On the Threshold of Depravities' Door
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I objestigate between arabesques and sleep,
fugaciously spasmodic in fluxes and leaps.
I'm indifferent to the misanthropic mocking,
that welltering inflection that I call plockingism...
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Categories:
derogate, word play,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Thank You For Your Servitude
...The powers,
the powers 'that be'
wish to thank you
for your on-going servitude,
for your compliance,
conformity,
acquiescence,
gullibility,
subservience,
apathy,
disinterest,
inattention,
...
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Categories:
derogate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I'M Going To Walk Alone Now
...I tried to find my true love
But nothing come of it
So I gave up trying
I'm going to walk alone now.
My family fell apart after Dad died
And disintegated when Mum passed
So there is not much ...
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Categories:
derogate, betrayal, career, death, family,
Form: Free verse
More Than One Kind of Crazy
...Occasionally we should expose the wackier lobe of the brain
in order to better appreciate the more sensible side of the mind.
~THIS is one of those times...
I capriole betwee...
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Categories:
derogate, silly,
Form: Free verse
No More
...84 people dead,
No regret said,
More critical, holding on,
Somebody’s partner, someone’s son.
France stands for liberty,
Which was wrought on Bastille Day,
When the people overturned,
The...
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Categories:
derogate, celebration, death, health, history,
Form: Heroic Couplet
E Pluribus Unum
......inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky
You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at pree...
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Categories:
derogate, political,
Form: Quatrain
Popinjay
...You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.
Posing for a photo-op
your perfect hair a p...
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Categories:
derogate, rude,
Form: Quatrain
Demagoguery
...You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's the daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.
Posing for a photo-op,
your perfect hair a pui...
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Categories:
derogate, political,
Form: Verse
E Pluribus Unum
......inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky
You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at pree...
...
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Categories:
derogate, tribute, writing,
Form: Verse
Apostrophe
...Apostrophe
A derogate demons asperity
Calumniate my integrity
Malicious deceit
Holding no truth
Held on to nothing!
My inglorious ignominy
Your repulsion Satiate!
Nauseated glut unsensua...
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Categories:
derogate, angel, candy, conflict, dance,
Form: Free verse
Flowers Emerge
...Flowers Emerge
Impose your will on the pretty flowers as you may
Trans-formative wonderment of nature
Entrenched, defiled, they pop up any way in clusters
Vivacious are the colors above the so...
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Categories:
derogate, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
Demagoguery
...You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's the daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.
Posing for a photo-op,
your perfect hair a puissant ...
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Categories:
derogate, political,
Form: Quatrain
Derogate
...can we demean a mean word?
can we abrogate its mean intent?
who can voice the "n" word?
you know the one I mean
rhymes bigger but it's Not
some people of a pigment
take great offense at it
while the...
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Categories:
derogate, community, creation, introspection, society,
Form: Free verse
Childish Things
...When I was a child I lacked so many things
And I thought growing up would remedy them
That love would come on sweet angel wings
And I suddenly rich would rule a great realm
But must of all that I wou...
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Categories:
derogate, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
E Pluribus Unum
......inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky
You've reached the pinnacle of fame
where double-speak's a daily game,
so many words, so little meaning,
popinjay, so skilled at preening.
...
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Categories:
derogate, political,
Form: Quatrain
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