Best Deposed Poems

Said Jonson, vulgar rhyme a petty crime
Swindling paupers begging fleeting stime
Opined syllabic compress from simple mimes
Which o'er lazy, temporal lobes did climb
Simple, jingoistic rhythms to prime
A crutch to prop up ailing metric time

Yet, Nature's species exist in kind
Mutated limbs rarely another tract find
Elliptical, redundant patterns planets bind
To their orderly, repetitive cadence resigned
Weather systems to each...

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Cash may be King ~ but Credit gave us our Spending Spree ring...

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As
he lay
surveying
new surroundings,
a predator beyond imagination
bore down on him
from above
with a
grin....

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deposed dictators’ club

they sit there in their comfort 
each in his moneyed retreat
maybe each reflecting 
on unexpected defeat
unprosecuted criminals
guarded wherever they go
protected maybe in silence
for not telling what they know

the remaining world leaders
mouth off about their end
no position quite as transient
as that of political friend
and they push and the jostle
for a share of the spoils
particularly...

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Writing verse,
  I dally forth

The hour more stole,
  than loaned

The prose to suffer,
  and stand in line

With time once more,
—deposed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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Writing verse,
I dally forth

Hours more stole,
than loaned

Prose to suffer,
and wait in line

Time once more
—deposed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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