Best Tasked Poems

...oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope, precisely made
                    yet giv'n to stain the bib of war
          a bleed each mother answers for.


the whee......

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...A storm had rolled in off the Sierra Nevada and hit Milton Creek
Townsfolk were dashing all about town for shelter they did seek
Freak storms like this were a rarity and puddles were everywhere......

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...Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.

With the Dragons go......

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...I'm but a frail bird tasked to bring hope and spread peace.
How shall I fly high in the sky with such a brittle burden!
My heart pounds in dilemma like a ping pong ball as I release
my win......

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...It was nigh on to St. Crispin's day
But I found no solace there.
The night curdled with discontentment
As a vile expectation filled the air.
Death himself appeared at my door...
His heinous purp......

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...26.

A stationary bicycle
Never travels very far.
Nor sniffs the meadow flowers
Or sets the evening star.

It is far from me to criticize
The direction that you ought...
But it seems a helle......

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...I can’t think of a theme I confess
and doubting I’ll please John Lawless
I’m ahhing and umming
and no words are coming
my shattered nerves are such a mess!

I’m tasked to write oodl......

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...As the rain pelted down on my windshield
hypnotic wipers swayed back and forth
stuck in a traffic mass exodus
I exited south out of New York

Deep in thought regarding the funeral
in the solitu......

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* I always felt like “Nessie” got a bad rap, being called a monster and a beast and all that, so I think this little piece of mythic imagery grew from that. I hope you enjoy. *

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...{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given a full P......

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Ghetto me be a bleating poor refugee,
albeit I’m Goshen rich in faith
Got a manger stall in the USA,
Pilate shepherd of the Cesarian peace

Time stamped stillborn delivery
tis iron Rom......

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...The True Alpha Male

The True Alpha Male is the man that is masculine, but not toxic. 
The man whose behavior proceeds from a sense of propriety, confidence, and a high sense of self-worth; 
who ......

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...Stranded in war torn Sudan, 
Dreading yet another dawn. 
In Wadi Sayyidna town,
Hopelessness was weighing down.

Men and women, young and old, 
Watched the civil war unfold.
Homeless, desperat......

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...I'm looking for a human heart,
    A brand-new one, por favor,
        Mine's quite cold and broken,
  I don't want it anymore.

It served a purpose for a while,
    And it beat with r......

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...I.
When Sal rode slowly into Victorville,
he saw an empty street, buildings unfilled,
Sol half-expected this, it’s why he was here,
but even to him, it always looked weird.

The letter they wro......

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