Best Pandemonium Poems

Of parrots and parakeets, no one knows
now numbering in the thousands
no longer Mexico's bucolic birds
new urbanized citizens migrated 
to the suburbs. 

If you travel to Los Angeles and county
where hobo avians flock to Pepperdine
hoping to matriculate to paradise..
Pasadenans know the raucous calls from palms
festooned in...

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Panicked people pour into the streets pushing past each other; they’re powerless
Against the awful atrocity unleashed by unknown armed assailants.
Normalcy has fled; so many in the debris are left lying dead!
Disarray, destruction, distress and doom! On screens around the world we see
Escapees emerging wounded from...

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~ autumn pandemonium ~

unkempt piles of leaves
 carelessly tossed from branches ~
  autumn leaf debris

tangled leafless boughs
 autumn’s hair in disarray ~
  scattered frost crystals

messy season sighs
 disheveled threadbare forests ~
  rumpled cloak of fall

bands of color float
 into shabby sable mounds...

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Pardon skepticism, but it’s true
There’s too much ado about Swine Flu
Thirty-one deaths by May of ‘09
In 25 nations worldwide
 
Avoid all public transportation
And forego annual vacations
Protect us from the dreaded Swine Flu
By closing our schools and churches too
 
The government was slow to react
When HIV...

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Political upheaval broke our peace to pieces 
Absolute monarchy and aristocracy was our big curses
Neglected by our own rulers we struggled 
Dictators and merciless killers ruined us from soul
Emerged The French revolution 
Momentous event to unfurl poor's life
Orders to establish equality liberty and fraternity 
Nationalism...

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With my recorder I pursued my quest
This assignment seemed like a courage test
     That’s why my boss sent me
     Knowing that fearless I’d be
Covering this race brought such happiness

Hundreds of hot air balloons in the sky
Conducted the...

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P ain   devastation engraved on townsfolk’s faces
A s  vile earthquake raked homes, claimed lives;
N othing but trauma lashed  this chaotic scene
D eaths numbering ten, forty, and hundreds rose as
E mergency  aid  dragged from crushed infrastructure.
M inutes after, a city...

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Peril lurks around our children
			As they play and walk to school.
			Nighttime's goblins have a rival;
			Daytime's just as bad a ghoul.
			Evil's names are myriad,
			Murderer and terrorist;
			Others--racist, rapist, hater . . . 
			Neverending is the list.
			In this time of chaos rife,
			Unrelenting fear and strife, 
			My prayers are...

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Peace has never been given beneath the withered dust of steadfast war
Armies gather in unity fighting for disagreements of what we’re here for
Negotiations have been sacrificed for the loyalty of a forgotten country
Democratic and republican parties forget the reasons we need to be free
Entering a...

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P andemic parasites of man have spread
A bandoned Angels the skies have shed
N ecromantic necrophiliacs playing with the dead
D emonic desires of witches and warlocks wed
E vil runs rapid in the wasteland of deception
M onuments crumble for the demons reception
O ppression overtakes the mild and...

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Palimpsests of smoky cone-rolled pages charred black from the lead of hatred laced pencils,
Assemblages rewriting peaceful philosophies from behind the blindness of fire-flooded eyes;
Nourished underground rivers of stiff minds that hang coarse like dried laundry on the line,
Demolition derbies of personal agendas colliding like sticks...

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Beyond the leggy palm trees you can hear them calling out 
Through the diffused light and thin curtains called home- 
Are a people in need 
Brought to there knees with infelicitous faces-
Filled with confusion and doubt 

Broken hearts in broken places, loss of life-
In an...

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Dark falls and savagery creeps watchfully like a royal tiger stalking its prey
Deceiving its unsuspecting victims
Put under a spell by its glowing, powerful eyes 

A soft soul
Sparkling eyes full of intent and wisdom
The true nucleus of eternal goodness 

Honey-coloured beams of light flow fluid around...

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Peaceful was the gathering of the multitudes
A gathering of saints and common humanity
Nirvana sought or perhaps only interludes
Driving their demons, seeking some sanity
Every twelve years the Great Kumbh was held
Making this the largest confluence of souls
Offering themselves with Godhead to meld
Nascent whispers arose of mischievous...

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Parliament in Canada came to a stop in October 2014 (no place is safe)
and in the end Corporal Nathan Cirillo was dead, shot in the back three times;
Nathan was on duty at the Canadian War Memorial (oh the tears),
dead because a lone wolf terrorist went...

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