Long Inflammatory Poems

NOTE: This blog entry was erased because it was deemed "inflammatory". So I ask you, the audience: did this blog deserve to be erased? Let us read on as I have included it in my...

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In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.

Their...

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A Poem Please Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless


in love with you forever
sorrow can heal wounds
through sickness and health

I grew that day…
I knew that day…
I had high hopes of a well spent future with him. Dreams of us...

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Darkness hangs heavily over my eyes
And you listen to the neurosis in my head
Like most misery it started with apparent happiness
Now I seem too volatile & strong willed.
It's frustrating how desire can transform into disaster
No...

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Watching Beth interact with her Kindergarten class mates was precious to watch. Beth was a lovely little girl with big brown eyes, who was very affectionate.
 One afternoon, the school principal, called Beth's mom and...

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My sister called, “You must come now, to see him still alive.”
He’d had the dreadful verdict just a week or so before,
my precious younger brother, last remaining one of five.
“You should accept the Hospice care,...

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Like a prisoner caught in a cage, wires and strangers
People quietly watching from windows at people on the grasses
Silence in the golden skies while people walk their dogs
My dogs getting pushy, demanding nipping at my...

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Are you upset by stomach pains
Diarrhea and bad cramps
Are you so dog-gone tired
You can’t even outrun your Gramps
Have you tried all the common cure-alls?
Medication - - - therapy
Massage and acupuncture
But relief just...

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     On the night of December 2, 1984
a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant
was a terrible tragedy that continues to evoke 
strong emotions even 30 years later, 
disaster...

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Hello to everyone who has read my poem “Gold Fever”

Thank you all so much for taking the time to comment.

I have to admit I was surprised that such an inflammatory poem would be chosen for...

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BLASPHEMY 

What the WORLD say you are
Versus what the WORD say you are. 
They say "the child of human is human"
only because the human is borne out of woman. 
They say "A puppy is a...

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In our phonetics class of tongue-tasking
Students delight in pronunciation basking
Musk is distinct against mosque… just checking
And musk differs from mask; that’s so striking!

With definitions for queries, asking
“Can musking be right, when mask has masking?”
Yes, musk...

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just the other day a radio personality 
made a disparaging remark about a group of women 
whom he had never even met.
this person has always been known 
for his acerbic tongue and cutting comments.
but he...

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Is the USA Discriminating Against God?

Across this country, is a new form of “elimination.”
It’s almost like there’s a “God discrimination.”

In the court’s efforts to remove him
 from our schools…
It’s almost like “just about anything” rules!

Many...

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Are We Discriminating Against God?

Across this country, is a new form of “elimination.”
It’s almost like there’s a “God discrimination.”

In the court’s efforts to remove him
 from our schools…
It’s almost like “just about anything” rules!

Many get...

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They were happily wed for fifty years but a dilemma that nettled,
Was their differing political leanings that they never, ever settled!
Every time a local or national election cycle approached,
The battle began as the virtues of...

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They were happily wed for fifty years but a dilemma that nettled,
Was their differing political leanings that they never, ever settled!
Every time a local or national election cycle approached,
The battle began as the virtues of...

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I was sitting outside in the garden,
and stroking me cat on the back,
when I must have brushed on a flower,
which angered a wild bee to attack.

Accidentally I made the mistake;
a mistake that brought me to...

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I might feel grand
aspiring to omnipotent
omniscience

Whereupon omnipresence
might feel less necessary,
or even possible,
or desirable

In a secularized
reduced
dissociated apartheid,
sacred Us v sinful Them

An omnipotently inflammatory place
for every Other individual thing
and all Other routine 
and orthodox Things,

Omnipresent capital events
in...

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Fig Leaf

“While the fig leaf traditionally covers naked shame
The fig leaf also makes a healing tea of restoration” Quote by poet.

Ducking beneath a quilt woven of the fig leaf
 To sip upon a homemade brew...

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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Background of the word: This 45-letter word was coined in 1935, by 
the president of the National Puzzlers' League of the United States, Everett E. Smith, in a presentation about the ever-growing length of medical...

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You can't be seen yet some have seen you, 
You are an enormous, influential feeling.
You fear nothing yet you fear hurt. it is said with you world can be conquered, you are a precious gift
You...

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Hours nibble at a back strain.
Tenuous strings were pulled
lifting water bottles.
You wonder how weak and fragile
you are. How vulnerable to 
these ancient red tides within
that can bend your iron like plasticine,
turn you into a crooked...

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pro·voc·a·tive
[pr?'väk?div]

ADJECTIVE
causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction, especially deliberately: 
"a provocative person like Trump" ·
synonyms: annoying · irritating · exasperating · infuriating · maddening · vexing · galling · insulting · offensive · inflammatory ·...

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Paraffin pours on my nervous system, 
you laid a match to it 
with your smile; 
and it flared and roared and burned 
with every advance you spurned; 
I collapse into ashes and blood, 
swirled away...

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