Kelly McManus: Poems

Mar 2021 · 118

Savoring

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Savoring

The deliciousness
of a morning mist across
a small lily pond

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 53

M Is For Money

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

M Is For Money

It's the same complaint
of catering to the rich
shaken but not stirred

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 65

Reflecting

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Reflecting

It's academic
that the names have changed and yet
everything's the same

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 64

Quiver As They Slither

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Quiver As They Slither

Life's creature feature
a world where monsters abound
just don't make a sound

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 49

UF-NO

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

UF-NO

Look at what they do
if you were an advanced race
you'd avoid this place

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 55

One Mind Just Not Yours

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

One Mind Just Not Yours

What happens to you
after their programming's through
only they remain

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 85

ARG!!!

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

ARG!!!

Your patriotic
duty to fight anyone
who'll take their *****

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 69

Invasion Of Privacy Content

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Invasion Of Privacy Content

May be monitored
or recorded then there's
implied consent

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 121

24 Hour Zen

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

24 Hour Zen

Everyday dies
at dusk but then is reborn
with every dawn

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 48

Sublime

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Sublime

A world without guns
or weapons of any kind
sure would be sublime

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 59

Something New In The Test Tube

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Something New In The Test Tube

Worlds out of control
but we'll all be right as rain
with zombie soldiers

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 54

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 · 140

Goners

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Goners

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 90

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 · 44

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 · 67

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 · 68

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 · 64

Extinguished

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Extinguished

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 44

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 · 109

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 · 30

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 · 50

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 · 79

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 · 95

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 · 69

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 · 67

Trajectory

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Trajectory

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 77

Unrecyclable

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Unrecyclable

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 87

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 · 50

Circulation

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Circulation

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 70

Flee

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Flee

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 123

A Dose

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

A Dose

Irradiation
what the world really needs
cure stupidity

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 68

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 · 57

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 · 69

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 · 56

Oozing Blues

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Oozing Blues

Hateful pustules
painfully waiting to burst
the world needs more LOVE

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 131

Lab Rats

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Lab Rats

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 79

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 · 86

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 · 80

Reality

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Reality

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 62

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 · 91

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 · 97

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 · 66

Barbarism

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Barbarism

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 78

Puddles

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Puddles

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

Kelly McManus

Mar 2021 · 95

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 · 66

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 · 97

Servitude

Kelly McManus Mar 2021

Servitude

Militaristic
putting us all on the brink
of having nothing

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 100

Seconds?

Kelly McManus Feb 2021

Seconds?

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

Kelly McManus

Feb 2021 · 73

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 · 57

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