PARAPHRASING MAX WEBER
Capitalism. It is what it is;
Accurate and efficient ...
Pity that humans
egoistically little understand it ...
Connivance can be pusilamine,
But it's not a sign of weakness ...
It is an option for the strongest!
In politics, it is not used
Just
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Categories:
max, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
For Beloved Pets Over
(written upon the death at age 14 of our beloved shih tsu Max
on Aug. 11.)
Over ~
Over
The Bridge
where they go
To verdant eternal forests
and fields,
To run and leap free
Without leashes, reigns or chains…
All heaven blessed
With no hunger or thirst
While waiting for us.
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Categories:
max, death, dog, heaven, love,
Form: Epitaph
Ungratefulness To The Max
It's sweet to help
To people in dire needs
But it's too heavy to feel
To whom you've given help
Will use you and betray you
It's more than lovers break-up
It's more than stabbing the back
It's more than Judas kiss
It's not human act anymore
It's against law of any righteousness
It's extremely evilness to the bone
It's really Lucifer in the making.
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Categories:
max, betrayal, character, evil, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Max Goodbye
Today we lost a precious member of the clan
The beloved pet dog Max, who belonged to sister Jan
He’s left many memories, to remind us of the joy
That we all experienced with the darling doggie boy.
A tiny bundle of fur Max was, the first time we met
He grew loving and faithful, filling hearts with happiness
A run
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Categories:
max, cute love, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Dr Max MM Payne - Specializing in MILs
pliers… scalpel… knife…
drat… I feel the pulse of life…
if not for my wife…
_______________________
MILs = Mothers-in-Law
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Categories:
max, health, humor, mother daughter,
Form: Senryu
friendly to the max
friendly to the max
a happy bouncing machine
tigger rocks big time
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Categories:
max, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Senryu
Max is coming to spend the night
our nine-year-old grandson is spending the night tonight
I texted his mother to find out what three snacks he would like.
I have never bought any of these three items.
We will need to go to a better grocery store to get them.
Better than we usually shop, for sure.
We do not mind. He has not spent the night
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Categories:
max, grandchild, grandson,
Form: Free verse
Max Learns from Science Class
Max, my seven-year-old grandson had science class for the first time.
He reported at supper that the sun is a star.
His older sisters poked fun of him, thinking he was nuts
He was not nuts or wrong, the sun is a star.
The next day at breakfast he gave them a few more tidbits.
The planets are clumps of
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Categories:
max, science,
Form: Free verse
Playing Max the Ax Video Game
If I am in a crazy mood
I play Max the axe
Max has red hair and a beard
You get to be him
Enemies come at you and you axe them away
At first it is really fun, because you are winning
Got two, got six, got eight.
There is a sense of power, you get excited.
There are bad guys that
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Categories:
max, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Max the Wonder Dog
An Introduction to Max
Hi, I am a mastiff cross and my name is Max. To be precise it’s Magical Maxi the Wonder Dog but you can call me Max. That’s not to say I possess magical powers as such but I can make myself disappear when the contents of the kitchen rubbish bag are
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Categories:
max, dog, friendship love, magic,
Form: Prose
Grody to the Max
Oh, how I dread the horrid sight
of that nasty slop, what a wretched plight.
Its stench invades my twitching nose
I turn away, but my nausea grows.
Forced to face it on my plate
My stomach cramps over the goo I hate.
To those who claim to love this dish
To me, it’s like a putrid fish.
An oozy texture,
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Categories:
max, feelings, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Max the Coolest Sax Playing Cat
The club members all agreed Max was the coolest cat
“A Bohemian beatnik who knows where it’s at”
He taught Louie Armstrong to play those rhythm blues.
That is why we getting ready to tap with these shoes.
I don’t know what I expected, but certainly not a real cat.
This one was wearing seventies clothes with an old velvet
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Categories:
max, cat,
Form: Rhyme
stare of steampunk Max
such an intense brown-eyed stare from a young guy
steampunk max, I supposed, from his loud sigh
I had heard of him, and his dangerous all-knowing eyes
His gears, coppers and whistles were not a surprise
He gave me a look of dismissal and brevity too
I wondered if he had heard of me, but had no clue
in an instant,
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Categories:
max, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Compliment by Max Burchett
by Max Burchett
Lots of flattery and L.A. handshakes given,
But once upon a time, actually just last year,
A seemingly casual compliment was for me heaven,
One I will always remember.
Though I kept it to myself,
Not sure the reason for that,
Yet sometimes I think about it.
A great man said to an audience, some I knew,
“If I were in
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Categories:
max, appreciation, dream, encouraging, identity,
Form: Lyric
The Voyage by Max Burchett
by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
Set sail on an ocean,
An unknown sea,
At times adrift, unknown destination,
No compass or charts to see.
No return to original harbor
I must sail on,
Perilous to halt, cannot anchor
In this ship not chosen.
Yet I am Captain,
And crew, and then
First Mate,
Navigator and Helmsman.
Still there are lighthouse beacons
On which I rely and depend,
And fleets I seek
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Categories:
max, destiny, fate, journey, life,
Form: Lyric
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