Succession

First
Enjoys the monarchy of novelty
Next inherits second

Those in the middle
Sequence of mediocrity
Some smatch of recognition

Last
Is caretakerof posterity
Rewrites the history

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Memories Unwelcome

Vicarious voyeurs lurk
In lower depths of guilt
Staining the moral fiber
Of empathy, of sympathy
And love

Time is bested
And the Devil
Has his due

Although
What vigilance can not erase
Awareness can prevent

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Simile Spoke, Metaphor Evoked

from one metaphor to the next
the carousel of loop to loop
at the luna park, tickles the senses
frightens the fears

pay good money for schizo tears
endorsed and invoked
is the punch line and joke
of imagination, evoked

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How Many Angels

a point,
joins lines together
losing identity
creates new forms

right angles, circles,
sexagons, hexagons
of added quality

heirarchies
and new perspectives
of more than one

angel dancing
up and down
and all about

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New Breed

New Breed

She is pretty and young as well
A disarming smile
Isn't that enough
Who would believe

She is intellectual too

How will she fit
This world
Bear with him
And her children

Cinderella, Snow White
And Red Riding Hood

Shimon

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Environments

innocence asks,
why is the sky blue
and the grass green,
guilt asks, of blue and green,
sky and grass,

redemption for sinning,
polluting skies and grasses
grey with smog,

why oh why,
is the sky not blue
nor the grass not green

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Programmed

miracle of genetics,
pooled by a heritage
fooled by the fables,
we live in a culture

nurtured by nature,
culled by a fate
spawned by a father,
born from a mother

flirt with Sol's
Promethean gift,
seek salvation
in knowledge and faith

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Computer Parents

When the keys
Start to wheeze
It's time for
A breeze

Mathematics and
Electronic static
Came before
Computer addicts

In such a state
With such a drug
Be a thug
And pull the plug

Hierarchy is no malarkry
In education
Small doses
Saves the child
From neuroses

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Observations on Eloquence

precise speakers
don't coin metaphors
sloppy seakers,
for want of exact similies
create a new phrase

sometimes more colorful
originated for want of language
or poverty,
the test of a new phrase or metaphor
is time

if adopted or repeated
alas eloquence is the lilt
and cadence sonorus
baritone or tenor

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Most Fables

fables told at the table,
or formed in a stable,
metaphorical stories
with a moral and point

that simile and simple are unable,
to tell or spin a spell
of narrative magic,
told straight and forward

full of animals and analogies
more falacious than true,
are told to construe that naive
and simple have another view

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