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Law and claw

Convicted of the crime that you committed,
You will absolve the guilt.
Convicted of the crime that you uncommitted,
You will curse the guilt.
Acquitted of the crime that you
uncommitted,
You will evict the guilt.
Acquitted of the crime that you committed,
You die of the guilt.

To escape from law
is to succumb to conscience’s claw.
29.12.2001, Palakkad

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Acquitted Lips

I once had thought them miserable.
Ones I hated to kiss.
Too much truth came from them often.
And I resisted.

But today I am not as obstinate.
Today I listen more than a bit.
Instead of panicking in denied fits.
Unable to handle the honesty of it.

I feel pathetic I had rushed away,
From your truthfulness.
I feel pathetic but take credit,
For your acquitted lips.

I feel pathetic I had rushed away,
From your truthfulness.
Since it's obvious now,
You were the one to take risks...
To save me.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

quote by Publilius Syrus
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

quote by Juvenal
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

quote by Titus Livius
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Verdict

Verdict announced
Accused present
All acquitted
Not set freed.

I am here
Destined to write
To write is to
Reveal hidden.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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The Philippine Justice System...

he had trial the whole day
and the stenographers are dying

he is cruel and the world
loves him

justice is more cruel
demanding and sending them all
to oblivion,

the world does not actually
honor those who work hard for it

those convicted
shall condemn and those acquitted

to easily forget
damn the speed and the errors!

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Set About

to do a sarcastic....oooops...meant acrostic.....
slud into a slew of desponding aphorythmicisms....
hoping to be acquitted...or, at least, unrequieted....
in the interest of pendragoons and pencilpushings....only at 1.5% at present.....
there must be a sixth columny and a seventh estate...
.a twentysecond under..whirled?

poem by that's how I intended to ... delilah contrapunctal
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To Mrs. Caesar, At The Speaker's Lodgings At Bath.

When lately you acquitted me,
With Carteret I din'd;
And, in Return, (tho' grievous) thee
To Onslow I resign'd.

'Tis wise the happy Hour to seize;
For, search the Nation round,
Such Peers, or Commoners, as these,
Where are they to be found?

Our Situation's chang'd you see:
(How Pleasures fleet away!)
But Yesterday you envy'd me;
I envy you To--day.

poem by Mary Barber
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Feathered Connection

I understand rationalism
the paradox of the problem
interaction of integer
when in acquitted relationship.

It is hard
to fly like an eagle
when you walk
with a turkey.

At least lost luminous
forbidden false rendezvous
inserts life pain and solace
into activated bloodstream.

An eagle chick evolving must forsake
flightless earthbound existence
before it attains thermal freedom soaring
hallowed heights unchained.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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