FOR IX : EMIGRATING FRIEND
... FOR IX : EMIGRATING FRIEND
Fly lightly IX within Merlin’s wings
may your Mohican pony-tail
grow thick and strong
may Africa kiss America
with gentle sensation long
may salty breath...
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Categories:
citizenry, character, city, emotions, friend,
Form: Free verse
A Republic, if you can keep it
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Apocrypha phantoms
Hustle flung at your plugged ears
Wretched refuse numbed
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Categories:
citizenry, allusion, america, culture, destiny,
Form: Haiku
Syncronicity'
...What do you see.? Conflict in Isreal, and knife attacks; also some by car so far.' France Sweden, Britian Germany, in the main
By foreigen national asylum seekers.' Is this just madness
Or could th...
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Categories:
citizenry, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Presidents and Poets
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Their names have become
hollowed out husks
blown about the graveyards
of history. Emperors who once
claimed divine favour
and the imprimatur of the gods
now seem profane, despotic
caricatu...
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Categories:
citizenry, books, peace, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
Tariffs CAN BE a Great Negotiating Tool
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With President Trump, no country should mess
unless her leaders and citizenry crave hyper-stress
Two weeks in office, he’s reined in three socialist wannabees
Col...
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Categories:
citizenry, fear, international, leadership, strength,
Form: Couplet
Price Control
...In AD 301, a Roman Emperor made a decree
He fixed the price of food and clothes
If you sold for higher, there was a death penalty
If you hoarded those goods, your blood would flow.
Since no one...
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Categories:
citizenry, america, crazy, culture, fire,
Form: Lyric
Happy New Year
...Out with the old, in with the new way of doing the same old thing.
Instead of snow, I clear the leaves. I don’t cleave to a resolution.
I don’t revolve around indecision. My natural giddyup takes o...
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Categories:
citizenry, new year,
Form: Free verse
Don't Bury Courtesy On the Political Prairie -Based on Western Ballad
...Oh don’t bury courtesy
on the political Prairie.
Where politicians rant
And tell words I can’t;
Say in a crowd
or even whisper out loud.
Oh bury courtesy not on the political Prairie...
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Categories:
citizenry, america, eulogy, funeral, in
Form: Ballad
The Machine
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Beyond a big, yellow
‘DETOUR’ sign,
an enormous machine
with flashing amber lights
and frightening teeth
is grinding asphalt down,
moving slowly along the street
leaving a grooved wake
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Categories:
citizenry, night, power, sleep, sound,
Form: Free verse
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
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Crystal waters plumping the honeydews
and cascading through amusement park ride.
As tourists engage in espionage
in Duckburg at Knottsbury farms.
As graves of self sufficiency,
Communes of ba...
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Categories:
citizenry, art,
Form: Free verse
Oxford university and dis-union
...The spires watch nightmares planned below, for citizenry
Who should have no foe.' From within its boundry's
They're to be fools on show, the first of April, auspisces
Known.' The donkeys are leadi...
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Categories:
citizenry, anxiety, education, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Yuletide pageant merry go round
...Yuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two ...
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Categories:
citizenry, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
The Grand Order Has Gone Mad
...What holds us together
has been torn, the unity
of a people split apart.
Both poles have lost
their grip and rupture
into division.
Categories now proliferate
and place each soul
into a lab...
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Categories:
citizenry, identity, political, society,
Form: Free verse
The Iron Lady
...Well, I remember my Mom as the Iron lady forever
I fear no more her strictest rules
I am now back on stage with this clerihew
I was a victim of the Iron lady's strictest rules
Probably herself ha...
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Categories:
citizenry, appreciation, celebration, character, inspiration,
Form: Clerihew
Live Within Your Means
...Citizenry
Should learn
To differentiate between needs and wants
Much more before they waste their resources
Hard-earned money
Right now
Swift understanding
To differentiate between needs and...
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Categories:
citizenry, business, community, future, society,
Form: Cinquain
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