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Take Back The Streets

...
There used to be a time I can still remember when
but times have changed they're not the same
we have to roll the rock turn back the clock
things are going wrong something's gone astray
...

Categories: hopers, children, city, how i
Form: Rhyme

Summer’s return

...Summer- embraced, like a returning friend-
from a distant land. Here warmth descends-
here, she’s standing at the green fence. 

Listen- Summer’s chipping off her snack-  
rain and leaves crunch...

Categories: hopers, desire, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Hellfire On Earth

...Dear Donald John
and GoodFaith Followers,
CoInvestors,
ProActive Prayers for Rapturous Redemption
from Eternal Hellish
paranoid
Left EgoVoices anger and fear
Right SpiritFeelings ecodarkly ter...

Categories: hopers, appreciation, bullying, caregiving, games,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Out For a Spin

...I take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.


FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sag...

Categories: hopers, gender, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Reluctant Feet

...Shadows of no-hopers stretch,
escaping from the platform lights,
A stage where pride and egos dance,
where hearts will leash and cage their fight,
But all too soon I'll be the last,
still waitin...

Categories: hopers, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme

The Grace To Be Ashamed

...Bellicose actions destroy serenity,
I revert to my default setting,
An emotionless illusion,
A figment, just a hairs length out of reach,
Where you've always wanted me,
My need for you, chaste a...

Categories: hopers, lost,
Form: Rhyme

Is This What We Really Do

...What are you doing? 
Don't do that!
Don't give it money
It lives on the street.

I hate to see these no-hopers
No shoes on their feet!
It's puts me off my coffee and my tasty sweet!

They ma...

Categories: hopers, abuse, anger, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Always Possible God

...In this world of doubters and no hopers
it begins to effect you to be negative
making yourself to doubt everything
thinking you've been put on sedative

But when you discover real faith
graspin...

Categories: hopers, christian, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

The Grace To Be Ashamed

...Bellicose actions destroy serenity,
I revert to my default setting,
An emotionless illusion,
A figment, just a hairs length out of reach,
Where you've always wanted me,
My need for you, chaste a...

Categories: hopers, depression,
Form: Free verse

Reluctant Feet

...Shadows of no-hopers stretch,
escaping from the platform lights,
A stage where pride and egos dance,
where hearts will leash and cage their fight,
But all too soon I'll be the last,
still waitin...

Categories: hopers, absence, love,
Form: Rhyme

Royal Ascot

...Ladies dress up, looking their best
Pretty clothes chosen just to impress

Perfumed and pretty the ladies in high heels
Their menfolk  look keen and prepare to do deals

It’s Ladies Day, at Ascot,  a...

Categories: hopers, horse, race,
Form: Couplet

London Calling

...London Calling 

“This is pure criminality” the prime minister said, and his soft face
quivered in rage.  “The guilty will be found and punished by the full 
force of the law.” Yes, ok. I think t...

Categories: hopers, history, political, people, voice,
Form: Blank verse