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ORANGE

...A face, like sundown leaning on rusted steel—
boasting through storms he promised to end.
Lies? They cracked like paint in late May heat.
But some talkin’ copperheads still call the tariffs gold.
...

Categories: copperheads, political, poverty, truth,
Form: Free verse

Speaker

...Speaker, speaker I'm listening...

You’re doing the right thing!
Unswayed from Kremlin propaganda
Isn’t how our country should swing
Faith changed; policies rearranged
Soul-searching, ...

Categories: copperheads, appreciation, political,
Form: Political Verse

One Square Mile

...In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one square mile, northeast of Noojee.

A Whipbird crack th...

Categories: copperheads, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Zest of a Boy

...He toddles toward the pebbles, tumbling the smooth stones over
in his four year old palms, rubbing them like Aladdin’s lamp, tossing
them back into the mix, impishly shining with the zest of a boy....

Categories: copperheads, child,
Form: Free verse

The Emptying

...Jails-asylums are bleeding out because of naivety.
Now the unhinged mad dogs are working out their kinks.
On the neckbones of society.

Nowhere is safe for your sons and daughters.
Not even pine...

Categories: copperheads, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Animals Commandeered My House

...Raccoons are in the parlor
Opossums are on the run,
Copperheads are in my harbor
They are having lots of fun

Chickens are in my windowsills
White tail foxes in the hall
Sweet piglets in the g...

Categories: copperheads, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse

Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 4 With a Clive Bush Comment By T Wignesan

...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry 

Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri...

Categories: copperheads, england, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Free verse

Fountain of Youth

...Ozark bound, fifth day of the week
On narrow state roads, winding and steep
Town through town sparse and sprawling
Like dot to dot of a preschooler's drawing
Our destiny reached sweet moment of t...

Categories: copperheads, brother, dedication, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Black Rail

...Do you hear the devil's laughter?
low within the marsh waters
rustling high the tree tops
Answer not with prayer
but within a smirk of doubt
Don't tilt the boat least you fall in
and a fat gato...

Categories: copperheads, bird, nature, water, youth,
Form: Free verse

Metairie, La

...Late at night
I lay in the swamp
Waiting for Jesus
My Pa told me that the swamp
Is where he lives
That a copperheads mouth
Is like the Mona Lisa’s face
And a cottonmouth never strikes ...

Categories: copperheads, jesus,
Form: Free verse