Gone Are the Days
...I look back to the halcyon days
When Mrs Johnson,
A comely widow, ran fruitful
Errands for the new railway, and for
Our undeveloped district.
A frail, little maid in green cardigan
And sable wo...
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Categories:
calumny, death, depression, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
To strike and deliver'
...I am as a hammer.' Weilded by God.' Upon the rockface of
False piety.' O're which human blood pours; in great floods.' In power i
Assail it.' With blows of great might.' I am come for this
Epoch.....
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Categories:
calumny, character, encouraging, father, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Blither-Blather and Red Yuck, and Pray Like Your Hair's on Fire, 'Coz It Is
...
when accused of blither-blather
seek shelter in the moment, rather
than plunge right in confrontationally
into a bottomless pit of calumny
remember to count to ten aga...
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Categories:
calumny, anger, fate, fear, prayer,
Form: Couplet
You Can Create the World
...
Peace?
No, not in the halls of Congress!
And no, not in the fractious halls
of the United Nations.
Nor in major city streets.
And no I can't demand you fall
down and adore me simply
b...
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Categories:
calumny, culture, mental health,
Form: Free verse
I was born there
...I was born in the odds,
I lived through it,
dotted the lines on my path
I was born among hyenas,
these scrambling to stiffen the last breath,
Amidst hurts and hate first from home,
A lot c...
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Categories:
calumny, africa, allegory, allusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer Falls
...Shadow souls flying across the sea
Of my senses they knew, what a mockery,
How do I write the song says the dream?
Whereupon the wanderer falls
In the scribbled pines
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Categories:
calumny, corruption, culture, dark, death,
Form: Verse
Sir You Have Besmirched the Good Name of My Pangolin
...Sir! You Have Besmirched the Good Name Of My Pangolin
Nothing can be the same now -
before the recent pandemic
my companion Pangolin
Boris and I,
were carefree,
and happily plying our trade...
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Categories:
calumny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Bard Beneath the Tree
...Come Friends, from all the quarters come
From mountain and from sea
And harken to the ancient drum
That beats at Avebury
The wren that sings, the bees that hum
The bard beneath the tree
Come ...
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Categories:
calumny, celebration, england, friendship, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Alumni Not Calumny
...1.Agar mein jhoti bakwas karta hun..
2.Agar meri batain bay bunyad hain..
3.Agar mujhay bolnay ki tameez nahi..
4.Agar mein culture ka vulture nahi..
5.Agar mujhay tradition ka pata nahi..
6.Aga...
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Categories:
calumny, culture, education, high school,
Form: Narrative
I Am African
...I am African, I affirm that i am Original African
untainted, unblenched, unsoiled.
I am African,
with all the dignity of the first human.
unashamed, unbowed, undaunted. I am African.
unique...
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Categories:
calumny, africa, age, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse
Faded Feelings
...Bricks of pain heaved on feeble frame
Hell’s ring tone in fragile ears
Exits incomparable in life’s little memory
A goddess gone, the pillar of a heart’s strength.
Lured above reason by fables,...
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Categories:
calumny, change, conflict, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Lyric
Avaunt
...Good bye cheering souls,
to this clime i come alone.
from hence i now depart,
goodbye to cravings and pleasure,
goodbye to the race of time,
to their jeers and calumny,
to the contest of v...
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Categories:
calumny, absence, death, earth, good
Form: Lyric
Tulsi Gabbard
...TULSI ACROSTIC
T-Tulsi is tenacious and not one
to take any guff!
U-Unshakeable and uncrushable
under "missing email" HRC's
horrendous harumph!
L-Lion Hearted Tulsi was to
meet wit...
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Categories:
calumny, anti bullying, corruption, humor,
Form: Acrostic
Conspiracy and Evil Surmising
...I am a Victim,
Lured by mascara, and by a pretext piety
Induced through lust by immoral vermin
I am a Victim
Blindfold through cunnings to fest on a plowed field,
“Whore scammed”, trapped...
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Categories:
calumny, abuse, death, depression, divorce,
Form: Burlesque
What Kind of Town Is This
...Chicago's roots nourished Deep
Calumny, Crime, Corruption
Oh, that a mutant twig or leaf appear
That's not eviscerated as Disruption...
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Categories:
calumny, city, crush, fate,
Form: Personification
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