Best Commuted Poems

It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led...

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UNFINISHED  SENTENCE


At  Sunday  prep  my
boarding school teacher
criticising  my  unfinished sentence .  
No communicated thoughts,  no words ....

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(To a brother, he gives his biryhday celebration to be with the less fortunate kids. He is a hand of this nation)
Love ain't an illy...

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Some call it a halfway house because it's halfway between hell and living,
but living that way isn't really living at all; it's just a slower...

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(this pastiche pertaining to maya own inc ore pore rated poetic patois promulgated many moons ago from those screaming bloody thirsty headlines from the Italian...

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This is, as indicated, the final THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in...

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Politics, aerobics, arithmetic;
All of this commuted reconvicts;
Genocide, homicides, what's in it for all you guys;
Run and hide, ,, alibi
Just confided, must be nine
No it is,...

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A deeper bond exists when fears are lifted.
Inhale the chilly air from above; you're gifted.
Trust faith to guide you and free your soul.
God's love fills...

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He/him (ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popularized

courtesy...

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Unadulterated History.

In 1931, a white woman accused five Hawaiian men of rape. They were acquitted. The woman's mother showed up and demanded retribution for her...

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Had a horse once.
  Not anymore.
    Car's faster.  

Sailed across the sea.
  Not anymore.
    Airplane's quicker....

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He's a deceased actor who still has plenty of fans, including me.
Dan Blocker died fifty years ago today at the age of forty-three.
He and his...

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(this pastiche promulgated many moons ago from those screaming bloody thirsty headlines from the Italian court for justice sans the brutal homicide attributed to this...

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Politics, aerobics, arithmetic
All of this commuted reconvicts
Genocide, homicides, what's in if for all you guys
run, run, run,
hide, hide, hide alibi
Just confined, must be nine it's...

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Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful...

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