Lauded Poems

WTC Remember Temba

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Lovingly lauded.. they marauded.. rightly applauded

Saffa gaffers did thrill 

Willow wielding wizards of Oz

Yielding…lampooned..marooned..jaffas 

Festooned spill just like Seville .

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Sweet Sorrow

...Bonnie Brown was in love with Charles, like black pearl clings to night,
So young and engaged to be married, like myriad stars, shining white.

They were active professionals, dwelling in ...

Life is a Kaleidoscope

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                 ~ Life Is a Kaleidoscope ~
                           5/25/2026


Life is a game, so, which role do you choose to play?
In lifes’s cacophony of human hearts o...

The Mask

...The Mask 
 
You hooked me with your charming ways 
And I fell hard and fast.
I couldn’t have believed you 
If you said it wouldn’t last. 
 
I didn’t know what hit me 
when you started with yo...

Nailed It

...In a kingdom called Vividale, long ago, lived a loyal knight, Sir Andrew,
Famed for turning the tide in battles, and none of the tales were untrue!

Intelligent and a natural leader, Sir A...

Self Love is a Choice

...For years I'd written myself notes
with names of some I can't remember.
Those I've cheered; stood and applauded.
Protagonists who played Romeo
to my Juliet. Shakespeare would've lauded.
Scribble...

DE WEF-ONISING, ZONE'

...Dee clubb of davos, meets twice a year.' Un saintly rules to
Tank' that stinks.. From here.' Like vegetation to long underwater.' Slime and stench creeping 'over the borders'
A land pristine of 'wh...

Victoria has a law to hate'

...Hate is on the screen and page, satan is seething in righteous inversion at this
This stage; of our age.' In paroxyms with contortiions Another abomination he parades, will you bow down to the
Stat...

Untitled

...there was a politician named Rod
who for his truth telling wanted to be lauded
but everyone knew better
that he was just another vote getter
because politicians and truth together are qui...

In An Instant

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Sometimes my heart breaks
With music that was never played
Epiphanies swell and create
A still that I could never have foreseen,
A wonderful that is beyond soul’s grief
A tenderness that fee...

A Paper Tiger

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        His two objectives unmet
          Bibi approves the ‘deal’ he gets
        from Trump, in an unconscionable rush
          to bully Israel into a peace made of mush

        For 15 mo...

Why Lord'

...I can't help my humanity..At the genocide and death spree's
I see.!
My mind and emotions, based I suppose? No I know! in the
1970s.!
It seemed better then? 
In the towns i knew on sundays quiet....

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part III, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part III
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I was also with Eormanric for many years,
as long as the Goth-King availed me we...

Fiddle-dee-dee

...In Wonderland dwelled Tweedledum and Tweedledee, twin brothers;
And genial next door neighbors, like the rainbow's changing colors.

Employed by the Mad Hatter, at Vale asylum, in Looking ...

Walk the Tightrope

...Often in life, it's felt like on a tightrope I've been walking
between what is reality and what is merely an act.
The names of people in my story, I've chosen to redact,
those I've cheered on with...

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