Categories:
deposed, humor, money, moving on,
Form: Monoku
Deposed Dictators Club
deposed dictators’ club
they sit there in their comfort
each in his moneyed retreat
maybe each reflecting
on unexpected defeat
unprosecuted criminals
guarded wherever they go
protected maybe in silence
for not telling what they know
the remaining world leaders
mouth off about their end
no position quite as transient
as that of political friend
and they push and the jostle
for a share of the spoils
particularly
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Categories:
deposed, irony, political,
Form: Rhyme
Time Deposed
Writing verse,
I dally forth
Hours more stole,
than loaned
Prose to suffer,
and wait in line
Time once more
—deposed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
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Categories:
deposed, time,
Form: Rhyme
Time Deposed
Writing verse,
I dally forth
The hour more stole,
than loaned
The prose to suffer,
and stand in line
With time once more,
—deposed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
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Categories:
deposed, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cecil Deposed
As
he lay
surveying
new surroundings,
a predator beyond imagination
bore down on him
from above
with a
grin.
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Categories:
deposed, africa, beautiful, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Tetractys
Ben Jonson's Rhyme Scheme Deposed
Said Jonson, vulgar rhyme a petty crime
Swindling paupers begging fleeting stime
Opined syllabic compress from simple mimes
Which o'er lazy, temporal lobes did climb
Simple, jingoistic rhythms to prime
A crutch to prop up ailing metric time
Yet, Nature's species exist in kind
Mutated limbs rarely another tract find
Elliptical, redundant patterns planets bind
To their orderly, repetitive cadence resigned
Weather systems to each
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Categories:
deposed, art, career,
Form: Rhyme