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Tribute To Tina Turner

... 

"I've been takin' on a new direction, but I have to say, I've been
thinkin' about my own protection, it scares me to feel this way."

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Categories: zurich, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Lady From Zurich

...There was an old lady from Zurich,
Whose husband was garrulous and rich,
He bragged about his new boat,
That it had a steel-like coat,
The boat sank due to an unseen glitch.


May 21, 2023....

Categories: zurich, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Scoundrels of the Senate

...Again these men comes to mind,
Paid to say yes and nay,
Lame duck,

Canker, ***** rapscallion minds
Incorrigible,
Political impostors detached from the humdrum of street cries
Maggots in honor...

Categories: zurich, africa, analogy, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Dream Vacation

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Wish to wake up surrounded by the snow-capped Alps
Sipping tea in the quiet, quaint villages of Switzerland
Watching the glittering ripples of sapphire blue lakes
Staying in picturesque lake...

Categories: zurich, dream, vacation,
Form: Imagism

Dead, Demented Yet Presides

...Over two hundred million people sleeps and wake without a leader,

A cloned effigy in a rock called "Aso"

too old to lead or long dead to be,

demented or dead, they cannot tell,

old age ha...

Categories: zurich, africa, corruption, image, life,
Form: Burlesque

Deus Ex Machina

...President Olusegun Obasanjo- Atiku     Abubakar

Promises of pardoned traitors    
Reek like ancient regrets.
Exhibitions, 
Steeped...

Categories: zurich, abuse, africa, angst, corruption,
Form: Burlesque

Cries From the River Nun

...A glib giant of the river borders 
The discerning ears of the ancient Power, we mourn
Where caravans cascade to unseen voices 
And the rumbling of avalanche bullets invades our peace 

This mind...

Categories: zurich, analogy, anger, character, chocolate,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Poetry Convention

...Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to beautiful Zurich Switzerland and the First Annual Poetry Soup Convention. Welcome poets, linguists, scribes, metrists and rhymers. Welcome poets from ...

Categories: zurich, poetry,
Form: Prose

Zurich In Winter

...A gust of icy air blasts 
the cold into my bones,
tugging at my knees with 
hollow, aspirating groans,

making numb my cheeks, 
whirling 'round my waist;
pulling at me thither-ward 
down cobb...

Categories: zurich, travel, winter,
Form: Quatrain

Car Park Cubicles

...OR
What I Learned on the Web Today

The whorehouse of the future
At least in Zurich’s mind
Is a bunch of car park cubicles
For hookers and their kind
This series of sex-box places
Where clients will ...

Categories: zurich, people, places,
Form: Rhyme

Elegy For Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi 2011

...Mihaly was a saint of sorts;

he improved, with his search for understanding,

the lives of so many yearning writers;

the lame in spirit heard his Zen like words.

He could not have imagined the jou...

Categories: zurich, death, life, loss, on
Form: Elegy

Stop Writing Literature, You Garrulous Indian

...for Eric Mottram (1924 - 1995)*

 a life of toil for the man in the centre
 a hub in the peripheral tireless wheel
 
   where he go then where he go this working man
   he go on waking people   worki...

Categories: zurich, celebrity, people, words, work,
Form: Elegy