Short Rise To Power Poems

Lines composed in dejection
of embarrassing rejection
have a tendency to be
even duller than the seeds
of Stalin’s rise to power,
and more ruthlessly taxing,
and on the psyche vexing,
than the whole of the Holodomor....

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~~~~~R E D   S Q U A R E   N E B U L A~~~~~
***Hitler rise to power, 1933

A box of challenges, a sense of direction, world order, reduced.



Date: 08/30/2019
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Rise to power
Soar to fame
All that's certain
Can't explain
All I feel
Is much to blame

Politicians
Running free
Plutocrats
Not meant to be

Salutations
False to me
Winning losers
Never see

Time has come
To alter gaff
Mend the tear
That we must laugh

Situation
Runs amok
And beats upon
Fair nation's luck

To soldier in
Democracy
Emerging in
A fallacy...

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I took a sip of water that looked like you,
I have made this so of sorceries new.

I christened words betwixt words behind,
Beyond et cetera, though within mind;

I shut my eyes and robbed today from tomorrow,
I plucked my heart from its timeless sorrow.

Then held the sky atop a fingertip bleeding,
And planted in the wound a heavenly seedling....

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