Kelly McManus: Poems

Mar 2021 · 49

What Choice Do I Have

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

What Choice Do I Have

A smile on my face
I look at the human race
pathetically

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 102

Goners

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Goners

They're still stockpiling
the good of humanity
in them you believe

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 76

Awaken A Blossom

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Awaken A Blossom

It's velvet pedals
bound inside a bud await
the warmth of the sun

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 35

Invitation To Eradication

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Invitation To Eradication

It's a savage race
cluttering the planets face
wants to be erased

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 61

Will Crawl Out Of The Sea

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Will Crawl Out Of The Sea

When mankind destroys
itself do you think maybe
that a four legged fish

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 60

Past Tense Is No Defense

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Past Tense Is No Defense

All their history
but the one thing I don't see
is a lasting peace

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 56

Extinguished

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Extinguished

Daylight is fading
on a world that showed promise
but lacked common sense

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 34

Time Of My Life

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Time Of My Life

As the clocks ticking
for the short time of my life
any minute now

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 74

A Caesar Salad

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

A Caesar Salad

If this continues
worldwide military rule
then we are all doomed

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 22

Unfolded

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Unfolded

Honor and glory
I'm so tired of that story
I'd rather have peace

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 41

Nothing Personal It's Just Business

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Nothing Personal It's Just Business

The establishment
like a tick on a dogs ***
parasitical

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 71

Hum A Tune In The Rubber Room

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Hum A Tune In The Rubber Room

Your following them
and the threat that they create
completely insane

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 61

Tisk-Tisk-Tisk

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Tisk-Tisk-Tisk

It's gone far to far
weapons of mass destruction
it's dysfunctional

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 62

The Effort

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

The Effort

Appropriation
doesn't help feed and cloth the poor
just sells you more war

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 61

Trajectory

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Trajectory

Safety in numbers
T minus ten and counting
the days you have left

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 70

Unrecyclable

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Unrecyclable

When the garbage truck
comes to collect what remains
after the next war

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 68

Slaves Of The Airwaves

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Slaves Of The Airwaves

Teach you what you know
so the only words you hear
are prerecorded

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 43

Circulation

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Circulation

Get a subscription
of someone else's vision
how you should live life

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 64

Flee

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Flee

Run away from them
they just want to control you
with empty freedom

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 88

A Dose

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

A Dose

Irradiation
what the world really needs
cure stupidity

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 56

Confusing Illusions

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Confusing Illusions

Where do dreams come from
will they turn into nightmares
when you wake again

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 52

So Bright

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

So Bright

As the daylight fades
into the darkness of night
that's when the moon shines

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 63

Control Freaks

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Control Freaks

As they snap and growl
at anyone who gets near
the bone in their bowl

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 48

Oozing Blues

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Oozing Blues

Hateful pustules
painfully waiting to burst
the world needs more LOVE

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 101

Lab Rats

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Lab Rats

Little schmucks in smocks
creating more ways to die
only question why

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 72

Sapped

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Sapped

Look at what they do
after which if you still trust
less power to you

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 75

Fading Shadows

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Fading Shadows

They have no power
unless you believe in them
it's then that your lost

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 73

Reality

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Reality

If they threaten you
in any way then freedom's
not reality

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 55

Separated By The Same Belief

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Separated By The Same Belief

A world divided
different philosophies
based on one thing greed

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 85

What's The Exchange Rate

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

What's The Exchange Rate

Tell me have you heard
they're destroying the planet
isn't it absurd

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 91

Storm Warnings

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Storm Warnings

Change in the weather
will that bring us together
or rain out the game

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 53

Barbarism

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Barbarism

How can you find peace
in a world whose only dream
remains conquering

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 70

Puddles

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Puddles

Come see watch it rain
making little rivers run
back to the ocean

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 84

My Oh My

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

My Oh My

Yes the systems rigged
by old world elitist pigs
why the worlds a sty

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 60

Dead Reckoning

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Dead Reckoning

I'll go to my grave
and the fools will still decide
war's a way of life

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 71

Servitude

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Servitude

Militaristic
putting us all on the brink
of having nothing

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 74

Seconds?

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Seconds?

It's the devouring
chewing away at the world
crumby way to go

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 63

Impervious To Subservience

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Impervious To Subservience

You say things have changed
you must like genuflecting
looks the same to me

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 51

You Don't Get It Do Ya

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

You Don't Get It Do Ya

Competitiveness
can people grow beyond it
before it's too late

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 85

Unconscionable

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Unconscionable

The nuclear mad
I personally don't need
their insanity

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 64

Policy

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Policy

Corporate bottom line
doesn't include being kind
just nickels and dimes

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 72

Topical

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Topical

Love to watch you talk
in the little groups you've made
with nothing to say

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 69

Tears Of A Frown

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Tears Of A Frown

So what's on your mind
a world that's smiling with peace
or one that's dying

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 65

Choo Choo Training

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Choo Choo Training

It's your uniform
suit tie pair of shinny shoes
now where's the salute

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 66

Syphoning

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Syphoning

They don't hesitate
wasting time with their debates
just to raise their rates

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 111

Been A Wrong Time

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Been A Wrong Time

Flirt with disaster
and you let them master you
only one word fools

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 88

Human Kindness

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Human Kindness

Ruining the world
for all the other creatures
put that in the bank

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 79

In A Nutshell

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

In A Nutshell

Hear the voices say
sanity's overrated
why the worlds crazy

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 95

Squeak Squeak Squeak

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Squeak Squeak Squeak

Hear quite whispering
from inside your cubicles
chatter with your cheese

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 77

Fleeting

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Fleeting

Flickering candle
out of nowhere a strong breeze
only smoke remains

Kelly McManus