Our guaranteed protection and deliverance from the enemy Commentary and Q and A part four
...Today, I was watching Amber's Cloud Nine Blessings You Tube Channel on my smart
television. When one of her listeners submitted some rather chilling information con
cerning Australia! There's goi...
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Categories:
roth, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
What's the Deal with Tarzan?
...Tim Roth gets shot, and what emerges? Blood.
His innards act like wrecked intestines should.
Those fifties-movies injuns really suck,
with tactics redolent of Donald Duck!
“The whiteys circle wag...
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Categories:
roth, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Spring's Abysmal Guile
...Spring’s Abysmal Guile
By Sy Roth
A vapor rises, rank as the charnel pit,
a corruption of a miasma vast,
as though some sepulcher, long sealed,
split its stony jaws to breathe.
Vile exhalatio...
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Categories:
roth, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Utopia
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“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict in which everything is perfect. And if there is no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – ...
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Categories:
roth, appreciation, community, humanity, people,
Form: Rhyme
Her Blacken Silhouette Has a Harden Heart-
...was she unruly, unholy
questions placed and asked
she stood before me blacken
in her silhouette she was dark
shade and shape of black
draped down her strains of hair colored dark
no...
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Categories:
roth, absence, abuse, dark, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Going, Going, Gone Extinct
...Say bye-bye to these:
"Hold, please." (Hold what?)
Typewriter Repairman Ads
"Dial this number..." (What's 'dial?')
Down-time... Offline
Compliments (Complaint Departments h...
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Categories:
roth, fun, future, goodbye, history,
Form: List
The Figurative Nail Hit On the Hirsute Covered Head
...The figurative nail hit on the hirsute covered head!
Eventually vices will witness me crow king
cough'n affliction caw hearse courtesy
smok'n since me yay high,
hence appellation (mountain) wh...
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Categories:
roth, 12th grade, absence, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Front Window Cogitation
...The Front Window Cogitation
By Sy Roth
Observed the others drowning in their tears.
A pasty rain inks the front window
Sad remnants of a broken sky in Kandinsky splashes
Marked on an ancient,...
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Categories:
roth, angst, sad,
Form: Free verse
Caledonia
...Caledonia her laund is oor laund,
Caledonia her laund is ma laund
A laund wherr ithers ur walcome,
As we haud oot oor hand
In friendship an tak ye aw in,
As brithers fur aw that.
Caledonia we...
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Categories:
roth, conflict, courage, feelings, grief,
Form: Ballad
Soul Starving In the Midst of Plenty
...Soul Starving in the Midst of Plenty
By Sy Roth
Just a slit where air,
Some air can find a way to creep in
Replenish the foul exhalations of the horde
Crammed to the rafters
Airless beings
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Categories:
roth, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
E Pluribus Unum
...Carrying worn suitcases packed tightly
with meager possessions, lofty dreams,
bringing hearts filled
with longings
for the familiarity of homelands
and family left behind,
they came to America....
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Categories:
roth, america, immigration, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
A Horn and Hardart Story
...A Horn and Hardart Story
By Sy Roth
It begins with buttons,
ivory buttons,
Pearlized pieces--
Not the plastic crap,
Over-industrialized flotsam
that adorns clothing these days—
Eager...
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Categories:
roth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
They Took Him
...They Took Him
By Sy Roth
They took him and squirreled him away.
Those Sophists,
Deniers of the terror they could construct
Where he no longer saw the human side of himself.
Half man, Quasi...
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Categories:
roth, angst,
Form: Free verse
Cloaked In Their Untruths
...Cloaked in Their Untruths
By Sy Roth
Behind a cloak their little secrets roved,
Like silent, swishing vagrants eluding the truth
The darkness so thick,
A wall of impenetrable secrets built aro...
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Categories:
roth, youth,
Form: Free verse
I Am Not a Zelig
...I Am Not a Zelig
By Sy Roth
If not now, when?
The Zelig resides
Quiet, undefined
In my dark corners.
Like a chameleon, it rests on the warming rock
Inert, cold-blooded creature
Sunning i...
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Categories:
roth, angst,
Form: Free verse
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