Gboko Gives Chase
...In Gboko, where the dust motes dance and play,
A town, a city, a people, some would say.
What defines its spirit, a riddle, a quest,
With a gait too familiar, putting all to the test.
"Gboko!" ...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, africa, culture, funny, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Self Destruction
...It was a world of two ideologies
Both wanting to hold sway
Neither of which were prepared
To give anything away
Now it’s a world of two Empires
Neither of which are ready to stop
But the stran...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Moron and a Putz
..."When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations." John F. Kennedy
Arrogance is such an egotistical trait; one I c...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, introspection, society,
Form: Rhyme
Panicking the Pandemic
...Deciphered deceptions that the summer brings,
As the cathedrals crumble for the corona Kings…
Units ubiquitous unleashed with sweeping strings,
Infectious isolation internal as the con...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, conflict, confusion, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Book of Dust
...We are but fleeting shadows
On the impersonal sea of time
Footprints washed away in its sands
Such traces that we do leave
Are found in fading memories
And crumbling artefacts.
There are thos...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Planet Killers '1' Vs Candy Stripers '2'
...(America’s Mutant Megalomaniacs)
All Scientists know that our planet is warming,
No question remains too whose ox will get gored!
A contributing fact is earth's CO2's rising,
That surface of Ve...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, anti bullying, political, science,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Governments
...Crazy governments
And their leaders too
Want to raise down
Missiles on me and you
Psychopathic, maniacs
Disturbed megalomaniacs
Bringing down death
With falsehood and lies
Man...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, crazy, leadership, power, sky,
Form: Narrative
Ballad of the Bomb
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Megalomaniacs, from any era,
all have the killer extinct gene
A beastly desire to bring everything
to the brink of nothing
Oh, how some would love to channel
their inner Nero
To mak...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, dark, death, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Megalomaniacs
...The world they try to shrink to their
Own size
For
Great they wish to appear, before their
Dazzled eyes!
(C) Demetrios Trifiatis
07 August 2015...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, allegory, character, parody,
Form: Epigram
His Hair Was Dyed Red
...the world watches Holmes
sit “dazed” in the courtroom,
with each mainstream media
monolith
churning out the sound bites
referencing his eyes & his
red hair---
the picture that goes viral is
of course...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Belsan
...This was written for the Belsan Tragedy....
Mother Earth has completed
the cycle of the sun
Searing agony; blackened dreams
Freewill has been undone
Vivid memories tainted by blood
Megaloma...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, angst, introspection, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?
Ultimate Computation
...Seek while you may find, strength of cerebral cortex.
'Though shrouded in complexities, higher minds advance to next.
Con folks par exellence, exorcising painful memories.
Enabling state of eli...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, song-lyric
Form: Quatrain
Porch Swing
...the cold came in
like a sideways glance
from a once spectacular friend
it froze my movements
just as the labrea memorialized
the bones of other
trying beasts
with thick,
viscuid
material
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, friendship, happiness, holiday, life,
Form: Free verse
Life Imitates Art a Humble Tribute To Oscar Wilde
...O thou proud Nature
Rolling in ashes of long-burnt
Fiery love of yourself
What are you boasting of?
Thy greenery?
That’s nothing but
Wooden rotten figures
With wrinkled claws
Scratching the Earth’...
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Categories:
megalomaniacs, art, life, nature, on
Form: Free verse