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Aug 2019 · 41
Vicious Circle
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Poetry brings us
back three hundred and sixty
degrees to no change

                                    Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 98
Kaching
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
I pray for the souls
of those who follow their lead
you know where greed goes

                                                Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 52
Plunger
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
You know their control
needs to be put in that hole
just before you flush

                                    Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 638
Security Blanket
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
There's global unrest
hide under your desks until
you hear the all clear

                                       Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 57
Left Right Left, Right?
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Brainwash our children
to think war is alright then
fold the flag for mom

                                   Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 59
Eventually
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
There was perfect peace
until her teeth bit into
what she offered you

                                    Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 50
Recyclable
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
My casket sawdust
skin and bones fertilizer
it's growing on me

                               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 63
Crowning Achievement
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
There's only one thing
any royal family
offers more frosting

                                   Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 114
Above Ground
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Plus side still alive
don't take orders from a clown
put me six feet down

                                    Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 50
State Of Decay
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
It's sad I must weep
about this world that we leave
tomorrow's children

                                Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 178
Don't Blink
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
The creeping eye that
likes to spy on everyone
and everything why

                                   Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
I've been fed their good
since childhood it's really
indigestible
                                    
        ­           Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 48
Quicksand Man
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
They feed on your greed
and call it a dream wake up
and see the nightmare

                                     Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 64
A Snippet
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
They lobotomized
me years ago that's how I
became a poet

                         Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 33
Sideshow To Go
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
You sir you mame come
and see grotesque freaks left here
after world war three

                                     Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 62
Branching Out
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Seems like yesterday
we were all real swingers
living in the trees

                               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 53
Watch And Listen
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Love the world's leaders
watch them on TV while I
wait to hear the boom

                                      Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 61
Fleeting
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
One set of footprints
on the sands of time until
waves wash them away

                                        Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 69
Days Are Numbered
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
They say they serve you
but that's not so all they want
to be in control

                           Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 68
Fetch
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Scratching at troubles
that just seem to double
day after day
but be a good pup
and keep your chin up
it will seem
like a dream
where you walk
in the park
take the leash off
and run and bark
on the lawn
until
all those troubles
are gone.

               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 68
Launch
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Can you stop progress
and where does it lead you to
the moon mars or doom

                                          Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 129
Omelets
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
You put your trust with
people who build bombs where did
The Dodo go Here

                               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 96
Whatever
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Self destruction not
the way you were meant to go
but you don't care so

                                    Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 136
Silver Lining
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
See society
for its impropriety
set Barabbas free

                                      Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 46
Never Alone
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
If you keep your faith
someone's always there for you
waiting on your call

                                   Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 63
Flatline
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
When did your life end
when the heart monitor stopped
when you said I do

                                Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 97
Endearing
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Antelopes dancing
on cantaloupes while gazelles
are jumping through hoops

                                                Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 63
Moon Beams
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
What will evening bring
extinguishing the daylight
sleeping through the night

                                               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 68
Rubber Room Tomb
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Where can you go to
find sanity not in this
world apparently

                              Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 54
Wait For It
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
You've seen the warnings
and been given enough time
yet you beckon death

                                     Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 60
Excuse Me Kids
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Now I can be first
off a sinking ship gender
equality rocks

                        Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 126
A Few Nice Words
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
The box was oblong
the wood I believe was pine
just ran out of time

                                  Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 185
Indications
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Cooperation
of subjugation symptoms
submitting to greed

                                  Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 240
ET Phones Home
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Even with a modest amount of technological advancement,
after thousands of years, we still found man,
walking around with a club in his hand, and still too primitive;
to be made aware of our existence.

                                                     ­         Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 60
Cultural Purity
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
I hope they only
take the finer things we like
******* bars on Mars

                                    Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 136
Blunder And Frightening
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
You allow dark clouds
and at the end of their reign
you flow down the drain

                                         Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 46
Held Compelled
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Can you free yourself
from what's designed  to snare minds
the trappings of wealth

                                     Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 110
A New Crop
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Instead of feeding
on each other we can grow
sister and brother

                               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 45
Shadows Fade
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Love fills empty space
while the universe expands
hate disintegrates

                               Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 77
Beginning Of The End
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
The end is just a
new beginning beginnings
then will never end

                                  Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 71
No Bones About It
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
My enemies act
so friendly that I want to
put a leash on them

                           Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 57
Systematically
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Additionally
division and subtraction
is multiplying

                        Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 60
Hook Line And Sinker
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Hypocrisy means
their rules don't apply to them
your free of freedom

                                   Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 48
Global Warming
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
The ice is melting
what will the eskimos do
without their igloos

                                  Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 72
Embrace The Human Race
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
If only the world
community would control
its own destiny

                         Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 53
High And Dry
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Still with the peons
but you have an umbrella
now that's middle class

                                         Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 463
Diminishing Returns
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
So much in this world
we're forced to accept until
there is nothing left

                                  Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
All around the world
you find borders that define
hallucinations

                         Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 46
Ticked Off
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
What does freedom mean
getting all those ticks off my
poor little paycheck

                                              Kelly McManus
Aug 2019 · 64
Flushed With Pride
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
Let ******* control  
floodgates of war you know what
the rivers made of

                                Kelly McManus
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