Short Intransigent Poems

An old man set in his ways
He picks up cigar smoking
Good luck getting him to quit
He's intransigent


Date: 07/23/2019...

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Suppress women
And you get a society
Of men shooting holes
In a dark cloud 

Driving on the left side
Of the road
Makes a nation somewhat
Intransigent...

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His believers 
were seen leaving
their earthly bodies;
then He turned to go.

Others marked intransigent,
never desiring more than
their own fragile beauty,
were left here indelibly
cringing in shame
to die among their own....

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Preternatural beauty dense and thickly lush 
elegantly displayed requiring very little gush 
A terrarium bottle garden in a growing rush
staving deep with vibrancy and gentle hush; 
A wardian case of coruscating light, forever plush 
inside a menagerie of green plants falling afresh 
the intransigent resilience of this herbal flesh 
is both, a healing balm and a lovely garden bush....

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I Fret the Holiday Season

I invited it in:
insipid, insidious 
holiday hoopla;
and now rue 
my indolent heart
As time escapes
I inveigh aloud 
a tirade of syllables 
that berate my 
immutable, 
irascible self

I pine for insouciance,
iniquitously doled 
to some
not to others,
and wear the  ignominious 
crown, self-bestowed 
upon my head:
“Intransigent Queen.” 

I’ve only myself to blame....

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Why is it the intransigent
find the intransigent
to be pigheaded, willful,
inflexible and pertinacious?
Engaging, as it were,
in an endless “tug-o-war”
neither side allowing
for consideration of 
the fallibility of the inflexibility
of calcified recalcitrance.

Stags, horns locked,
dying on an empty stage
bleach-white bones
rattling in an unfelt wind.


©7/14/2019


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