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
On 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
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 sea
throwing up on dry land
Twisted situa...
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Categories:
redress, irony, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Forks in the Less Walked Roads
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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
Word 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
A 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
This 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
Retaliation
...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
Empirical 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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