Best Pipelines Poems
They Call This Social Justice...Once our land stretched from coast to coast
and the drums of the people beat proud
we were mighty and we were strong
we were happy . . .
then the white came to our shores
they thought our ......
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Categories:
pipelines, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
In My Perfect World...In my perfect world let me ponder my thoughts
And tell you what should be, a world that's not fraught
To live side by side all colours and race
Before we implode and forever loose face
Protec......
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Categories:
pipelines, life, people, placesworld, kindergarten,
Form:
Couplet
Energy's Suffocating Gallop...Energy’s Suffocating Gallop
by Odin Roark
Ancient blood soaked sand
Plumes its sticky residue
Beneath rapacious hooves
Dust storms of evil stampeding beside pipel......
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Categories:
pipelines, political,
Form:
Free verse
Environmental Pollution...The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.
Petroleum hydro......
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Categories:
pipelines, africa, earth, environment, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Amazing World...The healthy man fights not to be sick,
Meticulous doctor prays to have enough patients,
patients hope not to end up in the morgue,
morgue keeper needs more corpses to keep his job,
The coffin maker h......
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Categories:
pipelines, life, people, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
History Repeats In Dakota Territory...In my early teens (late 60's)
I remember it all
began
in my mind
Dad was driving us into
downtown Minneapolis
for church I think,
up ahead, a block or so,
the bob-lights on top of
2 cop ......
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Categories:
pipelines, native american,
Form:
Free verse
On the Tour Bus In San Mar-Andorra-Stein...ON THE TOUR BUS IN SAN MAR-ANDORRA-STEIN
“We are older than your George Washington;
We have the tallest fields of cotton
West of the Volga; and our castles are small
But all guaranteed to......
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Categories:
pipelines, holiday, humorous, , western,
Form:
Couplet
Ravening...You want it all.
The lakes and tar sands
Fresh water and fish
Arctic diamonds
Pipelines that confine
The caribou
And make the hunt ridiculous.
Forests for the churning
Of lust......
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Categories:
pipelines, betrayal, grief, howl,
Form:
Free verse
Rationalisation of Explanation...Rationalisation of Explanation
Do not question
The almighty plan
For such are the reprisals of fear
That turn blind despair into adulation
The evident proof
Existent in raped women and c......
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Categories:
pipelines, lifelife, life,
Form:
Free verse
Wiki Leaks...Pipelines to Hell.
Orchestrated leaks.
Dangerous data with the potential to explode right in front of their faces...
Or so we would think.
Wiki leaks are sparks of volatile info released on a gra......
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Categories:
pipelines, america, judgement, world, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Der Spiegel...On reading Der Spiegel
In Kashgar where the
The Silk Road begins
I a bought
An apricot
From a woman who wore
A red shawl
Over her black hair
Knotted under
Her chin
And a yellow silk......
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Categories:
pipelines, computer, corruption, creation, dad,
Form:
Blank verse
Effective Plans...It will take time
to phase out oil-based
technology people from
the oil industry
Could also be used
creating, pipelines
building desalination
plants o get water
Into the mountains
me......
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Categories:
pipelines, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
The Spiral...The Spiral
Once the circuit is closed it is a never-ending story one of
hate and violence an eye for an eye and more darkened vision
Who cast the first stone threw the first bomb wielded the s......
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Categories:
pipelines, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Crude Energy Policy...There was a time we were independent,
exporting energy out to the world.
Natural gas helped make us ascendant,
before the energy plan was unfurled.
Clean coal is indeed oxymoronic,
but our tec......
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Categories:
pipelines, how i feel,
Form:
Sonnet
Id Like To Shake the Hand...Who defined
“certifiably insane”?
You see, it too closely
defines those who are
running this world.
The place where technology steals jobs;
Airplanes, crash more than they fly;
......
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Categories:
pipelines, allusion, anger, corruption, how
Form:
Prose