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Refusal To Be Bamboozled
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Dennis Spilchuk
| Sonnet |
society, education, history, meaningful, perspective,
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Indecorously Out of Control
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colin mitchell williams
| Free verse |
riddle, society,
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Men are not dogs
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JP Thomas
| Free verse |
society, animal, character, dog, future,
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Barbershop Quartet
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Rhona McFerran
| Free verse |
society, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
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Disarmament
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Maureen McGreavy
| Senryu |
appreciation, society,
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Think of the Children
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Rhona McFerran
| Free verse |
society, childhood, family, growth, innocence,
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Left Footed Fool
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colin mitchell williams
| Free verse |
addiction, humanity, society,
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OUR DAILY BREAD
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LEWIS NYAGA
| Blank verse |
city, life, society,
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The Gallows
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Jean Bush
| Dramatic Verse |
death, judgement, society,
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The Shop Window
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Bernard Chan
| Senryu |
society, clothes, desire, money, poverty,
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Abandoned and forgotten
by Gershon Wolf
Furious females take to the streets, shouting
Staid matrons join them, newly doubting
Angry young males overturn cars, defiant
Older men surrender...
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Categories:
society, culture, how i feel,
Hammered Metal Poetry
by Sheer Terror
hard hit pieces of metal
bullet and fasten
the perfect tool
hand held weapon
finger on the trigger
an impulse so pure
hope follows near
a click of a...
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Categories:
society, conflict, imagery, poetry, power,
The Edge of Night
by John lawless
this netherworld
this hospice of broken souls
this travesty of triumph’s trauma
blank pages
telling stories
sightless readers
sifting the ash
of scorched lives
charred character
seeking solace
on the edge
of...
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Categories:
betrayal, society, soldier, war,
I Could Get Paid For This
by Rhona McFerran
I must have one of those faces
or maybe people just assume
that because I'm quiet
I must be a good listener, because
wherever I go- they find me
The...
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society, community, how i feel,
New Neighbors, Part I
by Rhona McFerran
As Miss Luby watches from her window
a moving van backs up
the driveway across the street
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
its warning cry has a...
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society, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
New Neighbors, Part II
by Rhona McFerran
Meanwhile, Mrs. Pappadopoulos
has circled back and plops down
on Fred's front porch, all tuckered out
So Fred cheerfully pulls up a chair
and together they sit and...
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society, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Naughtiness
by Jack Ellison
Can't imagine life without naughtiness
It spices things up, it does
Naughtiness was given to us human beans
A blessing if there ever was
Imagine a whole world of...
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Categories:
society,
WHY NOT
by Line Gauthier
What’s wrong with our culture
That we’re so deathly afraid
To talk about death and dying
It’s a process we will all go through
In one way or another
Yet...
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society, culture, death, fear, scary,
Hate Mail
by colin mitchell williams
It comes to you in the post
the first day you’re born
certified and normalized your invoice of sale
in Christmas cards sent you
while you’re at school
authorized,...
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Categories:
people, social, society,
A Tribe of Trolls
by Elizabeth Wyler
A Tribe of Trolls
A tribe of trolls escaped their cage!
Now rabid wrath and rancor rage.
Hurling hurt from hidden hellholes
(most notably, their toilet bowls),
they flush...
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Categories:
society, anti bullying, bullying, computer,
Six Degrees Of Separation
by matthew harris
Advent of mass electronic
(not necessarily fail
proof), nonetheless spellbinding
how earthlinked communications
sent...
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society, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Don't
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Don't speak of God's redemptive healing
while practicing idolatrous competitions in fear,
and self-righteous anger,
and xenophobic hate.
Don't expect voices for democratic integrity
from bodies raised for overpowering secular...
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society, fear, hate, health, integrity,
A Future Here Now
by Gershon Wolf
One moment he was alive; the next he was dead
Gunned down midst a gang war, a bullet in his head
No motive whatsoever,...
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death, fate, grief, society,
The Protector
by Charlotte Boyle
Injustice coughs its blackened breath.
And like bracken he wraps himself, prickly prickly, over the moss drenched mud.
The fog receads, its spite dulled.
Twisted branches...
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Categories:
love, society,
A Word For That
by Rhona McFerran
Gaslighted: Abused and lied to
Script is flipped when I challenge you
Smoothed over with wink & back-pat
Now I know, there's a word for that
Body-shamed: Self made...
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Kyrielle |
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community, encouraging, life, society,
Locker Room Talk
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Immature boys
having a bully good time
Plenty wet towel fun ...
doing nude, verbal denigrating
It was just harmless locker room talk,
the unconcerned adults all said
Nothing to worry...
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perspective, society, truth, wisdom,
Southern Style
by Rhona McFerran
As a child, I was never bored
I spent hours gawking
going through my mother's
home decorating magazines
seeing things I'd never seen
that we could never afford
So full of...
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Categories:
memory, people, poverty, society,
Feed The Hero Inside
by David Welch
They wonder what is going on
with all our men today,
why they seem unmotivated
and resigned to their fate,
what happened to the people who
stormed bloody Normandy,
that type...
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Categories:
society, abuse, engagement, how i
crazy, wild-eyed, face
by P.S. AWTRY
crazy, wild-eyed face
screaming on my tv set
objective news men...
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Categories:
america, society,
Demonize or Energize
by Gershon Wolf
Overanalyze and criticize, demoralize and ostracize
Modern pundits legitimize their vicious exercise
Scrutinize and standardize, compartmentalize and cannibalize
Wizards of efficiency synchronize, initialize and...
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Categories:
society, america, anger, how i