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Fledges Class

...footsteps as I walk to the podium*



Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities. 

“The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonie...

Forgiveness

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Written: December 23, 2023, For Robert James Liguori Contest
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Life must be navigated without family pain.
Sins that grab the dirt...

Lord God, You Are My Faith's Righteousness

...October 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Romans 3-4

Key Verse – Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that bel...

If Only I Could

...If only I could
Write excellent verses
With finest words whose meanings 
Would tug at your heartstrings,
Make every sinew in your body
Tingle with excitement,
And your hair to bristle 
...

Doggerel Artist

...It was some hours of purgatory,
Self imposed, but all the same,
He thought of it as purgatory as
He listened to them declaim 
Their long strings of words with
No apparent rhyme or reason,
As if...

Superior Rapture

...Enraptured by the wonder
 of your naked body
my hands declaim magnetic verses
my lips write  divine poetry......

Resurrected Heroe

...RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
CHORUS:
Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in yo...

Birdsong

...Some are clearly Buddhist,
they sing not much, but drone
and chant, they do not flaunt.

Some are brightly painted egos,
their songs bootie-calls from empty nests
where they preen melodically r...

The Dogs of Doggerel

...Dogmatic deconstructionists
 declaim
  the Dogs of Doggerel
   during the
Dog Days of Delusion

Deluded destroyers
 deliver
  the Dogfights of Doggerel 
   during the 
Dog Dances of Derisio...

Pontification

...pontification
plus narcissism ~whoa mule....
self-forgetfulness   



pontification
[-'kaSH?n]
DEFINITION
noun form of pontificate
pontificate
[pontificate]
VERB...

Inspired By Anton Chekhov's Swan Song

...Prince in nawab's costumes
Shouted in the dark Proscenium,
-Who's there, bequeath thousand gold coins
among the poorest citizen of my domain
Did anyone find those words?
breath-Stop flare, someb...

The Big Game

...The Big Game
 Always the same
  Comes up lame
   Who's to blame?
    Pundits declaim
     Whisper names
      Gambler's shame...

A Fictitious Alternative Up Bringing

...Found me raised
     in the Antebellum South
     born an academically gifted
     whip smart, (and any other
     apropos) above average adage
smart son with a
     healthy dose of Melanin and...

When Poets Shop

...When Poets Shop

Finding a robin on the freeway
is not more startling than encountering
a poet in the condiments aisle
at the market.  When worlds collide!

His tall red-bandana'd figure
stri...

A Piece of Nonsense

...a showpiece
a speciality
        to 
           declaim:
visually clever
a retort even
to circulate:
enfolded
in a prestigious
compendium
of the poetsirregular&glib-
a hackneyed canticle
...

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