Our Lives Rearranged
...So many times our lives rearranged
Resilient we are, accustomed to change
Wars, Revolutions, Coups and Upheavals
Plunder and Pillage and assorted evils
Recessions, Depressions, Ru...
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Categories:
terminations, business, change, money, war,
Form: Couplet
A Woman's Right To Freedom
...We decry some Arabic countries
where women are forced by law
to wear burkhas and cover
their faces and cannot speak out.
We speak for them, and ask,
“Where are the rights
of these poor women
w...
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Categories:
terminations, discrimination, future, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Your Birthday
...Your birthday, my dear, is more than another year
Marked and filed, a calendar passing, hours mild
Of clasped hands, secret kisses, tickling and
teasing and mocking my tiny sneezing
Your T-shirts...
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Categories:
terminations, appreciation, birthday, endurance, husband,
Form: Free verse
What's Going On - What Is It
...Is it the West Wing is not the Best Wing?
Is it the White House is not the Right House?
Is it the President needs a New Residence?
Is it the Democrats the “New Aristocrats?”
Is it the Different C...
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Categories:
terminations, america, change, leadership, people,
Form: Narrative
Ugly Government Bodies
...Provide terminations to everyone that has a choice
some choose not to kill and stay involved
in saving human life rather than devalue
An unborn child to begin with
in the womb of all places...
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Categories:
terminations, blessing, child, emotions, faith,
Form: Terza Rima
Sweet, Sweet Decending's
...“Sweet, Sweet Descending’s”
The meandering river slinks silently
In reluctant afterthought;
A flat stone shines in the sun’s presence,
Gripped for flight, flies forward;
Water clouds dance in ...
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Categories:
terminations, change, death, earth, growth,
Form: Free verse
Sweet, Sweet Descendings
...Sweet, Sweet Descendings
The meandering river slinks silently
In reluctant afterthought;
A flat stone shines in the sun’s presence,
Gripped for flight, flies forward;
Water clouds dance in the...
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Categories:
terminations, death, space, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
There Is Nothing To Say About It
...There is Nothing to Say About It
There is nothing to say about it
No words to describe it at all
There are no words at all to describe
the mass slaughter of innocents,
the relentless mali...
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Categories:
terminations, war,
Form: Free verse
When Death My Way Comes, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Sonnet: Cuando Yo Vaya a Morir
...When Death my Way Comes, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s sonnet : Cuando yo vaya a morir
( I prefer the reversal in my rendering of the title for it highlights the inevitability of the moment. I hav...
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Categories:
terminations, death,
Form: Sonnet
Missing In Action
...Father's Day is melancholy for many folks,
Some are misty because of long separations,
others are sad because of premature terminations,
Mourning fathers who have died serving this country or pres...
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Categories:
terminations, fatherfathers day, day,
Form: Ode
Incantations of a Dancing Marionette, Dancing Nighttime Directional Vapor of Death
...Incantations of A Dancing Marionette, Dancing Nighttime directional Vapors of Death
invisible, nefarious fumes that make the dead
terminations that rises, to awaken one's head
up and vomit! pl...
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Categories:
terminations, war,
Form: I do not know?