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    One Hundred Poems, Volume VI
    One Hundred Poems, Volume VI
    One Hundred Poems, Volume VI
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    One Hundred Poems, Volume VI

    By Tuomas Vainio

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    This is the sixth volume of contemporary poetry that touches a multitude of topics from popular culture to politics, and occasionally from food to specific events. It is a result of a challenge I have imposed on myself, to write at least one poem per day, until I have reached the grand total of one thousand poems. So feel free to read away, the poems are about one hundred words each.

    This volume contains the following poems:

    Waiting for the Sad Puppies List
    Glow of coming spring
    Fifth volume
    115 million
    A Dancer's Dream

    Shower
    Pitfall of Feminist Critique
    Bombs in Brussels
    Tay
    Pants on fire

    'Dawn of Justice'
    A Ballot Was Cast
    A little bird
    'Tracer's Pose'
    Assassination of Trump

    'Someone Untouchable'
    The Terror of Chalk
    #TheChalkening
    Bottom line: Trump promises jobs
    The Siege of Dragonspear Castle

    Tax Evasion
    'Tracer's Pose II'
    Fun
    Rebels without a clue
    A little soldier boy (For a fantasy novel)

    Adult Video Games
    Stars and love
    50% have their IQ below the average
    A nice thing to say
    The Next American President

    Scarlett Johansson – Ghost in the Shell
    Hardcore Henry
    And back to the writer's saddle
    Dragon Award
    And the rain falls

    “7/11”
    The Prince is Dead
    A Day Of Rest
    A failed birthday cake
    'Melissa Clicks' of Our World

    Another Season of Thrones
    Low Hanging Fruit
    Beast of Misty Morning (For a fantasy novel)
    Just Another Day
    A panel was cancelled because of 'gender'

    A Comedian's Blind Spot
    Hugo Finalists...
    An Odd Reason To Smile
    Spring is in the Air
    Three minute poem

    The possibilities of this world
    Ruminations on Chuck Tingle
    Mars is our home (For a science fiction novel.)
    And the green returns
    Headache after a while...

    Owl, Cat, Sea Lion
    Presidential Rubicon of 2016
    North Carolina Bathrooms
    Gears of Fate (For a fantasy novel)
    This night of rain

    'Colonel' Bernie Sanders
    On recent Eurovision headlines
    “Twitter Survivors” of Gamergate
    Rye Honey Cookie
    Goosebump Good

    DeviantArt's Censorship of Artists
    Giant Stroller
    When this dude sings like a girl
    '69'
    Hockey Player's Disappointment

    Why I hate feminists
    A mere spotlight
    'Hail Hydra'
    This shit again...
    A happy drunkard

    #Brexit
    Government's lack of arguments
    EU made tech giants self-censor
    The Rise of Renewable Energy in China
    Blizzard and Overwatch Porn

    News from Tunisia
    Healing Space, Safe Space 2.0
    Amos Yee
    Had to write something today...
    Politics of Feelings

    The League of Wouldn't Be Rapists
    'Reason Rally 2016'
    Gawker Filed for Bankruptcy
    Cold Slumber (For science fiction novel.)
    The Death of a Dragon (For a fantasy novel)

    That Religion of Piss
    153 edits to a single poem
    Attempts to label games 'sexist'
    How to defeat Trump
    Electoral Fraud

    End
    Guccifer 2.0
    E3 2016
    Battle of the Bastards
    600

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuomas Vainio
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9781311083739
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      One Hundred Poems, Volume VI - Tuomas Vainio

      They are building a list,

      One that I have not missed,

      But its arrival is behind a twist,

      It simply does not yet seem to exist.

      I have seen some recommendations on occasion,

      Tested and measured their persuasion,

      Deemed some out of equation,

      Yet most await a chance for suasion,

      And I hope that list could provide some evasion.

      I will check each entry to see if it is awesome,

      And start from top and head to the bottom,

      Just to suggest works for this autumn,

      On paper it is not any problem.

      But I am still waiting for that list...

      Glow of coming spring

      Glow of sunrise in the distance,

      Growing bright with persistence,

      Without ever asking for assistance,

      Spring is coming without insistence,

      Our cycle of almost timeless existence.

      Fifth volume

      For two days I pushed it aside,

      I could just ignore and hide,

      But due a sense of pride,

      I could no more bide,

      And I had to stride,

      Put it roadside,

      Have it eyed.

      115 million

      It was Gawker's price for lack of journalistic standards,

      It might be enough to stop them running backwards,

      Teach them some human decency with manners,

      Put an end to practises simply substandard,

      A chance to ask and seek right answers,

      Follow higher journalistic standard…

      But it is Gawker we are talking about here,

      So they run backwards – into their own grave.

      A Dancer's Dream

      Imagine a little girl,

      With a dream like a pearl,

      A desire to dance into a whirl,

      Determination to see world unfurl,

      To give their best even as a showgirl,

      Because to reach stars she needs to hurl…

      A challenging future if there ever is one,

      Full of hardships that might stun,

      Without a chance for rerun,

      But she still has to run,

      To follow the sun,

      For her it is fun.

      A life she chose,

      To stand on her toes,

      Even if it muddies her nose,

      Spotlight will overcome the slows,

      She works hard to earn her own clothes,

      Even if she occasionally falls on her elbows.

      Yet those who have never felt a passion burning,

      Lived a hard life full of dreams and yearning,

      They will never try to carry such a burden,

      Which makes their voices self-serving,

      As they go ban women performing,

      To rob a dancer from her earning.

      > A side comment that I cannot help but to make:

      > Who are these foul anti-woman fundamentalists?

      > None other than the left's progressive feminists.

      Shower

      My armpit stench,

      It put me under bench,

      Made me spout in French,

      Forced my body to clench,

      And thus a need to quench,

      A naked body to drench,

      Shower to rid stench.

      Pitfall of Feminist Critique

      They do not understand,

      What they've drawn on sand,

      In their eyes lies merely a brand,

      And a soap box to make their stand,

      Shout they are displeased and demand,

      That whatever before them is turned bland,

      Into something infantile enough to understand,

      As to them – offence is a reason to have it banned.

      Especially when their critique could be summed up as:

      > This woman is too pretty, this is sexist!

      And it does not represent all women!

      > This woman is too ugly, this is

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