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Bellamy on botany; then pffft'

...Ernest working, ethical man..David Bellamy!! not at all overstated
And grand, a speech impediment, did not hold him back
A lecturer at Durham, he taught many to track. The plants
And blossoms; tha...

Categories: smokescreens, appreciation, betrayal, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

Shipwrecks

...My people are shipwrecks,
they have faces long crushed by tanks.
Many are landlocked,
a few were too oceanic
they got broken by dry-docked hearts.
Most were blitzed by smokescreens.

The trees...

Categories: smokescreens, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Reject the Self-Hatred, Part Ii

......They proclaimed that we ‘oppressed women,’
it’s the refrain of loud femenists,
forgetting that before birth control
nature gave us little choice in this.
That before we had technology,
when l...

Categories: smokescreens, america, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Day the World Fell Apart

...It was unseasonably
warm for Winter
sun shone bright
cool breeze blowing
but not even cold
and I was
just walking
along, not knowing
the world, as we knew it
was about to come apart
Then th...

Categories: smokescreens, depression, grief, how i
Form: Free verse

Gods and Monsters

...
"Gods and Monsters"


Ying Yang
Black White
Dark Light
One God meets another 
in the middle of the 
night, are they at odds with one another?
Or just shuffling Decks of cards,
play...

Categories: smokescreens, allah, faith, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse

Evil Shadows Any Time and Everywhere

...Trains run alight terminate on time like clockwork 
never ending endless procession of precision conductors
the conducted walk down the line warped tracks of 
cynically divided isles dead ends of ...

Categories: smokescreens, evil,
Form: Free verse

Hellfires

...Snaking through the embers of life,
Dwindling but evolving,
Dying yet growing,
Slithering past killers
Masquerading as givers,
Do gooders doing harm.

Selective blindness of us all,
Material ...

Categories: smokescreens, fire, judgement, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Brief Note To the Israeli Government

...would you just attack already?
just go & send all the nukes that you 
claim that you don’t have
right 
straight
into 
Iran &
blow all their people to smithereens,
because that is what you want
becaus...

Categories: smokescreens, life, world, people, people,
Form: Free verse

Keep Up the Momentum

...keep up the momentum! 

for those that are finally in the streets
keep up the momentum!
for those that have come to the conclusion that something must be done to stop the greed that is strangling the...

Categories: smokescreens, life, education,
Form: Free verse

The Elegance of Not Knowing

...There is something brewing
I can see it reflecting in the mirrors
Deep within all the smokescreens
I feel the albatross of inevitable conclusion
But you are still filling me up
Coloring my tight...

Categories: smokescreens, lost love
Form: Free verse

Hiding Behind a Smokescreen

...Some people hide behind smokescreens
so that they can deceive others,
with elaborate schemes,
hoping to fulfill their dreams on the 
sweat of the innocent,
refusing to repent,
refusing to be re...

Categories: smokescreens, introspection
Form: I do not know?

Interlude of Chatter

...(The Angel) 
Come to the edge of the planet and watch the flashing cross section of our entities

(The Witness)
It was meant to be bigger than this
Where’s the fireworks? 
The billions of light...

Categories: smokescreens, artme, me, planet,
Form: Free verse