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Speech

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   Libelous, slanderous speech
     singes the fuzz off of the peach

   Gossip and tale-bearing crooked ears reach
     no thanks to the mouth of the human leech…  

   Speech is God’s great...

Categories: libelous, spoken word, uplifting,
Form: Couplet

Did You Forget Nine Eleven, Today

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    ****** 2,993 People Perished on This Day******


Though Americans and others wept on the streets, that horrific day….
We were not having weekday carnage of police and civilians a...

Categories: libelous, america, conflict, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Keeper of the Candle

...The Keeper of the candle has immortal trust.
Note anyone who has ever held the handle
on secrets - sparks in the mind all set to combust,  
the Keeper of the candle.

Without the intention of li...

Categories: libelous, 11th grade, death, truth,
Form: Roundel

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Tanks

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Tanks

"Da Tanks, da Tanks."
The President is not Chairman Mao.  
Come on now!
Gads, what an ungrateful nation!

Perhaps haughty Don Lemon or
that court jester, Jim Acosta,
Two sno...

Categories: libelous, america, encouraging, independence day,
Form: Rhyme

The Crap Shoot Poetry Contest

...On the surface 
you’re all sweetness and light

But ... 
the truth is life isn't a game
and if I were to start digging
digging deeper than a gravediggers soiled shovel
I'd see thro...

Categories: libelous, bullying, poetry, slam,
Form: Free verse

Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part Two

...He ranked as de facto semiprecious,
tremulous and unanimous scapegoat
bullied by a bumptious, callous,
disputatious hippopotamus of a brat
infamous bruiser later in his life to become
forty fift...

Categories: libelous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic

Should I Not Be Found Alive

...Sty all your bodied waters
And libelous pretensions.
Hang leather headed juries
Beside some tethered eddies.

Drown me down
In new baptismal rivers.
Spread eagle me upon
Some granite black ou...

Categories: libelous, assonance, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Pity the Poor Tobacco Companies

...Pity the Poor Tobacco Companies

By Elton Camp

Oh, how much to be preferred was the former day
When government didn’t tell business what to say

With the regulations on ads the government’s g...

Categories: libelous, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Lizzie Borden Took An Axe

...Lizzie Borden Took an Axe

By Elton Camp

Family love often will subside
When there’s property to divide
Old Andy Borden’s second wife
Came to be a cause of much strife

He allowed his two d...

Categories: libelous, historyfather, woman, home, father,
Form: Rhyme

The Enchanted Foe

...The Enchanted Foe 

She lurks in the garments of fugitive empathy,
Her abode is the refuge of burdened and bleeding souls

She is the sojourner in the sanctuary of sorrowful hearts 
Bewitching ...

Categories: libelous, allegory, introspection, philosophy, friend,
Form: Ode

The Paradox of Law

...As the spirit and the flesh,
juxtaposed and jostling,
against each other,
the essence and the letter of the law,
so tussle.

Alas, when in application,
the letter of the law, 
disregards the ...

Categories: libelous, philosophy
Form: ABC