Night Guard Dogs
...Hark!
It’s getting dark!
Long gone to nest, the lark…
But for the mongrels
Good nominees for Satan’s laurels,
Just for their vicious teeth that spark,
Time to interminably bark
And liberties t...
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Categories:
nominees, anger, animal, anxiety, death,
Form: Rhyme
Jealousy Forever
...Seeing his rival celebrity on the screen,
He is with envy green;
By him thought a fortunate being,
Of all nominees their Faculty’s Dean;
Only thirty years ago did his mother him wean.
A reason ...
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Categories:
nominees, anger, character, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Bangalore-My Dream Destination
...Sprawling green gardens super
Brilliant, breezy cool weather
Bustling busy night life
Clubbing culture that does strike
Thriving tech talent pool
With culture uniquely cool
Fastest growin...
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Categories:
nominees, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Question Number Eight
...With spring approaching quickly and milk is upon the rise,
our factory employs seasonal workers to resize,
the employee pool to accommodate the milk intake,
which means twenty-four by seven with s...
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Categories:
nominees, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Another Racism Forum
...Our Black Lives Matter team was hosting
another monthly forum on racism,
as regularly scheduled,
anti-patriarchal business as usual.
The facilitator opened with a question,
asking for a show o...
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Categories:
nominees, anti bullying, culture, green,
Form: Political Verse
A Witch-Hunting We Will Go
...Puritans gather in Congress' hallowed halls, faces glum
Trampling truth, blowing horns, banging the drum
Of blazing envy, wrath and sloe-eyed sleaze
Committee member, moralizing minions, o...
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Categories:
nominees, america, judgement, leadership, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
A Witch-Hunting We Will Go
...Puritans gather in Congress' hallowed halls, faces glum
Trampling truth, blowing horns, banging drums
Of blazing envy, wrath, and sloe-eyed sleaze
Pelosi-Schumer's moralizing minions on...
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Categories:
nominees, america, judgement, leadership, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
The Leadership Convention
...When potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,
Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
...
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Categories:
nominees, conflict, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
Liberty Land
...I was freed today the birth of a regent a new colony
I was created in Freedom birth of land from Liberty
Free from Injustice persecution and religious domination
Resurrected Liberty's captivati...
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Categories:
nominees, analogy, anniversary, birthday, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Seeking 2020 Vision
...My son, nearly twenty,
living at home while attending community college,
without prospects of healthier, more robust, alternatives,
believes it is now past time
for pollsters to cast aside their ...
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Categories:
nominees, earth, health, parents, patriotic,
Form: Political Verse
Contest
...Collect the word stones
That match up on the beach
Launch each skipping
Against the waves
Literate the words
From the sandy walls
Roll them through your finger
Put them into the water
They wi...
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Categories:
nominees, america, art, city, class,
Form: Classicism
Getting Into It
...Where have you been?
We stopped taxing investments in worker-owned cooperatives
decades ago.
They all have missions to do one or two of two possible things,
To recycle matter to highest use
with...
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Categories:
nominees, earth, environment, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
CommonSense Political WorkParty
...EcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of resilient encircling might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best CommonSen...
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Categories:
nominees, addiction, community, creation, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Characterization
...Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s not
All candidates have...
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Categories:
nominees, political
Form: Couplet
Mayon Volcano
...While kiss by the clouds
Perfect cone remains sober
Fury hides beneath
The subject is one of the active volcanoes
in my homeland, Philippines...
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Categories:
nominees, nature
Form: Haiku
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