Long Demoted Poems

Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...

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Treat others how you like to
for they will treat you how you want to
be ready for absolution for it will come
I have seen it plenty of times and it is done
I know you want to...

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Last year you beat me up
And poured vinegar in my cup
Last year you humiliate me
And hire criminals to torment me.
Last year you deny my friends and families
The natural right to be happy
My children went to...

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HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025

No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
even converted from skeptic to orthodox Judaism,
and strictly followed the...

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Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as...

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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door". ~ Milton Berle

When demoted from                       ...

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(Continued from Bill's side 10“)
     
    "Never  mind that. I know you well enough to know you know what you’re doing. 
Just stick with me and keep...

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(Part 2 - please see Part 1 first thank you)

And those of us who feel just plain lost in today’s modern world
Believe me you are not alone 
Might look at Dave’s life and think that...

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I’m not afraid of rejection 
I’m afraid of the phoenix that will rise from my spine with the threat of treason 
Suppress the flame and walk away 
Use your once tempted fingers to point yourself...

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They were hated, berated, and degraded                             ...

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Extra committed; yet excommunicated. Highly dedicated; yet not facilitated.                          ...

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-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-

A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a joker, a smoker, a midnight stroker  
<-------How, about that,...

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The following reasonable obsolete rhyme
verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue
courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue
wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus
nevertheless September 1st, 2020
signals resumption of school year back in vogue.

Challenges abound as millions of...

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Many of us celebrate the time when Jesus lay in his feeding trough

Own a place in our home do not have to knock on so many doors


Put up Nordic fir cut from woods or plastic...

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While others writers think of love
you’ve shat on that pure white dove.
Before on and on, I must go,
I’m telling others of what I know.

Love to ride the ‘Royal Scotsman,”
but this train I’m on is full...

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Tattarrattat


…amazing how things change over time, from a simple knock at someone’s door, smoke signals, walking & serenading to the Pony Express, and now Cell Phones…what next, microchip implants?


Tattarrattat of sounds making universal calling to...

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mother star beams as she beholds her errant brood
  six diverse, rocky planets
  the innermost, a dense, two-faced, frosty furnace
  the outermost, pulverised
  much interfered with by a jovial neighbour
 ...

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Anxiety peak's as mundane attention seeks.
Fear and excitement compete as boredom seeps.
This powerful small action is not an option I possess.
My desire to please is within reach, the winner of an underdog's match.
Adrenaline a premature...

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You came down to this protest,
you cannot let anything rest,
paid for it by special interests;
shut up and live your life.

You still have this childish need
to scream ‘right side of history!’
you bought into that sophistry?
just shut...

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It was called a planet when I was young
Placed in the Milky Way  after the "big bang"

Pluto is the Roman's underworld god
Hades to the Greek now that isn't really bad

Discovered by American Clyde Tombaugh...

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Somewhere resting in a room 
There was social enthusiasm gloom 
Feeling trapped 
Inside the flat 
Continuing developing creatively 
Writing books literary 
Putting all in place 
Having credible worth newspaper space 
With an innocent look 
And...

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It's a bad day.
It's a good day.
It's an irony.
It's an agony.
IT'S FRIDAY!

It seems like the truth has taken flight,
And deception has turned wrong into right.
IT'S FRIDAY!

You have strutted upon the stage of life.
You have played...

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Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right 
                       
“Not Squared-Away”

Crawling and...

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Beyond the giants where the sunlight fades,
A lonely wanderer in starlight's shades.
No longer counted in the ordered line,
A whispered echo, "Was this space once mine?"

A frozen heart of nitrogen and ice,
A landscape sculpted by a...

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Pluto Slam It Planet  

It was Aug. 26, 2006 in Prague
Some guys got together for grog
Astronomers by name, came for a game
To vote on the matters of science
Instead they gave Pluto its shame

To their...

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