Baby shrugging apologizes

A baby screaming for independence:
subhuman attempting to defuse
mongrel linguistic traditions.

The infant's mouth urged dialogue,
apologized for differences,
nonetheless drew protests.

Spiritual leader -- told the liar that he is --
wasn't breathing, holding a statement:
preservation of respiratory terminology.

-- Carol High

RockerTed Nugent apologizes for Obama racial remark
ShruggingOff Chinese Protests, Obama Meets Dalai Lama
Good Samaritan, quick thinking save baby on expressway

Grisly Incentives Decided

Evaluating collectible traditions, China stages
Tibetan political agency. White House coughs,
Obama reveals why all the following leaked:

Alien-ridden, potentially religious Netflix media;
Steve Jobs postage stamp; Exiled Dalai Lama industry;
Gotham City linguistic tax agency.

US told in low-key stages, “Enough.” Proposals
and a billion strongly-depicted merits
hosted, offering up president preservation.

-- Robert Woerheide

'House of Cards' and the massive business of tax incentives
Shrugging Off Chinese Protests, Obama Meets Dalai Lama
Just like Elvis, dead Steve Jobs to appear all over America

A Familiar Moment

Brigades of the dismissed
From North and South
And heavily armed with head and hand

Riot as artists of walking
And singing the song
Of an unseen motherland

And the police nearby
Are seized and carried
In arms of breakthrough passion

-- Jay St. John Knight

Breakthrough in Alps murder mystery
Pussy Riot members detained in Sochi
Libyan militias threaten parliament in Tripoli

Soweto Set Seven

The candles were black
and they had wounds on their backs.
The Razor blades were in their school bags.

Wrapped up formal
in a place to do good work.
Talks of Saturday.

To be set free.
The death sentence commuted to life imprisonment
of seven prisoners, three.

-- Zach Jackson

Soweto girls’ ‘satanic’ end
Italy’s Renzi set to reveal cabinet
State to free seven jailed over killing of Rajiv Gandhi

Violence Hacking Rate

Lunchtime in the heart
Plastic bullets and shotgun pellets
Intensified week by week

Unofficial hacking
Hour long conversation
Sleeping pills

Fresh boost, fallen youth
Target set removed
Focus forward... no longer

-- Leanne Pereira

As it happened: Alarm at worst Kiev violence
Hacking trial: Tony Blair advised Rebekah Brooks
Record numbers of women in work as unemployment falls

Monsters Promised Freedom

An angel is poised
On the edge of the Promised Land
A frail but perfect vision

A dark storm clouds her eyes
In thunderous displeasure
Her mouth is a swift dagger

She is unapologetic
In her forceful defence
Of freedom

-- Hermione Cameron

The story of Israel: ‘My Promised Land’ and ‘Israel: A History’
Have Sweden’s permissive parents given birth to monsters?
Who’s the judge who ruled on Va.’s ban on gay marriage?

Pay floods CLEARED

Overturned Prime assault -
Indecent government rape teachers’
employment. The failed education organisation

charges Cameron with a flood of
criticism. The current verdict is agreed:
prosecution dictate

higher veteran pay and floods
In Crown court. The storms will
protect the conditions of the country.

-- Jake Quirke

Dave Lee Travis is found NOT GUILTY
Pay body ends ban on teachers carrying out administrative duties
UK floods: Cameron says Britain 'cannot let this happen again'

Score, With Paleoclimatologist

Event One: Signage strewn in the streets.
People park on the on-ramps.
Thousands of microorganisms in winter.

Event Two: A sliding tree broken, and scorched grapevines.
Bronze bears lick the burnt stems
to identify a long-dead ocean.

Event Three: A broken sediment of colored charcoal
suggests gnarled rain
pointing fingers at the past millennium.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Americans Win All Three Medals in New Skiing Event
Venezuelans in shock over protest deaths
Could California's Drought Last 200 Years?