No More Mister Gneiss Guy
...Geologists say ‘by your leave’,
we’re famously polite:
we wear our heart upon our sleeve,
rejoice at rhyolite.
We’re very patient people, but
I tolerated stuff before
that I’m not taking any mo...
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Categories:
stratagems, relationship,
Form: Verse
THE CRADLE
...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering.
I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety.
I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy.
My distress illuminated...
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Categories:
stratagems, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Little Pig, Little Pig
...When the wolf applied nicely
If he could come in,
The pigs replied thricely he shouldn't.
Then they scratched at the hairs
On their chinny chin chins,
And tightly bolted the door so he wouldn't....
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Categories:
stratagems, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Heeling Mephistopheles
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"Heeling Mephistopheles"
murdering crows
flies in on the bow
of a Stradivarius
strange webs cleared
from the mind of
Machiavellian insolence
insisting life wri...
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Categories:
stratagems, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Truth
...Mutter is an aggregate requisite to glimpse the truth.
Potential suspicions may dwell on a bitter deception.
Each zillion times a single syllable is pronounced.
If this was the case, ...
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Categories:
stratagems, analogy, bereavement, encouraging, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Illiquid New Moon
...signal of approaching cataclysm?
we can't see the gauntlet
it's past the cunning poison
a villain of his own timeline
piqued by an illiquid New Moon
Level 2 risk for severe stratagems
Earth b...
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Categories:
stratagems, dark, earth, society, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Maelstrom
...A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature.
The blackened police the striders in the dark…
a crippled plaything,
a hymn of the tourniquet and tethers.
...an earth-bound deities song. ...
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Categories:
stratagems, adventure, allegory, art, class,
Form: Free verse
Special Moments By Grand Minter
...A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – “Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,” as Herbert says, fine nets and stratagem...
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Categories:
stratagems, joy,
Form: Kyrielle
Common Sense
...troubled youth
void of couth
non-cognizant of devious stratagems
possessing them
in hidden silence
keeping alive — the violence
causin' mother's to mourn
mourn the loss of their precious ...
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Categories:
stratagems, black african american, character,
Form: Rhyme
A Plethora of Myopia and Hysteria
...The truth like stark reality remains immutable
Despite attempts to promote sophisms
Dressed up as verity and verisimilitude at a high table
Where misguided minds dabble at euphenisms and cynicisms...
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Categories:
stratagems, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sitting By the Pool Until the Devil Drops By
...For an instant we are sunned and golden, lounging by the pool,
An arch suspended like a bridge, or cathedral, above our satisfaction,
And while eyes behind sunglasses narrow to slumber
Our dreams ...
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Categories:
stratagems, death, destiny, dream, evil,
Form: Free verse
As It Is
...AS IT IS
I am going up the ladder of life.
Killing all the blow flies in sight.
Knocking down the spider webs as I sing to myself.
I am feeling so alive.
I am going to put up new she...
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Categories:
stratagems, appreciation, culture, future, image,
Form: Rhyme
It Ain'T My Fault!
...It all began with Adam and Eve and that wily snake!
Eve was tempted and ate the fruit - that was the first mistake!
Adam was right there at her side and took a generous bite as well.
"'Tis Thy fau...
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Categories:
stratagems, funny
Form: Rhyme
Nucleotides and Stratagems
...Up the slope, I climb the vista
to elevate my placid view.
Beneath my feet, the bed soil sighs
while dropping beads of morning dew.
At the summit, my breath charging,
I bask in such a dimpled ...
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Categories:
stratagems, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Stratagem
...If the foe is far too strong for you today,
just save your strength, backtrack very cautiously
that you may still live to fight another day;
go back to the drawing board immediately,
a prudent ...
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Categories:
stratagems, political, war, work,
Form: Terza Rima
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