A Nocturne For Our Medical Heroes
...A NOCTURNE FOR OUR MEDICAL HEROES
Literature is filled
With narratives of
Individual and collective
Acts of heroism.
The shining armor
Of righteous knights,
The Robin Hoods’
Of world history,...
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Categories:
bandolier, caregiving, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Braggadocio Haint the Style of This Whelk Hooked Sluggish Autodidact
...Nay, despite failing to make the grade,
this bluesy well red, duff mute
average white band hit,
hard knock school alumnus
jack of all trades master of none bumped along
po...
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Categories:
bandolier, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
We - the Theatre of the Absurd
...We
..protest the right of others to protest
while defending our right to free speech
shout down the voices of others
exercising their right to speak freely.
.. pick at the feast of d...
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Categories:
bandolier, allegory, irony,
Form: Free verse
Nonsense
...Problems in the mirror may be further than they appear
Don’t fear when they’re near, they’ll soon disappear
help is here, let me give your mind a steer
I’ma just keep writin’ until it all appears ...
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Categories:
bandolier, dedication, funny, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
On Armed Teachers
...For your charges
Wear a bandolier diagonally
From shoulder to waist.
Fill it with rounds
Of crayons
The color of a rainbow
With that arched calm
Following a terror rain.
Let this be a lesso...
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Categories:
bandolier, education, fear, leadership, political,
Form: Blank verse
Requiem For An Unknown Tigress Cub
...still the climbing green lianoid lass
her tender tendrils torn
massive metal lying like a cutlass
in her lap forlorn
finger on trigger ...
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Categories:
bandolier, childhood, daughter, mother, war,
Form: Free verse
A Frosty Morning Delight
...I awoke this morn to a beautiful bitterly cold wintery delight
Shrouded by nights darkness a Pogonip fog crept in to cast its magic spell
Wielded a wintery wand placing a frosty shawl upon all within...
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Categories:
bandolier, nature, nostalgia, seasons, morning,
Form: Free verse
D.D.C.
...Here we remain like an unbreakable chain,
our thoughts are like each link in the bind,
We never need to ask to accomplish a task,
and we will never leave a man behind.
When there is a fight and...
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Categories:
bandolier,
Form: I do not know?