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Banish the Darkness - 2022

“If someone besides a black ever sings the real gut bucket blues, it’ll be a Jew. We both know what it’s like to be someone else’s footstool.”
     -Ray Charles

Author’s note: this is a companion piece to “Where Are They Now?”
Published in Out On A Limb, 2020


In the shadows lurk a venomous

Categories: banish, destiny, hate, humanity, jewish,
Form: Free verse

To Banish War

  To banish war
    your ego subdue
  Humility embrace
    vanity eschew  

  It starts with you
    then one at a time
  Lead by example
    inspiration sublime



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Categories: banish, inspiration, leadership, war,
Form: Rhyme

Religious Wounds

Don't dare joke with their doctrine
Nor raise it in a latrine
Like had tried Goofing Kathrine 
Now melted like margarine!
Their Doctrine not in  bathrooms:
Bathtubs never living rooms;
Their camera can scenes zoom,
As one body choose your doom!
One they won't mind battering
And one's tressure scattering;
No rowing of one's bought boat
No testing of one's new coat...

You they shall

Categories: banish, age, career, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Banish From Spanish Was Outlandish

crying is Spanish
from their group they will banish
has been outlandish

Horn Haiku. Wonder how you
say Haiku in Spanish?

Categories: banish, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Subject Can Their Bad Kings Banish

Subjects can their Bad Kings banish:
Their Lords that image tarnish 
By being decisive and mannish 
While proving them a clannish 
After bribing schnapps of the Danish 
And deceiving wine the Spanish!

Subjects must the details furnish 
Of the wrongs by Monarchs to banish 
And if they wish some garnish 
Or the entire narrative varnish!

Subjects should Terrible

Categories: banish, community, people, perspective, power,
Form: Rhyme

Banish Me To the Bookshop

BANISH ME TO THE BOOKSHOP

Chain me, so I can roam. Lock me away in this bower.
Banish me to the bookshop - i’ll enjoy this affair for hours!

First editions recline behind smudge-proof glass.
Lock-and-key lick of lips, but I can’t afford the brass

ring, the covet of unopened leather, so I’d dance
through each unshielded shelf, illuminated romance,

the touch

Categories: banish, books,
Form: Couplet

Time Is the Thief You Cannot Banish

"Time is the thief you cannot banish."


He had a fast pace that, I couldn't figure out
he spent perks with me and made it memories
he made me regret many things
he made me realize not to waste him, 
he showed me that change doesn't change
he taught me perks of living
he made me old and told me stories
he

Categories: banish, fate,
Form: Free verse

I Want To Know In Advance

If I saw the sign,
That my life is going as it should,
Then I would know exactly how
Find what is called a treasure trove.

I'm afraid I made a mistake,
And that there will be an explosion in,
Fate flashed and disappeared,
Slightly opening the future for me.

I am surrounded by eternal darkness,
And I'm afraid I won't see the way.
Although

Categories: banish, fate, future, life, poems,
Form: Blank verse

Trump In the Nether Nether

TRUMP IN THE NETHER NETHER

If irate American born Mexicans were to rally together,
Around the world, they could perhaps cunningly tether,
Possibly calm, an uncaring, inhumane disliked leader
Maybe curb the actions of this Mexican bleeder,
Or, banish him forever to the land of nether, nether!

2nd Limerick of a trilogy

Categories: banish, leadership,
Form: Limerick

How Can Deep Folly, Abject Blindness Banish Hope, Part Three

How Can Deep Folly, Abject Blindness Banish Hope
   (How Easily We Are Deceived, Hope Lost)


I recall darkness, creeping edges of power
ease of entry in that first forlorn hour.
No worries, as it entered with its soothing host
aye, but with one true goal, my soul to roast.

Thinking back, my guard I had foolishly let down
enters

Categories: banish, art, character, conflict, deep,
Form: Sonnet

Banish Negative Thoughts

Must keep reminding myself every single day
Thinking positive is absolutely the only smart way
The results will be astounding
Your heart will start pounding
Negative thoughts will vanish without delay

Categories: banish, happiness,
Form: Limerick

Banish the Hate

Banish the hate from yesterday. 
Don't carry it around; let it go away. 
Grudges are held if you let it stay. 
One way or another, your antagonist will pay. 
Inside of you, hate will grow like a weed. 
Bad memories are something you don't need.

inspired by another member's poem

Categories: banish, hate,
Form: Light Verse

Banish Down Under

You cannot teach happiness. 
It’s not attainable when being sought for. 
Everyone’s on the lookout, but everyone’s missing it. 
Where is it? There! Where? In front of you. 
She told me, “Remember when I first met you? You we’re the happy girl, with the giggles and had a fit of smiles on your face. What

Categories: banish, adventure, happiness, missing, missing,
Form: Free verse