Best In The Hot Seat Poems

There's a breed of Aussie hero who has served this nation well 
and they don a yellow uniform to face the fires of hell. 
When day temperatures are soaring and the high winds blow a gust, 
and our bushland is ignited it's in them we...

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the thoughts that rest here deep 
I’m laying low and waiting 
as those bullets whiz past me 
it’s those little things that wound 
those moments I can’t see 
can we reach the pinnacle 
or all that we can be? 

imagination covers 
too heavy in this...

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Joy for me means that  

You are here where I once sat 

Clutching the reigns  

Playing political games  

Taking over my tasks  

Saying ‘I am not wearing any deceptive masks’  

Making decisions  

Moving into position  

No longer in...

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Being in the hot seat
Is second nature to me
I’ve always thought it neat,
Being in the hot seat
‘Tis not always so sweet
Expressing opinion, you see,
Being in the hot seat
Is second nature to me.

Written August 14, 2022
[I wrote Opinion for the
Huntington, WV Dispatch
for about eight years!]...

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Tricks and treats;
Good old eats;
Treats are just great,
We often crave treats that rate,
Tricks played, could land one in the hot seat!
...

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We’ve been burned before:
Left in the hot seat
smoldering and angry.
 
Wondering how we got here
and if we’re ever going home.

We marvel at downpours
their ability to not only quench desire
but to drown out the burning
as though it never happened.

Why can’t they remember
what we can’t forget?

So I...

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Any good judge and jury would convict me
Slam the door shut, toss out the key
High crimes and misdemeanors in the first degree
Caught in cahoots with poetry

Armed with pen and paper in hand
Stealing from me all that I have
Until my muse says there's nothing left
Empty's the...

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Contrast of cupcakes
decorated with vanilla frosting
and Spring flowers.

A New York City girl -
I say girl, she’s eighty-five,
yet she swivels those hips; and her lips
are flaming cherub swords, feisty with grace.

Her friend, arrives for the final act,
in black and white, so elegant.
Her sleeves flowing, skirt swirling,
bestowing...

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