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Premium Member Charlottesville
I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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Categories: charlottesville, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain



Charlottesville
Robert e Lee was a treasonous ole soul
To defeat the republic his goal

Slavery was abolished the people were free
But only two third a southern decree

The...

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Categories: charlottesville, philosophy, political, social, society,
Form: ABC
Superman
Today’s the day that Superman
Fell to earth and couldn’t stand
He lit upon his neck all wrong
And found he was no longer strong
His super powers gone...

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Categories: charlottesville, anniversary, health, loss
Form: Rhyme
Make America Great Again Huh
"Let's Make America Great Again!" *Sigh*
Great catch phrase! But...It's a ruse!...It's a lie!
Let's put the cards on the table! Shall we...Why?
(Your Brothers and Sisters will...

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Categories: charlottesville, america, conflict, corruption, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Broken Glass
Some recalled Kristallnacht,
the white mob’s facial fever,
once the same fever of a night,
now the fever of a day-mare.

Some recalled Charlottesville,
the white mob’s lust for blood,
once...

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Categories: charlottesville, allusion, hate, horror, political,
Form: Political Verse



Fake White Supremacy
Dedication: Heather Heyer, Paralegal (Charlottesville, VA)

A Governor named Terry understands fake Supremacy
Microcosm of America, terrorism in Virginia
In the Name of History and a Statue (of...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charlottesville, abuse, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form: Bio
License To Breathe

Publican politicians talk in half-price right angles
Dodge City liberty
being smoking barrel bargain sold 
at a chill, 
Colt-45 degrees
AC (alcoholic crops) bootleggers selling 
Prohibition license to...

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Categories: charlottesville, imagery, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Texas In My Mind
In that darkest of time at Charlottesville 
When hate ruffled their minds
And madness erupted in kind
But dumb Trump bluffed in haste,
Hate, hastes, I was dazed, 
As...

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Categories: charlottesville, america, caregiving, emotions, friendship,
Form: Epic
Silence Is Deafening
Three days late,
and a dollar of truth short
No condemnation of neo-Nazi hate,
no negative KKK report
Only tweet silence was heard ... 
didn’t hear a peep, not...

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Categories: charlottesville, allusion, dark, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Time Is Running Out For President Trump
Trump is the power
The voice of a nation
A moneyman, no morals or ethic code
A narcissist born for a life in capitalization
A nuclear bomb Desperate to...

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Categories: charlottesville, evil, political, prejudice, race,
Form: Rhyme
Loving Coincidences
Prayer poems of peace
Bore fruit this weekend - two times -
Washington and Charlottesville:
Peace showed greater heart ...
Nine-Eleven was birthday
I stopped. Mature joy returns...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charlottesville, america, august, birthday, black
Form: Choka
Where Heads Butt
Where Heads Butt in the USA or

I Don't Believe in Bodily Harm

 

What we all did was to dilly dally

And our rear ends ended up...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charlottesville, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Name of Heather Heyer
Name of Heather Heyer

Name of Heather Heyer is magnified,
And we will finally feel satisfied inside;
Charlottesville,
Remembers her still;
In heaven daughter now does abide.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charlottesville, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
My Home Virginia
Carry me to my home Virginia
Headed south through Arlington
We can stop off in Manassas
On our way to Lovingston

Take me back to the Peaks of Otter
Let's...

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Categories: charlottesville, history,
Form: Rhyme
Poem For Heather Heyer
1
When she woke up that day she had a body.
She had no reason to imagine that by the time night fell
she would be a person...

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Categories: charlottesville, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs