Best Gadfly Poems
Escape of the Bluesman's Song
...Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of life......
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Categories:
gadfly, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
The Raving
...From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.
Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who persist to query me on matters they know I mu......
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Categories:
gadfly, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form:
Narrative
The 50 Move Rule
...
"The 50 Move Rule"
Thomas Crown
rolled his smile
around her frown
Romance blew a warm breath
over her pristine cowrie shell
Voodoo Mojo ......
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Categories:
gadfly, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Is This the Best We Can Do
...in a country of 335 million people
one of the richest more educated places
on the entire planet
the largest economy,
the best military
still for now a democratic country
is this the best ......
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Categories:
gadfly, age, america, anger, angst,
Form:
Political Verse
Lust Is As Ill-Considered a Weed
...LUST IS AS ILL-CONSIDERED A WEED
AS EVER STOLE SCENT
Rejected in the main as superstition -
A gadfly, I’m alone upon the weed:
A hot cinquefoil brooding on position,
Declared intent of being in n......
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Categories:
gadfly, abuse, depression, march,
Form:
Sonnet
Knowing Hate, Growing Health
...He who is contented is rich
He who is determined has strength of will
Laotse, "Knowing Oneself"
Those who would be effective,
and are also ripe for effectiveness
when con......
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Categories:
gadfly, anger, culture, fear, hate,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Bluebird's Gone
... Springtime put a spring in my step
Bluebird brought bright bars of music next
I saw her sip at the faithful fountain; sing soulfully
As I prayed: wishing the world was well, more certain
......
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Categories:
gadfly, absence, best friend, bible,
Form:
Alliteration
Exclusion
...I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.
Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the mala......
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Categories:
gadfly, absence,
Form:
Ballad
Never Always Sometimes
...Never, always, sometimes, have I scorned your love so
Dear, sometimes, always, never, I caused you brackish tear
When glow’s pale moon-bow’s crescent, upon the altar rocks,
We rest by surging ......
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Categories:
gadfly, devotion, longing, love,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
gadfly, animals, confusion, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Grimfree
...Note:
Dear Chris,
I could go into souls as mindbody identities with interdependently co-arising individuation/reconnection processes, also known as living, and in/ex-carnation, but my gut says ......
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Categories:
gadfly, birth, creation, culture, deep,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Gadfly
...Pebble in my shoe
From footpath in the backyard
Realistic pain.......
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Categories:
gadfly, image, life, pain,
Form:
Senryu
Salman Rushdie
...Intrepid gadfly;
the voice of dissent.
Multiple times stricken,
multiple times resolved.
Though he bleeds,
still the pen that chides never bleeds,
nor is it obliterated.
For three decades and ......
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Categories:
gadfly, courage, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
America Watts 1851-1934
...America Watts
1851-1934
Mister White buried me here beside Greek George,
Back here, with the wind-tossed weeds and the walnuts.
“Hey George, you old camel driver, you.
Can you hear me over the......
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Categories:
gadfly, marriage,
Form:
Epitaph
Let's Be Kinder
...In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and cold......
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Categories:
gadfly, health, humanity, integrity, math,
Form:
Political Verse