observe the glass, to give opinion
As to its contents.

The Pessimist speaks: “There is wine
In the glass, and it i...
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Categories: arbiters, language, perspective,
Form: Blank verse

Ineptitude and Lassitude

...Sometimes for fun men worship a gun
To shoot a recruit, to vanquish a victim
Whose only fault lies in a bun
The poor nibble in a starving team
 
Barrels and muzzles dominate
In thoughts, action...
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Categories: arbiters, poems,
Form: Free verse

Tales of a Wild Goose Chase

...(huff fin Bach seat driver)...

Aye kin recall when both offspring
     (yay high) as a small child
and now ma deux daughters
     (fledgling young chicks
     though they be),
     flew the c...
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Categories: arbiters, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Life's Road

...When in my youth I knew the truth,
To all of life's stark questions,
With flippant ease, to please or tease,
I had the answer, could seize the day,
Was sure of myself, in every way.

When in th...
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Categories: arbiters, life,
Form: Verse

Tragedy On a Wednesday

...

Nothing important happened today,
according to an omission 
in the local newspaper Metro page
The death of my best friend ... my husband,
this sad story of injustice was missing
Such ...
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Categories: arbiters, bereavement, death, husband, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Lifes Road

...When in my youth I knew the truth,
To all of life's stark questions,
With flippant ease, to please or tease,
I had the answer, could seize the day,
Was sure of myself, in every way,

When in th...
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Categories: arbiters, journey, life,
Form: Verse

Needle Or Knife

...I have found that throughout life
You can be a needle or a knife.

Either you heal, repair, and bind
Or sever, injure, and divide.

With words and deeds we so ordain
To be arbiters of peace or...
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Categories: arbiters, humanity, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: Leftists Xviii

...Unquotable quotes: Leftists – XVIII

(Note: What goes for the Left can go for the Right, too. All you need to do is to interpose the words wherever possible. Don’t read ideological warfare where...
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Categories: arbiters, freedom, irony, political, power,
Form: Epigram

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