The King's Speech
...The lion, as king of the jungle, did convene
the biggest meeting of animals you have ever seen.
There were rhinos and kangaroos from down south,
and a polar bear with forty-two teeth in his mouth....
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Categories:
join forces, animal, earth,
Form: Couplet
SUPPRESSING THE VOTE
...Suppressing The Vote
People get involved, get out and vote
Your rights being dissolved, just take note
No policies to offer, so they revert to cheating
Rather than being fair, just take the bea...
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Categories:
join forces, betrayal, change, community,
Form: Rhyme
Moving force
...Moving force
I foretold a prophecy
I told them I will wait for God time
They thought it was just poetry
Now The youth are out on the streets again
The echoes of needs are high
With the v...
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Categories:
join forces, africa, courage, deep, freedom,
Form: Epic
Dialogue of Doing
...Head: I'm the thinker, the planner, the seat of all-knowing
Hand: Yeah? Well I'm the doer, the maker, the one who keeps showing
Head: Books and theories, that's where wisdom lies
Hand: Spare me ...
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Categories:
join forces, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Last Night's Freestyle Battle In Full
...My 1st round:
I know we just met and you seem like you're cool but there's a whole bunch of s**t that I don't know about you. Now I don't care about your race, what kind of car you drive, or how m...
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Categories:
join forces, angst, crazy, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Poland III
...For soon the rains of destiny will fall
as innocence capitulates its soul.
Aggression sealed your fears within a wall
to let disease and hunger take their toll.
Your rank-and-file dissolved into ...
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Categories:
join forces, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Swath of Gold
...A gleaming swath of gold appears
When I look down below.
From here, not one thing interferes
With Nature’s autumn show.
For down 9 stories, there are trees
With dazzling yellow leaves,
Though...
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Categories:
join forces, appreciation, autumn, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Rebuild Jamaica
...Take me back to the days of old,
And rich legacy that worth more than gold.
It took an entire village to raise a child,
Where they were free to roam and be wild.
The rivers and streams were free ...
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Categories:
join forces, celebration, character, confidence, growth,
Form: Rhyme
April Fools For Bobby Lee
...“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.”
From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106
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Categories:
join forces, allegory, break up, history,
Form: Blank verse
Imploring God Iv
...Oh, my Lord,
Is there a time in Your divine plans:
That righteous hearts, mutinous will become
For
The injustices of this tormented world, to
Chase away?
That love and compassion ...
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Categories:
join forces, god, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
A Different Kind of War
...Why do we need all these weapons of war,
Or to go into space so man can explore
Instead spend the billions in finding a cure.
This virus is out there,
And travelling fast,
Nobody knows how long ...
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Categories:
join forces, conflict, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Isobars Shifted
...the weather report predicted hectic thunder storms
oil jackets and umbrellas for all the stars in the show
stages were empty though except for a curtain raiser
who had failed to seek her mea...
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Categories:
join forces, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Stirrings
...in whimsy
perfumes dance
calling out
for spring
uplifted souls
join forces
to wake nature
up to its feet
stars do align
the sun the wind
their might
spin this earth
till warm and
ful...
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Categories:
join forces, april, change, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
...I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
h...
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Categories:
join forces, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Shell Shocked and Choked
...‘Turn swords into ploughshares and nightmares to dreams’
I have not one plough and no shares in the market
Insomnia has taken over my nights the rest is illusion
Ambiti...
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Categories:
join forces, courage, depression, hope,
Form: Free verse
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