Global Warming
...The windows are boarded up in preparation for the storm
A weather event of this intensity is becoming the norm
Global warming continues to find a way to rule the day
For the planet to survive we m...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Of This Year
...Fifth of November
One quarter from age eighty
Memories intact…
Sorry to those in metric
Twenty five percent to go
© Harry J Horsman 2022...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, nonsense,
Form: Tanka
Karl Marx
...Karl Marx
created the communist manifesto
because looking at the capitalist world
the wealthy abused the poor
The wealthy enjoyed abundant lifestyles
well everybody else became slaves money
t...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
The Greatest Generation
...THE GREATEST GENERATION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation
They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression
It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Divers...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, america, courage, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Year Zero
...Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge movement, the leader Pol Pot,
Killed twenty-five percent of the population, a fact most people forgot.
To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss,
That was the ...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, conflict, history, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
Numerous Facts
...One I in Ireland, one country beginning with the letter Q,
Two hands of a clock, two U's in Timbuktu.
Three primary colours, three dimensions of power,
Four seasons of the year, sixty minutes in a...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, appreciation, fun, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Like Us
...humans share twenty-five percent
of our genes with rice.
does that make us cannibals
when we call-in take-out Chinese?
© Goode Guy 2013-09-10...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, funny, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
On Barr Trail
...ON BARR TRAIL
the going is steep –
twenty-five percent grade –
twelve miles to the top
legs tire already
we plan to go half way up
to where the trees stop
from there only rock
and no beauty in the...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, nature,
Form: Haiku
Shortest Day Trickery
...SHORTEST DAY TRICKERY
Again December 23 is almost here
Frost’s darkest evening of the year,
Ok. But what really bugs me
Is that it is the date when we
Are actually closer to the s...
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Categories:
twenty five percent, philosophyday, , western,
Form: Couplet