Short Outrage Poems

The Corona Virus showed its age
       
       ~ overtaken by George Floyd outrage...

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Actor Kevin Spacey
Reputation’s racy
After his Netflix scandalous outrage
Most want to keep him offstage...

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Accuse me
of your own
inadequacies 

Judge me
of your own 
transgressions 

Condemn me
in your outrage
hypocrites...

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Have you ever been convicted of a felony?
   Have you ever aborted a baby? ...

 Outraged by the second question's premise
   ~ we shed no tears for the baby's demise...

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I cannot in all honesty 
Pretend that all is well 
Or that all will be swell 
That would only be a travesty 
It would be better to gather courage 
And to stand up against this outrage!...

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Small Town Profiling


friends and me tonight,
stopped for walking with dark skin,
they know what's coming;
tell me not to show outrage,
eclipse of the sun will pass.



07/13/10
9:23pm...

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My auntie acted on the stage
Her performance was in a cage
She dressed as a stripper
Then let men folk whip her
Her antics sure caused an outrage!

FICTION POEM

9/29/18...

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Joseph Biden thought he'd call Donald Trump
Trump picked up and roared, "How ya do-in,' Chump?" --
   President Joe was outraged
   He had Stormy Daniels paged --
Smirked, "This'll help you get over the hump."...

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LIFE AND LOVE - double

the stockyards
a hoard of brown steers streaming
such trusting innocence
this outrage in the dust
i want to cry

then this

love moment
a fated brown beast
catches my eye

Dave Austin...

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apathy benumbed, chaotic deeds embroidered
friendships gnawed, hatred indurated
jiffy keen loss met, noble outrage preserved
queries repudiated, songs tuned unheard
vague wisdom exalts, youth zzzzzzzzzzzz..........

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Been kinda political lately, that's sure not my style
But some things outrage me, so I'm standing in the aisle 
Yelling “stop this guff
Had more than enough
Need a break and common sense to prevail for a while!”...

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The damn thing’s screaming in the yard
It wants green eggs and ham
It’s trying to play the outrage card
Cuz all I had was spam
The wretched fox demanded Bach,
He didn’t like Coltrane
He’s screeching out there in the woods
His socks have holes again...

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Calling back, the snatcher.
After the outrage, 
Eros was on run.

      *

The lyrics melt 
on lips. Moon will 
not tell the wind.

      *

A sparrow sits at window sill 
when I am thinking 
and looks straight into my eyes.


Satish Verma...

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seemingly innocuous
seeds of lustful outrage
soon sprouted feral fangs
although as yet unborn
manifested in dreams

we lived the desire
in the savagery conjured
in caverns dark astral realms
which in time so became
destiny in this density...

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Beginning
Man
Black
Human
Contented

Cop
Authority
Power
Law
Uncontrolled

Stop
Suspicion
Wrong
Prejudice
Persecuted

Force
Shot
Asphyxiate
Homicide
Executed

Lie
Falsify
Conceive
Oppression
Colluded

Rights
Justice
Outrage
Indignation
Why?...

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President Biden said inflation was 0% in July
    I can only imagine the media outrage
  If ex-President Trump had told the same lie

  But with Biden, the media is sycophantic
    To shield him from criticism they are frantic
  The question from John Q. Public is WHY?...

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Unseen fetters bind as chains,
Yoking man to his sin.
Sweat and pain is his legacy,
As were father's before.
From outrage, His cry echoes for justice,
Drowning out Mercy's faint whisper..
There is no hope,
Without realizing that forgiveness is the lock,
And God's grace is the key....

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the false liberal
a profiteer
takes advantage of good and vice
wants to profit from our sacrifice...
  Does not  llove life sucks it up,
does not  love humanity
explores it...
Is a pariah,
a parasite
between usury and theft
he exits,
to usurps and boasts
with the fruit of sin...!...

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Soul feels outrage, being confined
Mind-body prism decays
Senses guide what may be divined
Bondage till end of days 

Cessation sets us free
When head and heart agree
In carefree, joyous spree

Body a cage 
Soul feels outrage

12-December-2021
Quietus ...

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school shootings
anguished screams

  public outrage
    calls for action
      marches & rallies
        media blitzes
          politicians fulminate
        propose legislation
       congress debates  
     bills stall & die
  anger subsides

nothing happens
school shootings...

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Nearer our home, when terror strikes
There’s outburst of outrage
In yonder lands, when evil spikes
We then take not umbrage

Let’s help one another 
Each soul is our brother
Born from the same Mother

Death catacomb
Nearer our home

06-March-2022
Quietus ...

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After long wait
two seasons of
three months wait
oceans sent us rain,
oh! It has started to rain

amidst uprooted trees
power outrage
discomforts minor
my May flower tree
bloomed this May

hope smiled in me
my heart is happy
it is a message 
from mother nature
we can still revert changes.
...

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While sitting outside in the park
I notice the dogs that will bark
Are the ones whose small size
Makes their outrage unwise
And effective as shots in the dark.

As the bigger dogs trot quickly by
All that bluster, in ample supply,
Goes unnoticed and yet,
Every tiniest pet
Thinks his prowess is hard to deny....

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   Where is the outrage over Hamas
      still holding 100+ hostages 

   who might still be alive, who might all be dead --
      Screams of ‘Kill the Jews’ in their stead… 

   Five hostages are American too 
      Does anyone protest that?

   I guess not, they’re ‘only Jews’
      ~ the uncomfortable fact
...

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The finest voice on the Broadway stage
Cannot compete with a mother’s squawl
When her son catches the winning ball,
Sending the winning team on a rampage,
Causing the losing team to feel outrage.

HONORABLE MENTION
written July 30, 2021
submitted to "Bite Size Poem No. 16"
sponsored by Line Gautier...

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