A billion Dollar Soul
...A billion can buy a bushel of silence
hectares of prime farmland or flashy private jets
It can buy a turd in stilettos and a pyrite hearted mistress.
A billion can buy you a secondhand spacesh...
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Categories:
hectares, death, money,
Form: Free verse
Are you an artist??
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Oh poetry, you offered me a canvas.
You made it to have no bounds,
Unmeasurable, far beyond hectares.
As the deaf can hear, how my voice sounds.
Yet my buckets of paint are sealed.
If I pain...
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Categories:
hectares, art, self,
Form: Rhyme
Upon a dark and stormy night
...Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thu...
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Categories:
hectares, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse
Institutionalized War
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It's an institutionalized war against a black man,
Yet we celebrate deceit, glorify the shallow plan,
Brothers lost in lust, in lies, in shame,
Building a broken nation, feeding a hollow...
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Categories:
hectares, allusion, anger, anxiety, art,
Form: Political Verse
The Mentoring of Tumors
...Lately, I've cut away hectares of tumors
that engulfed confidence, happiness
self-worth and wellbeing.
With surgery a bit of the good stuff was sacrificed:
A few shallow laughs, some adventure an...
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Categories:
hectares, teachers day,
Form: Free verse
SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
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Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.
Deforestation dehydrates the c...
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Categories:
hectares, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Quilling the Spill
...At last,
Education stood to teach.
Acres of agonizing memory.
Hectares of Hecate,
Tripling in advance of nonsense.
Peering round and round in vertical cylinders.
Spun web-less in a lore o...
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Categories:
hectares, appreciation, blessing, confidence, deep,
Form: Free verse
Old Macdonald's Great-Grandchildren
...We are old MacDonald’s great-grandchildren
who help him in his fields during weekends,
We gather chopped hays and feed his chicken,
then watch him works with his farmers and friends.
We...
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Categories:
hectares, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Gielie Se Muse
...Wellington vineyards bathed by sun's golden ray,
Where luscious grapes in symphony sway,
A nectar's birth, an art divine,
Behold Doolhof and their noble wines.
Crimson hue, an artist's delight,...
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Categories:
hectares, muse, wine,
Form: Rhyme
The Clearing
...Hopping, jumping, running…
threatened species fearfully seeking shelter
in native woodland and scrub
Evacuating the hectares of the clearing
Whilst a petrified baby koala clings to his mother ti...
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Categories:
hectares, animal, children, earth, tree,
Form: Free verse
All In All
...Turn round around
Get me astounding
Wait for me
Do not disagree
Let us glue
Traces of you
Superb memories abounding
Which keeps funding
With kindest emotion
My hearty devotion
Playing t...
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Categories:
hectares, care, change, class, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
The Way of The
...The Way of the Coconut
The Way of the Coconut, that is our creed,
The coconut gives us all that we need.
From mental to physical, nothing left out,
It covers everything, without any doubt.
Whe...
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Categories:
hectares, happy, myth, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Burned Beyond Recognition
...Wildfires had destroyed
hectares of forest around
the world in the past....
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Categories:
hectares, nature,
Form: Haiku
Reserata Carcerem Xvii
...time is not a spell - porous plague:
bounty bewitchment squinching crest,
la-de-da odds fostering surge,
drooling dirge heaving lanky lurch
time ain't perforated portion
ascribed by nocturnal ...
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Categories:
hectares, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
The Little Red Panda In a Yellow Starred Bandana
...*I believe I've awoken the little red panda
donning five yellow stars on a crimson bandana
spreading hectares of jaded Jinping propaganda*
*She lives in a land of dragons and Maoist oppression
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Categories:
hectares, america, education, freedom,
Form: Free verse
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