Short Complicity Poems

On moonless nights
shadows weep
no longer wanting to 
pursue dastardly men,
dreading sunshine
and complicity...

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Evil number Thirty-three
Will chill you with toxicity.
Six feet, neath root of tree.
Though it reeks, Complicity
Wicked, Evil, Thirty-Three....

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A way of life

In the world of man, men’s duplicity.
In the world of man, men’s complicity.
In the world of man, men’s felicity.
There – the soul of man – is a mystery ?
B. J. “A” 2
January 26th 2013...

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Bound within hero norms
pilfered from the pulpit,
games twist tailored tempests
crafting men as monsters

with derision conquered
by illumined command:
complicity in stabs
while changing the channel....

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Satellite sex one for all
Cosmic course complicity
Numb political powers to be
Renumerate residual responses
Lifeline planetary promises
Retrograde reality rotundities,
National networks remorse.
They lead us to nowheresville
through silly sabotage sequentials.
And the Beat goes on, on and on....

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Mad,like a lover found alone,
self absorbed,
the artist paints 
the
sensitive shadow.

  Artistic flesh,
vulnerable,
between her kind laugh,
and his 
pastel desire.

commitment 
in the air,
and yet,
his easel is married
to complicity,

Composed...........
she drapes herself
in  royal shades
 of
delicious
rejection....

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Today we rise.

No more hiding in the shadows,

of culture,
creed,
tradition.

No more silent complicity,

defensive arguments,
sickening pretences,
shabby excuses,

for the actions of men,

brutal and coarse and vulgar and obscene and murderous and abusive.

Today, we rise,

as one.

Today the change starts,

with me,
within me.

Today we rise....

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As I reflect upon this day, 
Where a viral presence has 
Effected millions, give or take.
My mind shifts to racial inequities,
And how that's been a 
Huge cultural mistake.

Positioning face-to-face, and
Seeing eye-to-eye, doesn't require
Complicity, before going nose-to-nose.
Just some basic respect and
Understanding, where another's
Heritage and hope only grows....

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Their discreet shadow bourgeois dignity
The perfect couple and all would agree

It is her self-absorbed complicity
That allows his mock-connubial love

Children boarded at university
They’re left alone with their favorite games

She the charitable socialite queen
He and his secretary lunch lover

They share a commitment to worldly ends
A model husband and his lovely wife...

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Sheltered lives and hollow minds, 

How much simplicity can this life hold?

Wondering thoughts and heart too heart talks,

Complicity!

Solem vows,

Tyrant howls,

Argumentive!

A world of light and one of darkness,

The crow watches eyes as black as the darkest abyss,

Scapegoat!

Silver Twilight here and there,

As if no mortal soul will ever return,

Sudden Death!...

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feels so close I could walk up and
with my finger touch the moon 

seems like nothing else
exists and i’m alone
swaddled in a tranquility
that’s magnificent and surreal

i can feel it pulsate to the beat
of Mother Earth’s cadent heart

there’s a distinct aura of tangible complicity
and this is where i belong
right here in the now of it



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 10, 2025...

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Fresh dust
bevels the
stagnant rot
of complacency
hollowing out
better purpose.

Are we
the imaginings
of seraphic
spirits and
demons rivaling
the majesty
of living?

When plumbing
the shaft
of consciousness,
linear thought
corrupts with
persistence the
notion of
time elements

folding membranes
with complicity
most jaunty
without regard
to infinity
within each
daring creation
etched firm
upon clay....

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This madness This madness 
This curse 
The plague of digital fame
The first to post
The next big thang 
Violence as recreation 
The demise of education 
The end of creation 
The last breath taken
Joy in death 
The crowd roars
Joy in self promotion 
A life left to lores
To all who have fallen 
At the hands of complicity 
To youth not realized 
To a light for every corner 
Here's my heart, my tears 
All for you Amy Joyner...

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Kohl your eyes
with soot
Cover yourself 
in girl. I am 
locked in
looking

widow eat me. ha.
flounce and want
extracted from 
propaganda that
made the jail
that holds us

you want the having
complicity on my
dream island. ha.
betrayal from 
behind

annnnngnn release
white into that 
black hole that
society hates
us
to 
love


kiss me spiderwoman
my man will :
be consumed by
trust in 
your fabric
femininity...

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Plant Not your seeds in Poor
soil. Heinous and Quagmire
loves society. Yet,
you seclude yourselves from
your very own seed that
you have planted. But, Why?!

Non compos mentis
at the time?!... Were you
Callous?!... Or maybe
Myopic?!... Even
society that

claims to be so
Erudite has
no rejoinder.
Complicity

lurks within
the poor soil.
Be Chary

when you
Make your

S-E-E-D-S!



Pace, G.
INK-U-SCRIPT

06-15-2012...

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Were you ready for a virginity test
to cross the umbrella of harpoons.
A chilled moon

will welcome you after slaying
the hot sun in the valley
of gods. A schism scoops

ignominy. Seeing the lights
which were not there. Almost
sexy, the sky pretends to unrobe.

No weeping. A Caucasian brings
red grapes for a naming
ceremony of black password,

searing the age of complicity.
A rocket propelled grenade
is going to blast a whisper.


Satish Verma...

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Shadowy silhouettes and fragmented memories;
ebony outlines inked by years of disappointment
veil hope's complicity in using trivial deeds
like colored crayons, to show God created those lines.
Faith countered my enthusiasm for life with self-doubt,
controlling my thoughts and dousing any sparks of hope.
All that awaits me beyond death is oblivion,
religion can't silence the lamentations of fate.


(Verse)


6/27/2018...

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The silence is deafening.
The Devil capers madly.
Soldiers revel in atrocities.
Demons slaughter the innocents.

The silence becomes thunderous.
Beasts brutalise the oppressed.
Their resistance is legendary.
Famine stalks the rubble.

The silence is shattered!
Strangers fight the iniquity.
Nations condemn the deaths.
… Still the murders continue.

The silence is deafening…
How is this “war”?
The victims are blamed.
The “chosen people”, praised.

Are all lives not equal?...

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