Best Mavericks Poems

Facts we look upon,
And the apparent truth we observe,
Depend upon forgone,
Opinion that we reserve,
And is perhaps not what’s deserved.


Sharon Bell...

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“Maverick”




Mavericks are made
in the silence 
spent 
where
freedom 
is kept locked tight
in solitary confinement
moments melting 
down visceral pain 
through love 
and 
loveless madness 
fierce swords are...

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Rosa Louise Parks
refused to give up her seat
“First Lady of Civil Rights”

back in fifty-five
civil disobedience
‘fore Martin Luther King’s time

courageous Rosa
kept her seat and caused a...

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Now 1738 there was born a man... 
'name of Ethan Allen; his craw full'a sand,

Faced up to the guvenor of N Y, State..)
The green mountain...

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A conqueror for women's rights in a time of male dominance
A tireless activist, a regarded speaker, a trail blazer for her time   
She...

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Impossible to stifle
the firing of a 7 foot
German Rifle

the Heat couldn't stop Dirk
from putting
in work



Congratulations to the 2011 NBA Champions
     ...

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Ben raised up a dern disappointment, Daddy, well, he wanted a boy.
Wasn’t nothing under the bleeding red sun Ma could do but keep on a...

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How mysteriously mythical
And mystical you look
Magnificently minute 
Maritime majestic migrants
More than marginally manic
Mesmerizing meanderers
Masterpieces
Peacefully going about
Your business
Magical make-believe
Monarchs of the sea
Upright and elegant
In your mannerly...

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Ron Paul is the man.

He stands for liberty true.

He's proven it too.

'Nuff Said.



For the mavericks contest.   It's a Senryu, but I added another...

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Miles and miles of dry brush, a tender box  for fire
Just a spark and the inferno is burning
Smoke clouds and ashes billow high, in...

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Joan, the girl, met messengers from heaven.
One time, two others with her saw them, too.
Archangel Michael, Gabriel, and hosts
Noticing while discerning she obeyed.
 
Over and...

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OXY-GUYS



Oxydimwits  believe  in lovers slimming with diet  cheeseburgers

Oxybuffoons  ask in the supermarket for water lite for their girlfriend

Oxyfools   ...

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Tinted stars on flatter screens 
suave images do hype
Black & White visages from 
nostalgic era still archetype
Touched-up photos the ideal 
caricature to swipe
Still Life portraits from...

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ALBERT EINTEIN


The great soul who changed
The way we looked at ‘Nature’
With strange, mind-boggling concepts.

Space, time and  even  science
Never looked  the same, after...

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That's what they say to me,

Writing verse that does not conform,

Style which doesn't comply with their old dead masters,

Using formats that threaten aged literary girdles,...

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