Short Close Ranks Poems

Panic stations
Uneasy the herds where packs rode
Panic stations
Packs close ranks when lone wolf notions
Disrupt the pecking order mode
It's the lone voice that bears the load
Panic stations

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012...

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When a candidate loses,
That person must reach
All who gave their support
With a televised speech.

So I watched VP Harris,
The crowd fighting tears,
Though it didn’t do much
To assuage all my fears.

Yet she said what she had to
And offered her thanks,
Reassuring the voters 
We need to close ranks.

If the fight isn’t over,
As Kamala said,
There’s a lot to be done 
And four long years ahead.
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COPLA TRES (THREE):  This Bad Guy World

Bad guys signal to each other
In cryptic lingo and hand signs
Close ranks bind ties

Egg-white eyes of the murderer
Encroach the pupil with designs
Embryo dies

No worse enemy than the friend
Who feigns being a bosom pal:
Snake in the shoe

They know their role is to offend
Their lives but ephemeral
Do they yet rue

            (Continued from COPLA DOS)

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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At last a rationale has struck! And the poisions out of style
Port Hedland council has recognised that deaths have
Grown.. Too wild; and how.' I'll give it here to you.! From one a week
On average, now at seven too sad yet true.' its  time and
Past, it could never last, the con-vid tale; has fallen through. fast!
Now Hedlanders what will you do.? Now at last some are speaking true.! Close ranks' its your time; now to 'rise and shine'
That all Australia,  may..( Stand to )...

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