Damn it this is our planet!
...Palindrome Poem...Reverse Verse about our Perverse Universe
(flip gravity.. what goes down must then come up - sorry..read down then back up)
"In this place we all call home
Monstrously Machia...
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Categories:
ransacking, earth, environment, home, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Another Farage barrage
...Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage
No longer a skewed malicious mirage
Stronger imbued with pernicious camouflage
Wronger spewed such vicious sabotage
Doom Monger crude offici...
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Categories:
ransacking, political,
Form: Free verse
To Thief
...To Thief
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Thief
His seed is to steal
With his fingers long of sorrow
He will have no regrets tomorrow
Looting and ransacking freely
Escaping plainly and frankly
Every...
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Categories:
ransacking, addiction, anger, conflict, evil,
Form: Free verse
Get out of my head mister chatterbox
...Get out of my head mister chatterbox!
Ransacking treasure trove
of maximum headroom.
To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming
forty seventh president
or contracting o...
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Categories:
ransacking, abuse, anger, bullying, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Sad Endings
...There are many,
the threads of a public life
always unravelling
into more sadness.
We read of so and so
and his ending
her dire departing.
The sadness is a gesture,
an acknowledgement
th...
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Categories:
ransacking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wild Fires
...Jolted out of my sleep state,
I'm weary-eyed --- it’s 4 am.
It takes a minute to clear the haze
as I wake to the scent of distant fires.
Recalling the news of yesterday,
slowly reality begins ...
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Categories:
ransacking, fire, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date
...Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date
While yours truly sat here
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous read...
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Categories:
ransacking, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Rebelling Against the Almighty
...The awful feeling tightens my vocal cords
that praised another god who never denied pleasures;
I abandoned faith and despised kindness:
it's time for God to show anger through ransacking,
taking ...
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Categories:
ransacking, blessing, conflict, emotions, faith,
Form: Narrative
I Let a Lover Become My Vice
...Always plucking away one by one the seams that construct my well-being and when everything spells out, you run and hide
Like a tornado ransacking my soul, slowly wiping me out, deleting my existence...
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Categories:
ransacking, abuse, break up, cry,
Form: Free verse
Never Again
...Pulled together
by a magnetic avoidance of loneliness,
fueled by an insatiable ardor
to evade a shortage of love.
Mutually splintered souls searching
for a place to embed and
implement a façade...
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Categories:
ransacking, abuse, addiction, hurt, violence,
Form: Free verse
Haven
...I felt home
In its presence I felt warm & home
With no contact, I feel touched by just staring
Distance meant nothing for if I could see I could feel
Its light made our nights as we lay calm wat...
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Categories:
ransacking, adventure, age, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Word Painting In Black and White
...Word Painting In Black and White
Cubed ice dismantling the plank bridge with pliers
made of syrup spilled with a dash of grief and brawn
the reptilian doughboy mixes up another cosmic batch
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Categories:
ransacking, memory,
Form: Free verse
Walking With Him
...He smells wood smoke in the air.
It is autumn, and the smolder
of inert sap fills every nose,
ignites flameless fires in shrinking roots.
Now he buries that nose
in a pile of russet and gold-f...
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Categories:
ransacking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wardance
...Your blasting from the back.
You know your under my skin.
This is a constant battle.
Here we go once again.
Your sickness is feeding off of me
Havent you had enough.
Time to lay down your ...
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Categories:
ransacking, abuse, anger, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Bloody Oriskany, Part Ii
...Fierce fighting raged, but surprise was gone,
the Americans rallied and pushed hard,
the Indians fell back, out of the ravine,
the patriots driving them that far.
Hand-to-hand combat broke out ...
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Categories:
ransacking, america, conflict, freedom, hero,
Form: Narrative
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