Best Warden Poems

Turkeys in November
the horrors they remember
The definite dinner plans
that turkeys just don't understand
This dining for a cause
Thanksgiving a regretable clause
a life that finds a sudden pause
And yet one turkey in wait
may avoid the dinner plate
And recieve the Presidents pardon
for the sake of so a few...

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This poem has been removed for publishing on Amazon in WW II in Poetry: Veterans Stories in Poetry, including my late father's who was a Spitfire pilot in the Nigeria Squadron. As it says at the end, "For free speech".

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Space and time are the prison walls                                      ...

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The Warden is angry again.
He hangs his gun belt outside 
the door, and steps inside my 
dour cage-
Fist full of razor blades. 
I can hear the heavy drops 
of mercurial cerise blooming
as it hits the concrete.
"Open your mouth, Son." 
My teeth raze through bits of...

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