Social and Political Pulse
...Written 24, 2023, For Robert James Liguori Politics Contest
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Politics is what triggers nations to collide.
A place where powe...
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Categories:
excision, analogy, appreciation, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Amazon of the East
...Dihing, adjoining borderline with Arunachal, on the foothills of mighty Patkai,
In the encircling mesas of terrestrial plains of high altitud...
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Categories:
excision, earth, education, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Imminent Botox Injection Treatment
...Potential cause célèbre dermatological solution
to stem palmar hyperhidrosis,
which medical break thru a last ditch effort
if Glycopyrrolate ineffective
to stave off sweaty hands.
Venerable Do...
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Categories:
excision, 12th grade, anger, drug,
Form: Free verse
Aged Men
...Aged men often think that their vision
will survive them with utmost precision.
So they foist on the young
obsolete moral dung
which the young then subject to excision. <...
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Categories:
excision, age, humorous, youth,
Form: Limerick
Profusion of Confusion
...'Tis no collusion in the collision
or delusion in the decision
But the effusion of elision
in the intrusion of the incision
Accents the protrusion of provisions
in the suffusion of sup...
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Categories:
excision, confusion, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Excision
...A CYCLE OF HANDS
THAT HARM
WORDS
THAT CRUSH
SILENCES
THAT BURY
EMPTINESS
THAT'S HEAVY
AND NOW
THESE HANDS
THEY CUT....
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Categories:
excision, abuse, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Nudge
...Desolation smoothed at the calming of the swell,
begrudgingly accepted solitude, vacationed in Hell,
nails are sore and broken from the scratching of the well,
strengths gained through weakness? ...
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Categories:
excision, loneliness, lonely, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Winter Time Grief
...WINTER TIME GRIEF…
The long hot summer has disappeared over the horizon,
Yielding to the arrival of the cooling Fall.
Despite their approaching fate---the annual leaves’ excision,
the tower t...
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Categories:
excision, analogy, change, grief, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Activist's Prayer
...Religous idols mar my vision
because all truth needs more excision.
I seize the dawn for my volition,
you melt within your own contrition!
Be sure it fits in tightly, scold
Oh generations old . . . ...
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Categories:
excision, freedom, visionary, strength,
Form: Monorhyme
Broken Reflection
...Silent persistence peeling skin from bone
With undamaged precision
Easing an imperceptible knife into flesh
Exposing a fragile heart
Stripped with naked vulnerability
Surrendering willingly to anaest...
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Categories:
excision, life, lost love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Out of Exile
...I am not a blank slate to score upon again
Yet there is this gap, this hollow place
That wants a name. I search for it in vain
The alien presence of eyes, and of face
Nothing comes back to memory. We...
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Categories:
excision, angst, home, home,
Form: Rhyme