The world we live in
...The world is in a great turmoil
All around disquiet and confusion reign
Russia and Ukraine engage in war of attrition
Massacre of genocidal proportions
Has torn Gaza strip to a mountain of ru...
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Categories:
meting, abuse, anger, bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Mosh Pit Medicine
...The General is a bit of an authoritarian.
He says, Breathe! And you say, how much?
Twilight is much more chill; she just says, “See you ‘round!”
But then you’re bouncing along to a happy tune,
an...
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Categories:
meting, confusion, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Revenge Discussed
...A vengeful eye for an eye
but mind you, to avenge yourself
ain't easy as apple pie
Indeed a punch for a punch
or invite your foe
for a delicious
malicious lunch
to dish out nasty retribution...
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Categories:
meting, anger, emotions, feelings, write,
Form: Verse
Comeback
...Is your comeback a symbol of faith or vengeance
Let it be clear if to light or darkness you pay allegiance
Don't make men victims of ploys up your sleeves
Meting out on them wrath as thieves
Suff...
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Categories:
meting, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Vagabond
...He was set out in this world, as though by fate, by someone,
He sets himself out, on a trip accompanied by none!
He travels from place to place through mountains, hills, and valleys,
He feels no...
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Categories:
meting, humanity, life, travel, truth,
Form: Couplet
Donald Trump Equals Pathological Psychopath
...Donald trump = pathological psychopath
Fred Trump taught his sole son Donald
how to steal the leading way into more ass,
though no hint given, nor prediction forecast
in his growing up years...
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Categories:
meting, abuse, america, anger, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Justice For All
...Justice for All
time marches on
reality's fire consumes—
dreams go up in smoke
Dishonest weights, deceptive scales forsake
as chains of injustice rake the flesh
of the preye...
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Categories:
meting, change, discrimination, future, racism,
Form: Free verse
The Story of My Grand-Pa Ernest Lee-
...This is a story of a man I didn't know;
I just bore his last name so;
He was my fathers' father and he looked of African;
When I first saw my paternal grand father;
was the summer of 1969 ...
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Categories:
meting, adventure, analogy, appreciation, funny,
Form: Bio
Automobile Blues Fuels Exhausting Lament
...Automobile blues fuels exhausting lament...
Indicator light signaling door(s) ajar
least significant issue concerning
2009 Hyundai Sonata car
applauded craftsmanship darn exemplar,
thus said v...
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Categories:
meting, 12th grade, analogy, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Let's Not Incur Fatal Fees
...Strive to drive out sleaze and sorrow from our race
Prospect and elect to inject laughter and love beneath and beyond the surface
Where we fly and cry to promote and devote principles in the ace
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Categories:
meting, poems,
Form: Free verse
Blank Steps
...Day. Night.
The very two constants of a man’s life.
They we met and must leave behind.
They race each other in a constant relay
Silently telling how much time we have left.
It all begins on a ...
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Categories:
meting, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Another Time, Another Porch
...Once upon a corner in the City,
An old porch of craftsmen days
Vine winding posts and bannisters and rockers,
Drawing one and all on their way.
Afternoons were busy with our mother,
Rocking, men...
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Categories:
meting, nostalgia, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Wait On God
...Wait On God
(Verse 1)
Everybody want to do things at a pace
Thinking with this world
We can face,face it all alone
If you thought that
You're all the way wrong
How can you wake up
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Categories:
meting, gospel,
Form: ABC
A,B,C's of Alliteration
...Almost always, as additional allurements arrive, ask as a Being...
By better borne behests become best Causes ?
Can causes create concise concepts Diligently ?
Do doers do decidedly dumb dol...
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Categories:
meting, conflict, fun, imagination, introspection,
Form: Alliteration
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2
...The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two
I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall I underrate the spate of your hate as you devastate; leaving the ‘diva’...
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Categories:
meting, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
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