Long Abdication Poems

Resistance On The Iberian Peninsula

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),” 
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads,
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France,
Who commands the French forces in wars raged across Europe.

The Grande Armée...

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Not so long ago ...
your numbers darkened the west
a noble profile of strength and pride
and the epitome of the innate, free, pioneering spirit
that your country was founded upon ...

It is said that single
groups of your...

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We played on all weather turf which was mud and a few sods of grass

Dribbled like Pele and Eusebio in old boot for that one killer pass

From straight after school until there was not one...

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As the odyssey in the skiff continued a more sentient being begun to appear,
At times feeling as a eunuch who was unable to change anything,
In zenith of toxicity as miasma on a cold misty morning.
What...

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Dark, deep, warm-black arms of an endless night wrap me ...
     head thrown back in abdication, arms spread wide in surrender,
          falling...

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I’d extend an invitation
to all in the congregation
through this speech of inspiration
which is quite a compilation
yet I expect no adulation
and no gest of adoration
for in my own estimation
it’s a trifle occupation
clearing out the obfuscation
of a...

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In a short time, you will be my executioner.
Your actions shall be considered a favor.
You say to me “Lady, please forgive me”.
I, Mary Stuart, am grateful for your sympathy.
You are putting me out of my...

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His heart pulsated blood, ever-increasing in its forceful exertion. 
His eyes received undeniable images, only he was unable to explain.
His legs weakened, buckled by the tension of this sudden desertion.
His stomach churned, violently spinning into...

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This breezy day outside the truckers’ Gas ‘n Go, 
I brush my doggie's hair of fine white strands-
some short, some long-
all seeming to remove themselves either separately 
or as small fur "cliques,“ 
each one intent...

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Ash - grey chemised
she shifts her shape
as silver flakes float coat
stripped naked places, 
sheath curves and angled spaces
Angry glitter tingle stings
thick earth skin with prickly flames
and rumble rise regurgitates
shimmy - shake shudders
in magma's deep thrombosis.

Her...

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As you walk through this misted valley,
and discover a haze, everything here surreal,
you hear a voice, one out of faerie;
 question what you believe to be real. 

At a loss for words, but compelled to...

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Pain in the ass devoid of dreck
inapropos poetic material what the heck
more unbearable than crick in neck
shiver me timbers, I feel like total wreck
the (see) Edmund Fitzgerald, si?.

Spasmodic cramping imposed
automatic rhyming abbreviation
comeuppance (analogous to daggers
stabbing...

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(alternately titled: aery diction galloped jocosely)

Abbreviation asper "FAKE"
abdication (wishful thinking),
an aberration Trump accepted
abjuration (or alternative) i.e.
ablation, thee apprenticed

president, would never forsake
abnegation (sooner his cold,
dead paws pried loose Putin
on the Ritz Carlton), this
abomination, his indiscriminate

abrogation appears...

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The world's greatest tragedy?

Maybe it's when someone you used to talk to,
for hours on end,
someone you used to be so close to,
someone you used to love;
disappears.

Possibly it's when you give up on yourself,
when you laze...

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Sports Scandals—What May Be Next

By Elton Camp

It’s time that sports gets cuts down to size
For it isn’t the important thing to emphasize

Schools should supply an academic education
And not to mindless sports make an abdication

Far into...

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He softy strokes a canvas, in His style
As She sits there wearing, just her smile
He's studies all Her lines
As he carefully defines
The beauty that exists
Within her soul
He lives and slaves
For this very goal

Pigments mixing, creates...

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A cold bead of water
The sky’s unrefined tear
Sitting on lonely 
A blade of brown grass
Anger
Sadness
Fear
Of what might never be again 
Almost sort of had
Hoped to see again 
Painted the opposite of hero
The possibility of her...

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Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton

He was a venerable man awaiting his true destination,
mysterious at night, but in the morn’ full of inspiration,
he spoke of good fortune and tranquility with fascination,
every day at noon the town listened...

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Lavish me not with any parting gifts
when I die
Give me no long goodbye speeches
with flowery words
I demand an eulogy of silence
Extol not my memory,
for I am just a mere mortal with feet of clay
now turning...

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Europe my realm and my prized possession
I instill in thee our novel ideals,
for your feudal laws our conquest repeals.
Our boisterous wind of emancipation
liberates Spain from draconian inquisition.
Of the proud Brits' stupendous earning power, 
an Egyptian...

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The pools of sadness I have left behind
Broil and lie stagnating abandoned on the heath,
Their surfaces are restless, ill-defined,
Ripple-shot, concealing of the things that drown beneath.

The refugees of memories I suppress,
Wander lost and lonely, ragged...

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the year of the rat

alert spirited and delicate

a fortune cooky roasted


chaotic recipe

        pandemic ingredients

trivia at dead ends

        virulent revival


fertile breeding ground

	imposing...

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REBIRTH OF WORTH

Self conceit is thought a trait to be deplored
Despised when recognised in self or others
And modesty is praised with full accord
Instilled in us by Dutch uncles and mothers

Yet if you choose to go...

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A.W. Nutter

Can you hear the whispers

Follow us into the darkness
Sanctuary is found in the night
Let us feast upon your innocence
Step away from the power of light

The shadows are calling

Exercise your freewill by defiance
Hearken to the...

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You used to say my heart was cold.  You had a point if truth be told.  The highs and lows your passion bred led me to choose a reasoned head.

The years I spent...

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