The Man with Red Horns

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Oh! Have I planted firm beliefs and plotted piety

These long arduous Summer morns

Harvested frosty Winter

Erected a crown of prickly thorns

Twas the fated

Conquest to be

With the Man with Red Horns

Suffer the beast!

From dank brusk

Until breaking dawn

Of my crushing defeat

The Old Text

Fairly forewarns

Spring is the beginning

Pride goeth before the Fall

Pity the Kings!

No more suffer the pawns!

 

GroupThink

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GroupThink is Orwell’s original word

A definition of the adverse effects

Of complete loyalty

To the herd

Innovation

Creative thinkers

And new and vibrant solutions

Are stifled

When society is such arrayed

GroupThink only allows fealty

To the ennobled leaders

Of the day

Loyalty

Submission

And anti-protest

Are most popular attributes

Amongst the knaves

When compared

You will find the thought process

Shares a commonality

With the owners of the slaves

And the anti-democratic

Boot-licking

Simpleton

Insurrectionists

Attacks against the Capitol Police brave

Democracy is only truly formed

When everyone has their say

Honest debate

Reasoning

And open discussion

Should propel motion

To the better way

Yet it is emotion

What one “believes”

What the “team” propaganda conceives

That has the greater devotion

And stands tallest

Above the American dream fray

Worker Bee

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Don’t bee too hard on yourself

Taste the honey

Life is too short

To spend in the weeds

Smell the flowers

Bee empowered

Enjoy the beautiful scenery

Which will put your mind at ease

And make just enough

Honey

To live comfortably

Exercise

Integrity

Creativity

Solidarity

Inhale the flowery breeze!

Buzz onward cheerfully

On the finite flight of your mortality

Happy Halloween

It was a dreary and gloomy October night

As I traversed the streets

There were scenes filled with fright

I saw Frankenstein

With the WolfMan

Walking under a tree

Atop perched an owl

It was very eerie

My legs felt weary

As WolfMan started to howl

Then a Gorilla

Not Magilla

Was holding hands with Godzilla

What was unfurling?

Winds were swirling!

Had I awoken in a Creature Feature Thriller?

Then a tap

Upon my back

It was a Vampire!

Asking for treats?

I yelled out, “No”!

Now please go!

“You’d have my blood for your sweets”

Out of the hullabaloo

Came a “Boo”!

Then big and obscene

A muscled fiend

His skin perpetually green

Careened on to the street!!

I wished to sulk

When the Incredible Hulk shouted

“Happy Halloween”!

 

A Shepherd’s Tale

It must be the Sheep

Who is the creep?

Not the enterprising Wolf

Who upon entering the manger

Must go about the business

Of heightening the bloody danger

To ensure that his stomach is filled deep

Sated with the blood

And life

Of those who cannot fight

Due to the lack of might

Or insight

To do what is right

Amongst the Sheep

Whilst the whole wide world

Sleeps

Trumpeteering to Benghazi

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Is she crazy?

Or is this Trump’s Benghazi?

Was the comments made by the President fugazy?

Does he worship the Nazi?

Is there a cover-up underway of the soldiers foray into Niger?

Trump is no Lion

Just Lyin’

Once again

Fake News by the Diss-Uniter in Chief

Commander-in-Creep

Twitter Propagandeer

 

 

Noah’s Raft

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Only the Little People
Pay taxes

You know the Riff-Raff

Got a problem with that
Then I’ll lay off some more staff

Trickle-Down is what I named my yacht
My Golden Calf

Tax-free
Political favors craft

It carries me First-Class
On the waves of our economy

Only suckers
Cannot wiggle their way
Out of the Draft

After another
Material Blessing Day

Providence provides me
With the Last Laugh

As the underlings
Bicker and fight

Over fixing

The economic drive shaft

And to be awarded a raft
Of survival

Der Fuhrer’s Catcall

 

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Since when does working at a job

Any job

Preclude your First Amendment rights?

The supposition that veterans do not support protesting for human rights is a non-patriotic slight

By those who have never had the enemy in their M-16 sights

It does not make you a Soldier/Patriot because you have as a Citizen deemed it proper to salute the flag

Enlist if you wish and risk coming back from never-ending American wars in a bodybag

If Citizens cannot protest as they see fit protected by the First Amendment

Then it is you who are acting as a Nazi and have condemned them

Who hath let Der Fuhrer’s cat out of the bag!

You are paying Trillions of dollars for Military conflicts around the World

While showing your Constitution to be as worthless as a rag

 

 
 
 

Ode to the Mother Lode from a former 101st airborne soldier

Mirror Image

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What is it to be an identical twin?

To come together when you begin
Entwined intuitively to each other’s sin

Adorned individually
In matching fashion

Sharing hobbies!

Arts!

Sports and cultural passions!

Nature has no explanation
For such things

Genes can create
Unique beings!

Cultivating life
In changing seasons

Mirror! Mirror!
On the wall

What is your reasoning?