Backward Thinking
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Backward Thinking
Miracle Man
9/16/2024
The tranquility that so often i readily enjoy,
is invariably the precursor for a coming storm.
Spewing words at me to browbeat and destroy,
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Categories:
browbeat, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Lyric
Chattering Voices
...I pick up their idle chatter five days of the week.
Conversation with other passengers, I never seek
to learn of a secret one of them might privately leak.
But try as I might, I cannot hel...
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Categories:
browbeat, travel, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Sobriquet - Naivete
...Snared for an errant tweet
Never thought to be discreet
Escorted by a kick to the seat
Hope fell to grieve at his feet
Kremlin brass-knuckle browbeat
~ Carves innocence int...
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Categories:
browbeat, evil, innocence, international, violence,
Form: Monorhyme
Browbeat
...The family came and went
My emotional and physical pain stays lament
The burden of lies
Stays alive within family ties
The truth teller
Gets the raw deal from the home dweller
How can I get m...
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Categories:
browbeat, abuse, betrayal, bullying, child
Form: Rhyme
Into the Badlands
...Into the Badlands she rode, with spurs lightning fast.
Her chocolate stallion, her wild companion,
slows in the maco sica, a dry and dusty forecast.
Into the Badlands she rode, with spurs ligh...
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Categories:
browbeat, animal, nature,
Form: Triolet
It Is What It Is
...It is What it is – weasel words for our times
We live in an age
Of the weasel words
Orwellian thought police run amuk
Words used as weapons
To limit critical thought
And avoid rational thoug...
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Categories:
browbeat, allegory, allusion, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Play
...Warning bells had rung before
Nature may not like it anymore
the over exploitation of its store
but human greed did underscore
rules of coexistence as in folklore.
Our experiment with wild mea...
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Categories:
browbeat, abuse, nature,
Form: Rhyme
She Rolls Her Eyes
...She rolls her eyes at me every time she speaks.
I am amazed but not shocked at her lack of respect
For I have seen her browbeat her mother
She is ten....
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Categories:
browbeat, child,
Form: Free verse
I Seek the Uncensored Inside Scoop
...Akin to a journalist (hoofing
NOT huffing on the beat)
heedful, mindful, and pain fully aware, bleat
me, asper caveats help me set sights
tacking within parameters of lawfulness,
when questing...
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Categories:
browbeat, addiction, adventure, anger, care,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump Das Fuehrers Braggadocio
...Donald Trump Das Fuehrer's Braggadocio
Wrapped up in the Christmas holiday spirit,
I surmise doth allow
nationally collective obliviousness
to steer ship of state
(these United State...
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Categories:
browbeat, discrimination, imagination, innocence, night,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Would You Hire Me: a Resume
...I am applying for the consultant position
of Office Manager for which I will audition.
I am undeniably qualified to deal with nitwits
and idiots I will immediately classify as 'twits.'
My solut...
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Categories:
browbeat, business,
Form: Rhyme
To Their Fellow Man
...You can see their breath upon the air
As people bustle by without a care
The homeless don’t even get a single glance
No care for thier circumstance
your small change it means alot
to you ...
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Categories:
browbeat, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Mad Man In the Corner
...THE MAD MAN IN THE CORNER
By Roy Merritt
A mad man in the corner was ranting on insane
A man who was blinded wracked with mental pain
He couldn’t believe they lost couldn’t believe this be true...
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Categories:
browbeat, angst, anniversary, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Dad
...Father, oh, father can't you see what you've done.
Your hate has destroyed the lives of everyone.
You treated us bad and cheated on our mom.
Your temper was like trying to disarm a bomb.
Ever...
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Categories:
browbeat, abuse, anger, father, father
Form: Rhyme
Apology To Eliot
...Let us go to certain half-desserted restaurant
Where cheese is spread on the table like an elkmilksheet
Steaks are burnt, curries are bland, puddings are mulberry mist
Let us go to certain half-...
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Categories:
browbeat, age, allegory, angst, crazy,
Form: Prose Poetry
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