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A Dated Date

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Dating’s so dated
He lately related
From a date he dated 
Who arrived belated
Named Candy Dayt
A mate candidate?
Who on their first date
Ate eighty eight dates
Straight out of a crate
That...

Circumstancially Broken

...You're a pain that hurts in the right places
You stabbed my heart and killed me right before the tongue hit the septum of my heart
Emotionally battered
I have been victimized by my circumstances 
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The Fourth of July

...I was asked, are you going to raise your flag on the fourth of July?

Why shouldn't I raise my flag on the fourth of July, was my reply?

Because they said, did you read Frederick Douglass's famo...

The Children

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The Children
By: Tom Wright
5/31/03

How oft are the children sacrificed
for an unjust cause or belief.
From hunger, with swollen bellies,
they beg for morsels of relief.

Accounte...

Words In Haste

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Words in Haste
Written: by Tom Wright
1/16/2013

Sometimes in life, I’ve received some flack,
For expressing thoughts that I didn’t weigh;
Words once orated that I couldn’t retract,
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Love

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Love 
Written: by Tom Wright
6/17/2018

One’s love isn’t expressed,
By mere words we say.
But it’s in our actions,
Occurring within each day;

Love isn’t just a word,
To be interj...

Theater of Utter Charm Part 5

...she left me defenseless again
for reasons that cannot be spoken
but that can be further diagrammed
worthy of forensic dissection
deep into the cauliflower folds
branching like rivers of lightnin...

3 Dimensions

...In company, 
Amidst friends cum acquaintances,
Conversations of barrenness,
Chattering lips uttering programmed responses,
Smiling faces concealing bitter hearts, 
Prejudiced minds feigning soli...

Your Option, Please

...Your Option, Please.

Socrates Contemplated, 
Shakespeare Performed, 
Shelley Composed, 
Newton Realized, 
Hippocrates Diagnosed, 
King Solomon Ruled, 
Alexander Conquered, 
Tansen Sang, 
Rishi Vyasa...

Words

...I try to be cognizant of the words I speak,
Those words once expressed I cannot tweak.

I'm found using words that one time spent,
Brought distress to another and not my intent.

Precipitant words be...

Elect John G. S.

...John Givea Shiddyoleshuck.
Orated a speech from upon his truck,
“Elect me not because I’m the best,
But because I’ve trashed all the rest,
In short I’ve said they suck“.

“You see  there’ve bee...

In the Beginning Was the Poetry

...Oh! The poetry of "The power and Glory"!
I recall chant and call of that Gospel Story,
In storefront churches, all across the land.
Where heat was stirred, but not dispelled
by the waving of litt...

' the Greatest Poet of All ... '

...God … Is The Greatest Poet of All
God … Is The Greatest Poet
God, Speaks … And Leaves Us In Awe
… Astounded and Author-Devoted ! …

Yea … We are Humbled and Thunderstruck
and Sublimely Mesmeriz...

Second Fall From Grace

...A priest was strolling in a glorious
Garden next to a church cemetery.
Deep into daily prayers his serious
Reflection had ceased funereally.
From behind a blackberry bush a man
In agonizing pain...

Soap Box Politics and the Common Man.

...This morning I listened

To the simpleton and the sapient man preach

Yet as they orated to

All we who came to listen and imbibe

I was lost

There was no distinguishing 

One voice from...

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