Long Staunchly Poems

I grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...

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Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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There’s something ornately comforting, in a downpour of a day’s healthy rain
So replenishing, cleansing, as renewing, the ultimate giver to feed life’s grain

As standing undercover feeling the smaller flecks of the rain against your skin
With...

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Lifeblood of democracy hemorrhaging
ousting the "FAKE" president only recourse
to staunch impending grim demise,
since forefathers drafted
United States Constitution
ratified more'n two centuries ago

hoi polloi must take to the streets
denouncing severe curtailment
impinging sacred freedom of speech
linkedin with paramount...

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Springing free from glistening 
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for 
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above 
A distant lark now hangs in 
Flight.

Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by joyous and
Uplifting revelry,
Over the black crows nasal 
Calls;
Whose draped shadow,
contemplating...

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Men of Islam, why do you kill? 
For religions enforcing will
Thru rhetoric and words of men 
Interpretations profound in them 

But just their vision, all they see 
No truth in hatred, chained, unfree
For God or...

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VII
Conclusion

Patrick was a gentle soul, 
	With joy and kindness he was rife,
		He served one god, his Creator,
	Thankful for being given life.
			On March 17th, year 460
				Patrick took his final breath,
					Though, by the pope, never canonized,
				The people...

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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,

Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;

Followed the old teacher’s dictum, “memorise by rote,

To succeed in life”, she...

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He loves being incorrect,
politically and otherwise
He revels in how bad he disrespects
anybody who don’t agree with him
His supporters staunchly defend
all of his boorish behavior
His critics call those supporters,
his crutch enablers,
who don’t have a leg to...

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Your bombs and canons come late  far too late now to put together your sundered arms
         no use crying robber in Kashmir when the poor hunger...

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THE PROTECTOR OF THE UNAWARE

In the great hall walls sung with gold
Silk threads reflect the free fed fires
Stoked high to chase the brutal cold
From listeners as they crowded round

The winter nights wrapped round the thoughts
Of...

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While I’m confined within thick granite walls,
and tortured! Fast held by shackle and bond.
My unchained soul, roams through freedom’s halls,
seeking peace and tranquility beyond!

Strong though this cell is built, to keep me here,
and unyielding are...

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Setting: A man and woman are reunited in a garden after an unbearably long separation. From the viewpoint of the man.



Now the sun is slowly rising o'er the mountains
And it lights a sea of diamonds...

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The Northern Lagoon


A rare circle of cool water
Trapped between two meandering outlets
One flowing directly from the east
The other streaming from the west
Between a mighty mountain and remote rivulets
Unique and complete
Balmy, calm, and serene most times...

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I had just heard the news the other day about those on murderers row
Now everyone has gotten a stay but no mention of the unborn though
Each murderer now protected by the state, a state who...

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"Aequum et bonum", Latin for "what is right and just".

Laws are the pillars of civilizations,
They underlie great cultures
And shore up great states and nations.
But laws are only as good as the people who make them,
And...

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Mandela In You


I scanned into your entire writ
I perceived an unremitting wit;
There’s a Mandela in You,
Oozing from your daring script;

Loaded with a spirit of sacrifice
To eradicate mundane malice
There’s a Mandela in You,
That resonates in your...

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To a dripping ceiling in a monsoon rain
To a three sided coin, an unwinnable game
To a moth with no wings eating red super coats
To a pen long exploded, in splashes, it wrote
To four open daisies,...

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The Russians are coming.
 
Picture this North of Norway it was early spring but still cold
but the days were longer, and the land was gripped by 
the German army and their collaborators.
The Russian army came...

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Someone so rigid and fixed in their views

Will always face one major issue

That they will wonder bend and break

When in the right time the wind of change blows through

To set in their ways they're no...

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Restless is Portugal 

There is mayhem in Paradise
the citizens of Lisbon are tired of the bother
and street fighting, where knives are used by
migrants 
Gang fights, robbery, and shop theft is a daily 
Matter, the police...

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In dreams I do a thousand things
reality will not record:
a heroine of myriad tales
wielding Truth's divining sword;
a daring dragon slayer
riding tempestuous seas,
fighting for the poor and weak,
answering anxious pleas.

In dreams I do a thousand things:
I...

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Love comes in many forms
is covered by many guises
sacrifices made are many
just for its glorious name

I have many loves in life
the love of early morning
as the sun peeks out
slowly rising to its zenith

Or the breeze...

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I just do not care myself

If you are tricked by a devil’s beauty
And rush to staunchly support me
And squash all the allegation pitted against
And term me an honest or innocent and set me free
Yet I...

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Are you an optimistic realist
  or a realistic optimist?
Are you a fatalistic humanist
  or a humanistic fatalist?

Staunchly capitalistic rules out socialistic
  but can't socialistic flirt a bit with capitalistic?
Artistic may be wildly...

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