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Swift Transition

Swift transition from due deference
With questions deftly fielded from the floor,
Is challenge speakers find once conference
Finished, hushed applause, locked-down brown door.
Transition swift from host to ‘ghost-in-crowd’.
Transient aura fades before time’s mist.
Raincoat, briefcase, references, less proud,
Await, frustrated, public transport missed.
No fame persists. Swift, recognition’s dawn
Sinks beneath horizon - blinks, then night.
Identity: torn banner, rent, in pawn.
The spotlights splutter, mutter, then goodnight.
IT Is life's reel: high, low, play dice with god -
ONe moment dais, then for daisies sod.

poem by Jonathan Robin
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spawn again

Death becomes clearer through bloodshot eyes
As a death from old age becomes nearer
Why can't the livestock be free
When trading soldiers for steak
Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocritical vision
Discard the old and in with the new
Discard the old and in with the fashion

Learn to evolve with the new transition
To act upon a hypocritical vision
Learn to evolve

song performed by Silverchair from neon ballroom
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Grave Retrospective

Possessions' progression obsession
poor more, more than best less, must draw
conclusions mistaken, impression
that wealth over health sets the score
for worth on our earth where aggression's
too often condoned by the law,
where success seems a sterile succession
of trangressions that ravage rapports.

This seems tantamount to retrogression
where blunderbuss plunder makes war
where arrogant ego expression
is excuse for abuse all abhor.
Who lusts for a trophy procession
to celebrate, victory's roar,
finds vain remains reign, dispossession,
cyclic atrophy squanders life's store.

Where vice is held virtue, concession
signals weakness, destruction in store,

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Our country is in transition: It is disappearing from the map.

aphorism by Aleksandar Cotric, translated by Mirjana N. Mataric
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Every market is in transition.

quote by Kenneth Lay
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Life is one big transition.

quote by Willie Stargell
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We are the transition from one education to the other.

quote by Alfred Rosenberg
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Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

quote by Derek Harold Richard Barton
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

quote by Victoria Pratt
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Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

quote by Mark Messier
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