Best Crisis Poems

'Twas the twilight of the year 
     a twinkling tiara.
December 31st, digits dancing dunes 
     in the Sahara.
One, two, three, one, two, three, 
     it's a prance.
A numerical Irish step dance 
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It's complicated
The way she looks at him
Not the way it used to be
When he had held her gaze
She had expected to love him all of her days
Had walked around in that lover's daze
Not aware of his cheating ways

His hiding and deception
An unskilled master of self...

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Un-nerved by formal sentencing assemblies,
Marks and Words, bound by conjunctive amenity.
The tried beliefs that short cuts speed words into action.
Made stuffy Old School feel out of fashion.
Punctuation board-slams her silver gavel;
“A shortened distance, yet far to travel.”
Marks are pushed into line to enter their plea.


Dash...

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He says he saw "(this nation's)
Identity sold and robbed by immigration..."
And I remember
My first day teaching at the border school
First one there that August morning
Cows were grazing on the lawn
I walked into the office to report them
and the secretary laughed, "They're Hector's.
They sneak over the...

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Identical twins, me and my brother
Got the same birthday, got the same mother
Don’t know if I’m he
Don’t know if he’s me
But I do know I’m one or the other...

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This happened to me twenty-two years ago.  I thank God I am still alive.

I feel the ripple in my life's cycle,
impending risk that could rape my soul.
I look in the mirror, but no tears flow.
A virus cramps my shallow feelings,
an ominous glare that obscures.
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On my way to work today, 
It struck me out of the blue,
There’re lots of things I haven’t done, 
There’re things I need to do,

I need to bungee jump from off a bridge, 
And leap right out of a plane,
I need to speed around in...

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The corona virus has crippled the
Economy and the nation
It seems to be on a death trip
Killing everyone it comes
In contact with
With several businesses having to 
Closed their doors temporarily 
Creates several problems
Like a recession
Businesses can’t pay the workers
If they’re not at work
How will people pay...

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Stepped right through 
That hole in the wall
To find myself 
In her front hall

Hello is that you she said 
And I thought what the heck 
And checked down my body 
From my ankles to my neck
From the neck up I already 
Knew it was me...

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Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest

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City hum drifts through spurious ways, 
teeming...

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Earth's fever rising,
Melting ice, a silent tear,
Future starts to drown.

©bfa042325

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Underage Immigrant Crisis  Part 1

We are having a big problem here in Texas, by the border.
It is turning into a dilemma. A lot of underage children are
coming into the United states, from El Salvador, Honduras
and Guatemala.

These immigrants are only kids. They are running away...

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now years later,
walking down those rubble and dirt,
which creak in agony,
i am reminded of that innocent face,
which once washed cold ashore,
on a bloody dreadful day,
when the world stood still....

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There comes a time 
Looking back on this life of mine

They say it’s a mid life crisis
It’s more like times oasis

In the mist of memory’s 
Some clear some faint
Looks like I’ve not been a complete saint

The ladder of time reaches high
memories locked in the minds...

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I'm a pearl in a seashell, but for the world, nothing 
Just like those stars, which at a full-moon night, are nothing.

As wind deceives a little leaf, it falls down dancing 
on the mud, others play clarion, it gets nothing 

Heard that the shine of...

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