Redress Poems

Matildas Concert in Hinde

...Movement Shod
Heeling halt
Abbreviated democracy
Flank in route

Gaurd maneuver out

Folded company

Beret for address

Redress complete

Back in Britain

Marina Ann Hantzis

Princes...
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Categories: redress, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn Second Thoughts By David Kavanagh

...By David Kavanagh


On second thoughts
When instinct becomes 
an educated guess
And improvisation 
demands quick redress
Like thinking on one’s feet
if too drunk to stand
Be found all at se...
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Categories: redress, allegory,
Form: Lyric


Premium MemberOn second thoughts

...When instinct becomes 
an educated guess
And improvisation 
demands quick redress
Like thinking on one’s feet
if too drunk to stand
Be found all at sea
throwing up on dry land

Twisted situa...
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Categories: redress, irony, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberForks in the Less Walked Roads

...
I learn to hold a rose’s thorn,
without a flinch, without the scorn,
To withdraw warmth from tempered spring,
Coiled within a cold, hard steel ring.

In alleys closed by brick and stone,
I pr...
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Categories: redress, emotions, fate, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWord Play

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The brazen way some women dress,
I swear they’re in need of a redress.
With swarths of fresh skin exposed
decency demands they wear more clothes.
Advocates for women’s rights (men mostly)
cl...
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Categories: redress, humor,
Form: Light Verse


A Good Sense Of Humour Blunts The Sharp Blades Of Reality: Shaving Ryan’s Privates

...Roll back the clock to Josef Locke
(and not before or after),
in climes where shrines have names like Knock
without provoking laughter.

My father was an army man
(and yet me to beget),
all sp...
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Categories: redress, military,
Form: Rhyme

Modern Consternations of Lament

...Modern Consternations of Lament

Contradictions and formulations of thought that bridge the edges of time 
Benedictions and combinations that evolve into the refined
Jurisdictions and innovations...
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Categories: redress, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Minor Act of Weather

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Now and then, quietly without notice,
Time adjusts its spectacles—
Peers through a fogged pane of recall
Where particulars, once urgent, dissolve.

If now and then you find rain in your hear...
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Categories: redress, introspection, memory, old, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThis one's for Blue'

...I used to say come to London.' Yet not now.' The violence
Is spiralling.' There is less value wow.' Not of tawdry glam
And glitz and such.' Yet of life.. and futures they don't seem
Worth that muc...
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Categories: redress, abuse, blue, city, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRetaliation

...Retaliation-the action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself, revenge~ protectionism invites retaliation—def    it is what it is

                                         seeker of re...
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Categories: redress, perspective, vanity,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberEmpirical upshot'

...I must allow..I am deeply impacted by the demenour, the
Character" of Ink Empress." my expression i feel must be
Expressed.' Or I would view myself.' As a most uncouth
Inversion..' Of appreciation...
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Categories: redress, appreciation, assonance, character, courage,
Form: Personification

Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch

...Habit is Heaven's tame redress:
it tugs down the skirts of Happiness.
—Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch

Till, conquered by gusts of cold air,
as Winter approaches, I find,
on...
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Categories: redress, dream, heaven, life, love,
Form: Free verse

The movers and Shakespearers

...No comfort for the stickler, sticking literary fixtures depicting conflicting inklings to their minds as perfect pictures.
With one stroke of my pen the standards rose again and damned be lesser men...
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Categories: redress, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Woman: The Goddess of Poetry

...Woman: The Goddess of Poetry

The lyrics of her resonance, 
the whispers of her magnificence,
softly allocates the vibrancy, velocity
and engaging variety
All great beings, all great writings
...
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Categories: redress, celebration, creation, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse

The Echo Returns Not

...The stars dance across the sky
A nightly recital of spinning and whirling
They’re in the spotlight here
But I know they’re invisible to him
Playing hide-and-go-seek offstage
I scream his name to...
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Categories: redress, 12th grade, absence, hurt,
Form: Free verse

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