Elders
...Elders once had wisdom,
Which is what was always taught,
So they were treated with respect;
Advice from them was sought.
Their years of life provided
The experience they’d learned
And there w...
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Categories:
demeaned, age,
Form: Rhyme
A lone voice whispers in 2025
...I can see
All the way from in here
That the fate of the world is on a precarious knife-edge
The black-robed vultures
Are gathering
In secret covens and lodges
For their Great Cull
Car...
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Categories:
demeaned, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee
...Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee...
honored at freedom fête
of course in my dreams
where Tony the Tiger
roars Matthew Scott Harris
ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat
showcasing ...
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Categories:
demeaned, adventure, america, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
THE GOLDEN RULE OF TEACHING
...
When I was a teacher I knew…from their parents my students were on loan
and I did my best to treat them as if they were children of my own.
At the beginning of every day…this mantra I repeated:...
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Categories:
demeaned, children,
Form: Rhyme
THE BAND
...
I was a young and innocent college student when the band America was formed
it’s a moment I’ll never forget…
and I was sad when the band broke up because…I wasn’t done listening yet.
I was not...
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Categories:
demeaned, america,
Form: Rhyme
My Life With Pets
...JUDY…
Judy was a German Shepherd from my newborn days
I’ve seen some pictures, black and white; she had a friendly gaze
I wish I could remember her as I sit here and write
Alas I just have photog...
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Categories:
demeaned, cat, dog, pets,
Form: Rhyme
New Light
...Fated poets
wander lost
in a sea of dreams
Devoid of truth
and not in rhyme
their words demeaned
Lasting moments
unresolved
repeat and spawn
Waiting for new
light to birth
— a savin...
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Categories:
demeaned, light,
Form: Rhyme
Rash from Crash and Back Lash
...Trump does have a rash
which caused stock market to crash
from all the backlash
wish Trump would cut crap
crashed when he ran off the map
facing one more rap
Trump seems so scary
is insult...
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Categories:
demeaned, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Love Is Not Always Love, Part I
...I hear folks say it, “Love is love,”
a mantra they like to repeat,
it’s said with such vapid sureness
you’d think it was bleatings of sheep.
But if you stop to think of it,
turn the thought over...
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Categories:
demeaned, emotions, evil, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Tunnel Of Time
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Mystified in the labyrinth of time,
dug in the desolate desert of deprivation,
one doesn’t discern in the psychic space
what in the nebulous abstract notion
the rationale of living the mom...
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Categories:
demeaned, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
The Burning Bridge
...When faith is abandoned
we live on old dreams
In time captured wastelands
barren demeaned
Believing the tattler
and spinner of lies
Desperation is sainted
epistles decry
“Music plays in key...
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Categories:
demeaned, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Take Back Reclaim Offense Please For Everyones Sake
...Personally above and beyond all
I hate and despise in this world
Is misappropriation of certain
What used to be meaningful words
Critically descriptive important essential
That have b...
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Categories:
demeaned, anger, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Jester In Transit
...Bending a breaking point
rupturing time
Eons of history
skirting the line
Paradox native
our true D.N.A.
Truth as a concept
forever in play
Yessing and noing
transfixed in between
T...
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Categories:
demeaned, time,
Form: Rhyme
Pain of a Stained Glass Lamp
...In a room besotted with lavish grace,
An expensive glass lampshade has its place.
Its exuberant glow, a soft hug warm,
But, somewhat less convincing is its form.
For a bruise on the heart, a hi...
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Categories:
demeaned, giving, light,
Form: Sonnet
Four Spokes Bespoken
...When relationships face
an uphill slog and bike's
battery is flat as well,
take on the four spokes
real deal, bespoken.
The first to speak is 'what'.
What is it, that makes you
want to shout o...
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Categories:
demeaned, friendship, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
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