Long Public square Poems

The Sheriff, not a pleasant sort 
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants

Who once was noble, but now has strayed 
Hell bend upon his rebels...

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III.
He was dragged into the king’s audience room,
the queen and several children were there,
tears streaked down Queen Endela’s handsome face,
she clearly knew a mother’s worst despair.

The king just sneered, his face a mask of anger,
said,”So...

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But breakfast’s subject beckons: 
the booster affair effect in Tumblr-
land? The digital map surveillance
co-sponsor the soccer mom sauce
minivan project, relay & speech 
to cell battery fiasco. Batteries 
have lives too, reads the cloud script.
FML maxims...

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The sacred lily of antiquity;
                      vital, that centuries have not defied.
   ...

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Some say Great Britain is the dirtiest nation in the world,
As a sign of respect for the Jubilee and our glorious Queen,
We are initiating a drive for the nation to make out streets clean.
That is...

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A few of my favorite things

A few of my favorite things 

Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt Van Gogh and Rodin 
thinking of their lives and of their times 
of where and when they painted...

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Everybody is a blank slate,
think of the potential they have,
if we start early, support them,
we can save them from a life that's bad.
We can build them until they can
do what others say can’t be done!

(The...

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Divide and conquer debates
favor win/lose competitions
as sometimes vicious over-investment
in defeating healthy democracy
to conquer public-square power space
not particularly sublime

While compassionate discussions
favor win/win cooperation
as virtuous co-investments
in green communion 
circling passionate sharing time

Becoming complexly nuanced
beyond any tolerable hot...

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THE ART NUDE REALITY

Stained with the acrilic and emotive,
Pour us a drip of creativity,
Paint us colors of the rainbow
But still less appreciated 
By the prioritizing inordinate ambitious 
and flesh-conscious world.
Purchased with hard-earned money,
the brush, the...

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I was born with an empty packet
filling it with enticing products as I grow
I’m yet to be forty and kids at ten
are already wearing stained jackets

What is this gene inherited from generation to generation?
haven’t we...

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Prior to the twenty fifteen election
I was in a total objection
As I got engaged in a war of words
With an elder who saw only the outwards

Though agreed that this party will win 
I said their...

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Cynikos
        
                  for Diogenes of Sinope, 4th century B.C. philosopher. ...

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Tyrants fat upon their moon
With untold minions to command...
Knew a diversion would be needed
As malcontent laid waste the land.
They yearn to cast aspersion
By letting forth a hellish storm
Against those of us far far away
With thoughts...

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Here we are in the village of Morristown, New Jersey.
It is September the sixth in the year of our Lord, 1833.
French immigrant Antoine LeBlanc went on a killing spree.
He took the lives of two rather...

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CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS

At Christmas time our thoughts oft turn to giving of a gift;
From the real meaning of this day we often tend to drift.
The placing of a manger scene upon a public square
Is looked upon...

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When Jacob fled from Laban’s house,
He went with everything he had.
With Laban off and shearing sheep,
He set his face towards Gilead.

It was while Laban was away
That Rachel did a thing most odd:
While packing for escape...

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iconoclastic, aortic valves..

 toppling through stone nerves
 seperate the steel brow, the cement 
tongue 
 and holy mother from her child.

 yet still the public squares give birth, 
 doing a little more with the...

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A Renga:


Midmorning sunlight
White roses climbing the fence
Next to the driveway

On a Saturday in May
A rooster pecks at the ground

"It's in the details,"
The lawyer looks at the case,
Sifting evidence

Of geological time
Displayed on the canyon walls

Snow on...

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in the public square
you are not to be questioned
just admired 
      for your dark demonstrations
of being

the hanging black spider waves its life at you
perhaps the arachnid lover is demoralized
by your...

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Speech

Free speech, 
is the power of one person, 
to say, anything they like, 
to have an opinion, 
and to have it heard, 
even if it is bad, 
even if it is good, 
it is the...

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Waiting For Butterflies


Waiting to go on
Waiting to get on
Waiting to get caught
Waiting for the start of a poetry reading
Waiting to get on with my life
Waiting for the stars to recognize me
Waiting for my light to...

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Hi there, the lady in chartreuse green
I'm on display, a performance to be seen
Glaring eyes and a sculpted body
A handsome charm my features embody
If blood flows in me, I'm the man of your dream
Second only...

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What he wrote in a room
got darker,
he could hardly see the static snow
he was printing his mind upon.
He knew
that there would have to be a change, a mind-shift.
His place in his world was becoming precarious.

"Next...

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know that they’ll love you for the work you do when you’re
young,
that they will embrace the anger, the passion, the want to change the world---
know that they will circle round you like they do
when there...

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One's poetic ability, yea willingness, to speak
Truth.
To stand, soul-naked, as it were...
Whilst your poet enemies stone you or avoid
you in the online public square.
To swim with the sharks, though thou
might be their delicious repast.
To be...

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