Best Dueled Poems

Deep in the dungeon in the back left corner 
Was a mere shell of what was once a man.
He was shackled to the wall of his own design
By the love of his lady so fair, and divine
 
The queen of a land so far away...

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Gods in time have come and gone
To salvage life for the forlorn
And Christians came from Jewish lore
A prophet from the Middle East
To spread the word and aid the poor

Then demons arose to fill the seed
The yin and yang of good and bad
A fallen angel dueled...

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Where are the days
Where a man's word was his honor
A reflection of his character...

Where are the days when
"You have my word for it" meant something?
Where are the days when promises were meant to be kept?
Where?
Where have those days gone?

"I never make a promise I can't...

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Out in the middle of the boundless sea,
As far away from land as ever it could be.
An island stands alone with water all around,
And the very whitest beaches that ever could be found.
At the center rises a volcano that long ago is dead,
And on its...

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Sitting here exhausted. Exhausted and drained. 
Exhausted and drained and beat.
I battled and dueled with insomnia all night,
And now I can touch defeat.

I parried with anxiety. I danced with turmoil. 
My mind was up for the fight.
Wrestling and rolling like a jittering wreck, 
My head...

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Myths of deductive distinctions,
like white could not come from black,
are disinformed 
when severed from contrasting inductive integrity,
greyscale dualdark co-passions 
within light's future shadows 
of golden opportunity.

RightWing patriarchs oppositionally forget
we are LeftWing matriarchal-appositional reborn
within cooperative health environments
historically anded
culturally banded
natively sanded
revolutionarily standing
restoratively granding
deep sleepily learning
ego/ecotherapeutically reconnecting
integrity of...

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LIKE THE SONG

All of them are unforgettable
Each in her own way
Now I face the regrettable
And what remorselessness has to say

Their names are etched upon my heart
As their faces fade to misty darkness wrought
Fate and the future played well their part
While by callousness was I taught

I...

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At last you've been laid to rest, twenty~twenty
A plague on mankind with tragedies aplenty
Since February, you've given up total control
abandoning us as a wicked germ took its toll
You'll be remembered as the horrendous year
that filled the world with grievances and fear

Many nations locked down in...

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Just 'fore words formed inside my head 
as my mother put me to bed
her sweet voice would rhyme to lull me
tales of children wild and misled.

Who ran and played and sang and danced
deep in teepees as in a trance.
Or climbing atop the walls of castles
dueled...

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Together we dueled and alone you wept,
Deep-down I eked out
Which made me to read your mind.
I asked for your hands
And averred you to have it coming,
Oath taken, but you fell behind –
I couldn’t cope
What was bogging your mind. 
I asked you to be cadged and...

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Blood is heated 
Anger fueled
By lust of an enemy dueled.
By ever taunting
Make it stronger
Before it’s free, won’t be much longer.
Rage released
Hatred free
Venting leads us to believe.
The clout of anger
Dwells hereafter
In souls divided by screams and laughter.
The laughter mocks
The heart of man
As only enraged mortal can.
Keep...

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She sits in her room in a dark corner,
Just a hint of Sun through the shade!
Not a sound in sight, for they all fade.
Her dreams rile a self-centered scorner.

With so little light it can’t get much warmer,
She sits and she waits to become readymade.
Her debt...

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There was a cowboy from Arkansas
Who bragged that he was quick on the draw
   They superglued his holster
   Before he dueled a gangster
He doesn't brag much any more – nah!



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on April 23, 2020 for 'WILD' poetry contest...

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Two Woodpeckers dueled as she slyly seduced them.

John G. Lawless
©3/18/022...

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She remembers that day as if it was yesterday…the first time her fear and courage dueled.
She was standing at the bottom of the ladder of the high dive at the pool.

From where she stood that ladder seemed to ascend way off into the sky…
“I don’t...

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