Tag: poem
group name: politicalpoets
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March 03, 2006 12:34 PM EST --
There's an elephant in the kitchen
We pretend he isn't there
He cries about the basement,
says a rattlesnake lives down there
Wanted, dead or alive, he cries
that snake really must go
The . . . more
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November 28, 2006 07:03 PM EST --
Mr. President, I think you owe us an apology
For one day, long ago, you declared "Victory!"
Now that idea is ancient history,
especially if you happen to be Iraqi!
Victory for us and . . . more
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August 16, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
The water looked so beautiful encased in ice
Thick ice shimmering in hues of blue
A colour I have always found alluring
I paced the edges carefully for long
But seeing, being on the edge was not enough . . . more
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December 01, 2006 02:58 PM EST --
The swearing in of a president
is usually an solemn and noble event.
Today Mexicans set a bold new precedent.
As the right wing president elect arrived in his car
his supporters were finishing . . . more
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January 30, 2007 12:17 PM EST --
Riddle of Articulation, Starting gun - you fire
My brittle heart is broken; from this battle, I retire
Lying down to rest, my weary feathered pen of ink
Too tired now to struggle, too numb to even think . . . more
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March 21, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
New Age Prez
(cinq-cinquain)
An age,
A century
Of pain. Same poor victims.
Can we afford it in the next
Era?
Money
Should not factor
Into . . . more
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March 03, 2008 07:00 PM EST --
Political Parties Abound
An . . . more
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June 21, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
presidents, prime ministers
congressmen and senators
play with lives
telling us of their suffering
driving by in their SUV's
going on their hawaiian family vacations
putting sons, daughters, . . . more
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June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . . more
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August 06, 2008 05:48 AM EDT --
Hiroshima
Peace
Fight for peace
Give our sacred honor
arrows flying
piercing armor
piercing amor, pride in
full measure
Feeling wrath, revenge,
moral fear, coiling
paranoia
bayonet . . . more
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January 19, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
Hard under the shovel
sealed up in the now,
where history ends and illimitable began
far and away from lessons long past,
depleted of clarity, calamity,
and . . . more
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January 28, 2008 10:18 PM EST --
She will cut glass tonight.
She will wait until the dogs are walked and fed
and I settle in to cringe, thank god,
at the president's last
State-of-the-Union. . . . more
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June 11, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
Here's a few I gleamed from Ted Kooser and several other noted poets, as I understand them:
DO'S & DON'TS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
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September 10, 2007 10:58 PM EDT --
Lies and rumors of lies
cover trails of B-52's
carrying nukes
in American skies
lost in the shadows
of twin fallen towers
blinding both eyes
as they fall
over
and over
again
. . . more
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December 07, 2007 11:00 PM EST --
A little thing you said,
casts a pregnant shadow,
loathsome heart.
This tiny eclipse
pokes holes in rolling landscapes
of perfect cellophane,
deceit wrapped receivers . . . more
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June 08, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Senryu 1
those girls talk too much
when they gather together
excluding all boys
Senryu 2
time has come to stop
complaining . . . more
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June 06, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
That pooch and her stuffed toy puppy,
she confronts, attacks, tries to destroy it.
I suppose confronts is a bit of over simplification,
she does chew it, bite it, throw it, and jump on . . . more
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June 11, 2008 12:46 PM EDT --
Here are a few terms serious poets should use and understand:
abstract/concrete
alliteration
allusion
anaphora
anecdote
aphorism
assonance
blank verse
cadence
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June 10, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
Taken from: http://www.twodragonflies.com/about.html - THANKS!
What is Haiku?
Haiku – a form of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka . . . more
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June 12, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
astrology, alchemy, atheism
none a true science
so many endeavors
directed away from
reality, truth and beauty
so much wasted time
. . . more
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