Karl Stuart Kline Poems

Abducted as a young girl
And brought to a strange country
Halfway around this wide world,
You’re here to meet the gentry
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He was arrested when he protested...
They took his home anyway
His wife objected when they elected
To take her husband away
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A thousand poems a day
Went parading through my head
Confusion reigned supreme,
A skein of tangled threads...
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I am God

I am a social god,
To hunger for the acceptance of my peers.
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Dawn beneath the twin sisters (the moons of Pern) ...
With thanks to Anne McCaffrey for her great works and her good humored tolerance of me as the “Poet of Pern! ”
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Bombs are flying,
Kids are crying
In a place
That on the face
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These poems were excerpted from Poison Pearls - a book of poetry that was reclassified after it was released to Women' Studies and Criminology!

It and my experiences overseas in turn were the motivation for my creating the web site, www.scaredsafe.org, where my messages for Human rights and against Human trafficking have reached over 40,000 visitors from over 145 countries!
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I woke up suddenly tonight
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Brass and crass,
But a sculpted beauty
Is how she is
When she comes to me
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Why do we go without eating,
Sitting here in plastic seating?

Waiting for our futures to unfold...
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