Best Shibboleths Poems

There is a little land that's built on sand in the Middle East
   To listen to the world complain, you'd think it was a beast

Yet it's more diverse, and dynamic, than the USA
   100+ countries immigrants' flourish there today

As for democracy,...

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RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - La Ballade “Le Chant Royal” -Concluding Stanza

(Note: As you can see, I have taken certain liberties with the fixed form, but have always kept close to the spirit of the ballade’s form: rhyme, metre, stanza, envoi, and, now, concluding...

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Discard Flat Packs Have Faith

There is a God of the Universe parallel that is and I call 
her freedom ‘Come into my space’ she seems to contradict 
‘do not be afraid’ to fall off that flat narrow planet that spins
in your brain where dogma calls...

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Fragments United In Perfect Imperfection
And all the smeared colours unite into white
	
All
     the
           little
                 ...

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...He kept looking for Asian boys,
and kept trying to set her up,
went out of the way to make things
for Lin and I exceedingly rough.
But Lin had found a make she liked,
and by my side she chose to stay,
the skin-color didin’t matter,
since both of us were...

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Growth should be the ultimate criterion,
nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain,
from a heartfelt commitment such as mine,
that monumental new year down the clock aptly named,
global village stepping stone infused with razzmatazz,
celebrities whose sugar candy script relayed world...

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Villanelle : It's all been said said better and bolder before

It's all been said said better and bolder before
Worse now most repeat over and over again
No shibboleths now to test smooth words more hollow

Those who trouble not to delve into sages yore
Make not but weak...

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COPLA SESENTA Y CUATRO: This Bad Guy World

No one denies Life’s stunning rich
What we all have to put up with:
Stark sacrifice

Spite of beast in Man or the Witch
Brains soar limitless heights or width:
As gods we rise

Bad Guys drag us down ugly depths
Role Good Guys must...

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I sometimes hear a stubborn myth,
that before Europeans came
the locals of America
all lived lives quite peaceful, and tame.

The old trope of the Noble Savage,
that somehow manages to persist,
polls show a disturbing number
of people believe in all this.

And with it come these shibboleths,
that still leave a...

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