In a carefully woven tapestry of illusions, words dance on the political stage
...In a carefully woven tapestry of illusions, words dance on the political stage,
where euphemisms wear their shining masks,
dressing promises like festive garments,
and voters, caught in their spel...
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Categories:
euphemisms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the day
...euphemisms employed by mind ~
entrap our soul in ego’s bind...
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Categories:
euphemisms, introspection, language,
Form: Couplet
The Great American Make-Believe
...Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity.
I grew up among the repetitious homes,
isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity,
the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome.
Repug...
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Categories:
euphemisms, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
PARASITE
...It’s a parasite’s world.
The worm of laziness
Clogging the mind,
Ego refusing change.
It’s a parasite’s world,
Seeping through one’s blood and breath.
Adoption, adaptation to change, an uphi...
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Categories:
euphemisms, addiction,
Form: Free verse
A Quadrilateral Parallelogram Universe
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Quadrilateral parallelograms of a Universe that never breathes
we are brainwashed by a scientific box that never sleeps.
Having been cloned with insipid performance and abhorrence
we have be...
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Categories:
euphemisms, analogy,
Form: Free verse
An Interior Mechanism
..."If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe," ... Carl Sagan
Subtle crafts soundly, using euphemisms,
yet cluelessness dealt a sheltered abyss.
Whe...
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Categories:
euphemisms, allusion, analogy, conflict, confusion,
Form: Sonnet
Descartes' Rule of Signs
...I. Noise in an empty hallway:
My old leather shoes protest as I hurry down the linoleum tiles
Like I'm wearing a little piece of history older than I am.
II. Headlights on a dark road:
Speeding...
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Categories:
euphemisms, god, humanity, life, math,
Form: Free verse
Jordie Spotting
...He passes through the room like a bubble in champagne, unattached, teflon coated, and somehow freer than the rest of us. “Jordies here,” Leong says in an excited whisper.
“Yeah,” I sigh, adjusting...
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Categories:
euphemisms, crush, friend, friendship, school,
Form: Free verse
Malarkey
...he was making so much turbulence
that he needed windbreaker trousers
his farting more than gas from cheeks
but a fluid blown attack on decency
and common sense in torrential times
fu...
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Categories:
euphemisms, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Rabbit Hole
...~~Euphemisms can not relinquish a loved one in death or a sudden breakup. It doesn’t matter how little or few words are used.
~~Perhaps lengthy passages are said when someone is dead; but they are d...
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Categories:
euphemisms, death, death of a
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Brush With the Truth
...Euphemisms air-brush the truth
~ helping movie stars relive their youth...
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Categories:
euphemisms, film, stars, truth,
Form: Monoku
Abraham Father of Many Retorts
...Fake news and beliefs in hegemonic certitude at its roots
An epidemic of political correctness spread through the world
Though shalt not speak my name in vain for I know no sin but
Hedonism ...
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Categories:
euphemisms, discrimination, food,
Form: Acrostic
Much Ado About Nothing
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Typical chest-beating testosterone
Braggadocios tales
of digital conquest
Wannabe pick-up artist
paint the Don Juan canvas con
lip sly palate best
Locker room omission
of depleted e...
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Categories:
euphemisms, allusion, culture, metaphor, truth,
Form: Free verse
Sign of the Times
...Sinister snarling swindling scandalous scoundrels secretly slither shamelessly
Implicitly interrogated ‘bout innermost insidious illegitimate impertinences
Ghastly Grotesque grimacing gumption gorg...
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Categories:
euphemisms, corruption, dark, humanity, society,
Form: Acrostic
Be Honest
...If I proclaim to love the Lord
but hate my fellowman,
the Bible says I'm lying. Love,
not hate, is in His plan.
Bad attitudes towards others
if they're fueled day and night,
soon morph into d...
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Categories:
euphemisms, truth,
Form: Quatrain
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