OF FOOD AND WARRING: A TANKA QUINTET
...OF FOOD AND WARRING
(A TANKA QUIENTET)
Juxtaposed bombs fall…
Food’s down, starvation rising…
Death…collateral…
Thus, war’s new reaping of death:
Food uprooted and destroyed:-
Food’s an en...
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Categories:
pontificating, corruption, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Holy Roller
...
There once was an old Pope from Rome
who had the Good Book a huge tome
an altar ego and mass appeal
so he made the Vatican home
2015 he addressed the environment
on climate change caus...
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Categories:
pontificating, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
OF SAGE NATURING WORDS: A Reflection On Pontificating Words
...In natured wording,
In what season can you say,
“Never say never?!”
It’s said, “God never leaves us!”
Never will this not be?!
Never ever stop
Fighting for liberation;
No, never ever:-
Suc...
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Categories:
pontificating, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Two hours away and I'm here in Limbo
...Being in a state of mixed emotions is always a job for the educated and lonely
Each time I heard her voice in writing or in voice, my attention was for her
Sometimes a state of silence is needed an...
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Categories:
pontificating, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse
Shadows II
...Sitting here in the shadows while trying to contemplate what you are to me is a challenge
More so, whether I am pontificating what I am to you as you have gone silent.
In the past, I wanted to take...
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Categories:
pontificating, absence, grief, judgement,
Form: Prose
isms are not working Politics 8
...Worries they have none
Turning the country into poverty
Hush your lip
Isms aren't working
We cant talk freely here
They tell what is good for you
In this septic isle
We expect to listen to ...
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Categories:
pontificating, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Pontius Piousness
...predisposed political parlays predict poised patterns policing
protective presents pontificating perseverant predatory
persuasive promotions promulgating persistent
proselytizing prostitutional ...
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Categories:
pontificating, america, angst, anxiety, blue,
Form: Alliteration
Mystery
...God is met not as an object to be understood,
but as a mystery to be loved -attributed to Gregory of Nyssa
d. 19 July, 394
Crisp and white underfoot
crunching whilst I take out the b...
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Categories:
pontificating, allegory, animal, change, england,
Form: Free verse
Unsound
...Unadulterated social illness
follows outbreaks of mental mania.
We stagger after each crazy outbreak
make firm resolutions and plans
nothing helps.
Causes are multifactual, faceted,
it's all ...
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Categories:
pontificating, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Soupercilious
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My Favorite Things comes to mind...
a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscur...
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Categories:
pontificating, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Panglossian Perspective
...The following initially crafted approximately three and a half years ago and presently brought a much sought after surge of satisfaction while meandering along the information superhighway.
Pangl...
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Categories:
pontificating, age, appreciation, atheist, beauty,
Form: Free verse
When Learning Health Care
...We cannot listen
or learn easily
when we do not feel safe,
said the environmental science students
to their corporate sponsored teachers.
Our lungs cannot breathe easily
or our hearts beat st...
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Categories:
pontificating, earth day, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
You Can'T March Dirt Out
...You can't march dirt from soiled laundry –
one needs a strong detergent, and several
cycles of rinses. You can't vote dictators
out of office – they do the counting, generally
counting the peop...
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Categories:
pontificating, america, patriotic, peace, people,
Form: Free verse
If I Were To Become Famous
...If I were Famous What Would I Do?
If I were to become famous
Here’s what I would do
I would appear on CNN
24/7 pontificating up a Storm
I would have a podcast
A YOUTUBE channel
And I would ...
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Categories:
pontificating, adventure, allegory, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
Pontification
...pontification
plus narcissism ~whoa mule....
self-forgetfulness
pontification
[-'kaSH?n]
DEFINITION
noun form of pontificate
pontificate
[pontificate]
VERB...
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Categories:
pontificating, conflict,
Form: Senryu
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