Empty Barrels
...Is most of your life spent
alone in the dark
Hiding from rainbows
in colorless spite
The sun waits a mistress
the evening a whore
That paid by the hour
exposes your blight
Professing in ear...
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Categories:
pontification, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
I Re: Egret Forsaking Gull Friend Where, Heron Eye Twitter
...I re: egret forsaking gull friend where, heron eye twitter
Fictional account related
courtesy one pink flamingo.
Aves lusting for verboten tweet
reed lubricious sin after giving
Twiggy anot...
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Categories:
pontification, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Forked Tongues
...Not lying outright
is far from the truth
Hesitance vacuous
barren of fruit
What never gets said
deceitfulness hides
Stalking and preying
while buried inside
The pulpit a soapbox
lectern...
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Categories:
pontification, words,
Form: Rhyme
A Threnody To the Tragedy In Owo
...What a sad day it was on the fifth day of June
Death being so greedy visited Saint Francis in about noon
And a beautiful sunny day was thrown into shade
Man's wickedness to man makes my heart fade...
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Categories:
pontification, death,
Form: Rhyme
Camera Shy
...8 or 9 dudes expecting at least 85 views/
Maybe a shot for the spot on the channel 5 news/
As he lay there imagining where his day went wrong/ with the only breath he has left cuz he won’t live lon...
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Categories:
pontification, addiction, america, dark, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Fleeting Motherlode
...High minded but low brow,
and living the contradiction
of a greater truth
I’m caught between transcendence
and pontification
my pockets ladened
with a traitor’s silver
—in search of gold
(...
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Categories:
pontification, truth,
Form: Free verse
Poisoning the Well
...We turn a deaf ear
as they live with the pain
of those who we cancel
with biting disdain
Unable to rise
above selfish intent
with opioid bias
our progeny bent
Pontification
colors the fl...
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Categories:
pontification, children, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Committee Buzz
...The air is thick with words.
They flutter and beat
About my ears
Like a thousand moths.
A proliferation of pontification
And pedantic pomposities
Numbs my mind
And muddles my thoughts.
Detail...
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Categories:
pontification, feelings, humor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
A Colossus Part 2dedicated To All Who Served and All Who Are Serving Our Country
...Take care of her
Keeping toes and ties off the ground
Beware of those with savage intent
To draw her down
Beware those of quisling heart
Who seek only to pillage then plunder her
All those fa...
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Categories:
pontification, america, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Pontification
...pontification
plus narcissism ~whoa mule....
self-forgetfulness
pontification
[-'kaSH?n]
DEFINITION
noun form of pontificate
pontificate
[pontificate]
VERB...
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Categories:
pontification, conflict,
Form: Senryu
Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings
...I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v is...
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Categories:
pontification, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Begone,Dull Care
...Sententiousness I seriously cannot bear
I cannot abide po-faced pontification
Faced with which I want to pull out my hair
Being more at home in a festive occasion.
Flee the pessimism of the ...
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Categories:
pontification, celebration, cheer up, drink,
Form: Sonnet
Vanity's Ghost
...The narcissism
of small differences…
The egos crown
of thorns
The sharper each
individual barb
The more frequently
it’s worn
A grand
pontification
Whose wind
blows ju...
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Categories:
pontification, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
The Light of Reckoning -2
...The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I pre...
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Categories:
pontification, creation,
Form: Epic
A Leading Man
...the lonely plight
of a dissident man
a single lucent light fueled in the night
so flows pontification and foresight
the crowd it incites
a mass devoted to their leaders spite
...
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Categories:
pontification, america, anger, conflict, humanity,
Form: Free verse
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