A Disobedient Prophet
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Once a prophet who is now anonymous in name,
conveyed the Lord’s word, but later brought himself much shame.
If not disobedient, he might have won some fame.
He fell as prey to another m...
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Categories:
mendacity, bible, religion,
Form: Rhyme
WAR'S OXYMORONIC JUSTIFICATION: AN AWARENESS HAIKU TRIO
...WAR’S OXYMORONIC JUSTIFICATION
(An Awareness Haiku Trio)
They say, sowing war
is a profound investment
reaping fruits of peace:-
Billions o...
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Categories:
mendacity, allegory,
Form: Haiku
Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories:
mendacity, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Mirage
...The river Life is nothing but a glib tunnel,
Except for the dazzling water, it is just a disastrous canal.
Except for any untamed misery,
It would only be an adversary.
Except for an acute pied...
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Categories:
mendacity, allegory, confusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Unfeasible Expedition
...The sheer maintenance of the probability,
Nothing is comparable to our garrulous mendacity.
Nothing can be called a consummate pattern,
Except for any tremendous aching, this life would only be a ...
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Categories:
mendacity, courage, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Halloween
...With pumpkins big and small, yellow and gold,
Scattered all over the farm, they look the best,
Jack sits with the pumpkins carved into Jack-o-lantern mold.
Jack led a life of sin, drink and mend...
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Categories:
mendacity, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
A Remarkable Caricature
...I am praying for an eternal silence,
Your loudest move is just another offence.
I have been open to you for the longest period,
The interpretation you want to pursue is just making you an idiot.
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Categories:
mendacity, allusion, emotions, imagination, loss,
Form: Free verse
What To Consider
...Humani mendacity
Foul water still and staining
A bowl full of silence
A firming maybe.? Assent?
No approbation.? No Dishonour
Validation yet; no walking out..'
Hard heads no holds; denied...
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Categories:
mendacity, analogy, dedication,
Form: Other
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
mendacity, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four sibl...
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Categories:
mendacity, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years
...As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...
Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradica...
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Categories:
mendacity, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Go, Nancy, Go
...Seems the Chinese are saber-rattling near Taiwan
Making the headlines and stoking some fears,
While the Speaker of the House has moved on
To be greeted in the Far East with lots of cheers.
I say,...
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Categories:
mendacity, anxiety, places, political, travel,
Form: Rhyme
We Were Spectators
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Our cry, silenced.
We watch the murder of our freedoms
Like spectators at a lynching.
Our Twenty-first-century forbearance rubbed out,
Our twentieth-century sensibilities never happened.
High...
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Categories:
mendacity, abortion, birth, body, freedom,
Form: Didactic
War of Politics
...The country is at war again
War of hustle and bustle for power
Power for self aggrandizement
All in the name of democracy
Birds of prey are in full flight
Hunting for the Carcass
Of the c...
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Categories:
mendacity, abuse, allusion, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Fig Leaf
...With false intent, they should have cried.
First attempt at mendacity.
A fig leaf to cover their hide,
told half-truths with audacity.
Did they make mistakes as they sewed?
Were they thinking ...
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Categories:
mendacity, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
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