No Deal
...You can’t make a deal
with a Judas
As tenured
they govern on high
Like the British
who sought our indenture
With graft and self-interest
they lie
You can’t play the game
any longer
Whe...
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Categories:
indenture, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Death's Indenture
...Many die
to walk unknown
amongst
the living dead
Their hearts reclaimed
yet beating still
whose verses
go unread
They wander freely
in the night
their chains
relock the grave
Awaiti...
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Categories:
indenture, death,
Form: Rhyme
Cloning Tomorrow
...Mankind
was never meant
to survive the future
Technology
a trap
their greed as bait
Generations
sacrificed
in self destruction
On altars
of indenture
— their natures gone
(Calvary Ceme...
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Categories:
indenture, time,
Form: Free verse
Guess Who?
...She is one for the ages,
She graced a many a stage.
She is a Mother, She is a Saint
She is immortal, a miracle without restraint.
She draped herself in six yards of blue & white.
She gave her ...
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Categories:
indenture, devotion, social, women,
Form: Rhyme
That Robin
...Female, I felt! Chirped differently than on other days!
As though crying and screaming in many ways
It might not be owing to the change of weather, I know.
Nor, due to the drizzles, visited its ne...
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Categories:
indenture, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Heaven's Gate
...Reaching into the
public conscience
words are tokened free
Blowing fresh holes
through blind indenture
light for all to see
Reaching into the
common ledger …
its double-entry fate
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Categories:
indenture, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Mixed Questions
...Dear Old Joe,
I have found a retiring fascination
with right nature conserving
and yet very wrong
left-handed spiritual answers
Messengers to invite
more deeply recreating
natural outsid...
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Categories:
indenture, green, health, love, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Cybersurfing Netizen Flounders
...Cybersurfing netizen flounders...
analogous to a fish out of water
Ever since being a little gull hubble buoy,
I bobbed (while donning square pants)
like spongy flotsam and jetsam at sea.
No...
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Categories:
indenture, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Renascence
...Cliffs call me; yonder scenes to see,
Not to leave them dearest plains plea;
Seas see the senile sight and smile,
Heart yearns to fly free for a while…!
Faces of human beings here,
Appear clea...
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Categories:
indenture, life, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Pluribus Unum
...The past and the future
fold into the present
Conceptually vacant
twice empty refrains
No before and no after
perpetually frozen
The ice of indenture
—this moment contains
(Dreamsleep: Sept...
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Categories:
indenture, time,
Form: Rhyme
Address Unknown
...We pass their vagrant shrouds each day
then watch as silhouettes excrete
from hovel crates amidst the street.
In fear, we hurry on our way
and if by chance our paths traverse,...
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Categories:
indenture, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Secret of My Desire
...Quote: "From deep within my heart
I always catch the scent of my Beloved.
How can I help but follow that fragrance?" By Rumi
She, an inhale of perfume on a summer day vacant as the scen...
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Categories:
indenture, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Who I Am
...When I was a child
a mere simulation of an adult reconciled,
in the body of a seven-year-old adventurer -
I'd be a scientist, explorer or a writer succumbed to indenture,
as the storyteller, p...
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Categories:
indenture, age, time,
Form: Rhyme
Hitchcockian
...I’m actually tired of being myself…
can I be you for awhile
I hide from the mirror and monogrammed lies,
as I run from an image defiled
I thought I was safe and had made my escape,
when memo...
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Categories:
indenture, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The Final Vote
...Lobbying through Hell,
the politician remanded
To the Devil he stated:
“Your program’s too thin
“You need to refigure
and turn up the heat
“His word’s getting through,
and the Angels all...
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Categories:
indenture, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
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