the lost tribe
...The Lost Tribe
Holocaust, this tragic word, millions of lives lost in its
name, and it has not ended. This time,
it is the
Palestinians who are victims of a people
who have learned only one le...
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Categories:
cynically, betrayal, cancer, dog,
Form: ABC
Therapy
...Somehow my deepest desire,
Is just a walk in the rain,
A break from the monotonous routine,
What has made life so mundane,
Company not a necessity,
Being alone is no longer foreign,
Yesterday...
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Categories:
cynically, conflict, destiny, happiness, hope,
Form: Rhyme
the tribe
...The lost tribe
Holocaust, the ongoing tragedy
this time, it is the Palestinians who are victims
from a tribe that has learned that if one has
to survive, they must be ty, able to tell
lies an...
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Categories:
cynically, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
Titanium Quill
...I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior
kite-surfing through
heinous waves,
knitting cobalt chronicles
from smooth syllables~
tackling chaotic currents
with chamomile magi...
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Categories:
cynically, courage,
Form: Free verse
Industrial Dispute
...Santa stood in the warehouse
Full of nearly empty shelves
Last night they’d been ram raided
By a bunch of discontented elves
Recently infiltrated and recruited
Into an association of packing ...
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Categories:
cynically, christmas, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Do Ghosts Make Love
...They felt elated, walking
on the grainy golden sand,
Hand in hand occasionally
Stealing a passionate kiss.
The evening’s first star shone
So luminous and bright.
The sea was so calm that nigh...
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Categories:
cynically, love,
Form: Free verse
Observing a Cliche From a Rocky Promontory
...Above the heat
the sky is flecked with ice.
The sun is no longer burning,
it’s a ghost lamp swept by the rags
of a coat-tailing wind.
There it is - arriving out of a hazy distance
a living ...
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Categories:
cynically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Medal
...He didn’t really meet Sally as such, more she met him. He was walking down the High street when she tapped him on the shoulder. I’m in a real hurry, but your brother Tom says he hid your medal under ...
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Categories:
cynically, fate, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Family Ties
...from behind
a sword is thrust through my chest
my pain is indescribable
it is so great
I feel I have to share it to feel relief
I don't really look back to see
whom the sword is from
I just...
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Categories:
cynically, anger, dark, family,
Form: Free verse
Fragile Contradictions
...The things we see can be seen one of two ways
Either full of color or just straight black and white
The coexistence of natural dark and our light
But we choose to see what we think is right
Wheth...
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Categories:
cynically, conflict, slam,
Form: Free verse
Again and Again
...Do they still dig up bodies from
The killing Fields of Flanders,
Bones of those long ago
Enticed and betrayed,
Lost generation, sold and
Slaughtered for no real cause.
Do they inter those bo...
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Categories:
cynically, anger, betrayal, death, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Love Life
...As I look and listen,
human lives explore individual purposes,
like making breakfast,
as divine love engages co-relational meaning,
like preparing nurturing gifts
of sacred EarthTribal communion...
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Categories:
cynically, culture, health, life, love,
Form: Political Verse
Clouded Vision
...Glaucoma, Cataracts, the dreaded sty,
Seeing color in people is like a jaundiced eye.
Racism, Bigotry, Judging others critically-
Aversion to diversity and being equals cynically-
Uppity eyes wh...
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Categories:
cynically, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Corona Virus
...A pandemic that plagues our minds
The weakest among us, it seeks and finds
Nonchalant at the start, we did not care
Far away from us, that is why, to be fair
Then it begins to spread far and wide...
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Categories:
cynically, care, death, earth, fear,
Form: Imagism
Bank In Trust Coinvestors
...In cooperative detective work,
including Earth scientific research,
we are told to follow the money
much more often
than feeling invited
to follow the nutritional health investors
and the toxi...
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Categories:
cynically, art, beauty, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
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