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#100Days100Poems Day 83

Today’s edition of The New York Times featured an article about a bar opening in Manhattan this coming Friday — a venue that can turn your thirst for protest and libations into charitable donations to entities targeted by Trumpet. Coup, as it will be called, deserves our business and inspired today’s #100Days100Poems piece. Now, who wants to meet for a drink?

 

A Cinquain Butterfly for a Bar Called Coup

Can bars
#RESIST ? Of course
they can! Call it a Coup
(d’état) alcoolique–cocktails as
weapons
of charitable giving. Plus
for four years we’ll all be
needing more booze,
won’t we?

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

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#100Days100Poems Day 82 Not a #TantrumTanka but a #TruthTanka

When Your Press Secretary
Speaks on Message Out Loud

If it walks like a
Nazi, talks like a Nazi,
and praises Hitler,
it must be a Trump press con-
ference Spicer shit show.

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 81 #TantrumTanka — Now We’re Caught Up!

The Perks of The Scheme
or
They Won’t Really Notice, Will They?

My favorite thing
about being president
is unlimited
golf vacations at swanky
Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 79 #TantrumTanka

It’s All Downhill From Here
or
What They Don’t Teach You to Do
In Obedience School

First, the nuclear
option. Then bombing from an
isolationist
position. How do you stop
them from wagging the damn dog?

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 77 #TantrumTanka

On a Random Thursday, Mid-day,
Overheard Somewhere in the White House

 

“Investigations?!?
Are they heating up? Well, let’s
deploy the ‘weapons
of mass distraction’; distract
the masses with weapons. Now!”

 

© David Siller – 2017

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*****

For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 74 — Not a #TantrumTanka just a #Tanka

The Humanist’s Quandary

I want to know how
wrong is it, really, to hope
that those who voted
Trumpet will lose home & health
& jobs. Too tough a lesson?

 

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 69


“The World is a Ball of Confusion.”

That’s what I remember Chuck D saying
in a song somewhere (the title’s wafting at the tip of my nose)
but he wasn’t talking about
the fancy dance where you wear the fancy pants
or the finest dresses and do the finest dances

no foxtrots, no tangos
no quicksteps, no paso doble
no cha chas, no rumbas
no waltzes (Viennese or otherwise)
… 1,2,3 … 1,2,3 … 1,2,3

but this ball (which really isn’t round
according to the smart science-y types)
this rock, this stone
this oblate spheroid
is nowadays filled with

Fox, trotting out its fierce delusions
and trumpeters tangoing with Russian infusions
indeed
it seems quicksteps are more like goosesteps
and paso dobles are now just double stepping
their way to a police state
cha chas changing with each new alternative fact
and rumbas make room for the rumblings and
rantings of a so-called mental patient president

alt-right radicals waltzing in and out of classified briefings
and diplomatic blunders headed to Vienna and beyond

here we are in all our confusions
counting like Sesame Street
as if it might not be there tomorrow

3 2 1
. . . counting down the days to impeachment

3 2 1
. . . counting down the days until a new election

3 2 1
. . . counting down the dominoes as they fall

1 2 3
. . . counting up the indictments as they fall

3 2 1
counting down to the counter-attack

3 2 1
. . . counting down to the drop of the ball
. . . . to a new year
. . . . . to a new era
. . . . . . to the end of the orange error

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 65 #PhotoPoem #PhotoHaiku

Over the coming days we’ll be presenting either a #PhotoPoem or #PhotoHaiku inspired by what is found in the collection of sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rather than discuss the titles, origins &tc. of the sculptures themselves, each #PhotoPoem or #PhotoHaiku will instead be unified by the title the author has given, regardless of the context of each individual sculpture, its national origins or artistic school.

 

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer, Indeed
or
“Head piece” as Headcase

 

headcase1
headcase3
headcase2

 

© David Siller – 2017

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*****

For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 64 #PhotoPoem #PhotoHaiku

Over the coming days we’ll be presenting either a #PhotoPoem or #PhotoHaiku inspired by what is found in the collection of sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rather than discuss the titles, origins &tc. of the sculptures themselves, each #PhotoPoem or #PhotoHaiku will instead be unified by the title the author has given, regardless of the context of each individual sculpture, its national origins or artistic school.

 

“Listen, Nanny nanny boo boo,
I’m the President and You’re Not!”

 

babypres4
babypres1
babypres3
babypres2

 

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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#100Days100Poems Day 63 #TantrumTanka

Today’s #TantrumTanka is a found poem, using the [con] man’s own words from a just-released interview with Time magazine. I read the whole transcript, and it’s amazing I could find two sentences together that made some sort of sense, despite their delusional claims.

 

“I guess I can’t be
doing so badly because
I’m president and
you’re not.” “I’m president and
you’re not.” — [“Doing so badly”!]

 

 

© David Siller– 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!

Please address any formatting preferences in your email. I will post submissions time permitting, with at least one per day. Editing will be limited to obvious errors of spelling and the like.

Read, follow, share, re-tweet, submit, live, love, spread light! Don’t forget to use #100Days100Poems !

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