Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alte...
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Categories:
abetted, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
When No Means Nothing
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Throughout my life, the same phrase has been repeated to me- “no means no.”
The concept of refusing an action you’re uncomfortable abetted me towards hope; growing up, distraught was brought upon...
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Categories:
abetted, abuse, child abuse, depression,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation
...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch
Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games w...
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Categories:
abetted, international, islamic, jewish, silence,
Form: Free verse
Remember
...Recollect when you decided
for a choice was most surely made
To dismiss me from your
heart and mind
To destroy the plans
Once layed
My own dependability
as sure as a well oiled clock
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Categories:
abetted, august, butterfly, care,
Form: Rhyme
Setting the Record Straight
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Every single Arab death in Gaza
is attributable to HAMAS
Aided and abetted by Iran
Russia, and Mahmoud Abbas
First Hamas butchers, rapes, and kidnaps
tho...
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Categories:
abetted, abuse, jewish, murder, truth,
Form: Rhyme
To Which Image Should we Cling
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Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly...
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Categories:
abetted, analogy, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Dew Diaries
...I was a world famous fashion designer, and quite enraptured with the new,
Like first caress of pink, peach dawn light, smiling at the full moon's taboo.
I adored laboring with colors I loved, in ...
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Categories:
abetted, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, morning,
Form: Couplet
Those Bells
...Those bells, those jubilant, jaunty clangers
Vibrating chimes dancing across meadows
Cavorting through town
Are gone.
Stolen by a rogue poet
Abetted by a teacher
Who played a recording
Of Poe’...
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Categories:
abetted, high school, humor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reap Heaven
...Written: October 25, 2023
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Autumn saplings fall comely to the ground.
Crimson love decays, its vibrant hue around.
Cycle o...
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Categories:
abetted, analogy, appreciation, autumn, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The Path To Citizenship
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The Path To Citizenship
Miracle Man
October 4, 2023
With our country’s future
he plays a political game,
Conforming to this pattern
exhibits no pride or shame.
We’re quickly beco...
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Categories:
abetted, fear, life, political,
Form: Quatrain
The Lady Called Desire
...Modest to start with, bloating to be beast,
A spurring cat coaxing for ever more,
Ere long to rule your life, you knowing least,
What with wants and wishes known not before,
Her ki...
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Categories:
abetted, cat, desire,
Form: Sonnet
Aided and Abetted
...If they stopped giving aid to the unworthy, there would be more available to give to the worthy....
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Categories:
abetted, 10th grade,
Form: Monoku
Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White Board
...Across figurative and literal blackened white board...
Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.
Mine hardsc...
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Categories:
abetted, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Tale of Two Cracks
...Tale of two Cracks
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Farmers Heel crack
S C R E A Ms
Bountiful harvest
is no time to rest
From Farm to Market
Middlemen exploit
Money lenders squeeze
Scheme benefit ...
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Categories:
abetted, farm, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Across Figurative and Literal Board
...Across figurative and literal board...
mine hardscrabble existential debacle spelled losing game of trouble
Oft times, I experience wretchedness being alive
spurring wonderment whereby thoughts...
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Categories:
abetted, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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