Lady Macandroid
...Half flesh, half steel, sinews and twined wire,
Begotten in the heat of half-love, tempered
By hatred and the axe, fathered by one
Who killed her mother, the male chauvinist boar
Whose eye-teeth,...
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Categories:
axeman, angst, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Conqueror of Death
...O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Cor. 15:55
1 Dread conqueror! Destroyer of all,
Thou---the king who conquers every king
Thou---restrained by no wall
Thee a ca...
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Categories:
axeman, bird, christian, death, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
When I Died Last Night
...*WHEN I DIED LAST NIGHT*
I never had it that smooth
That I had to get up bed so cool
Seem like my power-packed so full
Gazing in the sky so blue
The doors never again squeaked
And the gate...
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Categories:
axeman, allusion, bereavement, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Trouble In the Hood
...Tree to tree, the woods tries to hide him.
His growl and fur coat - neither slim.
His beacon ears hear all the gossip.
Before bares teeth, kindles kinship.
Apples, precious and spoiled, with ...
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Categories:
axeman, animal, girl,
Form: Couplet
The Five Chinese Brothers
...There were five Chinese brothers who all looked alike, living happily with their mother.
They each possess strange powers that were all different to the others. One could swallow the sea, one had a ...
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Categories:
axeman, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Axeman Cometh
...woo hoo. Donald Duck film at school today.
I'm so happy I'm five, cause now I get to do
all the fun things at school.
Donald showed me what to do if a fire comes to my house
to burn up my br...
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Categories:
axeman, child abuse, father daughter,
Form: Bio
Old and New Halloween Poems
...No Halloween Candy
I can't get no Halloween candy.
I can't get no Halloween candy.
But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can't get no. I can't get no.
Well I'm walking door to door....
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Categories:
axeman, fear, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Scary Moments
...Something’s lurking in the shadows. Something’s hiding in the dark.
Something’s out there by my window, so why doesn’t Fido bark?
Something out there wants to get me! I am losing my sang-froid.
Somet...
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Categories:
axeman, dark, dog, evil, fear,
Form: Couplet
Little Warrior
...Little warrior, take heart and know this
That before you came into my ranks
My kingdom had stood untouched
Safely guarded in that mountain fortress
Where's kept the heart and dreams of its king
Where...
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Categories:
axeman, family, love, sonheart, heart,
Form: Free verse
Trading Place: a Discourse
...Through the dark of panting woods the old man comes
Troubled with anxiety ... afraid the axeman had come first
And each shudder of light there, his frail footsteps numbs
For each missing tree for ...
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Categories:
axeman, dedication, friendship, philosophyold, old,
Form: Verse
The Villisca Axe Murders Continues the Haunt
...I see the shadow on the wall,
my breath catches and hope falls.
He has found me I do despair,
The Axeman is standing there.
Hiding in the house all day,
waiting for the return of his prey.
In...
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Categories:
axeman, deathfamily, night, family, night,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Land of Opportunity
...The Land of Opportunity,
Came knocking at the door
Selling Strap on Wings and
Thin Golden Strings,
All things we should adore.
The Land of Opportunity,
Is an enigma from a dream.
The Land of O...
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Categories:
axeman, philosophy
Form: I do not know?