The eternal sandbox Young and innocent Time consuming frivolity Equality of youth Shattered The dinky toyed hours Pen and suits Boots and hands A mild game struggle Children versus children Life kept on that harmless level Fun and simple Lost and baffled in gaming politeness Forgetting who the real enemies are Robert K. Stephen
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RKS Poetry Anthology: “Monday (non retired version)”
Monday (non retired version) I lie in fear Waiting Praying Monday morning is but an illusion Camouflaged amongst herds of angry zebra Who lay traps Of joyful Fridays To taunt its believers Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “In the interests of productive behaviour”
In the interests of productive behaviour Motivation Goals Group dynamics Profit sharing (for a selective few) Job enrichment Global inclusion Endless performance appraisals Team building All supposedly (by the senior management team) tasty tidbits for the rank and file Bribery for the belligerent Soothed with technocratic brew Psychological trickery Blessed in the holy catacombs ofContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “In the interests of productive behaviour””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Junkie of sorts”
Junkie of sorts Up the highway flows the citrus juice From Florida Anita Bryant The pusher Scores a hit And all are satisfied Except the Orange Bird Who weeps in lament For she can’t talk And Is forced to sing at gunpoint Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Big Turds”
Big Turds Lie crispy and baking in the sun As the ants pretend its chocolate cake Without Birthday candles Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Surfing the COVID Waves”
Surfing the COVID Waves The more the COVID waves surf the beach of life The more power and constraints placed on individual liberty In the name of public good! Elected representatives and top echelon medical bureaucrats now turned into sharks Dismembering and attacking those who fail to tow the party line Vilified like the sharksContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “Surfing the COVID Waves””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Rin Tin Tin’s Revenge”
Rin Tin Tin’s Revenge Salivated madness Molar maliciousness Lunges at your neck Hungry claws tear your veins hot satanic fumes Muffle your screams The blood pumps steadily onto the pavement Licked up enthusiastically by man’s best friend At the moment rabid Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Beat up a poet today”
Beat up a poet today Butterflies embrace the sky A God given sunny day and the soul flies high If this grade 5 rhyme is poetry then certainly something has gone awry Liquidate this trivial optimism Viewed through a socially irrelevant mindless prism Quash this verse Place it in the next outgoing hearse Revel inContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “Beat up a poet today””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Too many apples and grapes later”
Too many apples and grapes later A gasp Thunderous deafening roar Burning acrid gas Hot molten lava Slides down the porcelain precipice A sigh like the spring wind And the disaster sucked down to the bowels of the earth only The warm human smell remains Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Bluebeard Café”
The Bluebeard Café They mocked us as greasy punks Kicked our ass out into the grasp of Montreal’s winter cold To spoil those bugger’s weekend treat Was going to be quite a feat So we fixed them a cocktail that would cause any drinker to flush Accompanied by screams So it seemed as we warmedContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Bluebeard Café””
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