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Paymaster Poems

LCW

...Sometimes she would laugh.
Sometimes she would cry.

    her worries
she would never
                 complicate
                           into my life.
but 
       when worries complicated ...

Categories: paymaster, mother,
Form: Free verse

Season of Anomie

...Here I am my compatriot 
Do not bore me with inanity 
Stay in your lane dear friend 
And let me stay in mine
For this is the season of anomie
Tempers are high and boiling over
Do not try to tea...

Categories: paymaster, allusion, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse

April Fools For Bobby Lee

...“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106

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Categories: paymaster, allegory, break up, history,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Landsknecht's Drink

...Oh great Tavern!
Beautiful and wondrous inn
What countless prizes
Lie in wait inside!
Your vault keeps from us
Our treasured Mead, Wine, and Beer!

Oh great Mead!
Pour from the keg
Fill up y...

Categories: paymaster, corruption, drink, friendship, military,
Form: Free verse

Cries From the River Nun

...A glib giant of the river borders 
The discerning ears of the ancient Power, we mourn
Where caravans cascade to unseen voices 
And the rumbling of avalanche bullets invades our peace 

This mind...

Categories: paymaster, analogy, anger, character, chocolate,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Paymaster

...I took on a task that I knew I could win.
and threw myself headlong in terrible sin,
to manage a firm that abused all it’s staff,
robbing them daily and kicking their ass.

So why should I enter...

Categories: paymaster, abuse, anti bullying, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

Vale - Victor Stanley Jones

...You were born in Clermont, Queensland on December, twenty-four, 
Away back circa eighteen sevn'ty-two. 
Edward Jones now had a fifth child, whom his dear wife Anna bore, 
Their second son and both...

Categories: paymaster, history, loss, social, day,
Form: Narrative