like a breath of fresh air
...like a breath of fresh air...
and all things considered,
broadcast on national public radio
Frequency: 90.9WHYY-FM,
I (a liberal democrat)
counted myself as an avid fan
particularly listening...
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Categories:
mobs, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Masks
...People wear masks for many different reasons
like trying to be frightening on Halloween-
They used to wear masks during train robberies
we were ordered to wear them during covid-19.
Some wear o...
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Categories:
mobs, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Gather up stones
...O youth of my land, gather up stones,
Not for the mob, nor for bloodied thrones.
But to build a revolt, one fierce and true,
For the chains of complacency tighten on you.
You scroll thr...
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Categories:
mobs, addiction, anti bullying, change,
Form: Lyric
The Storm
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The storm is rising.
Dogs shiver with the thunder.
Cats hide in lightning flashes.
People lose their way.
The tide is coming.
Sweeping away hopes and dreams.
Families...
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Categories:
mobs, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
world I see
...Let’s clarify with clarity
The kind of world that we see
Where bullies win, all kindness lost
Where summer weather follows frost
Where killing and war is the new norm
Mobs of ignorance, in frenz...
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Categories:
mobs, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Easter Speaks 2
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When very young, Easter had at least two meanings.
One meaning was for kids; the other for all mankind.
One meaning spoke to me about Easter Bonnies and about
eggs that we hide and seek to f...
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Categories:
mobs, easter,
Form: Narrative
Who Yearns to be Free
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Who yearns to be free
will find it in Thee
In Thy ineffable Light
that dispels the dark night
In Thy immeasurable Love
Guiding us from above
I...
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Categories:
mobs, freedom, god, light, love,
Form: Couplet
Price Control
...In AD 301, a Roman Emperor made a decree
He fixed the price of food and clothes
If you sold for higher, there was a death penalty
If you hoarded those goods, your blood would flow.
Since no one...
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Categories:
mobs, america, crazy, culture, fire,
Form: Lyric
Cages We Carry
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When I was a kid, I learned survival’s first lesson
That protruded from my veins
The world divides from the the hunters and the hunted
The tiger etches its laws in the shadows
Hawks hold the c...
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Categories:
mobs, 10th grade, childhood, growth,
Form: Free verse
Armageddon
...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories:
mobs, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme
Orwell's Talking Head
...1985. We looked for signs
not so much had changed
Wars in far-flung parts –
the same-O-blame-O.
An acceptable amount of body bag counts.
Was Orwell too early to be this late?
1996. Upheavals ...
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Categories:
mobs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Freedom's Fragile Chains
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Overcrowded prisons,
brings joy to early released criminals.
Taxpayers may be happy,
but there's predators at playgrounds,
rapists at bars,
stalkers, stalking,
violent hooligans back at match...
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Categories:
mobs, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Game Over
...Do you think I run scared from you?
Do you think that you stand above me in those big boots?
Do you think I cower, trembling beneath a table,
With my tail tucked between my legs,
While you search...
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Categories:
mobs, analogy, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Land of the blind
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In UK towns gangs raped girls for years
Drugged them, passed them around, laughed at their tears
Police blamed the victims, thought they were at fault
Also didn't want trouble, open up pandora's...
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Categories:
mobs, abuse, betrayal, hate, rights,
Form: Lyric
You put the social in social media
...Can't run out into the world around you
It's all ashes now
Can't hide from those things that confound you
Our sins will consume us all
Where's the finger pointing at now
One flick of the hand l...
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Categories:
mobs, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
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