Short Poison Pen Poems

Bear witness to those dying men

Conscripted fate by poison pen

The scorched remains of foe and friend

Their ashes scattered on the wind

Pawns sacrificed without a pause

Death descends from steel wings and claws

More martyrs of a nation's cause

Forged and fired by enacted laws...

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The pen is tidier than the cord.	
A garrote provokes an unsettling gurgle
That reverberates in the midnight hour
When one is trying to pursue a guiltless sleep.

The pen, however, resonates
With an uncanny mystic harmony
That allows the comforting lullaby
Of literary reprisal to carry out the hit.

Character assassination: a cowardly villain’s vengeance....

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Boisterous and bold
With an acid wit
Misunderstood for cold
Exhaustion exasperates but can’t quit
His poison pen
I know so well
His thoughts betray him
With his wicked spell
His caustic tongue 
Cuts like a knife
Destroys my soul
Leaves me in strife
But there’s another side
I sometimes see
With eloquent devotion and decadent beauty
Cascading in the whimsical tide...

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Premiered at The Panic Room, Shreveport, LA – 11/25/2006
			      
ACT 1

Bed of Nails
Typically Brueghel
Got To Be Blue, Boy
State of the Onion
My Cynical Career
Damage Control

ACT 2

The Same Damn Thing
Elfreth’s Alley
The Death of Rock and Roll
Bwana Wanna Boogie
Supermarket Tabloid Blues
Poison Pen

ACT 3

Carnivore
Commentary
Refugee Rain 
A Typical Day in Hell
I Don’t Want To Go to Heaven...

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Poetrysoup Footles

1. Poem Taking a Vacation

          Footle
          Tootle

2. Poison Pen Poet

         Stinker
         Inker

3. Long Poison Pen Poem

        Septic 
        Epic

4. On Suffering Writers Block

       Lamebrain
      Quatrain

5. On Finishing a Heavy Going Poem

      Complete
      Concrete

6. Short Asian Religion Poem

     Hindu
     Haiku 

7. A Poem Written in Europe

     Metric 
     Lyric...

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