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The Waste of Cruelty

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Written: April 28, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama

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When cruelty becomes a badge of honor
empathy transforms into an act of defian...

Categories: displacements, adventure, analogy,
Form: Free verse

WE GO 2 WAR

...WE GO 2 WAR
- Hughes/Maldonado, FUNK, 2008
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War
is just
decision
made in comfort
of palatial rooms
fed by self-interest,
ego, fear, fame, hatred, ...

Categories: displacements, war,
Form: Etheree

Time Displacement

...I’d like to reach into my pocket 
And use all those wasted times of past displacements 
Stored there for just this momentous occasion 
A fatalistic fantasy for immortality. . .  
For I know that ...

Categories: displacements, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Turn the Devil On His Head

...The world in sudden chaos,  
we hear the silent whispers but dare not say a word
Shrouded in uncertainty is our vision now so
blurred? 
We go about our business as if it all is fine 
But the wor...

Categories: displacements, community, conflict, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Desk

...The oak desk is a polished surface 
holding-up nothing, reflecting nothing
not even a base of anything.

Once it was an upheaval of random displacements 
of elbows and eyes.
E-mails wriggled li...

Categories: displacements, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Contemplation For My Soul

...CONTEMPLATION FOR MY SOUL

I am contemplating on how I see the world today.

People see what they want to see, mainly focusing
how happy they can be with what money can buy
or what they can ste...

Categories: displacements, deep, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse

Giving From Heart

...Giving means being of service without condition.
It also means showing gratitude and admiration.
Various energy displacements occurs when one offers.
It creates a lot o...

Categories: displacements, giving,
Form: Acrostic

Alonejolie

...Alone, still jolie...
Because he
Could and
Did enjoy you.
Even if you saw nil and yet
From his strong
Grave, he stands
Heroic, wanted,  and watching
If not unsure, he waits, washed up in tins...

Categories: displacements, allusion,
Form: ABC

Kiss the Rain

...The air is shivered; to displacements whim.'
From the Ides of heaven’s sphere
As smote was the skin of a cosmic drum
Throbbing walls of pressure ‘push in’.
Then down as silvered mail, are droplet...

Categories: displacements, seasons,
Form: Prose

The Saint of Orleans

...sunday morning angel
blue wings and purple hair
fingers tattooed at the tip of her shoulder
if the sun vacates your skies it's over
children sing songs of burgundy rovers
I am your rent my lover...

Categories: displacements, art, life, music, mystery,
Form: Lyric