Best Deferment Poems

While unwilling to fight in Vietnam,                   ...

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This boat is full,
A vessel overflowing.
In darkness people talk.
A child is crying.

I close my eyes,
Lock out the world.
I envision drab gloom
As sunlight on my begging...

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Arrogance fostered by entitlement
Bigotry in all its forms
Conceit beyond all reasonable norms
Demanding attitude of deferment.
Entitlement, did I mention this?
Forgetting an appointment, indeed
Goofing off on an...

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Dear Dad dear mum, I take this time
Writing my letter now, to thank all of you
For your own maximum, support and care
No one knows how,...

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What if....?
Death was a lottery,
With a Powerball price of a million dollars 
Would people still queue up to play?

What if death was a clock, and...

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There are things in my life of which I'm not proud
But my letting friends down tops the list, 
I guess I could let my mind...

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REFLECTIONS
Dr. James E. Martin

The year was nineteen sixty six,
I decided it was time for a major fix.
The war in Viet Nam was going strong,
I knew...

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Freedom,
Written: by Tom Wright
1/24/03

The first draft
had it's inauguration at Calvary.
Jesus, being classified 4-A,
shed His blood to make men free.
He didn't die because he wanted to,
but...

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Into my hands she commended her heart;
The altar raised on sandy shores with promise
Cradled her tender flesh warmed by her spirit.
So priceless and fragile, I...

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Thaw me from memory:
Suddenly the hard shell crumbles
The raw yolk leaks from my fingers in disgust
Expired years and anger tumbles -
This hardening shell in a...

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Drivel and dribble lives sometimes derange
Pain and strain at times swim within range
No reason in any season life to imprison
No matter the dose, cause and...

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I know this sounds like theater
of the absurd,
but I wonder if healthy role play
might be left-brain's work ethic
inviting right-brain's first and last impassioned word.

We might...

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Too often 
 someone stretches the truth until it becomes the lie
and then defends its falsehood for all to hear and believe in
 but some...

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Can’t a rich corpse remain in a fridge
While the bereaved have gaps to still bridge?
The outrage that descends on faces
Varies with minds, background and races,
Deferment...

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So going back to the beginning
in reference to whence i started

If you are asking me which 1
i think you think i am

On the evidence i...

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