Acolytes Poems

Words from a Woman

...Mrs. Holloway polishes her poetry dimly,
Regaling herself with the accoutrements of
Selected poetry, cluttered and less jinxed
By way of satanic slamming by famished,
Idle critics who read The Ne...
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Categories: acolytes, city, poetry, woman,
Form: Free verse

A Whisper in the Dark

...(A holy man speaks in Latin)


Cito est illud tempus quo nemo non potest amplius currere et abscondere

Nullae altae cuniculis aut altis muris te servabunt

Deus enim venit in lucem, quam seme...
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Categories: acolytes, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme


SECRETS OF TIME

...

  
            Time is too slow
          for the anxious sufferers...
           Too quick for the fearful.
            A flash for the greedy
             and celebratory acolytes,
      ...
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Categories: acolytes, 7th grade, allusion, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAmerica, Arise Altogether

...Agitators ambush America
anger attacks, abstruse
acquaintances and adversaries acrid
absolutism acolytes abrading
abrogate acrimony
America, arise altogether
amend, amend...
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Categories: acolytes, 8th grade, america, anger,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberStaid Verse - Trek Across Coziness

...Written: August 26, 2023
Pour Your Heart Out                                    Sponsored by: Matt Caliri   
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In a world...
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Categories: acolytes, analogy, appreciation, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme


Her Immortal Sweetness

...Her words were rootless,
they were buttercups churning in a cyclic wind;
sweet if you like sweet, but never deep enough
nor strong enough to be hurtful or loving,
Her poems came with the bland sm...
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Categories: acolytes, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUltimate Truth

...A golden spoon gilded vase by heirloom.
Acolytes shouldn't be anxious with gloom.
There never seems to be a shortage of cash.
One person's treasure is another's trash. 

Gratitude fr...
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Categories: acolytes, analogy, appreciation, change, truth,
Form: Rhyme

A Spanner In the Works

...A spanner in the works

I have dislike of all royalty who stole the people's land
Their acolytes were given titles to ensure their loyalty.
Privileged aristocracy, the guardian of transformation
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Categories: acolytes, anger, devotion, emotions,
Form: Blitz

Premium MemberArtistic Freedom In the Wild

...There are no shape walls
to bridle one's emotions
creativity is properly ventilated
unbound by meter or syllable count
embracing nakedness
yanked naked in its virginity
The binding ...
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Categories: acolytes, analogy, appreciation, birth, poetry,
Form: Free verse

No Ideology

...Watch out for that ideology
Bad effects on your psychology
It bleeds into our sociology
‘Til we hate one another’s biology

Let’s make a pact
To get our facts together
Have no ideology
Whatso...
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Categories: acolytes, abuse, anger, discrimination, political,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberFinally Friday

...It’s finally Friday night 
there’s not a professor in sight.

If you think I’m happy - you’re right!

My homework assignment is light, 
I just have an essay to write.

We and our sister suite...
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Categories: acolytes, fun, humor, school, student,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Elephant In the Room

...She may be petite
or large...not the point;
Moms are Republicans;
she may have small feet...
or large – either way,
hurt their children
and they step heavy – 
Democrats to-rue-the
day, they t...
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Categories: acolytes, love, my children, parents,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMemphis Belle

...I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof the...
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Categories: acolytes, allegory,
Form: Blank verse

Shamans Question Known and Unknown

...The Moon's silvery light looks wet,
Must be the remnants of the Sun's sweat.
Great chariots slide off it's colossal path,
Immersing themselves in a Galactic bath.

Shamans weep at the knowing wh...
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Categories: acolytes, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse

Missing Coordinates

...Let us just for argument sake a moment contemplate
or imagine ?

Something is amiss with the world ?

Not that it is flat still round more like 
missing ?

Maybe flight MH-50 accidentally cam...
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Categories: acolytes, slam,
Form: Free verse

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