Short Charter Poems

Latest bloody scene
Charter bus in a ravine
News caster serene...

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if i ruled the world
'love your neighbor as yourself'
my magna carta


written 23 Aug 2020...

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Charter Boat

A charter boat the man catching fishes.  

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 17, 2010

Poetic form: Monoku...

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Seal was written for S words contest sadly I missed deadline.


hot red wax drips down
parchment charter awaits seal
gold ring descending...

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Know that love never employs use of force ~
God allows us to charter our life course

Let’s rid presence of instincts base and coarse ~
Seeds of redemption lie in heart’s remorse...

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Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools 
Crippling the academically aggressive

Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
               without a voice...

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to heavenward climb, some take time
since they're as yet deaf to love's chime
and since God's love employs no force
these souls must charter their own course
till they imbibe nectar sublime

26-November-2022...

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Once there was a dame called Rose Mary”the charter”
“Man with a monkey face, elastic arm” her character
Iron man, He Man, Superman, 
Spider man, are great power men
Bloody patent this character, for trillion dollars sure!...

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Once choked on a jelly bean, nearly met my maker
Thankfully it popped out while calling the undertaker
Postponing my departure
It wasn't in the charter
So I'll continue my notoriety as a PS troublemaker...

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What nursery rhyme's gayer, I'm asking you, bub,
Than the one that has three grown men sharing a tub?
Was it their sexual orientation,
Or merely water conservation,
And they were all charter members of the Sierra Club?...

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Tanka

Winter and cloudy 
At the hotel by the sea
Misfortune and ghosts  
No change for the gas metre
Long walks and bitter overcoat 



Tanka 
Anchored in the bay 
The old ship tug anchor 
No new charter 
Abandoned by her owner
Humiliating rust drips....

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Lungs puffed in cigar, drunk lousy liver
With beer he cheered, dancing in the river   
A chiller he was, in all states of matter
Here lies in grave, the cool Charlie Charter.




Dated 22nd  April 2019
Sponsor Jesse Rowe
An Epitaph to make us laugh 2 poetry contest...

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Keep an eye on every charter
Take heed of the bane of your life
Lest you fall into danger
Keep an eye on every charter

Withhold from any impair
Loose yourself from strife
Keep an eye on every charter
Take heed of the bane of your life


04/27/16...

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The flamboyant Pierre Elliot Trudeau,
Canada’s 15th Prime Minister, known for saying fuddle-duddle you know.
Also established the Charter of Rights and Freedom,
Wish he was still alive, we surely need him.



Written October 9, 2012
For Andrea Dietrich’s contest
“a fresh batch of Clerihews”...

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Stars tumble from shattered edges
Charter in the sounds of daybreak
The other side of the planet

Leave this river after a few drinks
A man's teary eyes
Aiming for the bright lights of the metropolis

It can be seen in the distance
The crane let out a screech
Repairing the ripped sky

Written: March 21, 2023...

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Lifeless out of water






Parting a beloved is no less than a curse,
Drowning will not at all fit into a slaughter,
As if emotions scrubbed off the vibrant verse,
Left all alone, the denied love charter,
Lifeless I wish to emerge out of water !







Written Feb 24th, 2015
For contest " Out of water" by Sheri

Awarded 8th place...

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You try it,
You even buy it,
You don't get it,
You claim it,
You disclaim it,
It works,
It doesn't,
Again, you denied it,
You pay, your stay: monthly, annually
You gain, sustain,
You barter, charter,
You bargain, you bust
it stays a must.
You cry,
You cuss,
You fuss,
Sign on the line
It pays
betrays
Rent -- it stays....

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Jesus Savior of Humanity-

 
All American
Back from the island
A charter member of the United Nation
Deployment of  races
Environment DNA bloodline in the clay 
Flourish onward mighty creator
Giver of life 
Heavenly Father of all things
Immortal inventor creator of heaven
Jesus Savior of humanity


7/30/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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Devoted Eyes
 
let my devoted eyes seek
to see you once more
to declare a certain kind
of official fixed love
my conviction is of the true
and my heart is chafe
i will give you charter
over seeing my heart
weep a thousand times
over you
and when i can no longer cry
and when you can no longer
feel pity
forgive the last wishes of a dying heart 

(fixed)...

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It does not matter if you do not like the tune!
i know plenty of deaf folk praying for miracles!
If noses can charter the way to a juicy prune!
plus blow it loudly!and enjoy a wee tickle!
In alien tongues or mixed up words or lyrics!
annoyed?!irritate!?or simply non understandable!?
think of whales! all corresponding!tracks!
then try and destroy this hate killed Abel!...

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It was a grave day
as they took
him away-
away from hope-the charter
of a new day
He was a fixture on the corner
seems-he'd been there forever
The locals knew him by name
everyone else-
relished their disdain
He was a medic in Nam
saw more death
than anyone
This frozen day 
all his words
had fallen away
to a silence so complete
it had knocked him
off his
feet...

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THE tongue makes 
words so hungry
but
i love you 
and
i hate you
//a charter crisply straying
jig-saw shape across the secret-corner 
promises a love for you 
when with you i do not wish to be
but the bedroom's secretly
moist eyes are kissingly 
playing with me _____
and hope is a thief while top-turved
insides need the pleasant 
surprise to be; thy lips a sweet
thing death, wait here\\...

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The Untouchables 
Above the Law
Only the subservient 
Adhere to the rule of Law
The Law pays no heed to the victim's 
Human rights 
Is a criminals charter
A Guilt edged 24 carrot get out of jail card
To be called upon when caught
Currency for Lawyer's 
Willing to defend the indefensible 
For the price of silver and gold
Any lie or defense told
For anyone any crime 
They are willing to cross any Grey lines...

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Latin = biblia = scrolls, books is
What Jews and Christians call a collection of Sacred Scriptures 
That came into being over a period of time more than thousand years
For them the charter of their faith
The Christian bible is considerably expensive than the Jewish Bible
It is because besides their Scriptures it also contains the four Gourpels
The Letters of St. Paul
Other writings of the early Church

11302011...

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He read history, and wanted to change it,
joined it, and changed nothing.
And then he dreamed he took command.
The skies might open,
doubt would disappear,
a silent score could sing.

Technology, however, never could compete;
there was no measurement to lay the bounds,  
no need to charter aid
for that was an implicit realm
someone
somewhere
sometime might understand.           

His history is now.
       ~...

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