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Premium Member Intransigence--

Hello world
I'm not a follower
Unless you're trying to serve the Lord
I refuse to compromise 
It's not my way,  it's not your Way
To abandon an often extreme position of our attitudes 
Uncompromising intransigent the oppositions
An intransigent attitude not an absence 
Qualify the refusing to change our opinions or behaviour
World I'm adamant,
Devil, I'm adamant that you're bullheaded hard-nosed
Guess what, what right is not wrong
And I won't be listening to your noise-songs
Guess continually I'm gonna be...intransigent 
I'm unrelenting, unyielding my cadence to these this unruly audience 
I stand Affluence Conscience 
Yet still, in my defence, 
I refuse to compromise in sin I'll ever stand an intransigence
 
7/21/19

3rd Place placement in the contest
Intransigence Poetry Contest
Free verse poetry form only
Sponsored by: John Hamilton


Hammerklavier

Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.

His apartment is disorderly,
tools and equipment
are hidden in Dresden figurines,
in elderly Delftware,
ball-peen hammers crammed
into the whittled stems of goose quills.

Augers, grinders and rotary tillers
are rendered into themes and motifs.
Wrecking crews hum and stamp,
tables thump out allegro dissonance.

Into this din and demolition
plows a heavy sonata
the hard-nosed 'Hammerklavier'
bulldozing its trenchant path
into the cramped streets;
where in the absence of safety barriers,
a defiant deconstruction
has begun.

Premium Member These Town Children Delinquent Breakers- -

In a small town of 800 the lonely town where children never sleep
Hardly can anyone imagine them ever being sweet
Some are bullies,  some rob, steal, some brake windows
Others are found juvenile delinquents breaking into condos
Adults and political authorities
Sanctions rules and laws just for the youth minorities

These hard nosed children keep breaking them curfews
Rebellious youth with incurred huge transverse views
The disorderly town children fight and riot
No wonder these rebellious cretins are sleep and so tried
Small town of 800 this lonely town where children never obey civil laws
These Town Children Delinquents breaking juveniles 



9/14/19
Sponsored by:Julia Ward
Form: Rhyme

David Flavoured

Enticed by his faceted aspects
                Political points show his honour
                    Policies opposed, David contests 
            Left wing woke folk admonished

              Rawness of broad topics examined
                      Cowboy stories of recent history 
                             Scenarios derived from within
              Issues which play contemporary 

             David flavoured, his firm essence
                      Infuses my little with his lot
                          I honestly struggle to explain this
             ... never missed what I don't got

             .. A man who won't take crap
                       Shallow hits roll off his jaw
                             My bull wouldn't just lapse - 
              He'd bleed it dry, peace restored

              Faceless man tells me myriads
                      Written by unwavered conviction 
                           Marathon stamina poem olympian
              I, willing victim to his inflictions

              Dreaming of David, strange concept 
                       - exclusive, by myself for eight years
                           It's a choice to remain alone, heart kept 
              Relic packed away, oddly he endears

              Hard nosed refusal to enter this century 
                       Old school stance pings my deepest vibe
                       Unreasonable, how much it means to me
              To absorb the jib of David 's scribe

               Around three years his senior
                        In virus time, located overseas
                        I fixate on his strong demeanour 
               In lurid choc chip fantasies






12th September 2020
Form: Rhyme

Hammerklavier

Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers listen
through touch,
they become deeper, more blunted,
a vibration of mallets.

Frown the brow,
push the plow
make music drive a steamroller.

His apartment is disorderly,
tools and equipment
are hidden in Dresden figurines,
in elderly Delftware,
ball-peen hammers crammed
into the whittled stems of goose quills.

Augers, grinders, and rotary tillers
are rendered into themes and motifs.
Wrecking crews hum and stamp,
tables thump out allegro dissonance.

Into this din and demolition
comes a heavy sonata
the hard-nosed 'Hammerklavier'
bulldozing a blunt pathway
into cramped 19th century streets,

where in the absence of safety barriers,
all but one turns a deaf ear.


Hammerklavier

Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.

His apartment is disorderly,
tools and equipment
are hidden in Dresden figurines,
in elderly Delftware,
ball-peen hammers crammed
into the whittled stems of goose quills.

Augers, grinders and rotary tillers
are rendered into themes and motifs.
Wrecking crews hum and stamp,
tables thump out allegro dissonance.

Into this din and demolition
plows a heavy sonata
the hard-nosed 'Hammerklavier'
bulldozing its trenchant path
into the cramped streets;
where in the absence of safety barriers,
a defiant deconstruction
has begun.

Rising Aussie Autumn

Plenty is forsaken 
                                               Before
                                    Serenity is Awkened


Vehemence of flames devour branches 
Fire's wicked lick strikes long bark skirts 
Devastation ashen flattened unrecognisable 
Has a seemingly insurmountable task 

Charcoal spurs awakening of tiny children
Stubborn sprouts assert their need with a shove
Koalas discarded crawl tentatively back to snack
Goannas gratefully lap at ash powdered puddles 

Great Southern Land is a Lady on a mission 
Renowned for whole hearted hatred challenging
Hard nosed creatures created to recover, resume
Their calm rightful realm of red stemmed growth

Abundance is given a great chance in our Autumn 
Eucalypt wave flags of ever shifting resilience 
Terror of fire has no existence in their ambition 
Vibrant tiles of lime tickle black yesterday's belly




18th August 2020

Written for Contest:  Serenity Awakened
Sponsor:   Regina McIntosh

She's In Drag Mode

If that's what she did,
than trust me,
you're not under a lid,

she flipped it-

added pressure to admit ...

Characterization of the limitless,
shindig-less,
hard nosed,
pencil printed,
breaking of embarrassment,

getting others to care less,

but you never got to see the cherry list-

it got burned before the internet,

you should have had a little fit-
...before a big one,
and then another,
or just got a gun,
one that works hard to make you jump and run.


She's not in love with your hugs! 

She's not entangled with you at all! 

She's estranged to leave with mud and guck and-
maybe one nut-
but who's counting,
you're just as dumb...

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