Best Grandstanding Poems

with dusk approaching
the radiance of the day
melts in the rain

streetlights smear
the autumn colours
across the footpaths

doubling the display
of chromatic foliage
autumn gloats



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Don’t provide a culinary delight
On a gourmet’s table like a goose
Instead, stand up for just causes and alight
Your upward mobility flight of stairs like the Indian grey mongoose 

To strut your agility to take on and slay cobras
Which in one form or another your tranquil...

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Last man standing
in a world of outlandish
viewing the enemy and weapon
.....they brandish
words are accursed
thoughts even worse
sympathy felt....for who fell first

Caught in the crossfire
situation dims dire
fading is the glory
for the gun for hire

Fight on,must persist
as this last man resist
clutches of the anger
amongst our midst

Fear not is...

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