ivor or ivor.e hogg Poems

I have become a pragmatist

I’ve been betrayed by so called friends
and people who I thought I knew.
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Circuit Judge?

I am detached, dispassionate.
My judgements purely logic based.
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He stands alone, he has B.O
He has no friends to let him know.
He is supremely ignorant
that he needs a deodorant.
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I sometimes wish my muse would take
a holiday, A longish break.
She is convinced she has the right
to badger me by day and night.
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I sometimes wish my muse would take
a holiday, A longish break.
She is convinced she has the right
to badger me by day and night.
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Lost deep in thought my footsteps strayed
And brought me to a woodland glade.
Wherein there stood an altar stone
erected to some God unknown
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Bussokusekiku

6 lines
5 syllable, line one
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Auntie Emmaline.

My cousin Peter was a prig.
A precious little Mamas boy.
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A silent world where no bird sings
A world devoid of living things.
Only the fittest could survive.
The Roaches adapted and still thrive.
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When interviewing candidates
Because you’re trying to be fair.
You sometimes over compensate.
Although completely unaware.
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