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Who Needs Rhetorical Devices!
Belated thanks to John Gilbert Ellis for the last line.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/johngilbertellis
Who needs rhetorical devices!
asked the philosopher from Devizes,
as his latest theory crystalises!
Thursday 26th September 2024 6:46 am
Strictly Baroque
You were always exuberant and daring
Rhetoric came easily from your lips
Your overstatement was a joy to behold
Those endless aphorisms smart as whips
Strictly baroque, strictly baroque
Your theatricals would provoke a saint
That dress sense was a riot of colour
Not even Versailles had more paint
Over-ornamentation was your undoing
You talked like a modern Bern...
Sunday 26th July 2020 11:35 am
WIZARD KILLER
Visions of the future,
Dreams of reality,
Our plane of existence,
Relies on duality,
The controllers of this world,
A separate ruling class,
I see through their bullshit,
The language of the looking glass,
Symbols and language,
Are the key to understanding,
The lies and deceptions,
And the trauma-based programming,
Rhetoric and satire,
The weapons of the wizard,
Words truly are magic...
Wednesday 20th November 2019 4:52 am
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