cancelled
...Centred around the trend of today's commentary-
Anything we say that doesn't fit into this
Narrative-your censored and
Condemned for your opinions-what
Ever happened to free speech? -are we jus...
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Categories:
placards, culture, today,
Form: Acrostic
Malevolent Forms of Warnings
...Malevolent Forms of Warning
Contamination of the water
Insubordination of a teenage daughter
Co-ordination of more lambs to the slaughter
Provocation of the new world order
Authentication ...
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Categories:
placards, life,
Form: Rhyme
Where Are They Now?
...In this country
Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals
Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag
Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country
Sil...
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Categories:
placards, corruption, humanity, march, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Damn it this is our planet!
...Palindrome Poem...Reverse Verse about our Perverse Universe
(flip gravity.. what goes down must then come up - sorry..read down then back up)
"In this place we all call home
Monstrously Machia...
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Categories:
placards, earth, environment, home, planet,
Form: Rhyme
ABYSS
... ABYSS
Abyss, a Place of Redemption
solace space curling then unfurling
here we sail drowsy dark seas
no boats or oars, unaccompanied
converse with walrus and whales
black shimmer...
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Categories:
placards, allegory, change, character, color,
Form: Free verse
Wokery, no just jiggery pokery
...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..
Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..
Deafening din of our chagrin...
Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...
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Categories:
placards, health, political,
Form: Rhyme
i did not use special characters
...Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM
Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.
The late reverend American minister and activ...
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Categories:
placards, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Wouldn't it be nice---IF
...Wouldn’t it be nice…IF
The sun rose and shined on all
The moon smiled at sunset
The stars played hopscotch in the heavens
The universe exhaling in peace
Wouldn’t it be nice…IF
Those wearing...
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Categories:
placards, america, dream, integrity,
Form: Free verse
ANOTHER TIME FROM THE CRUST
...ANOTHER TIME. FROM THE CRUST
At a time when it crows
I set up to a lain me at thine bowl
Full weight! Full length a naked yoke
There you set my piece at thine brow
There I grew to thankfull...
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Categories:
placards, age, analogy, birthday, deep,
Form: Rhyme
I CAN'T BREATHE -repost 2014
...I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to carry arms,
praise God and w...
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Categories:
placards, america,
Form: Prose Poetry
Chomp
...Six men had found a kiosk in a clearing in the woods
They ordered up some hotdogs from the chef of meaty goods
One tried to boost his appetite by going for a stroll
His friends thought he’d gone h...
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Categories:
placards, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
DEMOCRAZY IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY
...DEMOCRACY IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY
Yea how shall we start with
Dancing to tune of craze
Walking up at a lever so aching
Dragging with demons all days
Who did we offend, which way
I'd thou...
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Categories:
placards, poems, political, visionary, war,
Form: Rhyme
protests
...If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything...
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Categories:
placards, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom,
Form: Free verse
God's only son
...Charred in solace of your embrace
reminiscences engrossed as imprint
harboured in placards of your grace
A birth, a thousand with no squint
in winter's pure pour of snow
reminiscences engrosse...
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Categories:
placards, christmas, december, deep, devotion,
Form: Terzanelle
Placards
...Wall posters
There is in a town, not far from here, a house with a tall wall a solid protector from prying eyes, the house has shuttered windows, which makes it a Mediterranean dwelling
The wall ...
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Categories:
placards, allegory, anger, anniversary, baseball,
Form: Blank verse
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