The Poet & the Camel

By John Powell

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984548153

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Copyright © 2018 by John Powell.

Library of Congress Control Number:        2010919624

ISBN:        Softcover                978-1-4568-4717-3

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Poet & The Camel

Fraudulent Theatrics

Limerick Number One

Swallowed

The Fugitive Camel to his Poet Friend

The Fugitive Camel to the Constable from His Poet Friend

The Poet, the Camel’s Friend

The Poet

A Couch Potato

A Philosopheme*

A Prudhomme*

Academician

Antimetaphysical

As Charlie’s Scribe

Changing Fate

Grammatically Surrealist

His Attack

It’s Norm

Left Unsure

Nee Knew

New Classics

Painting Word Pictures

Passed Along

Prelude

Sequel

Spha-Odon II

The Leading Edge

The Modern Poet

The Poet’s Form

The Poet’s Jug

The Poet’s Pattern

To Counsel Brought

Traditional Consequence

Untempered Mortar

Versed Before I Verse

Vexed

Virtue by Verse

Visions

A Thought Came to Me

Hearsay vs Communion

In the Crafts

My Expeditious Turn-around

One Accord

Sifted

Sifting for Truth

The Fearsome* Elf

The Hidden Stone

The Sifter

The Third Floor

Truth Is God <—> God Is Truth

Upper Room

Children

As Your Faith

Autumn’s Mark

Circuiteer

Consistency Consistently

Down in Tucson

Faith without Works

Georgia in Mind

I’m Glad

Jonathan

My Name is John

Narcissism*

Planting False Memories

Ruth

Scars

Shemuel*

The Whole Marine

They Are Debonair

Virtue

Winds of Courage

Family

Dead-beat Dads

Exaltation Set Aside

It’s June

Let Them Go

My House

My Will

The Bucket

Trust in Her

What He Said

Self

A Better Place

A Warning of Judgment

Class of ’52

Do Not Think Me Odd

Endeavoring to Persevere

His Guide

In His Presence

In Peace of Knowing

Introspection

John

Mercy I Plea

My Amorous Acts

Necessity of the Constant

Supreme Authority

Take My Helm

That Merit

That Night at Gold Basin

The Oblivious

The Third Pull

The Wild Ass Free*

This Pursuit

To Know

To Those I Have Abused

Upon Whom the Mantle Falls

THE POET

& THE CAMEL

Fraudulent Theatrics

The adversary with intent deceives

And misconstrues the facts that he receives.

It is the art and craft of lawyer guild

Intelligence and knowledge to have killed.

So they sidestep, thrust, and parry

Till one opponent, weak and unwary,

Succumbs to the other’s illusive slip.

Then he wounds and sinks his adversary’s ship—

Thus a consequence not of truth but skill,

And by authority of this consequence, he doth kill.

One adverse counter to a thrust

Is to cause the jury to mistrust

In a fact thrust at them in time

For an adverse paradigm.

The dual adversaries continue to react

As prejudicial always to the fact.

The facts are altered and reasoned away

By the most adroit strategist to sway

The jury in the case, or the judge,

Who must wade through this legal sludge.

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Limerick Number One

This here is limerick number one.

It’s this dum-ditty, dum-ditty, dum-dum-dum.

I’ll not send it to all, but I’ll send it to some,

And along with it a button I’ll send

As a hidden key to the camel and his poet friend. 

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Swallowed

I cannot write poetic form,

But in me rages camel storm.

I can feel, and I can sense

But cannot stand for my defense,

For camels are but to serve

And no justice do we deserve.

When our feelings cause us grief,

Our senses do not find relief.

Deep within we hold the grudge—

The driver alone is the judge,

And he has not camel feelings

To sympathize with humane revealings.

The driver does not see us camels;

He looks at us as only herd mammals.

As the common herd, we are oft referred;

To make us as if we’re not, we’re sold and bought,

But we some day shall take a stand

As swallowed camels in this land.

They have strained at gnats long enough

And swallowed us camels with their stuff.

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The Fugitive Camel to his Poet Friend

The fugitive camel to his poet friend,

I here jot down and quickly send

This note from a distressed herd mammal,

An oppressed and itinerant camel.

I’m a watcher—I surely am—

Of the legal soup from your Uncle Sam.

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