Mandela, Forgive UsMandela, forgive us—
When Robben Island set you free after twenty-seven winters,
You stepped into sunlight and showed us the way.
You taught us peace when the world expected vengeance,
You offered us hope when our hearts were torn.
Your vision was a land reborn,
A South Africa dignified,
A rainbow nation rising beyond its past.
You told us to do better—
But oh,...
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Categories:
anger, corruption, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
The Hand ReaderIt was a misty morning in Moscow—
When fate and palm first softly crossed,
In gilded halls where secrets sleep,
I met a man both sharp and lost.
An oligarch with eyes of frost,
Berezovsky, his name well known,
His smile—a veil for storms within,
His heart, a throne turned into stone.
He ushered me with silken grace,
Into his room where silence spoke,
"Read...
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Categories:
business, corruption, cry, death
Form: Free verse
Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts( L A. Times - A cogent and accurate commentary by Member - johntomas )
You recycle a common but baseless accusation that NPR and PBS have become “left-leaning,” when in reality, what’s often labeled as “bias” is simply truthful reporting on deeply troubling actions -- including Donald Trump’s sustained attacks on...
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Categories:
america, bible, christian, corruption,
Form: Didactic
They Wore Sorrow
Two diverse paths lay,
The rough path tell the tales
Tales of what lays ahead
The smooth path tells no tales
Both lead to same destination
Our choice stared at us
The heart seeks honour
Rough path they thread
Their desire, they must not faint
The cheers of their leader,
Echoes through the lonely path
The smooth path, leader thread,
In honor, loyalty stand.
“Aye, my enemy...
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Categories:
conflict, corruption, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Thing
In public, it shows dominance
it threatens and pretends
But later on in private calls
it grovels to make friends
It begs the leaders to make deals
they mock it everywhere
The butt of jokes, the world around
it thinks that it’s a player
Filled with all the foulest traits
a creature can contain
Greed and racist, bigotry
a narcissistic stain
And every place the Thing has...
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Categories:
america, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
Betrayal's BegottenSo far, they go -
A distant throw -
Down simple snow -
Forgotten.
And yet, a maid -
Through crime, parade -
And riches swayed -
Ill-gotten.
The weak confide -
Then run to hide -
To turn the tide -
Now rotten.
A dream, they’ll fade -
The cuts, been made -
No chance, persuade -
Stained cotton.
...
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Categories:
absence, betrayal, corruption, dream,
Form: Rhyme
O' MERCIFUL THIS WORLD CAN'T-O' merciful O merciful full of American turmoil
Swallow me up maybe many and fight against me what kind of child of God am I
A child I am afraid
I will trust in thee alone
O' God I will praise His word and God
I have put my trust in you God I will
Not fear flesh can do ...
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Categories:
adventure, analogy, conflict, corruption,
Form: Lyric
Poetry in its Liquid State
O, vilest of vile high-haughty poems
To you professors’ studies are so oft homes
The fetid waters of PhD’s, nekkid, you swim well in
~ Though the proper home...
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Categories:
corruption, home, poetry, satire,
Form: Couplet
OF FOOD AND WARRING: A TANKA QUINTETOF FOOD AND WARRING
(A TANKA QUIENTET)
Juxtaposed bombs fall…
Food’s down, starvation rising…
Death…collateral…
Thus, war’s new reaping of death:
Food uprooted and destroyed:-
Food’s an enemy,
Seeking to eat, deadly:
Starvation killing:-
Thus, be war’s new strategy:
Piled skin covered skeletons:-
Ironically,
All this is merely Breaking News!
War’s politicking:
Pontificating power;
Not nourishing peace and love:-
May these fruitful thoughts
Excite your hunger for peace
And its divine love:-
Not...
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Categories:
corruption, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
This is What Treason Looks Like
Now there once was a man called Obama
who did more grievous harm than Osama.
At Hillary’s coax
they conspired a hoax
so coming your way is some bad karma!
Written: August 2025...
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Categories:
corruption, political,
Form: Limerick
I sure so like to cryi taste my tears
i shake my head
scream and shout
someone please shut the noise out.
YEAH! that's how i feel
but not for your eyes
it's some kind of vulnerability
that I don't like to be
I kick and wrap my arms around me all so tight
sometimes I need to feel
but not for your eyes...
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Categories:
cheer up, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
Pain is BeautyAs she twists within,
Consuming our minds with fear and loathing,
And when we lose a petal each day because of her,
We forget.
For every time I have wept beneath the terrors of past events,
Under the shadows of his hand and my still youthful eyes,
It was pain that I feared,
And yet I had forgotten why she was there.
She...
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Categories:
beauty, corruption, pain,
Form: Free verse
Filthy Shakespear’Indeed dear readers, there is such a book.. Yet
In my deepest boredom, I have never looked.’
Foresooth and in truth; it’s been fifty years.?since
I glanced in his direction..I’ve no desire now to
Subject any ears’ though they be of barley.?
Or even corn.. I bind to no disputed lyric
Origens I’d druther indeed be forelorn. Cast on
An isle...
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Categories:
conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
I’d Be Bored Too Wouldn’t You?The rich and their money,
the rich and their caviar.
The rich and their parties,
the rich and their friends.
The rich and their polo shirts,
the rich and their tennis
matches.
The rich and their trust funds,
the rich and their mansions.
The rich and their cars,
the rich and their speedboats.
The rich and their engagements,
the rich and their affairs.
The rich and their absolutes,
the...
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Categories:
corruption, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ralph Babet'He's standing on this Aussie man.! using his position to
Probe the plan.' Wake up Australia be no longer fooled
Look at the architecture..in Canberra' think on Davos and draconian rules! read dark
Dark policing by John Stapleton.) another of our hero's
Who is (far from wrong) a seasoned writer from the trenches of strife.' A giant of a...
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Categories:
betrayal, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Political Verse
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