Lost in thoughts
...Assume, for a moment,
That yesterday wasn’t quite as it seemed.
You found yourself in a state of reflection, where you glimpsed the light,
Only to awaken from what felt like a troubling drea...
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Categories:
populace, allusion, angst, encouraging, giggle,
Form: Blank verse
Distressing Calls of Discontent
...Distressing Calls of Discontent
Distressing calls of discontent frowning upon my brow
Convalescing with the fall of a malcontent who was too haughty and proud
Coalescing in forms of c...
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Categories:
populace, life,
Form: Rhyme
Our Governments Promote Unsustainable Population Growth
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Nations, like tides, rise and fall with the numbers,
A swelling crowd is a promise and a peril.
In youth, the many are labor and armies;
In age, they are a weight upon the state.
Leaders coun...
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Categories:
populace, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Failures Colossal
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Nine months after October 6, 1973
PM Golda Meir of Israel was history
For an intelligence failure colossal
She became a political fossil…
Fast forward to Octob...
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Categories:
populace, history, jewish, leadership, repetition,
Form: Couplet
Marlas Cat Turquoise
...There was a plethora of magical cats in Marla’s magic hat.
She concealed two of them from the regular populace.
The naysayers, doubters, and the ones on the fence.
Knowing they could not handle Tu...
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Categories:
populace, cat,
Form: Narrative
My Tribute to Meir Kahane
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Meir Kahane, a visionary, warned us all
Yet far too few heeded his call
Labeled a ‘firebrand’ by all the elites
His message understood by his enemies in the stre...
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Categories:
populace, appreciation, fear, horror, jewish,
Form: Couplet
Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was ra...
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Categories:
populace, art, conflict, death, flower,
Form: Lyric
PRECARIOUS BORDERS
...A republic finds itself in a wobbly state,
Governance shrouded by an opaque regime,
Some strands emerge together into a credible tapestry,
Many weaves yet to emerge from the loom.
Decades of si...
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Categories:
populace, war,
Form: Free verse
No winners in 'all out war'
...Any raining of bombs is the first step toward loosing.'
This act must be followed by ground forces.' Terrain
Variations will influence events.! As will populace actions
Among beligerent and invad...
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Categories:
populace, anxiety, conflict, courage, education,
Form: Narrative
something old, something new
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The US tariffs declares the plot is lost
shielding the tired and old, from the new kid on the block.
Focusing on the past admits failure to compete
with others on a level playing field.
It says...
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Categories:
populace, games, money,
Form: Free verse
Dominion
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Power changes hands in a country, and how. State of affairs are diametrically different following a hostile takeover of a once peaceful, democratic society. The country has descended into total...
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Categories:
populace, corruption, courage, fear, horror,
Form: Haibun
A Republic, if you can keep it
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Apocrypha phantoms
Hustle flung at your plugged ears
Wretched refuse numbed
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NOTES:
TITLE:
When asked what form of ...
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Categories:
populace, allusion, america, culture, destiny,
Form: Haiku
Etched in Stone
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Etched in Stone
In the soothing serene silence of a shining summer day
Strolling along a lonely alley laid in black stones
Bordered on both sides with verdant ...
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Categories:
populace, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
They got the whole world in their hands
...They got the whole world in their hands
Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to...
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Categories:
populace, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse
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:
populace, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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