Long Call a spade a spade Poems

By Elton Camp

It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.

There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade a spade.

“Vertically challenged” means short.
“Horizontally challenged,” a fat sort.

“Nondiscretionary fragrance” means we stink.
“Living...

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Striving for Political Correctness

By Elton Camp

It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.
There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade a spade.

“Vertically challenged” means short.
“Horizontally challenged,” a fat sort.
“Nondiscretionary fragrance”...

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Virtual trophies (wife for I)... 

offered, husbanded, and collected 
when winning solitaire
Nothing beats that exaltant rush of adrenaline
watching the computer generated cards
automatically routed 
to their respective suite (spot)
(after they get turned face value up)
generates countenance...

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The politicization of masks is as stupid as
                     it is tragic, if I may call...

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At times we should not be afraid
to roundly call a spade a spade.
I shrink not from a reference
to a fearful pestilence.
From Leo the king to a lowly vole,
the fear of death held all in thrall.
Even...

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Friendship

Id like to tell a tale all about me mates, The ones who restore my sanity. . . Removes all enemies from my gates.
The friends who remain with me, The ones who’s strength i steal,...

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Walk with me my Love
Beneath the summer sun
And talk with me my Love
Until the evening's done.

Stay with me my Love
Though all my youth be fled
Stay with me my Love
Please come and share my bed.

 ...

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You can call a spade a spade

A darkened portal light in its timeless space;
Twice dead novice notion in his head...

The ascension out from chains filled with blood,
In sought after excursion magnified truth;
Hence the opened door...

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Every time I see you, you're more red and in the West
I’m always anxious, you don’t seem to know the word exists
It comes and goes, you always know, what’s lost will be replaced
Here, I ruminate...

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A world without banter, 
Would be sad one to encounter,
With spades called by their proper name,
Sitting in an Isle of shame,
While the holier than thou,
Tell us banter between friends is not cool now.

I feel for...

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Thoughts are electric that's 4 times gravity... talk about defying the laws! 
How mad is we, right now!? Bet ya not as mad as me, i bet i seem mad as! crazy right!!.. 
Now. 
How...

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I know, my child dear, you are growing up physically,
Your mind, I see, has been developing quizzically;
As your flesh and blood, and bones intermingle in your growth,
Shouldn't ethically fine fiber become your true troth...?

While respecting...

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It's disgraceful that migrant families
                are being indefinitely housed 
          ...

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People say I am like my mother.
            The apple did not fall far from the tree,
        ...

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Most police officers 
are genuinely good, decent people. 
I know that. Deep down, we all know that.
Unfortunately, though, the bad apples 
among them have tainted
their reputation beyond repair.

It's no secret these "bad apples, "
mostly Caucasian...

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Now, being a senior citizen,
Is it too late for me to reflect on, 
What went wrong in my life?
Born and brought up in a family,
Where morals and values played their role,
I learned to call ‘a...

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Ego, not love, seeks vibrational match
for love is simply an effervescence 
like yonder sun, lighting up each dark patch,
being quintessence of our soul’s essence.
Is not fickle love, that seeks a caress,
being dependent upon an exchange;
which...

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"Poetic tools are a means to aid poetry, not an end in themselves'
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I don't understand why poet use poetic tools so often making a poem so tough to understand

Hiding behind the garb of metaphor, simile,...

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You say I’m made to be a spade but that just curls my wings
I sit here ready to scoop up the widest range of things
Scooping apples off the ground and thrusting them all forward
To where...

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I knew what I was getting into
when Deb gave me my catch phrase.
It was the last one available
and seemed likely to net prose praise.

I mean why enter a contest
if  no points are likely to...

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The desired Anti-Christ will have disciples
followers who carry guns and rifles

It's not known if they believe the lies
though evidence is before their ears and eye's

No matter who says it's not right
they want their way or...

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Somethings are listed as a bargain
they make it sound so fine
"You can buy this for under thirty bucks"!
Whats the price?  $29.99.

Wow, that's a whole penny
there's no way you can lose.
with the money you'll be...

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A giant glass of warmed up milk
A great bedtime elixir
Don't know bout you, all my dear dear friends
Prefer pie as a bedtime fixer

Now I know I'm being extremely naughty
But I'm in my eighties, by cracky
Who...

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A giant glass of warmed up milk
A great bedtime elixir
Don't know bout you, all my P-Soup friends
Prefer pie as a bedtime fixer

Now I know I'm being extremely naughty
But just turned seventy-eight
Who gives a poop if...

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Let us call a spade a spade, 
    You are making feeble excuses for your mistakes.
    My respect you must earned,
    All the trust between us...

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