The Ruling Elite
...They wear no crown, yet kings they reign,
Invisible hands in shadowed domain.
Their thrones are silence, veiled from sight—
Yet nations move by whispered might.
You vote, you cheer, you wave yo...
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Categories:
foreign policy, leadership, political, power, world,
Form: Free verse
The CIA
...I wore no uniform—
just silence and suits.
A ghost in global rooms,
a whisper behind the curtain.
I was a civilian,
but my job was war.
They called it "analysis,"
but what I did was study so...
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Categories:
foreign policy, abuse, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
...I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then...
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Categories:
foreign policy, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Hunter Biden
...From his mother’s womb
One February afternoon
and straight to the Situation Room
Hunter Biden, we presume.
His father, with his thoughtless clauses and pauses,
Captured the most prestigious of o...
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Categories:
foreign policy, america, celebrity, drug, funny,
Form: Political Verse
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories:
foreign policy, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Foreign Policy Query
...Someone has said that
The best soldiers are well fed
Why we import rice?...
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Categories:
foreign policy, engagement, perspective, political, soldier,
Form: Haiku
YouTube and Chris Hodge
...YouTube and Chis Hodge
It came as a surprise to me that Chris Hodge
has been banned on YouTube, a man of knowledge
worth listening to
He is an honest intellectual; as such, it is hard
not t...
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Categories:
foreign policy, absence, birthday, confidence, drug,
Form: Blank verse
Foreign Policy Folly
...The United States greases the slippery palm of Iran.
Who frolic in the frying pan with Hamas and Hezbollah.
Whom vow to destroy Israel and the United States of America.
The United States provides...
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Categories:
foreign policy, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Finger Points
...700 Jews dead on the latest Holy Day
50 years to the day since the Yom Kippur Fray
Hamas celebrations to be short-lived
as Israel now lowers the boom
Hamas' fighters and Palesti...
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Categories:
foreign policy, international, military, political, war,
Form: Couplet
My Idea of Leadership and War
...Some Leaders of the World who are pushing the end of talks
Should ought to study our history.
The first possible nuclear war was averted
Because JFK, who was President of USA then,
Keep his commu...
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Categories:
foreign policy, leadership, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Listen To the Actors, Part I
...You see them always blathering
on the internet and TV,
a bunch of adult pretenders,
parroting that tired P.C.,
telling the general public
what they should believe and should be,
as if we should...
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Categories:
foreign policy, celebrity, child abuse, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
The Prophet
...In a dream the Almighty said, “You have a gift – go and prophesy.”
Like the celebrated prophets of long ago, I thought, “Oh gee, oh my!”
Political messages came fast and furious over the next f...
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Categories:
foreign policy, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Couplet
Dividing Lines
...All the world in fear
the danger's presence near
the evil that we do
is driven by what ever you
want this world to be
And is it you
or is it me
can you tell me where the dividing lines begin...
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Categories:
foreign policy, angel, evil, perspective, sin,
Form: Free verse
African Minds In a Box
...African mind thinks in circular shapes in a box
Freedom of expression cut in miserable pieces
Rights deleted from the hard drive discs
Children offered fish in schooling as education
Ask me; how ...
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Categories:
foreign policy, africa, allusion, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic
I Seek the Uncensored Inside Scoop
...Akin to a journalist (hoofing
NOT huffing on the beat)
heedful, mindful, and pain fully aware, bleat
me, asper caveats help me set sights
tacking within parameters of lawfulness,
when questing...
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Categories:
foreign policy, addiction, adventure, anger, care,
Form: Free verse
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