Best Dayton Poems
Walking the Streets of DaytonWalking the streets of Dayton
Warning my city of the Lord’s soon arrival
Explaining the Mark of the Beast
And tribulation survival
What’s it gonna take to escape the things coming upon this earth?
I’ve been hearing stories about this time coming since my birth
All ears are peeled
Curiosity is...
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Categories:
dayton, angst, betrayal, how i
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
They Dream of DaytonDowntown Dayton cityscape
can be seen clearly (on a clear day)
from the grassy knoll on top
of the Woodlands cemetery.
Most of the more fancy mausoleums
face any other way though,
as if the successfully dead
had prospered and were now
disinterested in local legends.
The bones of great men and women
are restless...
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Categories:
dayton, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
O Dayton My DaytonMemorial Day
mother nature’s reckoning
is gain worth such loss
de-constructing life with limb
Collision course toward ourselves
05/29/2021...
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Categories:
dayton, anxiety, death, memorial day,
Form:
Tanka
Cowards Not HeroesCOWARDS, NOT HEROESv
Cowards, not heroes, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children, people both near and far
Cowards not heroes, not terrorists, Call them what they are
How much courage does it take to mow down children and people in trucks
How much courage does...
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Categories:
dayton, violence,
Form:
Rhyme