Best Level Playing Field Poems

By John Weaver

At school I learned to read and write, to add and take away, 
Of geography and history and sports I learned to play...

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What fire works

Fire works crackle crunch coagulate
send the guiding stars of darkness into space
from Phoenix to ashes ember amber empathy 
forgotten exploding in the heart...

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What I really want for myself and my countrymen 
Is PEACE, first and foremost, —a utopia, I guess, 
Where bias, bigotry and prejudice do not...

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You say you're open to negotiation
But you're truly guilty by association
Keep on picking the altruistic pocket
Startling victims like a pin in a socket

A level playing...

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I’ve heard people say dinosaurs are extinct
But I think there must be a resurgence!
It seems that our scientists all must have blinked,
Could it be just...

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I want to trust in other people,
That could be my biggest flaw,
Like God the Father, I am dreaming
All will come to love His law.

It’s sad...

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For a brief period in our history Jack and his master
  worked and played on a level playing field, 
It was a time when...

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propagated and plunged,
into the depths of misery.
every muscle aches in cogitation.

a level playing field,
with missing bones.
a war hero composed
upon the compost of humanity.

eyes closed in...

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The sharp suited man
With the Legal Degree
Looks back over years 
To pass judgement on me.
While he was getting drunk
In student Uni bars
I was uniformed and...

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upon the level playing field -
                   ...

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Why bother naming babies in the foreign land
Sarin gas is not a Happy Birthday gift or plan
No way to play, no party list to live...

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Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19)

(alternately titled: yours truly doth mutter
asthma bowled dug gutter 
pin yon hated chap strikingly and gently weeps, 
whereby melts milquetoast like butter.)

Aye reckon...

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Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19) begat...
heebie jeebies couple months before March 15th, 2020

More'n three hundred and sixty six days ago,
a pandemic did devastatingly blow
across the webbed wide...

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You might be riding a wave of awareness. 
Withstand, endure, suffer, and strive.
Maintain a clear mind to unworn insights and wellness.
Once you've reached your last...

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From the miniscule, to the grand vestibule,
    Balancing forces are summoned to equate.
Where one seems to create more distance,
   ...

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