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Best Banditry Poems

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Banditry
Say ‘Yes’ to infantry
Not to Banditry:
To a nation-shepherding troop,
Not to a wealth-chasing group
From shattered homes
Or discontented domes.
A mass approach to violent robbery
By haters of stories...

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Categories: banditry, adventure, grief, murder,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Penetrating Portals
Your eyes arrive on me
like the whips of passion's urgency
wide with white smite encasing eons inflamed in irises,
I feel the tight temperature of they're heated...

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Categories: banditry, beauty, desire, love, lust,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 18
12 hours of excruciating labor pangs have Sacagawea breathing
into the face of Death,
as she violently shakes her head back and forth, teeth clenched,
sweat boiling and...

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Categories: banditry, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman,  anarchist airborne, 
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase...

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Categories: banditry, america, history, mystery,
Form: Epic
A Day Under the Sun
Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.

Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the...

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Categories: banditry, blue, earth day, faith,
Form: Prose



Premium Member At Crossroads
Nigeria my Country 
Assailed,buffeted and violated
By evils of unimaginable proportions 
Lies prostrate at the crossroads 

Insurgency an anathema in our country   
Has torn...

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Categories: banditry, anger, bereavement, break up,
Form: Free verse
How We Lost Our Voices
We 
SHOUTED
and 
we 
got 
busted

We 
WHISPERED
and 
we 
were 
tortured

We 
casted 
our 
voice 
on 
paper
but 
it 
had 
no 
reader,
it 
was 
nullified...

Question 
it 
and 
you'll 
get 
charged
either...

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Categories: banditry, political
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gathering Storm
The political storm is gathering 
Election fever is at its highest pitch 
As Nigerians head to the polls
To exercise their franchise
In the mother of ...

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Categories: banditry, allusion, encouraging, evil, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Run
Nigerians are on the run
Refugees in search of Asylum 
No more sweetness in their fatherland
Their dreams have crumbled 

The giant of Africa is in shambles
With...

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Categories: banditry, anger, anxiety, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Mean Mien Donald Trump
Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations

muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying
spews like lava his American

foreign policy boilerplate brazenly
bastardizes...

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Categories: banditry, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Stones
The scene is of a damaged car, stained with blood
attracting people who gather to form a long cord
help is urgently needed but the hearts of...

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Categories: banditry, community, evil, people, violence,
Form: Quintain (English)
Impoverish
Impoverish the head
impoverish the body
impoverish the soul
of those who say
are citizens of nation
then nation is gone-
principles of banditry
in pre-literate, pre-modern
society of slumber
at work with no...

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Categories: banditry, allegory, poverty, power,
Form: Free verse
The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part V
V.
Reg did nothing but embrace her,
it seemed like the right thing to do,
she said, “Let’s just go back to bed,
it’s much nicer lying with you.”

The...

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Categories: banditry, history, lost, love, myth,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Making Sense of It All
Please help me in my confusion 
Come to my rescue and
Do not leave me sitting all alone
On this lonely beach of abandonment 
Help me my...

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Categories: banditry, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
THOSE DAYS
Truly those days were fun,
Little children playing each,
With a fine decorated toy gun,
Life was serious yet catchy;
And we were easily convinced
‘ Sit back, I will...

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Categories: banditry, character, depression, identity, integrity,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs