Pivotal

" Pivotal "

by Suzan Jivan

Defying the
rank-in-file
by preventing
wide-spread
complaints
about the haste
of a pivotal statesman
modifying the anchor
under an up-and-coming
autumnal election day.

Rebuffed

" Rebuffed "

by Suzan Jivan

Essentially preventing
widespread denial
while describing
ineffective measures
by abruptly plunging
to the left
screechingly steering
to the right
then eventually
ending up
dead center.

Muster

" Muster "

by Suzan Jivan

Pointing to an outpouring
happening on the Capitol floor
in a stand off against massive
fiscal failure over the long haul
watching the turmoil from the recoil
of distinguished party whips.

Immensity

" Immensity "

by Suzan Jivan

Easily-grasped
mythological
narratives
with imposing
examples
of off-center
stages of
immensity.

Snagged

" Snagged "

by Suzan Jivan

Led astray being placed
in displays ladened
with nautilus shapes
of snagged concentration.

Portrayal

" Portrayal "

by Suzan Jivan

Learning to be
humanity embodying
the strangeness
of nature shaped
under interpretations
of the portrayal.

Bulbous

" Bulbous "

by Suzan Jivan

Its gaping mouth
a seeming uniqueness
of gelatinous creatures
housed in lovely white
with bulbous black eyes
embracing extremes of size
in quasi-reality bites.

Beyond

" Beyond "

by Suzan Jivan

An utterly disgusted large-eared hero
had an itch in the darkness
of fossils from deliberate history
far beyond complete knowledge.

Takeout

" Takeout "

by Suzan Jivan

Entering the fray
with a takeout
after playing the spade
of acknowledged outrage
from minuscule amounts
of reconciliation.

Smarmy

" Smarmy "

by Suzan Jivan

Rarely granted pomp
and circumstance
while wearing
a schlumpy sweater
and baggy pants
over a smarmy
starred unitard.

Bootlegged

" Bootlegged "

by Suzan Jivan

Below the oceans' surface
codifying major change
going on for decades
in landlocked imaginations
latching on - but stopping short
of swaying inclinations
in bootlegged incanations.

Conceding

" Conceding "

by Suzan Jivan

Conceding oversight
to opt in or opt out
in top-to-bottom
nonresponsive
problem solving
after dodging
olive ponchos
in silk with
twisted zips
seemingly
spinning
into mini-
shifts.

Molten

" Molten "

by Suzan Jivan

Going boldly unnoticed
and virtually unknown
in clearly molten poems
growing by glass blowing.

Scourges

" Scourges "

by Suzan Jivan

Long scourges
bobbing along
in a dairy scandal
when threats against
milk's measures
are the worst
on record
and surges
won't work.

Shut

" Shut "

by Suzan Jivan

An abruptly-shut
sullen gang blank
drops down from
a double hull
firstly immersion
secondly emergence
into universes of blue.

Unwilling

" Unwilling "

by Suzan Jivan

Unwilling to continue
as the last straw
with unqualified support
for the fundamentally flawed
reaching across the turmoil
with more than just a whiff
between the difference
of a tactic and a strategy.

Colossus

" Colossus "

by Suzan Jivan

A stinging attack with semantics
on a red-carpeted stage
for prognosticating candidates
dogmatically divining the defining
of two uncertain terms
for "tactics" and "strategies"
during a colossal fiscal collapse.

Eclipsing

" Eclipsing "

by Suzan Jivan

Tentative grips
thrust into a thicket
eclipsing the biggest
failure in history with
unpredictable prickers.

Coming Out

" Coming Out "

by Suzan Jivan

The words came out
fear-mongeringly
by ginning up
limited activity
and striking up
lies inextricably.

Struck

" Struck "

by Suzan Jivan

Any support
suddenly
struck up
is given up
in subsequent
luck in a flux
both up and down
then inside out.

Running Off

" Running Off "

by Suzan Jivan

Misleading
matching
dubious
tactics
tainted
exchanges
and
rivalrous
races
running
off
of
the
table.

Lockdown

" Lockdown"

by Suzan Jivan

Against
incentives
from the
procession
of planes
over a
stadium
set to shut
its gates
following
the fatal
firing of
a stun gun
and the final
approval of
an omnibus.

Coming

" Coming "

by Suzan Jivan

Coming to symbolize
the darkness of the stable
with cracks of bats
claiming perhaps
debt standards
heading straight
toward the runway
against a running mate.

Embracing

" Embracing "

by Suzan Jivan

Embracing the idea
in an upward spiral
of mesmerizing reminders
epitomized by wafer-thin desires
pining for the undulating divine.

Sure

" Sure "

by Suzan Jivan

Sure to send shivers
up deliberate decisions
and reticent wishes
with run-down drinking
and classically-serene
high-minded integrity.

Chivalrous

" Chivalrous "

Chivalrous
yet messy
figures in triptychs
of crucifixion
accompanied with
mischievously
sung hymns
of the righteously
indignant.

Returning

" Returning "

by Suzan Jivan

Returning to public view
with sketchy memories
of discharged veterans
bound by wooden fences
and copses of trees to the left.

Restoring

" Restoring "

by Suzan Jivan

Rigorously restoring
dead horses and bodies of men
with enormous oils of rawness
from bayonets and raised swords.

Taken

" Taken "

by Suzan Jivan

Taken shots
but never been shy
about marching
in a docudrama
while woefully
unprepared
and unprotected
by lacquered walls
having never been
in conflict before
within netherworlds
of dingy halls.

Contrarian

" Contrarian "

by Suzan Jivan

Doubled down
on provocative problems
but nowhere near as large
as glimpses of prominent landmarks
from colonies of cockeyed optimists.

Unescorted

" Unescorted "

by Suzan Jivan

Walking unescorted
still meeting with resistance
from opinions of familial critics
and the congenitally skeptical.

Inexplicit

" Inexplicit "

Sight unseen
difficult to agree
with devalued realities
of continued anxieties
beginning with inexplicit
intrinsic issues.

Address

" Address"

by Suzan Jivan

Stepping off the trail
issuing statements
concerning details
of the ordinary man
in derailed rescue plans
with opponents asking for bailouts
while limping without a crutch
and about to self destruct.

Deals

" Deals "

Deals seen from sayings
originating in baby milk complaints
stop-gapped donated brains
sniffles and stomachaches
of bailed out daily reaffirmations.

Just Part

" Just Part "

by Suzan Jivan

Already-offered
caution
for perceiving
just part
of the problem
rather than
seeing its entirety
with indiscriminate
peripheral vision
combined with the
deliberate turning
of a blind eye.

Golden Eggs

" Golden Eggs"

by Suzan Jivan

Transformations in nature
tarnished titans walking away
from formal restraints
and curbs of executive pay
in laid golden eggs.

Newborn Cave Walls

" Newborn Cave Walls "

by Suzan Jivan

Newborn and white-headed
offering early warnings
adorning cave walls
with unadulterated remains
of successive generations.

Very Edge

" Very Edge "

by Suzan Jivan

Rising above the mire
on the very edge
of potential
in an apt setting
between so-called
blue and red
of history's drill hall
and the hangar-
like vastness of daily
changing standards.

Presiding

" Presiding "

by Suzan Jivan

Chiefly rallying for hearings
of the already suffering
from senses of chronolgy
for something more appealing
while historically presiding
as elephant orphan turned king.

Falling

" Falling "

by Suzan Jivan

The real question-particularly intense
without tacking on buying up bad
with little sense of direction
after freely falling into debt.

Bailout

" Bailout "

by Suzan Jivan

Trying a new tack
backing a bailout
with caveats
taking a peek
at yet another
ever-burning
balance sheet
while jockeying
to oversee
the ash-ridden jittery.

Jarred

" Jarred "

by Suzan Jivan

Jarred by the calm
bottoms up in a crash
with mugs in hand
cast with lavish plans
for picking up the tab.

Brooding

" Brooding "

by Suzan Jivan

Almost total inattention washed away
with the force of a faucet to the core
of a brooding nocturnal palette of black
and harsh disregard for purplish dark.

All Gussied Up

" All Gussied Up "

by Suzan Jivan

All gussied up
in impossibly high
black patent-
leather pumps
under the faint cover
of featured subtitles
reading: " rethinking
and redesigning".

Hectored

" Hectored "

by Suzan Jivan

Feeling hectored
by a fabled vivifying eye
and a voice that combines
with the kind of a whine
from a high-camp hair-
tossing performance.

Palpable Bits

" Palpable Bits "

by Suzan Jivan

A saving glint of mischief
in an acerbic little riff
capped with palpable bits
of instincts unfulfilled
by a far, far better thing.

Kicking the Can

" Kicking the Can "

by Suzan Jivan

Kicking the can small and quirky
largely dodging a blockbuster charge
responding in constant flip flops
with predictive momentum shifts.

A Bid to Stem

" A Bid to Stem "

by Suzan Jivan

In a bid to stem
ordinary mysteries
evidently shaped
by self-restraint
in stanzas composed
from a lingering
single chromatic tone
germinating subterranean.

From the Top

" From the Top "

by Suzan Jivan

Technicians in the tap world
are not easy to come by
especially when moonlighting
as bebop from the top
in an air of casual intimacy
yet with considerable acclaim
and a homespun disclaimer
through feathered blond bangs.

Showcased

" Showcased "

by Suzan Jivan

Showcased
risktaking
leading up
to the new
prime time
with a two-
fisted un-
explored
fullness
beset
by the
liveliest
killing
of time.