Short Gadfly Poems

a gaga gadfly 
on a water buffalo
touch me not, i rule...

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Pebble in my shoe

From footpath in the backyard

Realistic pain....

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There once was a gadfly daring.
His speech, it was laced with swearing
          He said too much
          which earned a punch
from the blonde whom he’d been staring....

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Schindler's list,Star Wars
Saving Private Ryan
Gadfly,Lord of the Rings-
Composers on a mission
To make their soundtracks sing.

Tibute to Williams,Shore ,Morricone et al......

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Intrepid gadfly;
the voice of dissent.
Multiple times stricken,
multiple times resolved.
Though he bleeds,
still the pen that chides never bleeds,
nor is it obliterated.
For three decades and four,
death he evaded,
still, multiple times stricken,
evasive he remains....

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Sympatric Aphrodite,  
wide photographic opportunity
We bow to our natural needs
Her glare, to all our hopes
The actresses' deft chin, glacial
A mountain of irses
Gadfly 1970s
Where blondes and brunettes
co exist
Dream on the fantasy
Brown boots, high heels
drifting in Autumns air...

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Africa's venerated literary
icon with words of eloquence
esoteric to the blind.
Distinguished in letters
for ages infinite.
Unequaled in intellect,
and a gadfly of constructive
dissenting views.
Soyinka,
You are indeed a priceless
asset to the black race.
The wise grey-haired doyen
of literary geniuses,
whose genius is in a century
once seen,
and in a millennium, ten times....

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 A Political Truth
or 
Term Limits Will Never Happen
Tom’s Opinion
July 20, 2020

This November, from a vast assortment of people,
we’ll choose those whom we think best qualify.
Once in office we’re then viewed as mere Sheeple,
and we’ll view them as just another gadfly.

Many will become “all hat and no cattle”,
and master the art “of strutting sitting down”.
Then after fighting their last political battle,
they get a huge pension for making us frown.
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