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Tendentious Poems

monday morning

...Monday morning

woke up at eight, it was a splendid morning
cool before the day becomes serious and
demanding attention 
belonging to the 1% of people born before
the second world war, I'm ofte...

Categories: tendentious, absence, abuse, age, art,
Form: ABC

Cave canem

...the steady light of a white votive candle 	
reflected and amplified in highly polished brass
symbolises devotion	

talents never to be hidden under a bushel
but the secular world isn’t privy to ...

Categories: tendentious, fear,
Form: Suzette Prime

pickups

...It sits out in your driveway
a glittering metallic sculpture.
It costs more than your house,
you love it more than your spouse.
You can hardly drive it, it’s too high,
you can barely park it, it...

Categories: tendentious, addiction, beautiful, technology, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Not a Classic Poet

...Not A Classic Poet

I write with meter, like to rhyme;
Start lines with Capitals, make phrases chime.
But quickly clear it is that I’m
Not a classic poet.

Not Wordswort...

Categories: tendentious, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Care For Mother Earth and Her Everything

...Spare a thought
For buffaloes, bulls and bears groaning, mourning, starving
Under your collar don’t blow hot
Making rivers and rodents sad, carving 

Space and time you don’t own
Encroaching on...

Categories: tendentious, poems,
Form: Free verse

O Joy O Joy

...A baby is born ~ O Joy! O Joy!
A baby is born ~ O Joy! O Joy!

At the moment of birth it's completely dependent
  on its parents
No one would contest it...

After a few months it begins to coo...

Categories: tendentious, baby, child, freedom, god,
Form: Rhyme

Take Neither Cloak Nor Staff

...It takes a manner of a sweetness
laboring each day to build a faith
forsaking complex structures,
knowing there's a paradise afoot
...a stubborn joy that clings like sand 
to those retreating from th...

Categories: tendentious, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Gatlinger

...I keep on sending tendentious rhymes out
like some demented machine gunner.
Sometimes I aim high, Pulitzer, no doubt!
Lucky to hit a page with a number.
It just doesn't matter I always say.
It's just...

Categories: tendentious, funny, on writing and
Form: Sonnet

More Then Shaken...

...By The Mobid Hatred...

Formed By Your Impatience....

As I'm Absorbed By Four Dead Spaceships....

Taken...

To A Mistakin...

Place Witch...

Is'nt Sacrid....

As I Face This...

An...

Categories: tendentious, life
Form: I do not know?