Disparaged Poems

Reprobate of a Draconian State

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There's tyranny taking place in the United States.
Fear of it becoming a Draconian State is not just a threat.
It's reality, thanks to the presidential powermonger
whose hunger and thirst for ...

IS THIS WHAT YOUR GOD INTENDED

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Doesn’t it seem preposterous, absurd and certainly a little odd
how we spend so much time arguing about religion…and fighting over our Gods?

Whether worshiped in a mosque, a pagoda, a church or...

This Lightworker Path

...This Lightworker Path
By Michelle Morris 
26/03/2025

There is this Spark of Divinity 
It is deep within my Soul 
Nothing can dim my Light
I am Beautiful and I am Bold

An Old Soul that came...

Clouds and Candy Raindrops

...as a child, 
I perceived
the wonderment 
of Clouds. 

and elders 
likewise contemplated 

the curious celebrity of them

the solemnity of shape-shifting skyships

their charity of rain:
...

Promised Land

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I have to be patient, and not too concerned
About the things I can’t manage
If some of the stones I left lying unturned
For this I cannot be disparaged
The island is so overcrowded and small
N...

Professor Arne Burkhardt

...Stalwart Artz Burkhardt, a tackler of problems, it was right At the heart.. Of how as a professional he did his work; luminary.'
In the face of an epidemic; He did not shirk.' He organised
Fifteen ...

Circumstances

...Circumstances
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Circumstances leaves you few A chances.
No nick, no pick, no give me more.
Just a little sauce.
No custard tart.
You on shoestring circumstance
It's rou...

Grimey

...It shreds me when released, then bursts into confetti.
Words are papier-mâché, articles of all of us, tabloids torn apart then glued
back together piece by piece. 
Playing pretend made a masterpie...

The Verdict

...“Guilty as charged!” came the jurors’ report,
Reflecting that justice was served.
The law of the land says to follow the court,
So the verdict was what was deserved.

The defendant, of course, d...

A Priori Blues

...Living alone
in quantum space
vibrations
dually churn

Hiding behind
a simple rhyme
their essence 
undiscerned 

Turned into words
exposed at last
where time and
memory join

Feigning ...

Marriage Disparaged

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  Got married
    settled down
  Bought a house
    heart o’ town

  Three kids later
    left my job
  Wife lost faith
    ceaseless sobs

  Bitter divorce
    lost my shirt
  F...

But Winners And Losers

...I have no regard
for other poets
how could it be other

As they conscript
the words away
of which I’ve not discovered

A battle royal
zero sum
as phrases block and parry

The winner left
...

To Sir

...To Sir,
or Whoever Runs the Universe:

I’m here to say
   your vision appears flawed
   your choices bewildering and sad,
The pure besmirched,
The good disparaged as but fools,
   an...

Promised Land

...I have to be patient, and not too concerned
About the things I can’t manage
If some of the stones I left lying unturned
For this I cannot be disparaged
The island is so overcrowded and small
New...

Circuitous Routes To Finding This

...Processes

Are sometimes

Disparaged because

There is no

Immediate revelation

Of This..

Until..it seems

The process itself

Is found to be

Already This...


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