Best Defense Poems

While the guardian of night watches
a  looming thunderstorm , the power
of his animus defends earthy home
and a village’s turf with grit… and in
the stillness of a child or wife’s rest,
when twitching snaps of a labor’s chime
rings out, this protector aches for respect
and admiration to...

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They call me a sin for the crime of naps
While greed parades as ambition ornate
In this ruthlessly rushing world, perhaps
It is patience we should appreciate

7/10/22

Sin of Sloth contest
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico...

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How else to tell you
	of the movement of
the universe that sets my world to tilt?

Where spatial acuity and intuitive thinking fall down
and weep
at the feet of blank spaces and odd numbers begging
direction

I scratch for description of the structure of blue ink
on pulp paper . ....

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I have a secret, I cannot let you know.
I’m sorry I lied; I DON’T want you to go.
Those cruel words, were not how I feel,
just a defense, to forget what was real.

Portraying I’m strong, with a will to thrive,
yet without you I’m lost, I don’t...

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Head in the Heavens
  Feet planted on Earth
Jacob, renamed Israel
  Mocked for his birth

Mislabeled 'The Supplanter'
  Though Esau tricked him
Pushed his twin brother aside
  Emerging first-born with a grin

Then the imposter Esau
  Sold his birthright for a little food
His hands...

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If Housman lived today and spoke of Terrance,
would rhyme and structure be his "stupid stuff?"
If he could wax poetic now,
what would it be that killed the cow?
Can image and the music be enough?

Were you to walk a wood some snowy eve,
a painting in your head...

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People turn their nose up...
and shew them away...
they think they are pests...
and have them taken away.

But how did this happen?...
now labeled as strays...
you may not like what I'm next gonna say.

The story began with a human of course.
They couldn't decide between a cat or a...

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"Unlawful attacked
                               Provoked him to kill and rush
       ...

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“You love him so much, you're too blind to see
He's only playing a game
He's never loved you, he never will
And darling, don't you know he' ll never change?”  Elvis Presley - It Hurts Me 

I do not expect you to love him as I...

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DELIGHTFUL DEFENSE

my girl talked too much
so I kissed her ruby lips
the silence was grand

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This Haiku was inspired by the great old, depression-day, chuckle – “She wouldn’t kiss me in 
the canoe, so I paddled her back.”...

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I have heard people declaim
That Africa is the dark continent
Plagued by war, sickness and famine
The aridity of such a claim
Has left my people to pine.

Yes, I grant through the years,
Africa has suffered from war, famine, and sickness.
Yet, dear reader, is it Africa alone?
From East to...

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Not everyone can live life in the “intense” mode
It taxes their emotions, and that they cannot bode

They want to be laid back and take things in their stride
So they tuck away their hearts and then run and hide

Intense people are a drain of time and...

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Reform school is where he spent most of his childhood.
From there he went to prison for the bulk of his adulthood.
Paranoid Schizophrenia is the medical diagnosis of Charles Manson.
I'm sure he displayed many symptoms of this disorder while he was in prison.
When he was informed...

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Behold the enemy before our gates
Who deign to slit our throats like sheep this day.
The time has come; our destiny awaits.
We kill or die. There is no other way.

Beside us stand our wives and family
Whose fate, along with ours, is joined as one.
For if we...

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