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Gadfly Poems - Poems about Gadfly

The Model
...Sympatric Aphrodite, wide photographic opportunity We bow to our natural needs Her glare, to all our hopes The actresses' deft chin, glacial A mountain of irses Gadfly 1970s Where blondes an......

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Categories: gadfly, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Exclusion
...I know the game of exclusion, have played it all my life and now I've mastered it, a talent to brag about. Exclusion from normality, the joy of inclusion. Exclusion from continuity, the mala......

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Categories: gadfly, absence,
Form: Ballad



Salman Rushdie
...Intrepid gadfly; the voice of dissent. Multiple times stricken, multiple times resolved. Though he bleeds, still the pen that chides never bleeds, nor is it obliterated. For three decades and ......

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Categories: gadfly, courage, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glaring Gadfly
...There once was a gadfly daring. His speech, it was laced with swearing He said too much which earned a punch from the blonde whom he’d been staring.......

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Categories: gadfly, fun, funny, humorous, vanity,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
...Within the frame a sepia scene a dusty porch a rickety chair the fabric of your dusky face creased with ceaseless sunbaked woes your old pair of getaway feet gives a different walk of life......

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Categories: gadfly, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Political Truth
... A Political Truth or Term Limits Will Never Happen Tom’s Opinion July 20, 2020 This November, from a vast assortment of people, we’ll choose those whom we think best qualify. Onc......

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Categories: gadfly, political,
Form: Lyric
Enthusiasm
...Thinking about enthusiasm, I can not stop myself from writing about two things! Two different 'subjects'! Still trying to connect! When two ladies……... Whose husbands work with the same empl......

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Categories: gadfly, anger, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Contagious Health
...Are you feeling sad, wanting your faith community, democratic society, to live more... live more deeply... live more widely... Faithful to wealthy health, yes, and I wonder if you are angry,......

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Categories: gadfly, devotion, dog, faith, games,
Form: Political Verse
Is This the Best We Can Do
...in a country of 335 million people one of the richest more educated places on the entire planet the largest economy, the best military still for now a democratic country is this the best ......

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Categories: gadfly, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Let's Be Kinder
...In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable" Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers] reduces reasonable to logical; This is a common left-brain dominant error, confusion between deductive premises and cold......

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Categories: gadfly, health, humanity, integrity, math,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Gadflies and Honeybees
...Where to begin in the middle of cold and dark winter's solstice, healthy green life's time of impeachment, excommunication, dormancy? Where does this all rightfully and sacredly left end? ......

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Categories: gadfly, culture, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The 50 Move Rule
... "The 50 Move Rule" Thomas Crown rolled his smile around her frown Romance blew a warm breath over her pristine cowrie shell Voodoo Mojo ......

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Categories: gadfly, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Battery For Hyundai Sonata Needed Today
...Battery (for Hyundai Sonata) Needed Today Frugality worn by fiat generated by alternate fickle finger of fate, the plus side being said vehicle parked here in public Salem's lot, where I live ......

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Categories: gadfly, anxiety, blue, fate, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member America Watts 1851-1934
...America Watts 1851-1934 Mister White buried me here beside Greek George, Back here, with the wind-tossed weeds and the walnuts. “Hey George, you old camel driver, you. Can you hear me over the......

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Categories: gadfly, marriage,
Form: Epitaph
Wole Soyinka
...Africa's venerated literary icon with words of eloquence esoteric to the blind. Distinguished in letters for ages infinite. Unequaled in intellect, and a gadfly of constructive dissenting view......

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Categories: gadfly, tribute,
Form: I do not know?

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