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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alternatively...

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Categories: impractical, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form: Free verse


World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried

World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried

After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch

Say this when you eulogize me: 
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...

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Categories: impractical, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form: Free verse

Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears

Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...

of diverse and sundry sizes engaged 
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah 
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide their snickers
just a kiss away)
their backsides mimicked 
tufted heavenly...

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Categories: impractical, absence, adventure, america, angel, anger, divorce, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Inferno Yawn

rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity clings to gravity and in spite of everything nothingness has...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impractical, beauty, desire, dream, hope, life, love, sun,
Form: I do not know?

The Incumbent

THE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there forever its time for him...

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Categories: impractical, corruption, culture, introspection, irony, parody, political, power,
Form: Rhyme


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Nova Proletarium

From the ashes of the never before, 
Lacking symbol, nor take to guide,
A Phoenix rises from storied lore,
In a portent of thrashing hide. 

Trumpets are a pathetic symbol,
For the lack of mind within the echelons,
Who...

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Categories: impractical, america, anger, angst, anxiety, education, jobs, life,
Form: Free verse

Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She

Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nabbed gorging
(ala man versus food
Adam Montgomery Richman fame
Brooklyn, New York boy)
at...

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Categories: impractical, absence, adventure, america, appreciation, character, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
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Liberating Migrations

I was listening, last night,
to a sympathetic defense
for conserving liberal arts
and producing deeper and wider liberating sciences
including healthy democratic
politically empowering science.

Once again
I am hearing about the persuasive prominence of identity,
how we label our ego-political selves,
as...

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Categories: impractical, earth, health, identity, integrity, metaphor, nature, peace,
Form: Political Verse

I abhor the forfeiture of hard fought and won liberty

I abhor the forfeiture of hard fought and won liberty

America - This nation will remain
the land of the free only so long
as it is the home of the brave.
courtesy a local Indiana man,
one named Elmer...

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Categories: impractical, america, anger, angst, crush, farewell, grief, horror,
Form: Free verse

Smoking Cigarettes and Sipping Coffee

Many-colored and candle-lights; high beyond the soft trees a fresh country leans heavily toward the night, far beyond the sea’s shady shore.

Beams, o’er wide fields like a white star, \till from the earth’s crown drops...

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Categories: impractical, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Anomalous Poetic Contrivance Evokes

Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum

(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming, 
née devolving into gobbledygook.)

I got born with poker faced physiognomy,
no matter yours truly doth not play cards
though self same...

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Categories: impractical, 12th grade, adventure, character, dream, fate, humorous,
Form: Free verse

The following fictitious scenario I evoke

The following fictitious scenario I evoke

Analogous to fire breathing 
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of spades 
goodfella aiming to be a poet all about,
meaning...

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Categories: impractical, adventure, age, america, angel, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

The nanosecond bad arse to risk romance

The nanosecond bad a** to risk romance

Twenty first century technology
allows, enables, and provides
instantaneous virtual unconsummated love.

Within the course of a texting or sexting session
one lovelorn lad (or grown man)
can fabricate a faux impression
with the young...

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Categories: impractical, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, africa, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
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Some Final Thoughts for 2024

It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about...

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Categories: impractical, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose

Happy shiny tummy courtesy I REM ember in place of stipend

Happy shiny tummy courtesy...I REM ember in place of stipend

An appetizer, essentially an
out of this world guacamole
quasi Neptune salad,
regarding self taught cook
earning prized counterpart
five Michelin stars,
when the missus artfully, carefully,
cannily, decorously, deftly,
and happily prepared
earlier today...

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Categories: impractical, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
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Mad Men In High Places

If the world were a soccer ball I'd be mighty tempted
to kick it high to kingdom come.
After what I learned today I feel ripped off,
feeling the sparse warmth of a dimmed out sun.
Pray tell who...

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Categories: impractical, corruption, dark, death, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Schvitzing For More N Sixty Hours Without Electricity

Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)

Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eight hours ago
power outage affected more than
half a million people
in mid-Atlantic states.

Residents in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
(the poet's hometown)
smack dab...

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Categories: impractical, 11th grade, 12th grade, blessing, celebration, environment,
Form: Free verse

Grandma's Gift

I wake to the sounds of laughter and lively music (jazz, I think) flowing free from the empty tenement down the hall. The smooth harmonies and upbeat tempos expand to fill every corner within me....

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Categories: impractical, family, granddaughter, grandmother, love, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Haibun
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Fyi Poem Under Construction

I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the  journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...

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Categories: impractical, analogy, conflict, destiny, society, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Myrtle Parker

Myrtle Parker

Myrtle Parker lived on the Riviera,
That’s the English one not the French.
Her favourite tipple is Red Currant Cider,
Only beverage her thirst would quench.

Never did she marry no husband,
Preference for life single and free,
Though kept...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impractical, emotions, sad, social,
Form: Ballad

Foreign Restaurant

It is not like these restaurants in America 
with their sterile atmospheres: slick new furniture,
stylized art, ambient lights, and every angle 
rationalized to the judgment of specialized interests.
It is a restaurant filled with details, 
inviting...

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Categories: impractical, america, drink, food, imagery, travel, vacation, world,
Form: Free verse
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Heybrother, Can U Spare a Brain Cell

Is there a memo motionless meaning that co considers
the let me know not the in between time of soul space that swells
spit in time and all things youless and common/uncommon in a new raw
omniplural potpourri...

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Categories: impractical, analogy, angst, anxiety, culture, future, how i
Form: Free verse

I Crown the Missus Champ Impractical Joker

I crown the missus "champ impractical joker"

Unbeknownst the wife appeared unusually upbeat,
she did pretend and succeed
to give yours truly a special treat
aforementioned item alluded to purchased
at Liberty Ministry thrift store

3841 Ridge Pike
(some miles further east
same...

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Categories: impractical, 12th grade, april, fun, humorous, husband, sweet
Form: Rhyme

Joyless Joseph

Wordless worries wander wearily working wayward,
    Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide.
As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal,
    Essence easily evaporates, exeunt Emile. 
Very virtuous violent vowels vociferously validate,
  ...

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Categories: impractical, crazy, creation, imagination, , cute,
Form: Alliteration
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Chic-A-Chatting

I am going to write a funny poem
Why?  Because I feel like it
Why do you go the extra mile?
Great waistline my friend
C'mon
I love watching "Impractical Jokers"
Why?  They are so outrageous and daring
Something I...

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Categories: impractical, faith, fun, funny, endurance,
Form: Free verse
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