Short Championed Poems

Originates not from sight
but championed by the mind
on the road to reality
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Leigh Hunt son of a preacher man
libelling Prince Regent ending in the 'can'
Consistently championed Byron&Shelley
a poet ogf Peace undoubtly...

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Run's God's Fun,
       Across Field's, .... Time!

Championed Sled On, ... Snowflakes, Might!

Cheer's Our Voices Start To End;

Winter's Beat Of Fun, .... Begins!...

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Mrs. Elinor Roosevelt championed society's outcasts
Asians, widows, orphans, blacks -- all those downcast
   Yet as six million perished in World War Two
   She refused to speak up for a single Jew...

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I HAVE SEEN GOD FACE TO FACE
A SATAN HAST WRESTED ME TO NO END
I AM THE GOD THAT HE SPEAKEST OF
THAT HAST WREST LOOSE THE
TALUS
AND NOW I STAND BEFORE THESE
MEN SUPERIOR AND BEST
AND UNRAVELED BY THE APPROACH
OF THOSE WHO WISH ME
UNDONE...

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She’s a stolid sentinel standing on the rugged knoll
Standing silently, alone, like an old, weathered soul,
Over many years she has seen taken a dreaded toll
Many an admirer of hers has championed her goal.

written January 25, 2022...

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Mr. Mitch McConnell 
a Senator back when
Reagan, Mr. Ronald
championed freedom
and liberty's cause...
Now battling a Democrat
McConnell's had to hit pause

Speech no longer free
Thanks Media, BLM, AOC
Mitch bites his tongue
~ A signal to you and me...

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With the beggar in the street not a word was said
with the child at the grave not a word uttered
when injustice never championed
Hear me humanity read my words
this is my formal resignation
Your rules are not mine to follow
for this life life that i have lived
has left me all but hollow...

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All judged her.
Even those of us who thought we weren’t.
I was one.

One night we both had to wait for an hour for a bus.
Because it had broken down. 
She told me her life story.

It was worse than I had ever imagined.
Suddenly I understood her for the first time.
I championed her after that....

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Desmond Tutu raised the moral voice to its height
In dark times showed his countrymen rays of light
Broke the apartheid wall between black and white 
Nobel winner championed causes of human rights.

_________________

January 23, 2022
Contest : A Celebrity Epitaph 
Sponsored by: Michelle Faulkner...

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*Image of Driftwords by Pixabay.
Visitations

Yellows upped,
humble shanty forms beyond verdant meadows.

Animals resounding,
quivering grounds,
championed zephyrs penetrate leveled jealousies.

I knocked,
the whitish doorway opened,
neighborly xenial exchanges.

*Free Verse/Abecedarian

2021 October 17...

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There once was a naïve Southern lassie
who believed some politicians classy.
She swallowed all of their guff
like an Emp'ror in the buff.
and soon found out there was NO guarantee.

She soon hired a civil rights GO team
who championed not one of the fine cream
They got lots of work
for ladies named Dirk,
but that was not what she wanted it seems? 


*10a/10a/7b/7b/10a  *10a/10a/5b/5b/10a
A Liberals take on Carolyn Devonshires Limerick "Unmasked"...

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Obama makes a speech and earns
Four hundred thousand bucks.
Of course he is entitled but
The whole world sighs and clucks.

I frankly don’t think anyone
Deserves that kind of dough
But obviously that’s the rate
For people in the know.

It saddens me a little bit
For such a fee seems greedy,
Especially for someone who
Once championed the needy.

Ideally he should give his talk,
Accepting what they pay,
Then find a worthy charity
And give it all away....

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Many born will choose paths in search of glory and fame               

And after the dust has settled, not much value remains

Nelson “chose” with open eyes and a passion-filled heart        

Despite physical pain and degradation, love kept his soul apart

Evil, he shunned when it would've been easy to embrace

Love, he championed throughout the marathon race

And now at last, peacefully, touched the finish line!
~*~

Note: In Honor of Nelson Mandela 7/18/18 - 12/5/13 +RIP...

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