Drums Through the Bramble
...Atheist or Pagan
which gets to dream
reasoning stilted
spirits unseen
Rational narcissist
tribal taboos
if given the choice
it’s easy to choose
Atheist or Pagan
contrast to compare
t...
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Categories:
self worship, atheist, pain,
Form: Rhyme
To the Young
...On social media and TV,
in papers that we buy,
bodies well honed and muscles toned,
the gorgeous greet our eyes.
Through pouting lips in selfies,
tousled hair and perfect tans,
parading in some...
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Categories:
self worship, beauty, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Sacred Earth Undone
...Earth feels undone.
Not only incomplete,
but now unraveling,
Undead
but not resurrecting,
not fully alive,
not healthy enough
to listen for sacred survive
whispers, ReWind
ReGenerate
ReCo...
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Categories:
self worship, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Voltaire Might Say Beware
...Voltaire lived in the early 1700’s…he was born in Paris, France….
His words still have meaning today…if we’d give them half a chance.
If we had the opportunity…to talk to the famous Voltaire
I i...
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Categories:
self worship, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Oh My Soul
...Oh, my soul,
Why do you always go to pluck that fruit?
Why do you always judge on good and evil?
Why do you always appeal to the intellect?
Why do you always please the senses?
Why are you so ar...
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Categories:
self worship, religious,
Form: Free verse
Populist Politics
...When I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,
Which would have g...
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Categories:
self worship, bullying, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Annoyed With Self Worship
...Annoyed with Self Worship
Am annoyed with those who self worship,
And out has been causing so many to flip;
At least four
Or maybe more,
To Antarctic for years should take a trip.
Jim Ho...
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Categories:
self worship, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
War of Kings Part 2 Tyrant Rule
...Burning the scriptures of truth
Gaining control of the vast lands
Leaders spreading their demonic sickness
Love ones impaled by the spears of ignorant soldiers
Happiness becoming just another thi...
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Categories:
self worship, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Cornmarket Incident
...Pavement cafe, nine fifteen cradling a coffee (as you do)
from my left the china doll with clicking heels strode into view.
Tempting lips kissy-kissed with crimson, cheeks caressed
with blush, an...
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Categories:
self worship, love hurts, pain,
Form: Light Verse
Ice King
...Have I been summons to your presence , only to be sacrificed.
In the coldness of your breath..i will be put to a icy cold death.
With one word, I exist or not.
It is only you whom can wear your arrog...
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Categories:
self worship, abuse, betrayal, bullying, death,
Form: Free verse
Lines
...I am respected.
That's his explanation, his excuse and his reasoning.
He sits on a throne of these women he has claimed.
Tools of his self worship, he stacked them tall in his castle.
A tribute to h...
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Categories:
self worship, love, men, heart, women,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Tantamount To a Trinity
...Rejoicing tongues taste a tripled fortnight of psalms.
Parched throats anointed with vintage myrrh
commemorate a solemn departure.
Hands reflecting no piercings -
Feet devoid of spiked reverence ...
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Categories:
self worship, faith, inspirational, on writing
Form: Free verse
The Nature of Man. Co-Written With Carolyn Devonshire
...My molten core is bursting at the seams
Billowing ash and smoke circle above
Volcanic eruptions are on the rise
Intense balls of fire I toss from my glove
That damnation isle, this Icelandi...
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Categories:
self worship, natureself, self,
Form: Quatrain
Angry Immortal
...You dont need no friends
all they will do is hurt you
let them all go, why hold them up?
the family are so far behind,
they will never understand
we are so alone, in this life,
women want what ...
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Categories:
self worship, forgiveness, history, imagination, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
A Hybrid of Man
...Confessional truth
is not my aggressive ego,
it is my fault.
The resolution of my conflicts with time,
the smell of the broken limbs,
my head in hoisted fever,
my eyes searching for a cloud.
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Categories:
self worship, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: ABC
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