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Premium Member State of the Union 2024

Some grow big bellies
in front of the tele
idle and fuming
small minds never see big pictures

Now I do confess
bombing women and children
is not Biden's best moment, a failed test
nor all democracies of the west

Anyone is better than
an orange criminal with no morality
he has bankrupted himself, a plenty
Id not give him the keys, the pantry raided empty

As far as the Union, I must confess
before Biden, my net worth was a palsy seventy eight million
now is one hundred twenty four million and counting
a dilemma for sure, at what cost, I must address 

I'd give it all away, if we stopped the bombs, the duress


So Stand the Fallen

Very soon marmosets and moose
will get their vaccines.

A lone gnome fishes in a Koi pond.

The light of the moon
has been dimmed by a Chinese switch.

Elite bands of cockatoos
fight for free speech, but just for themselves.

Preening jackasses bray in the green rain
and the songs are all the same.

A fearful old man stammers in the dark.

So far the greater apes are in ascendance
however, a turtle and trumpet alliance
has formed a combo of resistance.

Four masks a day and a cup of instant propaganda
keep us hiding behind a surreal subterfuge.

Afghan warlords wander empty streets
handing out relief packages.

Birds rent-out tree space to killer bees.
Belfry’s are bankrupted by fleeing bats.

Harpies and stool pigeons
turn in their stools for further interrogation.

King Kong whimpers inside a skyscraper closet,
too shy and lonely now
to swat even the smallest of biplanes.

Premium Member Tending a Flower

Foregone is my freedom
My future and it's conclusion
My most detached relationship
To myself now subject
To scathing privately
In installments with you.

Now I confided
“He tends a garden”

How was I to express
Without existential anguish
This irrational leap of faith?
Subjugated or subsidized
It bankrupted my reason
So far-gone was my longing

I was invited to a task.
My lesson was to refute life.
Something I had 
Already accomplished.

So I confided.
“He tends a flower”

Half-witless or absent minded
I felt no connection 
To your thankless doctrines
And I waited patiently at the end
Of whatever road I had taken
For my choice attendant.

And I confided
“He tends to Petunia”
Form: Verse

Premium Member On the Road

A nice veneer
Looking solid and good;
Termites devour within


Life hazards
Venture bleeding;
More vitamin M needed


Business failure
Shocking casualties;
Bankrupted parties


Spice can smell nice
But nice can tell lies;
Sometimes a vice


Impressive bungalow
Sporty car;
Heavy in debt woes


Sad but true
Vanity masquerades;
Not the real thing


Newspaper headlines
Scandal and heartbreak;
I feel sad for you


Regrets fester
Like gangrene;
Amputate the trash


Eye witness here
I watch you tumble;
Helpless to help


Impressive life
Career highlights unrivaled;
Why this bankruptcy?


Sad story
Paper described;
Can prayer alleviate?


In-between
Life and death;
Struggle for meaning


Worldly mindset
Get rich quick;
Scheming for more


Between ambition
And acquisition;
Avarice styles


To succeed well
Take failures well;
Survive persecution


Liquor and wine
Wine and dine;
Decadence flaunts


Simple vanity
Defines ambition;
Practical notions heap


And in the end
Just round the bend;
Broken trends sweep clean



Leon Enriquez
26 July 2014
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Royal Flush the Revealer

In a back room in downtrodden and sleazy Manila

On the table cards money and a bottle of Tequila

Fortune lay in the hands of Jose the crooked dealer

Had piercing eyes and a nose like a broken tortilla

As if he had been groomed with a potatoe peeler

Always had an ace up his sleeves this amazing dealer

But to even the game his foes applied silicon sealer

To his coat and bankrupted the dishonest stealer

He found his comeuppance and glue was the healer

Gone were his days as slick professional concealer

He now resides in a prison cell in a disused castilla

Bread and water for him and no more grenadilla


30th December 2019
Form: Monorhyme


Premium Member Corruption As Lethal As Corona Virus

Corruption and Covid 19 both a virus raiding our planet,
Only socialism works as in Finland in Scandinavia,
Realistically corruption has bankrupted countries, quad tripled poverty
Ruined our God given bountiful earth, brought it to its knees
Utopia that is just a mere word no country has it,
Perhaps Iran and America will go to war and we get caught in the middle,
This corruption has become insane, Russians itching to do the same,
Integration of all colours creeds and nations essential, poor and wealthy alike
Only severe repercussions will result if we don’t take action now,
Nothing seems to erase this filthy greed which has become so obtrusive.
   
Entering Competition: Any Acrostic Poem
Sponsor : Line Gauthier
Date 013/04/2021
Form: Acrostic

Doltish

His thoughts a noose round the neck
That betrays progress into better ray,
Prisoner self-chained to surreal wreck
Of diamond burdens beyond their say.  

His pulses another swift drift away 
From lanes of wit and clear sense;
Obstinate caudal slip in weird sway
Toward gaols well inevitable hence. 

His bias-bankrupted soul's whims
Far defy practicality and her gists;
Tagging kettle black as old pot dims 
In his eyes its erst death-dark twists. 

His lobe preened to nab things null,
Throbs to tap vocular waves vacant
As shards of a myths-neutered skull;
More void and louder than airs want. 

And his appetites stirred wild like tides
Over tempestuous seas wayward spill;
Milk's cream along filthy paths guides,
Honey's decoys his glances snare still.
Form: Didactic

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