Short Surveillance Poems

"...and purple lighted majesty, above the peasant crossing plane..."...

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Senryu
Witness a star die
A sparkle across night sky 
A shroud of nebulous 


Thought

Surveillance society 
The obedient has nothing to fear
….For now....

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he was an imperfect man
a sunrise through distant clouds
the insufficient warmth
of love’s lonely surveillance
a cool breeze rustling
through memories


John G. Lawless
©11/16/2018...

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Surveillance cameras do not bug me

Facebook controls but I get it for free

Google knows my best hits

But what gets on my tits

The chip in my brain out of warranty

30th July 2019...

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Bill And Monica - Limerick

There once was a girl called Monica
Bill played her like a harmonica
Placed cigars in her rear 
News said that was queer
Both caught on surveillance electronica...

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The era of mass surveillance
Is upon us
1984 prophecies fulfilled
But so many more big brothers
Watching us everywhere
The eyes in the sky monitor us
24/7 no one can escape the police state....

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Agents against 'Woke'
ban, monitor
revise, exclude
like
'Natives' intruded
like
ships didn't deliver slaves
like
Anne Frank didn’t journal
like
separate was equal
like
history was meant to be revised
like
they want to see it....

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                 Arid, unforgiving sift of desert, 
 silicone electrode fissures

 geo-bones DNA of sand_shift

 Worm rises up to suck the essence dry

 Surveillance, Shadow banning, Civil-,-War, 
                 Ministry of Truth, Gestapo...

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In my house there are many windows
I await the shimmering light
to warm my poems
but I am stuck for inspiration
I await for nature
just some simple lea
with truncated river
dithering away listlessly
under azure sky
or a poem about a 
sun baked hippopotamus
under surveillance
of a tourist truck

...

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fiddler’s overture
falls on roof ~
Chagall’s surveillance

6/23/2018
Magicicada 13 - Mind and Body

Poet’s Note - A tree fell on my house thus the inspiration for this poem.

Marc Chagall - artist would paint ghostly figures flying in sky and his fiddler on the roof was the inspiration for the movie namesake....

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Edward Snowden

When Edward Snowden* snowed in,
no one thought it a sin,
save the snooping sultans  who froze.
When on the run or cubby-holed, for friends, he had only  woes.

11  jul 13, Clerihew


* Eddy is a former NSA systems analyst who recently leaked details of U.S and British top secret mass surveillance programs....

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Osiris watching from the sky

Satellite recon harvesting personal

data on you and I

Sending chills down the spine

In the name of national security

Big brother is listening on the line

Privacy eroded freedoms rights scorned

Electronic surveillance now the norm	

Everywhere you go Big brother knows

Everything you do Big Brother is watching you...

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Secret Adversary


I view your effort
With a lot of piety:
You seem to bomb
A deserted city!
You need surveillance
You need espionage
To flash me out
Out of camouflage.
Yours is noise power
Mine; wise strategy
Will find out soon
Who meets tragedy!

***Title borrowed the renowned Investigative Writer: Agatha Christie

JM

23rd January 2014...

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The hands moved in Surveillance
Striking with close encounters
Hold the stiff banana love
In firm grips to kiss and peel:

Limbs squeeze in Execution
Pumping member draws nectar,
From within the two petals:
Stay clear for they are the x-rated.    

'Xenos' the plundering Greek;
Naked without erotica
Dives into the wet sea:
Sex loves these scabbard walls....

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Surveillance across the border
Can't stop this tricky misfit
Dyed in the wool habits
Propagate my quantum unzip

Features festering on a broken age

Creatures gesturing to allocate sage

Where grass grows plenty
Ill be unloading the Chesapeak
Shipliner still dazed

On animal plantation 
We'll circle the globe
Figuring out what to do
And lay in jewel tombs
The way we're supposed to...

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Wrong Way

The surveillance tape showed us right from the start
The want-to-be thief wasn’t really that smart
Sure, he broke the lock when he tried to break in
And that is where all of our laughter begins
The video tape showed with all of his might
He pulled and he pulled but the door was stuck tight
So he ran away, as a thief he’s league-bush
As the sign on the door clearly said just to PUSH...

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The world is noisy
Opinions and judgments
My truth is drowned inside me

The world is bossy
Conditions and commandments
My will is overlooked inside me

The world is cosy
Stages and ambience
My comfort is disregarded inside me

The world is nosey
Forms and surveillance
My profile is misrepresented inside me

The world doesn’t know me
Unheard but I keep up an appearance
Myself hidden inside me...

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We have no surveillance tapes
No ring doorbell to capture strangers or friends
Our house could be unlocked day, night and on weekends
Our dogs like the inside door open
So, they can look out the glass door on the outside
Our dog doors are open twenty-four seven
So, critters can get in if they need to
They do not stay long
Our dogs are the size of ponies
Which is also why we never have to lock our doors...

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I saw Bill Boniface
With a matching bony face
That could make one do a race
To disappear without trace!

Boniface womanizer:
Vocation, vulcanizer …
And women check profession!
Against future Recession;
Also, Facial Appearance
For Bed-Time Love Surveillance …

So, Boniface, where are we?
Whatever I say agree:
Faultless Plastic Surgery
To contain The Mockery …

And Goodbye to god Vulcan,
Because you know that you can!...

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It came as lightning
It came as lightning
thunder and fire it had not
but the terrible made surveillance

cows it saw grazing, 
touched them and rejected

birds sat on trees singing, 
looked at all and ignored

blades of nature sang sweet music to it
smiled at them and moved away

trees bend and whispered in its ears
heckled at them and pushed on

then it came to a brainy biped
there it sat amused
 but not as a fool...

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Don't wear your heart
Outside your vest,
Said the ragman.
It is inevitable that surveillance
Will capture you 
In your least expected moment,
When you cannot hold near
That which lives outside the cage.

Don't wear your heart
Like a token
Or like an icon.
Hearts are not meant 
To be torn, then mended,
Like old silk.

Sometimes the guests
At the table
Are wrongly arranged;
A shuffle is needed
So that hearts can heal....

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Some old movie plots
can't happen now, with changes
in technology...

You know, in a movie
when someone texts everyone
at school by* mistake*?

Who has *EVERYONE*
at school on their contacts list? 
No way that happens.

Parent-less parties
where scores show up - with modern
*surveillance systems*?

or ditching class, heck
my parents are texted my
quiz scores real-time.

"why'd you get an 88
on that Calculus test, I
thought you studied?" Argh!...

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The hawk was always hatching 
a pacer,
to spin the surveillance,

tampering the tracks of violence.
The haul was heavy. Moon and fishes
went on to spread the dragnet

striking gold from the liquid
denials. The sovereignity was
violated of a virgin god.

The rule of drinking was sidelined.
Kiss will survive after the death opens
the back door of a globe.

Dreams are exhausted. There will
be no comeback of a star player
in the game of bloody manipulations.


Satish Verma...

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How To Freak Out the Neighbors

By Elton Camp

In the news is a constant fuss
Government’s checking on us

We’ve been unpleasantly surprised
Our phones and e-mail scrutinized

Terrorists we don’t mind if they trace
A different view if at our home place

It would most surely astound us
If done to the neighbors around us

So here’s a fun trick that we can play
Our WiFi signal’s seen houses away

Panic may ensure if only you can
Name it “FBI Surveillance van”...

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