Aprilcity was the theme a ridiculous jesture
A smile to say it was witty
A jesture to say it was clever
A lighthouse ajurned to a castle
In the middle of the desert
Might the mermaids sing to me
Might the prayers of sea merchants
Sound above the rocks
Might the winds howl in such agreement
The staffs of respected people
To treat visitors as there equal
From all ends of every nation
To marvel in such creation
Menu to menu
Event to event
Might the travelers who seek
A respective Venue
Speak us as such a retreat
To level the muzzling
the blurred eye to the blind
the most physical among us
To the sweet and unkind
Travelers in lodging
To which respects
A doctrine up holds
Might we stand staffed
To be host to visitor
Our needed like there's unopposed
Hospitality
Hospitality
Hospitality
The needs of many people
Categories:
muzzling, appreciation, culture, fashion, food,
Form: Bio
Planet in flux…it sucks
No refuge..Scrooge rules..
Stooges subterfuge deluge..
Fossil fuel fools..
Poleaxes..then relaxes…
As the earth burns..
As it turns..on its axis..
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Us schmucks battling....
Puzzling...prattling clucks...
Aloof to proof....daft defiance..
Shucks the sleuth of science..
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Glower at their ivory tower..
Cruise ship trip fillip..
Dour baby boomer power..
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Absurd herd..cans compliance
Uncouth trampling truth..
Nip & tucks alliance..
Mottled rucks…throttled petro bucks...
Plucks for retro reliance..
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Muzzling…weasel hatchets meddling...
Diesel guzzling trucks..
Saluting high falutin polluting
Pander to propaganda pedaling..
Ratchets up our dander…
Open the ruddy window!
Have a bloody gander!
Categories:
muzzling, nature, planet, pollution,
Form: Free verse
having a ball gag
muzzling of the scientists ~
ignorance is bliss
***
2025/02/18
Today on the news: Canadian scientists
not being allowed to communicate
with their American counterparts.
Categories:
muzzling, america, science, sexy,
Form: Senryu
It brings tears enough for an ocean
It screeches of disdain
It tests our greatest fears with horror and vain
It speaks only truth of misery that makes us slain.
It is only a muzzling shadow which in the end
Makes us stronger but never tamed.
Categories:
muzzling, emotions, feelings, pain,
Form: Free verse
Wait until there are no voices,
everyone’s tongue has been cut out;
Arguments can be constructive,
really there’s nothing left to say;
Eliminating dialog we forget how
muscles need a bit of exercise;
Understand this and ignore
zillions of false narratives;
Zoom is NOT an in person connection;
Let a person speak then respond;
Instead of throwing a mask on discourse,
nibble on each other’s thoughts;
Getting a little too close for comfort
eventually leads to better understanding;
Attacks breed a deafening silence
cut off with an air tight muzzle.
How are we doing this to each other?
Our expectations should be high
to get to the root of our issues;
How are we doing this to each other?
Entertaining choosing sides to be sure,
remove the muzzle speak open and free.
Inspired By Dr Phil
‘We are muzzling each other. ‘
Categories:
muzzling, emotions, feelings, humanity, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
Without the families, the balloons,
the printed animal T-shirts
the walkways grow pensive and narrow
into unknown places.
Occasional security lights create
small pools of certainty.
The darkness in-between the glow
balloons and smothers,
wipes away the memory of laughter
and the excited screams of running children.
Nocturnal eyes hover over perch and branch,
peer from under rocks, watch each other’s lamps,
waiting for tell-tale blinks.
Big cats stir, smell prey. They see through walls
an instinctual stalk and stealthy hunt.
If you are alone in that imprisoned jungle
you will keep on the far side of the enclosures,
try to slip away from the low growls, the panting
and paw padding.
but then the moon comes out from a cloud,
strangely, you seek more of that pacing fear,
more of the thickening air
draw it deeper into your nose,
a snout now muzzling this way and that -
you commence to howl.
Categories:
muzzling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 5
Kings Prophets alike the Democratic State
Do/can/may use force on people they enslave
And individual rights incriminate
Oppressed peoples’ rights remain inanimate
Until some Garibaldi wields the glaive
Kings Prophets alike the Democratic State
The art of government’s how to amputate
The will of the people own voice to save
And individual rights incriminate
The Administration’s the stooge incarnate
Festers in bosom the Secret Police knave
Kings Prophets alike the Democratic State
Who by Divine Right rule in the Police State
Muzzling media voice their power to save
And individual rights incriminate
Till all factions through coercion emulate
Tyrants who use violence and manic rave
Kings Prophets alike the Democratic State
Do individual rights incriminate
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
Categories:
muzzling, anti bullying, leadership, political,
Form: Villanelle
Listening to a gleaming
word whole life
and finding its meaning at
the *** end.
And you are in thrall
to a sinful pleasure.
The yearnings
of a small Pteris,
which drinks arsenic daily
to rescue a withering smile.
A poem sings to me
under a lantern, when a
storm was raging to roil
the blue birds of imploring peaks.
It looks into your eyes
to find the answer
of complete shutdown
of cotton feel.
Satish Verma
Categories:
muzzling, art,
Form: ABC
Ennui conspires insipid moods
infringing human awareness,
ruled by a lunatic vision,
not controlled by insight and lucidity;
and a desire for a Dolce Vita
mollifies a false illusion
to appear on an intaglio, to gradually
become a shining insignia.
To steer a ship, takes effort and patience,
and if its course is guided by favorable winds,
all is well for the adventurous captain;
and should he lose focus, lured by lunacy and nihilism,
his enthusiasm wears off and failure sets in...
and his ship will lurch on unfriendly waves,
and his ennui deprives him of courage to deviate
from the safe route when nocturnal vision is lost indeed.
Ennui insinuates myopia,
muzzling the voice and halting
the mind's performance,
thus forging the promise of utopia;
and the hunch is to pursue intuition
whenever it may lead...being
the holster controlling the steed,
getting rid of the humdrum and huff,
humming and ignoring the hourglass,
which trickles the sand to infuse fear.
Categories:
muzzling, adventure, confusion, depression, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Ennui conspires insipid moods
infringing human awareness,
ruled by a lunatic vision,
not controlled by insight and lucidity;
and desires of a Dolce Vita
mollify a false illusion
to appear on an intaglio, to gradually
become a shining insignia.
To steer a ship, takes effort and patience,
and if its course is guided by favorable winds,
all is well for the adventurous captain;
and should he lose focus, lured by lunacy and nihilism,
his enthusiasm wears out and failure sets in...
and his ship will lurch on unfriendly waves,
and his ennui lessens courage to deviate
from the safe route when nocturnal vision is lost indeed.
Ennui insinuates myopia,
muzzling the voice and halting
the mind's performance,
thus forging the promise of utopia;
and the hunch is to pursue intuition
whenever it may lead...being
the holster controlling the steed,
getting rid of the humdrum and huff,
humming and ignoring the hourglass,
which trickles sand to infuse fear.
Categories:
muzzling, adventure, confusion, depression, happiness,
Form: Free verse