Spotlight On Trump
...What Trump Wants: according to John Kelly- Retired Four-star General Trump’s former Chief of staff
—Unchecked power
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Categories:
lockstep, america, angst, change, character,
Form: Political Verse
In the absurd theater of our world, where the curtain of reason has long been torn
...In the absurd theater of our world, where the curtain of reason has long been torn,
The puppeteers of madness move their marionettes with strings woven from illusions and empty promises.
The cr...
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Categories:
lockstep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Socks
...Conceived of wool and birthed Siamese
In grand factories by hands unheard.
My socks move into separate drawers
Like orphaned siblings.
Soon
Each of my six pairs are strangers
that move in per...
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Categories:
lockstep, art, for her, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Out of Darkness Continued
...he inhales and becomes one with the moon
carries a spoon in his heart
to gather kindness and compassion
love is only complete with his other half
dancing like children
sharing reason and emoti...
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Categories:
lockstep, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Fury For the Masses IV
...Weapons of mass destruction
a time for mass production
this is the way the world will end
in silence, this is the way the world
is ending in violence
chaos, religion, and super media
sta...
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Categories:
lockstep, allegory, allusion, anger, art,
Form: Rhyme
This Is How
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This is How
(the Dastardly Deed Went Down)
Brown shirts, black boots
Shaved conscience, paramilitary spooks
Marching turncoat lockstep to the Bennie Arn band,
fo...
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Categories:
lockstep, freedom, political, power, violence,
Form: Ode
Starry Stone Hone
...My mind was once tranquil lavender...
an equal blend of blue and red.
Sometimes a tone darker or lighter
depending upon the issue at hand-
Recently its blooming only one color.
Because I've been...
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Categories:
lockstep, america,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Never Dies
...When that time comes and the reaper sows
the trap door’ hinges open up a hopeful gap
music from the underworld entices grace
with one ultimate decisive stride in lockstep
of Self vagaries...
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Categories:
lockstep, love,
Form: Free verse
Rain of Rose 1
...Colures transposed orbits closed whence derive the rains of rose?
Across million mileage magic and magnitude are striding
O'er holistic horizon svelteness and smoothness are sliding
Meridian frame...
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Categories:
lockstep, allusion, magic, romantic, surreal,
Form: Romanticism
Field Daze For Bookworms
...Cabin Fever door closes five dollars,
a-Bag Used Book Sale
Sunday, February 23, 2020
hence less than twenty four hours
before avid readers bewail
foregoing scampering across Hillandale
vital po...
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Categories:
lockstep, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Ominous Nighttime Foray
...Crow's claws carrion campy carping
nsync nocturnal teenage mutant ninja turtles
analogous to scuttling
(think) browed beastie boys scarab beetle
brandishing sharp small scabbard swords
delight...
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Categories:
lockstep, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blitz
Surety Set
...To come from faith is a trap
snares woven between the words
took to heart by the sincere
before the mind is lost to fear
there is no telling where a life ends
from conception to the last desce...
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Categories:
lockstep, religion,
Form: Free verse
Me
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Me
Written: by: Tom Wright
5/8/99
Webs of deceit "Me" does weave
"Me" gets his way while others grieve.
"Me" appears void of all understanding
The more we do, the more "Me” is de...
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Categories:
lockstep, me,
Form: Couplet
The Rusty Years
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The Rusty Years
Written: by Tom Wright
March 2015
I sit submerged in my thoughts,
Once again, lost in my yesterdays;
Focused on the man I was, rather than the man I am.
The problem ...
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Categories:
lockstep, age, change, me,
Form: Free verse
Mental Toughness
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Mental Toughness
Written: by Tom Wright
6/16/2018
Mental toughness drives tough old birds,
It sums up our lives with just two words.
An optimistic attitude is what we bring,
And mo...
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Categories:
lockstep, perspective, truth,
Form: Lyric
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