Home Rights Poems

Written 28 April 2024

“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
          Joseph Joubert

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[verse]
My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long.
Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong.
For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a...

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CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP 

AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT...

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Listen, my dear guys,                     ...

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By Cherbo Geeplay 

This, to the commanding officer 
who led his troops to war, on one 
knee and won in the trenches
on the battlefield littered...

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the quilting festival is an event where grandma lingers.
Her friends are there – Mag, Charlene and Mrs. Fingers.
They try to pretend it is not a...

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Mother Earth, a gift so rare, 
A place of beauty, beyond compare.
A world of wonder, where life abounds, 
A paradise of sights and sounds.

From the...

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Still Trying To Get Big Babies On Board with a Rational Ethics

"I detesht having to shtep outshide for a shigarette."
-- a drunk to his drunk...

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When devouring a hot chicken pie
An advertised flat caught my eye,
     I would hazard a guess
     Judging...

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I heard a man is coming to
speak at a local college soon,
some students had invited him,
to hear an outside point-of-view.
But then a loud majority
got up...

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Recycled

I have gone through many storms. 
Some I thought would capsize the boat, 
and drown both me, 
and my beloved children.
At the first sign of...

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The Price

The price of peanuts 
has gone through the roof. 
The elephants are not happy. 
They will need to curb
their needs, 
their appetite... 
their normal...

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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It's not just young couples making a choice
I am for life please have your baby, okay
It's a farce about the tissue inside, mother has no...

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Drifter

Coming in from nowhere, 
staying only a moment, 
and then moving on. 
Friend, or foe?
Hard to know. 
What to call you...
by name? 

Without family, 
left...

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