The Hot Seat
Being in the hot seat
Is second nature to me
I’ve always thought it neat,
Being in the hot seat
‘Tis not always so sweet
Expressing opinion, you see,
Being in the hot seat
Is second nature to me.
Written August 14, 2022
[I wrote Opinion for the
Huntington, WV Dispatch
for about eight years!]
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Categories:
hot seat, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Triolet
Hot Seat
You are gagged and bound, seated
In a hot seat among the hard of hearing
Harrowing tales from the trenches
At the deep end of a ravenous beast
A narrowing outlook, hope fading
Shape shifting fiends on the cliffs of sleep
Captured drifts shaping up to squeeze
Harassed by the wail of the haunt
You cry within reach of eardrums
Albeit all wearing earplugs
Wallowing,
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Categories:
hot seat, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Trump and His Hot Seat
Trump and His Hot Seat
Trump has a hot seat that is a scorcher
Many times people has tried to torture
With remarks he made which would cut
Simply can't keep his big mouth shut.
Several times with eyes we have read
What with Twitter account Trump said
Replacing our elaborate hopes with fears
Are sure to tell when you see our tears.
Trump
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Categories:
hot seat, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
The Hot Seat
The hot seat
The greedy men thought
They are wise
The selfish men thought
they could play us always
another bad card
The lieing men thought
they can always promise us
of change to get their
way through again
The false preachers thought
we can not see any more
Even the truth right in front
of our view
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Categories:
hot seat, africa, change, corruption, deep,
Form: Epic
The Proverbial Hot Seat
As newlyweds we moved to Houston, where the traffic was insane.
I was finishing college there, and it made the commute a royal pain.
My husband told me emphatically to never park out in the road,
But one week he was out of town, and I figured he wouldn’t know.
I went next door to visit a friend, then
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Categories:
hot seat, adventure, city, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative
Hot Seat
Perched on my hot seat this morning,
I thought about this crazy world’s ills -
wars, hunger and global warming.
The more I pondered over them
the darker the prognosis became,
so I simply sighed, shrugged, then
pushed a knob and out went life’s burdens.
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Categories:
hot seat, angst, life, social,
Form: Free verse