Pretexts Poems - Poems about Pretexts

...At high noontime, the tires are burning in the streets The sound of barking dogs is everywhere; the cats of hell smell Like never showered rats who are locked up in death row cells Where the air d......Read the rest...

...Beneath the frozen dome of a late December, I learned with melancholy That those who gave me wings are not the titans I summoned in my childhood dreams, But two earthlings, stirring my dreams into ......Read the rest...

...I couldn't avert my gaze off the sublime sunset, I was utterly dazzled by the magnanimous deed, I could follow the artist's pastel-colored hands bet, And mother's deep love, after she ......Read the rest...

...Once a poet is done psychically with his or her craft With the vernacular of his or her masterpieces It’s the role of the readers to add mentally missing pieces Parts, ideas, images, a few words a......Read the rest...

...SANCTIONS ENGAGED the impact formulated&cultivated to promote captivating   the impossible eliciting dazzling sparkling  gathering the dedicated with oblique but lighthearted pretexts & p......Read the rest...

...I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions, different schisms Joining the dots to......Read the rest...

...Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic b......Read the rest...

...My eyes were sorely struck when once they perceived verity in your insightful words. Oh, how they grieved when you chose to kneel low enough to kiss the ring of a cunning being, whose unmerited pr......Read the rest...

...As of the virgin voter robbed off her conscience Freedoms of expression turned into a massacre... Protestant chap spoke of the deed, how lame are We the stereotypical "us", to turn protest a viole......Read the rest...

...Love in its majesty and spendour Visits hearts kind and unkind Waxing her odour and ardour To help the love-lost to find Little spaces, loving faces Enamoured enough To rise from surfaces Wh......Read the rest...

...Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant to the whims of those about him endlessly wordlessly wondering about the many demented subjective qualities of our ever present mammalian imperative via......Read the rest...

...a multitude of pretexts the foretaste of argument: premise explored ignorance isolated then exchanged for understanding......Read the rest...

...A lapse of judgment, a tempest of rage; A crazy obsession, to not be assuaged. Aggression triggered by an avoidance of life; Anger transmitted by internal strife. A malignant cancer, that blank......Read the rest...

...So to say To do more for the retain land, aliens can do everything Dear, come let us weave a rope of Great Wall again That would be able, to tie strong, enough, if you unite Let it not be ......Read the rest...

...(TO THE VICTIMS OF WAR IN MY NATIVE CAMEROON AND IN NORTHERN NIGERIA) Giants Have filled The FAR North Sweeping Bloodbathing With sophisticated Heavy weapons Connected on a Barren l......Read the rest...