Expediency Poems - Poems about Expediency

...I try to be humble when it comes to evaluating poetry, reminding myself, that my penned gems may seem paste to others – addicted to cuneiform glitter, my mining deeply within our shared reality ......Read the rest...

...There was much chatter about the new mad hatter He is madder than the other, said my sister and brother I want to meet him, I told them, intrigued by the new him. He was a bit crazier than expecte......Read the rest...

...“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience". Mahatma Gandhi “Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is......Read the rest...

...Constrained by the sober exercise of judgment, And dignified by deliberation and privacy. I yanked my soul out of its secret chamber, And held it to the mirror of my eye. To see it like a star......Read the rest...

...Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic b......Read the rest...

...How mighty did she stand tall and regal, stately on the land within her branches stretched a view along the earth's great edge in the curve unseen lay God the architect; but life itself is de......Read the rest...

...Forgo friendships built on sand dunes Scattered in the desert of expediency Driven by greed and ceaseless searches for fortunes Flying in air balloons of inefficiency. Forgo fantasies caught u......Read the rest...

...You were primarily a spiritualist, But circumstances made you a noble warrior: Your father, Guru Teg Bahadur, was treacherously beheaded. You had to contend invaders from the Western frontier ......Read the rest...

...Sympathetic purpled eyed Suzan influenced by what came before it ......Read the rest...

...You died for our equal treatment, and we demand "affirmative action." You died for integration, and we justify segregation when we throw public brawls and destroy property. You died to stop the......Read the rest...

...I view it as unseemly to use high-sounding language to make an impression. I perceive it to be ostentatious to marshal words vainglorious in succession. It is a determinant of consternation, if ......Read the rest...

...The gamblers and the mourners Explore the vagaries of fate, The expediency of life Dangling in the capitol rotunda Like a hanged man His hair standing on end, His boots in the air. Write, si......Read the rest...

...Micro-Feasting by Odin Roark To propagate the dung heap of ignorance, Is to place on low simmer A main course of illiteracy. How festive the chefs of mental starvat......Read the rest...

...Torture’s Toxic Contagion by Odin Roark From where comes these perpetrators, These conscienceless mortals Whose senses are quashed by orders, By fear of demotion, By allegia......Read the rest...

...Villanelle: Nothing so upturns creative cauldrons as retching up art Nothing so upturns creative cauldrons as retching up art As the craft not art of constructing poetry for expediency Does t......Read the rest...