Dialectic
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If there’s no god, why show respect
for pain that’s felt by an insect,
for doesn’t that in part deflect
from order’s natural select
which did from soup somehow infect,
cajole or otherw...
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Categories:
disaffect, life, meaningful, pain,
Form: Monorhyme
The Return
...A charlatan returns despite his earlier defeat.
After two years gone, he claims he owns a seat
But there is no throne for the jester who bears
His recycled words without sparks or flares
A cost...
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Categories:
disaffect, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Blood Test
...Seeming to decipher,
The count of the sample,
Whether white, red or dead,
It appears, each is ample,
The blood of our lives,
Not the fluid, arterial,
But the beings, among them,
Usurped the to...
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Categories:
disaffect, brother, family, father, father
Form: Rhyme
Words I Do Not Like:
...disappoint, disavowed, disingenuous, displace
disastrous, disapprove, disallow, disadvantage, disaffect
disagree, disappear, disapprobation, disarray, disassociate
disbelieve, dishearten, disharm...
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Categories:
disaffect, on writing and words
Form: Dramatic Monologue
More Magnificent Monuments
...When we pleasantly stroll down
the streets or boulevards
of any historical city or town,
we stops pensively and reflect deeply
by the magnificent monuments erected for the great;
and reading th...
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Categories:
disaffect, history
Form: Narrative