Newscasts and channels
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Categories:
newscasts, evil,
Form: Senryu
Conversations are mostly friendly
Vacate my mind
Inhale passing clouds
Avoid taxes and the police
Trouble with me is ~
The envelope arrives like a meteor
Foreign, inalienable & free
Fatal attractions devour my obsessions
Raw honey is good for you
Accelerator gets stuck to the floor
Flies buzzing everywhere
Newscasts parrot the script...
"The innocent man was pushed
on to the tracks
Heroes jumped in to save him
more news at 10"
1/9/23
12:47am
Categories:
newscasts, angst, brother,
Form: Free verse
It was a time when we were troubled
Work shifts had to be doubled
We didn’t earn enough to take a wife
We protested a worthless war
Cried over the Ohio four
Watched newscasts full of strife
Our innocence had died
Our President had lied
And … it was the best time of my life
Our hair, we didn’t cut
Free love, cost us too much
We separated seeds with a broken kitchen knife
We hitchhiked to Yasgurs’ farm
Got tattoos on our arms
And laughed at the bungling Barney Fife
We were hungry and we were thin
Too young to know it then
But … these were the best times of my life
Now, most of us are gone
Radio stations don’t own a Joplin song
Another obit sends a friend off to the afterlife
My head now holds no hair
Once again, I have no buck to spare
Another worthless war adds to our daily strife
But, as we near the end
I still think of you my friend
And how you shared the best times of my life
Categories:
newscasts, friend, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
AFRICAN POLITICS
All who vote will have a kit to track their twice vote fingers
For voting jaunts are fun to do –Obama’s victory lingers
Rousing speeches move the crowds to switch their party’s stance
If there's cash it helps inspire the wild election dance
Camera cell phones all abound-- some legal and some not
And world reporters film it all— for violence sells hot
No one knows what will come next, but it will pay a lot
Politicians beat the Hague and beg for ever vote
On the stage they sing and clown and eat until they bloat
Little can be done to change the spectacle we see
Ill-fated U.N. reigns advice---it stays the same to me
Take a little glimpse of life in democratic form
Itchy teachers strike for pay and kids burn down their dorm
Clever pundits cast their views through newscasts on TV
Slow to see the world burn down in stark reality
Categories:
newscasts, people, political, travel, world,
Form: Acrostic