Overview'
...There are terms humanity uses, phrases words appear."
To communicate emotions, in aim of clarity, or to help
Verbally in communicating our anxiety, or sense of honour
Even anger, love or fear.' S...
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Categories:
basest, abuse, anti bullying, character,
Form: Rhyme
What Love Can Accomplish
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Fear suppresses man’s basest instincts
~ Think of what Love can accomplish
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Categories:
basest, fear, love,
Form: Monoku
Under the shadowed vault of time, where power flickers like a deceptive beacon
...Under the shadowed vault of time, where power flickers like a deceptive beacon,
Authority entices the shadows, drawing the basest elements of our kind,
Throughout history, humanity has been shackle...
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Categories:
basest, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Your life
...I am terrified and this is love
Resignation; this is love
Yours is fiercer than mine, less green
Pale, flowing as a riverbed and more of it
Yours is funny in the basest way
My body curls around ...
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Categories:
basest, absence, abuse, allegory, angel,
Form: Free verse
Regrets
...Good neighbors, sweet friends, Can you forgive me?
In long, still and creeping hours of study,
I can be stern and inaccessible.
My studies tax me to basest function,
resting, weight-like, on ...
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Categories:
basest, forgiveness, friendship, school, student,
Form: Sonnet
Love Is
...Love is sacrificial,
It gives all without holding back,
It stands to defend,
Putting itself on the line.
Love is a traveller,
It goes on miles to seek the desired,
It journeys with the belov...
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Categories:
basest, emotions, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Butchered In Bucha
...They were butchered in Bucha
Victims of unprovoked aggression
Wrapped in body bags of wickedness
Like chicken preserved in the cold room
What a world of brutality
What an act of bestiality...
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Categories:
basest, allusion, anger, bereavement, crazy,
Form: Free verse
A Colossus Part 2dedicated To All Who Served and All Who Are Serving Our Country
...Take care of her
Keeping toes and ties off the ground
Beware of those with savage intent
To draw her down
Beware those of quisling heart
Who seek only to pillage then plunder her
All those fa...
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Categories:
basest, america, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Bootless
...Ten years spun into ballooning wear
Keep slipping through tighter fingers,
Fresh year's tries in futility repair
Adamant dents of wasting days.
Naive New Year's Eves pop in and go
In swift...
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Categories:
basest, age, allusion, anger, angst,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Proof's In the Pudding of the Last Two Lines
...Trump's another Hitler
Mike Pence, a racist
America's a slave plantation
Accusations, the basest
Shootings and murders are rising
So let...
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Categories:
basest, change, fear, irony, satire,
Form: Rhyme
To Professor Minoo Varzegar
...(On My Shock at the Sad News of Dr Fatemi’s Decease)
Dressed in mourning in a photo I came across at daybreak,
You broke the rueful, bitter news and struck me with shock and ache.
Would that I w...
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Categories:
basest, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Nobody Knew Better Than Him
...Nobody knew better than him the value
Of great art --
The need to preserve the memory of
Great artists;
Do not even the basest of us feel
Overwhelming emotion, hushed awe?
Great art shoul...
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Categories:
basest, analogy, angst, art,
Form: Free verse
Basest Traitorous Titan
...I fought one piggish Titan and I won
As if that devious Leech existed not;
Sealing the very firy nose of his gun
With ball-like rags to sap every shot.
A long-lionized mogul of giant name
Sle...
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Categories:
basest, allegory, angel, anger, anti
Form: Ballad
We Are In Love
...'O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than Nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's!'
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Categories:
basest, love, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The a Team
...Absolve us all of anguish
When appetency goes awry
The allure of the atrocious
Can take precedence over the auspicious.
Nought can assuage the anxiety of abomination
Flowing from such appe...
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Categories:
basest, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
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