Robert Sherriff - Australian - transgender
...Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer
The Common Pursuit of Inclusivity and Mutual Respect: This is not just a goal but a necessity for o...
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Categories:
globalized, birth, body, boy, change,
Form: Narrative
August Events
...The 6th and 9th have come and gone though none have taken note
that faraway, on those two days, an instant blazing blast
had vaporized morality. A bygone anecdote?
It seems such tales are best for...
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Categories:
globalized, war,
Form: Rhyme
Green Roses
...Roses can be green
The globalized world is a grey blanket
the common language and culture (consumerism)
A haze of foul jollity and hollow laughter
lost minds, save elephants and waterholes
l...
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Categories:
globalized, absence, best friend, cinderella,
Form: Burlesque
The Restrictions
...Sometimes restrictions made
Have to be let go
When profit is irresistible
When business is globalized
Sometimes restrictions made
Have to be let go
When rescue is wanted instantly
When life is...
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Categories:
globalized, business, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
The Quick and the Dead On Tour
...I hope to heaven that when I die
I meet Woody Guthrie in the sky
and then upon a dust-bowl cloud
we'll find the grace to sing aloud,
and that the Heavens won't debar
the using of a stringed guit...
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Categories:
globalized, appreciation, art, gothic,
Form: Lyric
War Is a War Crime
...Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with...
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Categories:
globalized, war, world,
Form: Quatrain
We Won'T Give It Back
...A freedom is an epic.
Indian’s freedom is a splendid superior spectacle.
The common idea of million minds
And the common battle for billion hearts.
More than trillion cones turned to craft few ...
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Categories:
globalized, anger, emotions, hero, independence
Form: Ballade
A British Diary Passing Millenium
...The ask of cultures.
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They...
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Categories:
globalized, culture, time, travel, true
Form: Free verse
The Way We Were
...Once isolated from the world
In tune with nature
Living day to day
Self sufficient
Thrust into a globalized world
New opportunities, open markets
Technological advances
Loss of control
T...
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Categories:
globalized, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
A Common Goal
...The truth has turned to fiction
Lies are stated as if they’re fact
While overzealous politicians
Stab one another in the back
Right and left are being polarized
There seems to be no middle gro...
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Categories:
globalized, political, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
The Hungry Spirit, a Comparison
...I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these poor people, my own ...
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Categories:
globalized, history, hope, life,
Form: Concrete
A Quest For Peace In Baghdad
...Moving toward the absurd as war in Baghdad goes on,
along with the print traffic jam and airwaves;
continues to unfold horror stories, deaths: a tinku
that spew out of Iraq – the ancient Middle East...
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Categories:
globalized, peace, war, war,
Form: Narrative
Send Me a Letter
...Send me a letter
a page of two or less counts
boredom kills me here.
Every night tears fall
no one to talk, all alone
far from you, my home.
Here, all is beautiful
industrialized, globaliz...
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Categories:
globalized, depression, familyme, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Hungry Spirit
...I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these poor people, my...
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Categories:
globalized, faith
Form: Rhyme
The Factory
...Your tarnished grey paint on a rotting wood canvas.
This melancholy greeting from an entrance to exploitation.
Why I keep meeting you in that gloomy terrain,
Why I trudge through rain and grime to...
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Categories:
globalized, business, life, on work
Form: Free verse
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