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Reliability Poems

Weathervane

Ngo Dinh Diem thought America was a friend
That turned out badly, he met a bloody end
A State Department cabal thought he denied human rights
They pulled the plug and turned off the lights
JFK agreed he had to go, Diem was hurting our side
Viet plotters then shot him, JFK was horrified.

Then we ended up putting our troops

Categories: reliability, betrayal, character, courage, freedom,
Form: Lyric

Reliability Illustrated

  Wheaties in beer to start the day
    Off to work I stumble and sway

  Cocktail at noon to set the stage
    For the nap I need ‘due to age’  

  Double martini at 5:05
    Reflexes take a nosedive

  Night cap

Categories: reliability, drink, sleep, work,
Form: Couplet

Reliability Is Hard To Come By

Reliability is hard to come by, I hear a sigh
Product insurance is offered when you buy
Manufacturers do build obsolescence in
Sellers know you’ll be coming back again.

Product insurance is offered when you buy
The appliance is not meant to last forever,
Sellers know you’ll be coming back again
A dependency dealers are reluctant to sever.

The appliance is not meant

Categories: reliability, business, perspective, satire,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Re-Lie-Ability

Habitual liars, story spinners
Elasticizing their version of the truth,
Taking it and whomever they can
On a seemingly endless journey
Into oblivion.
They can feed you the same lie
8 ways past Sunday.
Expect you to believe it
And further expect to get away with it.
Gettin' you caught up in their whirlwind
Just to see how fast and long
They can make your head

Categories: reliability, hate, life, spoken word,
Form: Free verse

Reliability of Science

R-eliability
O-f
S-cience
E-njoys

A-mazing
N-obility
N-icely

E-mploying
S-ublime
C-onclusion
A-s
L-ife
A-nd
N-ature
T-aste
E-xperiment

Topic: Birthday of Rose Ann G. Escalante (March 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Categories: reliability, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Simple Men and Knowledge

curious heed
in times of need

Categories: reliability, america, hope, life,
Form: Couplet

Farm Ute

Powerful, solid, ready to work, 
My reliant embodied in steel,
With her tray reinforced to carry a load, 
My battle hard automobile,

She doggedly moved tonnes of gravel, 
Repeatedly throughout the work day,
Out to the farm to fill all the gullies, 
Running along the driveway,

And groans and moans? Not from this girl, 
Not in the wet, freezing

Categories: reliability, appreciation, work,
Form: Personification