From the Tower
...(A New Zealand Poem)
In thought as I sit here, 747 flying by, in contrast to the isles of white clouds cruising eastwards across the Manukau sky yet another 747 passes by.
Tourists keep on coming...
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Categories:
speculators, anger, angst,
Form: Haibun
Against Hegemony
...Steps on mud, a stalking thread,
Red strings wind through dying groves
Where life needs time, to find footing,
Red strings halt hands in greed which hold
The axe of ignorance, the axe which bleed...
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Categories:
speculators, class, community, political, poverty,
Form: Free verse
I Caught Covid In Spite of My Vaccinations
...New York state is paying 20 cents for gloves that normally cost less than five cents, $7.50 for masks that normally go for 50 cents, $2,795 for infusion pumps that normally cost half that, $248,841 f...
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Categories:
speculators, 12th grade,
Form: Bio
One Hundred Colours of Gluck
...Emerald envy nestled on velvet
several thousand away from paid
Puce tulip promise inducement
secluded juice, palliation delayed
Ivory aspire ripped wide envelope
plump with numbered requirem...
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Categories:
speculators, business, class, green, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Depreciating the Young
...Grammar school speculators
charlatan math
trading the currency
of borrowed youth
optioning the investment
in forsaken dreams
hedging their futures
with diminished returns
margining interest
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Categories:
speculators, corruption, teacher, youth,
Form: Free verse
The Stage
...A godless mass afraid of Death,
though unfettered by rebellion against God.
Uneasy calm imposed by modern gadgets,
global alarm from nations once revered,
A surge of pestilence from the east
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Categories:
speculators, anxiety, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Ballad
Going After Gold
...GOING AFTER GOLD
A hundred years ago or so, the story has been told,
A fever swept across the land of going after gold.
It seemed each person caught the urge, and they just could not rest,
The ...
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Categories:
speculators, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 22
...Part 22
how can there be any absolutes
with the clock ticking like it does
it's hard to tell if you'll come to your senses
when it's one thing to be short on the rent
another thing to stay sho...
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Categories:
speculators, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Philosophizing
...Straitened are the times
And tight is my pocket.
A glass of brandy
Consumed with contemplation
Is hard to bargain
As speculators have poured in
Shouting ‘buy’, ‘buy’, ‘buy’.
Since out is th...
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Categories:
speculators, humor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Outlander
...I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, f...
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Categories:
speculators, change, childhood, community, history,
Form: Ballad
Tension At the Pumps
...There is tension at the pumps;
folk's eyes look glassy and glazed.
And a sense of frustration;
keeps concerning eyebrows raised.
Feeling they've been bamboozled;
customers contain thei...
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Categories:
speculators, anger, anxiety, feelings, how
Form: Quatrain
The Colts Unbridled
...The young generation, who believe in dissolution,
promulgating the manifesto
“tradition is the grave of the banality,
only solecism is the quickening of new life…”
yell upholding a flag similar...
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Categories:
speculators, freedom, lost, rude, self,
Form: Free verse
Copla 111 Resolution: This Bad Guy World
...COPLA 111 RESOLUTION : This Bad Guy World
Criminals and cowards are blood brothers
Both operate in stealth to inflict
Harm to increase wealth
States multinationals speculators
Rely on spi...
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Categories:
speculators, bullying, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Gold
...In times of trouble it outshines its glow
The supposed intrinsic value of its allure
Is a safe house in times of economic un-certainty
When money is being made but not through
Traditional means
T...
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Categories:
speculators, political,
Form: Free verse
Light Dancer
...why
soil sun
keshagesh?
your children need
light
*Tribute to Buffy Sainte-Marie.....A Real North American Hero
Many have asked for more i...
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Categories:
speculators, political
Form: Lanterne
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