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Smokescreens
Smokescreens Poems - Poems about Smokescreens
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......
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Joe Maverick
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......
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Eric Ashford
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......
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David Welch
Categories:
smokescreens,
america, culture, how i
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Rhona Mcferran
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......
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
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 ......
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Kai Michael Neumann
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 ......
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Rob Carter
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......
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Andrew Delapruch
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......
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Andrew Delapruch
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......
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Deb Wilson
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......
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Margeret Bailey
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......
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Martin Graham
Categories:
smokescreens,
artme, me, planet,
Form:
Free verse