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Redeployed Poems

Colin the Caped Cabbie

...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...

Categories: redeployed, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Neo Draconian

...When wisdom not often the same thing,
the first letter may not be capitalized.

Endless *****homini lupus,
more than human and dragon clash.

Smelling overlord blood feud,
taxation penalty red...

Categories: redeployed, age, anxiety,
Form: Bio

Kind of Reasonable Explanation

...Do angels walk amongst us, to be honest I really don’t know 
     My answers may seem rhetorical, for what life tends to throw 
    Could well be our imagination, reaching out tendrils with clasps
...

Categories: redeployed, introspection, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Calzone From Pizza Pizza

...Ever enjoy a Calzone from Pizza Pizza
Holy crapola, the yummiest surprise, senoritas
A heated-up bundle of joy
A slice of pizza redeployed
Calzone is stuffed with pepperoni and cheese, eu...

Categories: redeployed, senses,
Form: Limerick

Hope

...Detour to heaven,
  back road to joy

Change of direction
  —hope redeployed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

Categories: redeployed, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Old Man Time

...Redeployed in an ugly skin
Pleated and spotted and grumpy within
What I call walking ,they call shuffling
I'm bending down to tie my shoe
While Im down here what else can I do?

When driving do...

Categories: redeployed, best friend, funny, grandfather,
Form: Free verse

The Conservation of Good

...Energy is never
Created nor destroyed
Hence sweet souls must ever
Be sweetly redeployed...

Categories: redeployed, death, in memoriam,
Form: Elegy

Word For Today: Pool

...WORD FOR TODAY: POOL

Some firms have a policy that ‘donates’ laggards to the POOL
Affected staffers are given the chance to thrive or be a FOOL
Some redeployed staff went to a new unit; became t...

Categories: redeployed, allusion, anxiety, betrayal, career,
Form: Epic

Purple Haze

...No more this verdant sight no more the sound
No more the heart of mist at nature’s dawn
No more victims of constant pressure found
No more the fool of man’s enactment borne.

To worship a founda...

Categories: redeployed, confusion, depression, political,
Form: Sonnet