Prevaricator
...Let’s cut right through
the bombast ...
your camouflage of words
And redefine
the essence ...
of what you’ve never learned
Your double-talk
pontificates ...
to lure and to distract
Whose lie...
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Categories:
pontificates, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
LOVE AND LIFE'S DICHOTOMOUS ATMOSPHERE
...Love is
so much stronger
than hate…
Hate aborts
all that is
good…
Love is
a pregnanc...
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Categories:
pontificates, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Banana once again
...What sold was for millions as art so grand,
Was bought for a few cents at a fruit stand--
A fancy mall nor mart,
Nor place of art apart,
Nor was banana taped with swanky band.
But a joke so crue...
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Categories:
pontificates, art, humor, irony,
Form: Limerick
Let Freedom Ring
...When people know you lack their ego
They assimilate in dens of evil
Sanctified swine proliferates
Condescending it pontificates
Assuming you're not with a friend
That leads you to what never end...
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Categories:
pontificates, allegory, betrayal, bible, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Let Freedom Ring
...When people know you lack their ego
They assimilate in dens of evil
Sanctified swine proliferates
Condescending it pontificates
Assuming you're not with a friend
That leads you to what never end...
...
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Categories:
pontificates, appreciation, blessing, creation, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Presidential Behavior
...There have been eleven presidents in my lifetime
and all but one has acted “Presidential.”
I recall, as a child, listening to adults discuss
politics and presidents, as if they were in a class...
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Categories:
pontificates, political, , western,
Form: Free verse
Wheel On a Stick Part 8
...The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing
Citadel of the Doinker King
A Coen Brotheresque take on a Soska Sisteroid version ...
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Categories:
pontificates, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Dark Truth
...Academia blocks real knowledge,
Native Peoples will attest
So many wrappings covering their lies,
each field does then arrest
With logic and ethics pointing the way,
their path leads f...
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Categories:
pontificates, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Sea Change
...What a day, I'm blown away
Watch the sun disintegrate
As I lay and contemplate
Clouds of gray accumulate
Dreamt a dream, back in the day
Keep it safely locked away
Girl, it shines and never f...
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Categories:
pontificates, song,
Form: Lyric
Looking At Nothing
...Blond in a corner
Scab-faced - face-chewer
Insidious narcissist
Asseverates feigns for empathy
Pontificates spiels on sobriety
The carpet stained – the smell of sewer
A seventy dollar ca...
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Categories:
pontificates, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Verse
Haiku: Physics: 'schrodinger's Cat' Pontificates On His Chances
...Me... closed box... death hangs*,
Heartless dreamers can't see in
Bastards! Am I dead?
Poet's Notes:
A famous thought experiment in Physics in which the life or death of Schridinger's
Ca...
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Categories:
pontificates, nature,
Form: Haiku
Moderna Commedia, Third Canto, First Part
...Ancora in sogno vaga la mia mente
Nell’ignoto esplorando come Ulisse
Quando uno squarcio si apre immantinente.
Un uomo curvo col cappuccio nero
Che in tempi oscuri per la chiesa visse
Mi si rivolge i...
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Categories:
pontificates, poems,
Form: Terza Rima
The Scent of God
...(This poem is dedicated to Beryl Singleton Bissell, whose book of this name
reveals her love affair and sometime contretemps with God. I thank her for
graciously consenting to a poetic adoption of...
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Categories:
pontificates, allegory, mystery, planet,
Form: Free verse
Mutiny
...Blue chips stared - boring
Appraising. 'Do you have anything
to say?'
I stare back. Bristling.
Eyes streaming.Of course I had opinions to
offer -
I look around: solemn masks tinged with
di...
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Categories:
pontificates, childhood, education, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Alice In Wonder
...Alice in Wonder
Alice in wonder, landed a handful
From depths of a dryer eerily playful
Another sock missing, the dryer she’s dissing
A goblin within she fears is hissing
Disgusted by wast...
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Categories:
pontificates, funny
Form: Couplet
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