Playground Bullies On The Leader Board (please rate)



Playground bullies create terrors
Not only in strange, distant land
Under our nose and near at hand
Self-serving purpose they fulfill,
ignoring democratic will
Against them, too, we take a stand
Stopping acts of evil-bearers.

Surreptitious infiltration
Motives disguised with friendly smile
Offering help: the extra mile
Under this cover violence reigns,
hateful passions run in their veins
Ulterior means all the while
An ego's amalgamation.

These two-bit thugs we can't appease
Nor tolerate their aggression
Nor yield with docile concession
Nor accept a hostile despot,
nor shrink from fear when things get hot
Overlooking their transgression
We have the good and peaceful keys
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Scheme ABBCCBA DEEFFED GDDXXDG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 659
Words 104
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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