Best Elliot Poems

The flamboyant Pierre Elliot Trudeau,
Canada’s 15th Prime Minister, known for saying fuddle-duddle you know.
Also established the Charter of Rights and Freedom,
Wish he was still alive, we surely need him.



Written October 9, 2012
For Andrea Dietrich’s contest
“a fresh batch of Clerihews”...

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau,
prime minister of Canada for 15 years, now this is a man to know;
a colorful personality mobbed by throngs of cameras and adoring female youth,
yet it is his many political decisions that haunt us still-  oh, that is our truth !


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January 22,...

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Encouraging
life
like
its 
outspokenly 
thoughtfull...

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This is the news
about a fox in a box,
a hare so slim so short and thin 
on the prowl
the fox lets out a howl his tummy starts to growl
he begins his hunt
with a big grunt
he started to stare 
with a big glare
So scarce so scared...

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I leave no footprint
and cast no shadow
the water won't ripple
when I dive in-
but wherever I go, 
I feel it all
because all is within me,
as it always has been....

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Today I’m grateful that to be on the same page as Elliot Page
and wish more people could see the world through his/their eyes…

“Everyone deserves to feel love” he/they says
“Equally
without shame
and without compromise”...

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Darwin's animal is writing poetry,
Nietzsche's Ubermensch is learning idolatry.

Cockroach won't leave early,
He will wait for the bread crumbs dearly.

The embezzler is talking riches,
His nightmares are all about witches.

"THE GRADIENT" decides, "THE GRADIENT" presides,
"THE GRADIENT" is the tradeoff which can suffice.

Come as you may, come as...

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By barren sands, the weary streets do sprawl,
Where voices rattle in the iron dusk,
And hollow laughter rises, wan and thin.

The city groans beneath a leaden sky,
Where smoke and sorrow mingle, thick and gray,
A wasteland woven close with wire and sin.

We shuffle on, led by the...

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