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Knowing makes me wonder
At evocative truths which abound
Salient sentience is a crucible
Where the enlightened meet
To sip ambrosia’s elixirs
Enrapturing mesmeric enchantments
Fecund grace ensues
Pervasions depths seem within reach
With treatises we expound
Lecherous libido’s pandemic liaisons
A chorus so unique
Each one a sentinel equation
In harmony replete
The decadent arrogant squirm
As rubato’s flair reveals
All the things that might have been
The love that they concealed
As they reach with grasping greedy hands
For things they can not steal
An oldy but a goody
 Dec 2017
phil roberts
On wheels
On the road
Off our heads
City bound
Let's go bro
Let the adrenalin flow
In search of narcotics
On Devilment Row
Where the good don't go

Here dealers compete
In a threatening way
And if you're not bold
You better not stay
Young joeys surround you
On the carpark
But you ignore them
And head inside
The deals are better in there
Though the risks are higher
Amidst the heavy hitters

Thirty or forty
To pick and choose from
What ya sellin'?
What ya deals like?
Everyone's suspicious
And everyone's armed
There are people murdered
In this part of town
And nobody blinks an eye
And you know that when
You're that close to death
You feel so very much alive

                                     By Phil Roberts
 Dec 2017
Martin Bailes
Well that was last week
& this is now
& yes …
it actually is
to him
This President of the United States
who has just endorsed
an accused
child-molestor …

THE PRESIDENT OF THESE HERE
UNITED STATES
HAS ENDORSED
AN ACCUSED
*******!

“He denied it”
says Trump,
of Roy Moore
this man who has 8,
yes …
8 women accusers …
together with witnesses
from the time,
& corroborative evidence
from the time,
& tears …
from the time,
& fear …
from the time,

& if there’s special
place in hell
let it house
Trump
& Moore
& Moore’s enablers
& Republican justifiers
& equivocating TV hosts
& the Evangelical apologists

& as for Trump
& as for Moore …
the moral bankruptcy here
leads me to simply say
in anger, disgust & horror …
may the dark pitiless depths
of a sulfurous burning pit
be their’s for eternity,

or close to.
 Dec 2017
Ghazal
He sees me from a distance and
passes a hand through his hair,
His smile changes, his voice does too,
His movements pick up a flair
Reserved for only those moments
of hopeful eye contacts,
that harbour even the remotest possibility
of culminating into the act-

The act, for which my body
Prepares me month after month,
Clouding my senses and bombarding me
With erogenous oestrogen and ferocious pheromones,
That dictate my actions every mid-cycle,
To deck me in colour and spray myself fragrant,
Like a flower opening herself and welcoming
Her visitor who's looking at her from a distance,

What more, say, is existence,
Than the dance of the elements?
The heart wraps it up in candy and fluff,
But the mind and the flesh call its bluff,
And sway to the tune of 'find and mate',
The steps known to them, though never taught,
The mind swaying along to procreate,
The flesh joining in, to recreate.
 Dec 2017
wordvango
according to pure reason  
to be elected to Senator or President
one must have at least eight
****** predator allegations against them.
I'm running for Senator one day when
it takes good morals and a dream to make America great again.
I will mean it. Not just act like an *** on a bus and get elected anyways.
I ask the price before buying.

There's a price tag for everything
upon the breakeven a levied charge
for life has not one bit
bought sans the urge to profit
taken home void of bargain
friend, lover, companion
at a price not to be alone
without a fallout of gain or pain
of sweet or bitter taste
lifelong joy or sooner regret.

Do I have a price?

As for my own
I feel always underpaid..

the woman I took to the bed
the child I raised
friends and companions
seem all miserly in paying the dues..

maybe they rue too
I haven't paid theirs.
 Dec 2017
ryn
Many are the things unsaid
when tongues are bit

Much is the blood
spilled when hearts are slit

Many are the moments
forsaken when the mind’s unfit

Much of the pain
still fester even with words deliberately writ
 Dec 2017
Ian Lewis Copestick
I feel that I have to say something
And say it clearly
Because it is so
Easy to forget
In these busy
And stressful times

And we all see​
The distressing
Adverts on T.V.
About
Starving children
Covered in flies
Who will die today
If they don't receive
Some help
Any help at all
The swollen bellies
The crying eyes
Covered with diseased​ flies
And their crying
Families that watch
Them for the
Slightest chance
That
Someone
Somewhere
Will
Care......
And  we ask
Ourselves
How has it
Come to this ?



Yet you keep voting Republican or Conservative
And​ the wheat and barley and butter mountains
Grow higher
And higher
Until they're pushed
Into the fire
Because your policy is
To throw it all away
If it doesn't make
A profit in some way

You would rather see
These strangers die
After all, they're not
Like you and I

Capitalism does not allow
People to make gifts anyhow
Everyone must pay their way
Even if they have nothing with which to pay
I don't believe in
GodBut I pray
  Global Revolution
Will come about someday

Aft all is that not what the Bible says
The rich will perish, the poor will take their place
I know I will not be around to see
But I will rest in my grave happy
Come the Revolution, Brothers and Sisters!!!
Kick Out The Jams!!!!! I
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