Great Poems

A suicide none dare declare

Shàngó!
Where are your fiery eyes,
that spit fear into burning coal,
that blaze with warmth and glow,
a conflagrator dancing with flames?

Who dares invoke your name in sin,
and not have their tongue seared?
You summon thunder as a hound to hunt,
their wealth and souls it strikes at once,
swift as lightning no man can withstand.

You are a god with no

The Great Unknown

To pretend that we're invulnerable is to forget we have to feel
When we try to construct a world like that, we deny that we are real

And in that false phantasm we embody what we fear
As we learn that contradiction is a comfort always near

We embrace what's never possible and lose what's never clear
And we've thought

making America great again and again

While we loved the wrap-man from Glad
The cover Trump’s under is Vlad
All dictators hail
No voting by mail
Urged by their communist comrade

The Great American Fallacy

Something caught between the eyes of fellowship and the riddle of thought makes any setting unforeseeable. Yet, within the mannerisms of those declawed by the very societies they themselves conceived armed only with a utility belt of miraculous misconceptions springs forth exponential, autonomous growth, promised by the ancestors of preconceived notions.

Most often, the spirits of

Gig-Lyst

Quasi Puttana she said her name was
Quasi Puttana: told her I was ecstatic
to meet her. I thought it was a pleasure
days later I heard something aweful about
her that had my male senses out of whack.
Orgoglioso Di-Ciò otherwise known as
Vallis Medusae, who worked at Prop Area
for Mr.Dunce deShmukha very prominent 
Poshinsteil Fabricater in Mufferville, yeah up

My next verse, too, was not a great hit

My next verse, too, was not a great hit.
And that ain't even the half of it.
They said, "You call yourself a poet?"
"I never did! I'm not! I know it!"
"With crap like this, you really show it."

The Great British Entrepreneur Awards

I'm so incredibly proud and privileged ,
to be recognised by the #GBEA '25 team,
The fact that I've been shortlisted,
Is far beyond my wildest dream.

Single mum to three wild boys,
They're the apple of my eyes,
I'm the founder of Lotus Poetry,
A new and upcoming social enterprise.

I'm running on purpose and passion,
Lots of caffeine, kindness and care,
But I'm

Cause for mitigation of extreme stipulation

The dilapidated building wavers the hindsight
In a single city
Hidden conformity owns?
A previous creation of economy
Current currency in ink creates no mad article
One must adhere in the thick heat while justice witnesses change
The current volume of water "allowed" from water station
From station to station the ear is clipped in interest if reported earnings.

In this fashion panic

Palestinians Are Great Men!

Brave! Right freedom fighters against occupiers cowards Israelis 

Great Expectations

Everywhere I look I see the effect
Of great expectations washed up 
On the shore of reality.

I know it’s a projection,
But I see it in the faces of everyone
From young to old, happy to sad
And know it is true for them too,
Whether they have accepted it
Or are still rejecting it
Caught in arrested development 
In some stage

A Great Friend

A Great Friend 
Walk with me in the shadows 
Raise me up when I’m down 
Everybody hurts 
Hard times here and there 
Soul drowning 
Sometimes 
Find me in the dark 
A true friend at heart 
Many miles apart 
Life de-railed 
Heart uncertain 
You’ve always carried the lamp 
A great friend to lean on 
Sometimes everybody

From good to great The power of hardwork

Alvin stood firm, his eyes fixed on the target. The game was on, with eight others staring at the top spot. He took aim, focused, and scored 20 - the highest. The crowd yelled in applause, cheers, and congratulations.

But one man in the crowd remained unimpressed. "You're supposed to do better than that," he said,

Today Is National Bad Poetry Day

That is right August 18,
Today Is National "Bad" Poetry Day.
To all the writers,
here is your chance.
Write something "Great,"
for the world to read.
How about, 
National "Great" Poetry Day???

Remember a rhyme is to rhyme, 
not kind of rhyme. 
A Limerick is to be a five line funny,
not sad or depressing.

A true writer,
writes from their loving and creative heart.
AI writes,
but has no

The Great Toad

("Peyote Moon", 2018, original encaustic)

The Great Toad

At the gateless gate
I met the Great Toad
Sitting tall and wide

And in his gaze
All my needs were known
And met

And in that moment 
I passed beyond
Without a trace

(8/17/25)

The Not So Great Debate

The not so great debate in America today
Is that even though liberal people fear for their lives
They dare not violate the progressive ethos
Of victim, ie. criminal, first,
And so argue round and round
That everything is okay and only getting better.

The irony of course is this obfuscation
And soft-core tyranny is actually illiberal.
But words today no longer matter
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