If We Never Learn
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Caught between a glamorized past and an imploding present,
Future's hope hangs upon the scales of a timid fate.
A country splintering,
A modern-day civil war where words fly by like bull...
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Categories:
allegiances, integrity, perspective, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
Make It Make Sense
...Seems like the country is in a freefall
Will reasonable people answer the call
Corruptible actions moving through the twilight zone
No way this would be acceptable, if only we’d known
The daily...
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Categories:
allegiances, betrayal, change,
Form: Rhyme
Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:
...Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:
Saga, the odyssey
lies
And deceit.
Juliet’s drowning upon daggers blade in
Response to a Romeo’s lethal swallow.
The need be not the chasing down of se...
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Categories:
allegiances, confusion,
Form: Free verse
I Dont Want to Remember
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Written to my Cousin Madelyn McKay six years ago. She was a poetess here as cancer consumed her body. May my magical and kind cousin ….rest in peace!
Maggie . She had sent me an art...
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Categories:
allegiances, england, how i feel,
Form: Narrative
Call To Country
...Remember our freedoms, lest we forget
The price of liberty and of surrender.
Tyranny cannot trample the people
Lest our future succumb to infamy.
Carried: our flag over our enemies
Our land ...
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Categories:
allegiances, memorial day, patriotic,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
believe me
...if I lie, will you believe me?
what if I don't, will you believe me?
what must I do for you to believe me?
what must I say for you to believe me?
what do you believe?
what you see or what you ...
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Categories:
allegiances, conflict, devotion, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Podcast Episode 18 Bop
...Black and white motives, it was simple;
The camera rolled before words came,
an adventure played on screen;
Technicolor breathed even more energy
into that delicious cinema magic;
It was all a...
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Categories:
allegiances, emotions, feelings, imagination, introspection,
Form: Other
Call Me Marionette
...Call Me Marionette:
Today I exist. I exist for no one, for nothing; I exist. I am not held to or defined by a devotion of any. My allegiances, however strong, have no contract to bear me. I dream...
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Categories:
allegiances, confidence, conflict, courage, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Celebrating Your Birthday
...Oh! how gems sparkle from glinted morning dew
Wooing your view, amber rays peeking through,
Enamoring jubilation as missives of love I renew
On halo of golden sun inscribing ovations anew
Blush...
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Categories:
allegiances, birthday, celebration, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Crack Heard Round the World
...It's just a small crack
much like the one in the Old Liberty Bell
but here it is again growing,
in the torch of Lady Liberty's hand;
like any crack first made
it tends to grow and stretch
re...
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Categories:
allegiances, allusion,
Form: Epitaph
And Then There Were Nuns
...Black hoodie, black gloves and a black balaclava
Allegiances born of belligerent father
A council estate with yards full of tyres
A rucksack that’s laden with tin tacks and wires
Cars outside...
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Categories:
allegiances, ireland, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Come and Let Us Worship the King
...OH! Come and let us worship the King!
Jesus Christ our Savior is Lord over all
The earth, the sea, and the sky.***
OH! Come and let us worship the King!
And come and let us praise His Holy name...
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Categories:
allegiances, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Three Blind Mice On Duty
...When I was only two bricks and a ticky high I wrote my first ever treatise
Three blind mice unbeknown to me highly philosophical not just to please
The Gods of poetry duty bound on their quest ...
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Categories:
allegiances, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Labryinth
...Labryrith
Lost in a dark cavern of my own making.
Wanting to forget all allegiances that I am now foresaking.
"Allegiances to what, say you"~
Answer..to stop writing about what is excelle...
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Categories:
allegiances, feelings, poetess,
Form: Couplet
And Then
...in it's beginning
all who opposed it sought an end
yet they marked it's beginning as unknown
and found it more complicated to
make quarantine and contain
sickness
those who find togetherness ...
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Categories:
allegiances, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
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