TALLEYRAND
Silk stocking filled with mud was Talleyrand.
With the future of France held in his hand,
He played kibitzer-informed cards with skill,
Maneuvering a Congress to his will.
There once was a Marquis named Talleyrand,
Who loved ladies and a fine sarabande
Smarts from ladies gained as a teen
Helped him escape the guillotine,
Surviving four regimes as he had planned.
Vested in priestly
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Categories:
diplomatic, baptism, future, love, smart,
Form: Clerihew
Diplomatic Secrets to Take to My Grave
Diplomatic Secrets to Take to My Grave
I worked for 27 years
as a US diplomat
and witnessed a lot of things
that were and are considered
secrets.
– and we are trained
to keep these secrets
secret.
and I will no doubt die
and take some secrets
to my grave.
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Categories:
diplomatic, appreciation, death,
Form: Free verse
Diplomatic Dancing
I danced with an Alien
At the Diplomat’s Summer Ball
Though I’m not sure Dancing
Correctly described it at all.
A dancing partner with six feet
And thirty six naked toes?
Trying to be graceful while avoiding
Kicking or stepping on any of those.
I’m not quite sure I appreciated
The appeal or the charm
Of dancing with a creature with
Tentacles instead of arms.
I
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Categories:
diplomatic, fantasy, humor, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
How Can I Be Diplomatic
How can I put this in a diplomatic way?
I stared at my new beau. Just say it.
They are odd, weird, freaks.
Are they axe murderers?
Not that I know of
Then I will come home with you on Thanksgiving.
Upon arrival there was a loud crash.
It sounded like sixty pieces of glass.
Cats ran off in three directions.
DUCK! Someone
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Categories:
diplomatic, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Diplomatic Mystics, and Wiki Witches
Where Earth's international diplomats
might hope for multiculturally appropriate
justice
Radical theologians aspire
to restore sacred EarthGreen Peace
And EarthBeauty mystics,
whose reclusive nature is not not spiritual
indigenously serene
and spacious mystics
nondualistic
nonviolent
non-zero-sum ecological economists
Actively hope
the rest of us unenlightened
and disempowered victims
of degenerative stressful traumas
find some cooperatively co-invested
serenity
In our sacred EarthTribal
co-empathic
co-arising justice
co-passioning peace restoring
peak experience
long-term multi-regenerational memories
of preferably bilateral
synergetic
co-neurosystemic
passionately peaking
co-identity
Right here
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Categories:
diplomatic, creation, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Diplomatic Issues of a Foreign Substance
What changed me was
Due to the buzz
An injection
Meant for protection
A needle like a honeybee
Sounding sweet but ended up dangerous for me
When the stinger pricked my arm
It did a little harm
My body turned red
I felt like I was
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Categories:
diplomatic, care, drug, grief, health,
Form: Rhyme
A Poetic Peaceful Diplomatic Game For Beginners
Playing a game on a checkered board
No need for armor and sword
Only a decisive mind
Thoughtful strategy and enough time
Concentrating with a stare
Capturing pieces without a care
Characters used straight out from mid evil books
A knight making hops and hooks
There is a castle that is called a rook
Without
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Categories:
diplomatic, anger, games, peace, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Diplomatic Dilemma
It was a secret mission
A vote was cast to make the decision
More yeas then neighs
Powers that be did say
To keep it under the radar
No talking at the bar
Without discussion
Quiet no cussing
Betting on trusting
It would be for the best
Getting the enemy to confess
Using a
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Categories:
diplomatic, anger, freedom, independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Raise Static Yet Diplomatic
Raise Static Yet Diplomatic
Sure seems to raise a lot of static,
Yet he did decide to be diplomatic,
And he had been,
Again and again,
Although truly already aristocratic.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
diplomatic, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Diplomatic Stupidity
I wandered the world
And searched for lost souls to forgive
The Lost patriotic souls,
Found in the brightness of stupidity,
We had no cause to war,
We hardly survived the peace
I fought in the revolution and assisted the slavery
Married the genocide!!!
I killed a relative
And slaughtered a nun
We had no enmity
Only that that our diplomats breed
In this selfless show of
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Categories:
diplomatic, war,
Form: Epitaph