Mcallen Blues
...The invasion upon us
attacked by a neighbor
no village is safe
their scourge overruns
The enemy dressed
as civilian turistas
our border wide open
and freely they come
No shots have been f...
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Categories:
overruns, america,
Form: Rhyme
For Those Who Loathe America
...For Those Who Loathe America
~*~
At Pearl Harbor, many young lives
were lost.
Those too young now~ never valued
their auspicious cost.
As kids, in the USA...
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Categories:
overruns, angst, international,
Form: Rhyme
Counting Cumulative Costs
...What does it cost
to love a degenerating Earth,
home,
habitat?
Where NO TRESPASSING signs
speak out for natural sound
defensive silence,
for spiritually medicinal fragrances
only,
in sacre...
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Categories:
overruns, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Grace and Solitude
...Hovering hemispheres habitual harmonics, symmetrical solitudes in their Sonics,
Mastering melodies with mnemonics, amidst approbation of acoustical avionics…
Stellar symphonies sailing Celestia...
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Categories:
overruns, celebration, music, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Big Picture Tease
...Bogged down in the details,
truth is undone
Swimming through the corn flakes,
milk overruns
Looking at the forest,
seeing just trees
Life micromanaged
—big picture tease
(Villanova Pe...
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Categories:
overruns, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Cost Overrun In Bolehland
...Cost Overruns
Here in Bolehland, one thing that can be observed and learnt...
It is that Government initiatives are noble and well meant...
Probably each working paper or proposal is well res...
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Categories:
overruns, allegory, allusion, anxiety, community,
Form: Free verse
Big Picture Tease
...Bogged down in the details,
truth comes undone
Swimming through the corn flakes,
milk overruns
Looking at the forest,
seeing just trees
Pieces micromanaged,
—big picture tease
...
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Categories:
overruns, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
A Malady of the Mind
...A malady of the mind
Dominates the will
As the surging river
Overruns the mill
Omnipotent craving
The bullpen cannot hold
A temptation unremitting
Annulling principle
No affection or reas...
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Categories:
overruns, addiction, drink,
Form: Quatrain
Swamp
...murky water hinders view
vegetation overruns shore
crocodiles lay in wait
P.R.Deremer...
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Categories:
overruns, nature, places, water,
Form: Haiku
Always Assume
...I live
where the other world meets reality
Always Assume
ignoring, staring
at blinding glances of sun rays
I die
alone in a crowded room
echoed stress
deafening what’s assumed
Assume...
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Categories:
overruns, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Run Amok
...Palpable hatred makes your nostrils seethe
As you inhale all the imagined wrongs
Grounded in ignorance
And no reality
A match is struck
Martyrs are made
And fools are kings
Grievances r...
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Categories:
overruns, social, society,
Form: Verse
By a Friendship That Never Bends
...The shadows of doubt
May cover our thoughts;
Cover our sights;
Or ruin our dispositions
But the shade of truth hasn't lost its
Luminance that creeps and o...
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Categories:
overruns, friendship, relationship, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Raspberry Blood
...her hands: blooming. sugar, hot
and humming. those wrists, sweet,
no longer sticky. yet stubborn,
reigning the laughter of two years ago.
her lips: fruit. ripe, or rotten, you
no longer remember. st...
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Categories:
overruns, death, depression, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Is Your Mind Free
...Remember worries and fear overruns your mind.
Hope, joy, and love become hard to find.
With my faith, hope and courage combined.
I find a deeper love for all mankind.
What is it that I do not realiz...
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Categories:
overruns, hope, inspirational, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
Eyes of An Ageing Man
...Eyes Of An Ageing Man
The eyes of an ageing man
Can tell a story few others can
For surely he has seen it all
From a nation rising, to it’s fall
From wars for freedom, and of security
Each...
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Categories:
overruns, lifemen, drug,
Form: Rhyme
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