Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch
...Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch
delivered me back in the dark shadows
and the underbelly of the web,
where impossible mission
to differentiate the outer limits ...
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Categories:
barbarous, absence, america, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Immodest Proposal
...It might be an absurd idea
But we need to move on from here
Stalled in the darkness
With no moral compass
To guide us into the clear
It might be a ridiculous notion
But we can’t just float o...
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Categories:
barbarous, america, angst, conflict, death,
Form: Lyric
Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories:
barbarous, dark,
Form: Free verse
My Warrior - Legend
...
a gentleman from a grand, but time-worn oil-painting,
unbelievably handsome in his forties,
immaculately dressed in a formal grey suit,
from the backdrop of a luscious tea-garden
on a mountaine...
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Categories:
barbarous, inspirational, pride,
Form: Narrative
Of Love
...A sacred secretion wells up in the deepest of depths.
Hearts melt at the mere pronunciation of the word love.
Circumscribing human strengths and weaknesses at all lengths
Love permeates the earth...
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Categories:
barbarous, love,
Form: Sonnet
For Hamas And The IDF -- Life Is Holy
...
What a simple
and beautiful premise- - - - -
Everything That Lives Is Holy!
If only we
as the human race
could follow it
and give Life the respect
that it deserves
We'd have no more
de...
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Categories:
barbarous, international, leadership, political, violence,
Form: Free verse
Friendly Invasion
...War is never nice and friendly
Make no error about it
Invasion is war, death of a country
Nostra culpa est
There is no amicable invasion
Obviously, this is an egregious violation
Of a country’s...
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Categories:
barbarous, africa, america, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Pulchritudinous Independence Day 2023
...Utter brainless nincompoop
in this poem heretofore addressing
I wanna be forever free
and clear from mortal anguish,
and need more than a blessing -
I need a miracle worker after confessing
beh...
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Categories:
barbarous, abuse, anger, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme
Putin Purloined
...Prompted by Tom Cunningham's poem 'If Only Dreams Came True.' A reverie about the demise of Putin. Thanks for the inspiration, Tom.
Tis true that sometimes history is repeated
Pu...
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Categories:
barbarous, angst, death,
Form: Limerick
Once Upon a Time
...There stood a castle on the summit of a hill
Now fallen to decay, hidden among bushes wild
It perched like an eagle’s nest on the steep hill
It was owned by a Lord, gentle and mild
...
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Categories:
barbarous, celebration, cute love, irony,
Form: Rhyme
A World of Peace and Love V
...Tell me,
My dear friend,
My beloved brother,
My trusted ally,
Till when are we going to let
The autocrats
The dictators
The despots, and
The tyrants govern us?
Till when do we int...
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Categories:
barbarous, love, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
World War Whatever
...Standing on the fantail of a warship on patrol,
Its wake stretching off to from where I’d come,
Transporting me back to my first day aboard,
Three long deployments ago.
I’d learned about things...
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Categories:
barbarous, allegory, america, anger, angst,
Form: Blank verse
The Words Begin To Dance
...Read me,
As the words begin to dance, vacillating bewilderedly.
Without knowing who and where, or even when,
Foolishly stepped out, to meet a kind
The kind with bitter, chunderous, nature.
Kin...
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Categories:
barbarous, allusion, people, planet, power,
Form: Free verse
Smiling of the Winners
...Through heavy fighting the invaders
With crazy mind and bloody hands
We stand up to defend our homeland
Set their war gears into depressors
The cruel brutal facts are unaltered
Who...
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Categories:
barbarous, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
My Deadly Sin
...My Deadly Sin
Apathy lets evil win.
Gossip is among the Ten.
Cruelty is simply barbarous.
Three of Seven mentions avarice.
Hell burns hot for hypocrites.
Stygian fates await the bigots...
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Categories:
barbarous, allusion, humor, humorous, sin,
Form: Rhyme
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