Atrocity
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Whether the Indigenous People,
robed in leathers, head dressed in feathers,
who had their own sovereign nations,
wanted it or not,
June 2nd 1924,
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
condes...
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Categories:
snyder, america, identity, political, western,
Form: Free verse
THE BEAT POETS BEAT
...THE BEAT POETS BEAT
In the heart of San Francisco, Beat poet and publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore shines bright, where words dance like shadows and the Beat poets ignite the ...
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Categories:
snyder, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Miriam Snyder
...Here lies Miss Miriam Alicia Lee Snyder
A well-known neighborhood insider
She fell into a large vat of apple cider
Not covered by her life insurance rider.
Written June...
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Categories:
snyder, humor,
Form: Elegy
Kerouac After Twilight
...After twilight around that corner
City Lights show an alternative way
Sipping sour whiskey from chipped cups
In low sweaty cellars where frothy cats play
Shades under tilted black beat berry hats...
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Categories:
snyder, america, cool, dance, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Curtain Call
...T0 Spencer Snyder, age 80
Curtain Call
He signed you for a starring role, with no time to rehearse,
None had played the part before, so no-one better or worse,
Been a long run and the fol...
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Categories:
snyder, age, appreciation, birthday, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
P S It's Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 12
...P S ITS POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 12
This anthology is a collection of the work of various poets from all over the world. By reading these diverse works, we...
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Categories:
snyder, analogy, appreciation, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Pictures At An Exhibition
...Pictures at an Exhibition
I recently saw the ghosts of beat poet visionaries
staring lonely, from pictures at an exhibition
Ginsburg, Corso, Snyder, Kerouac, and Cassady
the murderer’s row of t...
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Categories:
snyder, joy,
Form: Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T Wignesan
...Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)...
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Categories:
snyder, america, art, creation, culture,
Form: Free verse
Genetically Enhanced Monstrosity Doomsday
...It seems highly unlikely that Snyder had time to do reshoots after the fan backlash against spoiler-laden trailers. And yet, after virtually giving away the ending of the movie (that Batman and Super...
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Categories:
snyder, future,
Form: Free verse
Have the Natural Tendency of a Benign Dictator
...And yet Affleck’s Bruce Wayne is an arrogant bully whose disturbing sexual comments towards Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman mark him out as a man with a problematic moral compass. And did you swallow the bi...
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Categories:
snyder, crazy, universe,
Form: Free verse
Ideas Will Eventually Spread Out To Create Some Sort of Functioning Universe
...Those who complained about Thor’s left-field watery dip during last year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron will likely roll their eyes at the number of superfluous scenes that flutter around Snyder’s DC Comi...
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Categories:
snyder, dream, universe,
Form: Free verse
Why Me
...How many times do you ask "why me"
Throughout your daily life?
How many times have you been blind and couldn't see
The happy times instead of stife?
I know those times are very rare
When your ...
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Categories:
snyder, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
I Saw You Today
...I Saw You Today
In Loving Memory
Of Tate Snyder.
Doing the things that needed done I went along my way.
I must admit I was unprepared when I saw you today.
Was it something in my memory from...
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Categories:
snyder, absence, allusion, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Surfing Usa
...Drip drip dribble dribble
google harps- here's a fiddle
How does fuzz evolve to stubble
Here's Fred Flinstone- Barney Rubble
WON 5 DOLLARS!- now I'm even
Online poker- guy named steven
Shop f...
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Categories:
snyder, funny, hilarious,
Form: I do not know?
Just One Ocean Blue
...Hearing the sweet melody
My emotions take me away
As I listen to the sea
And the Ocean underway
Feeling the rippling pool tide
I voice my harmony
I hear the waves that glide
They...
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Categories:
snyder, nature, ocean, passion, pollution,
Form: Ballad
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