Best Run Amok Poems

41.
        Resist I Must

Pride is hubris run amok
To rot the soul within.
It rises from the depths of hell...
The deadliest of sins.

It is the snake that slithers so
To pervert both bold and brave.
It may appear the luminous rainbow
But at...

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Put the pork-n-beans
in a big garbage can
Let the kiddies run wild
til lunchtime, 
then try to reign ‘em in
Make the little bed-wetting buggers
play White castle in the sand
Find out who clogged the shower drain
and stopped up the toilet again
The Camp counselor
is looking a little addled,
even more...

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When Things Run Amok

When things run amok
It is always best that you
Don't forget to duck.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran Poet
Soothsayer and Prophet
who can't stop it....

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Palpable hatred makes your nostrils seethe
As you inhale all the imagined wrongs
Grounded in ignorance
And no reality


A match is struck 

Martyrs are made
And fools are kings
Grievances run wild
Fed by even more vengeful sins

The place is ablaze

The rioting season has begun
Who will outlive
This bellicose insanity
That is but...

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If you don't want to press your luck
Never iron a four leaf clover, big yuks
It's a giggle each day
Need to find a way
To shoo your troubles and run amok...

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if you  write life without a plot
what you have is a vacant lot
it’s time to pause and examine the story
consider introspection and an inventory

there are days of purple haze
life is a maze of many ways
in disrepair, life’s not fair
I declare what can I bare

I’ll...

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