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The Will to Loose – A Poem by JP
Do not despair, they’ll always talk about the will to win, but I ask you—
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Green Park Benches ~ A Poem by JP
Old bearded men drifting in the alleys of night have died with the sunset and as I have overlooked their bodies beneath green park benches and bridges they too have overlooked my feet passing quietly by as the waitress slips silently into her second or third miserable job.
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The Lions Roar ~ A Poem by JP
The lions roar is very loud– He voices his power just like a god, And none would ever doubt The terror as it strikes them down, But lions know little of courageous things.
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The Depths ~ A Poem by JP
I’ve seen enough creation, And gazed long at the depths Of fathomless oceans, And deeper still into the stars
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Hunters In The Dark Wood ~ A Poem by JP
Long, at last, The Vostok had pierced the darkness and thrust Yuri into the firmament; We leapt from spherical craft to the vault of heaven, and waded ourselves in a bit with legs new formed like a tadpole in morph.
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Symbolic of Femininity ~ A Poem by JP
She is the source: the matriarch, and the material, the mad spring, and it’s ever renewal, the pregnant valley that blooms en masse
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A Time for Choosing ~ A Poem by JP
If it were that Churchill had saved the world and we had been delivered from the purge of those most foul and infected fingers would the Doomsday Clock still near its strike?
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They Have to Paint You as Evil
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people… Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea. – Adolf Hitler Mien Kampf (1929) Once a plan as insidious as Hitler’s became a reality, the world would never need to see the rise of one single individual to power to see such evil enacted upon it again. Here on the shores of this great country where the first amendment protects speech, you would not expect for the rise of such ideas to have occurred here. Nevertheless,…
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The Old Lie ~ A Poem by JP
There’s an old lie, that saysthat it’s sweet and fitting to die.That we should fall so a nation can risehas always been the soldier’s plight–but tell me again of the glory of warand what we should lay down lives for. Were we ruled by men like Cyrus the Great,perhaps there would be glory in the fight.If freedom was really the cause of such ominous fate,perhaps it would be fitting to have diedand cast our blood as Phlox into salted foreign soil,but alas our rulers are not the same:they’d throw us deep into the pit of deathto feed the men who…
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Mass Formation Psychosis ~Poem by JP
I have met them, as the sun set, Coming along down the highway From Memphis to Las Angeles; Ordinary well-meaning people,
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Fearful Symmetry – A Poem by JP
If I believed in such a hand or eye I’d think the tiger’s symmetry is weak; what would such stealthy paws or stripes hold now when held as candle to all our fine arts?
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