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Whitehouse Wizards | Langley Shazor - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Whitehouse Wizards | Langley Shazor

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Magicians weave spellbinding tales
Captivating onlookers
Shifting perspectives
Mesmerizing our eyes while holding our breath
Hostage
This sleight of hand
Grants us permission to assume we have it solved
All the while
Moving us in the opposite direction
These sorcerers keep us confused
With mythically mystical abilities
We are held prisoner under their trance
Hypnotized
Confined to a reality they create
Our lifeless avatars
Sway with the wave of a palm
The truth is never revealed
Such proper illusionists

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The Dream Thieves | Neil Creighton

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In sleep I saw a House of Dreams,
golden doors open wide,
liberty written on its walls,
equality glowing inside.

Then came the smiling thieves
in tailored suits and ties,
deceitful intent glibly oiled
by their well practised lies.

Inside, they plundered all its treasure,
stripped all the jewelled beams,
carried away the golden orbs
that lit the House of Dreams.

They left the merest appearance,
a painted, empty facade,
and everything that they spewed out
was stained deceptive fraud.

I awoke drenched and shivering
from the horror I had seen,
blood now oozing through the door
of the ruined House of Dreams.

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A Simple Truth | Gil Hoy - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

A Simple Truth | Gil Hoy

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For so long as the NRA
controls Congress

With its pumping poison
mutant lifeblood

Corrupting souls,
buying silence,

Innocents will
continue to die

From high-powered
weapons of war

As lone wolves sing
their rancid noteless songs:

A witch’s brew of shrill
staccato tempo

That our numbed eyes
don’t hear anymore

and that tastes
forgotten anyway.

National Call to Service | Francis Annagu - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

National Call to Service | Francis Annagu

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The weekly newspaper
Announced the government spending.
The road and dam projects
Were abandoned to rowdy campaigns.
The extravagant contractors denied,
Silence of the trucks like the troubled night.
Violent ragtags trooped the streets
With over-heated hands jittering for a fight,
Only for something the vultures roam in the sky,
The eagle’s glory is his prolonged flight.
The call to national service overtakes
The old pot of greed, but the merchants
For the loot, as the famished boy
Throws his stones from the colony of poverty.
This is a national call to serve the people,
Not a call to steal from the national pot.
The vision lied several seasons
On the mountain top, a vision
Of the great to heed the greatest vision.
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Francis Annagu is the author of “Our Land In The Beak Of Vultures” (Hesterglock Press, 2017). His works have appeared in Expound Magazine, Potomac Journal, Lunaris Review and others.

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