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Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Freedom Fall 8 and the Removal of Ray Bans
“Freedom Fall 8 and the Removal of Ray Bans”



The Dilettante Diaries: New Chapter 

Sometimes it’s necessary 
to 
Lose 
to
Win

Freedom Fall 8 
Sans Rays

A new chapter.
Light,...

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Categories: bans, celebration, freedom, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Of Doping and Lifetime Bans
If Lance Armstrong isn’t King of Cheaters
He’s most certainly on the royal court
No soul to sell, that former world-beater
Poster boy for putting self before sport

The...

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Categories: bans, character, sports, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: bans, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden
16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland is on the run
 
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...

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Categories: bans, political, warmen,
Form: Rhyme
Corona Virus
Corona virus sent to try us 
Unnerve  Confuse  deplete  divide us 
It comes to scare it comes to kill 
The vulnerable the...

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Categories: bans, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Superman
Superman has always been a superhero of mine 
One of my favorites of all and that with me is more than fine. 
Superman he's so...

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Categories: bans, character, fantasy, hero,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Being Gay
Being gay is a nightmare,
Yet not for what it's worth,
But for the social wear and tear,
Of not fitting in on Earth.

Does my taste for men...

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Categories: bans, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil Can Cite Scripture For His Purpose
To the Dove World Outreach Center and Westboro Baptist Church

At the Sunday gospel meeting
Coded words of hate repeating
Welcome in if you're Caucasian
Enter not if black...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bans, hate, religion, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Come, My Sons
We have been coaxed by honeyed words,
Deranged by colonized thoughts, my sons.
Our sinews have furnished their bans
While we are submerged in poverty’s fangs.

You hold to...

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Categories: bans, africa, anger, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
The Seasons - Iambic Pentameter - Blank Verse
Winter
Winter glows, it's drifts, it's plains, soft and white.
It's cold belies a threat to all, fear it!
It's there come night or day death don't forget!
Wrap...

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Categories: bans, autumn, spring, summer, water,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Alter Ego
There sits on my shoulder is a small man
Looking like he’s my real alter ego
Surely seeming not to ever let go
Telling me of things to...

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Categories: bans, life, me, life, me,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Blar Chuil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden
16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland's is on the run
 
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...

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Categories: bans, anger, depression, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
An Elegy For Syria
After so many countries, now in Syria,
Increasing is the western bacteria,

The bacteria of hypocrisy and lies,
Which is in a dangerous disguise,

Under the banner of help...

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Categories: bans, abuse, peace, people, society,
Form: Nazm
Premium Member The Circus Is In Town
Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us...

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Categories: bans, humor,
Form: Quatrain
The Westerns of Tv Land
I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bans, hero, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs