Best Schemers Poems

Such a wonderful city of angels
Full of dreamers and schemers
Cowards. 
Posers.
You poisoned me with sweet love
Then poisoned me with anger.

A lion with an impatient roar
Slowly eating me alive.
Ever so cleverly. 
I never saw it coming. 
I've been devoured and feel invisible. 
I look in the...

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As a dreamer, I never once dwelled on schemers,
            so, as a believer, I fell for him, a deceiver. 
I became an anger screamer and tear streamer
until romantic panic lay me down as griever.
...

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We are dishwashers and bill payers, we have day jobs and night jobs.
Some of us are retired, I am not, because I know too many 
who died after they did that.
They lost their purpose, and before they could find another one,
they gave up, and left...

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genius and crazy fit together like a puzzle
perfect and tight, cuddling up in a perfect fit.
if you do not have a bit of them both, you
will never know what poetry, art or music is.
imagination thrown in makes the perfect fire.
the comics, the dreamers, the dancers,...

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Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
       by Odin Roark

Corners to peer around
The harlequin of angles
Where peeking
Reveals
Where being stuck
Confines
Where feeling trapped
Separates

Our remembered child stands
Eyes squeezed shut
Face buried where two walls meet
Counting to one-hundred

While confidence sought
To play out our innocence
Beneath
Behind
Beside
A trusted game
Waned

Time passed
Shorts...

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Unquotable quotes – VI

(Note : A good many of the « epigrams » in this sequence of quotes are a take off on other well-known short poems, proverbs, sayings or expressions faites, etc . The rest are my own epigrams.)

All the world’s a stooge.
Paint the...

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The Craven
(with apologies to EAP)


Yesterday at my bail hearing, suddenly what I was fearing
Came with force of pounding gavel causing me to near unravel
Causing weakness in the knees, dreading future lawyer’s fees
Then I heard the gavel pounding, pounding on my future days
“I ain’t got the...

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My Eyes Are The Seers Of  Treasure,
Among The Limbs When I Dream Of Leisure,
The Brain Is Wealth,
As A Thieve Is To Stealth,
The Future Is For The Dreamers,
For As Far As I Recall, I’m Among The Schemers,
And The Brain Is Indeed Gold,
Only In The Minds...

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Because I see deeply into the living
With their energies always giving 
Our world a mixture of these vibes
That create our civilizations and our tribes.
I sit and ponder their intentions
Of their technologies and their inventions.
Is it for our benefit and for our good
To build our lives...

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PRESENT PERFECT in SUMMER SCHOOL

CONJUGATION
I have yearned
Thou hast returned
He has departed
She has kissed faint hearted
We have voiced warm greetings
They’ve had timid meetings

The young ones the old ones
The joiners and the out-in-the-cold ones
The sad boys the bad boys
The mild boys and the wild boys
The Shy girls,...

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There once was a bus trip to taken
two groups was trouble in the making
All women, need I say more
whose beauty men could not ignore

Brunettes thought to be smarter
blondes needed to try harder
To this they were unaware
just trying to be fair

A massive double decker bus
to safety...

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Revived to pop out as an empty nester 
To accompany a newfangled life
Maneuvered all the way for a change of state
I dropped my bags and willed at country’s metropolis. 

The heirloom edifices occupying moiety of acreage
Glossy crisscross roads and extended overpass
Spic-and-span subway and the rushy...

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The land of living has been
Possessed by masqueraders,
No need of faces to be seen;
The land is a mask,
It's the celebration
Of desolation.

The smiles of the schemers
Are seen in every city!
Only they decide who will live
And who will die.
And the life we die.

There is neither wrong
Nor right...

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How long will I have to write rhymes? 
Till the time I accept the logic?
Watch it! You’re caught and fastened by fossils, 
No Entry, Kill Bill, with ease as ya see!
With Illmatic words, overheard by not many,
Quick to overlook fundamentals, 
Society is sick, don’t listen,...

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A dream of a Rainbow coloured family

In the ocean there is a raging storm 
And a lot of boats 
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost, sails that are torn.
And dreams that are faded or tattered
With hopes that seem crushed or battered
Under the heavy weights of...

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