Best Escorted Poems
To Boldly Go
...My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the transporter room where I'd dematerialize
And within seconds......
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Categories:
escorted, science fiction, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Prides of Poseidon
...When sea gods invisibly show their glory
They’re escorted by their elusive sea army;
Vow before them, their loud rhapsodic chords play,
As heard in light of blue waves on summer day.
Marvelous ......
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Categories:
escorted, beauty, nature, sea,
Form:
Sonnet
The Last Train To Auschwitz
...In nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train to Auschwitz in Poland
From Westerbork transit camp in the Ned......
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Categories:
escorted, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form:
Narrative
Marking Time
...daylight hours
Ozzie and Ben at the picnic table
milkweeds dance across the board
chess match underway all day, every day
many stories shared, some repeated; neither cared
till knig......
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Categories:
escorted, death, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
The Execution of Paul Carter
...
My name is Paul Carter, and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of glory
I was born in the state of Maine in the coastal town of Kit......
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Categories:
escorted, america, dark, death, drink,
Form:
Narrative
The Genocide At Wounded Knee
...On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation
And told them......
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Categories:
escorted, america, death, military, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Baking Chocolate
...For shame I write again
And indulge your memory
Doting on you baselessly,
As though you’re a man
For shame, I have no remedy
Because as a child, I could never know
And as I am, you couldn't trust m......
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Categories:
escorted, depression, lost love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
GOLD AND BLOOD
...GOLD AND BLOOD
Mantis eyes magnetised her sister’s heart
felt its imprisoned glint of gold
willed it to enlarge into a
lotus leaf upon a sea
It float......
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Categories:
escorted, color, dark, deep, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Paradise Psalms
...Paradise Psalms
Island drums midst strewn drafts, echoes,
Involved labyrinths summon by themes,
Some rhapsody erupts, purging rocks,
Every village, swelling amid chants,
Emp......
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Categories:
escorted, inspiration, song, sound, uplifting,
Form:
Haibun
Mausoleum
...‘Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust’
(No one is going to bust up MY insides,
sew my eyes and mouth shut,
drain my blood and pump me full of fluid
then seal me up in a concrete drawer)......
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Categories:
escorted, loss, mother,
Form:
Free verse
My Coloring Book
...We loaded up for a Sunday drive
The Ozark Mountains were alive
Wild dogwoods of pink and white
Every shade of green in sight
Blooming jonquils and daffodils
Woodpeckers, blue jays, and whippoorw......
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Categories:
escorted, appreciation, daffodils, family, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mosaic
...The portrait of marriage a
Mosaic,
Made from hundreds of pieces,
Large and small but all of the
Same importance,
Together put
In
A masterful way for the desired outcome
To attain:
Th......
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Categories:
escorted, love, marriage, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
The Waterfall Maiden Part 2
...For everyday since that meeting
He came back to peer within
And Myla had grown brave
And began to talk to him
To the voice he listened intently
Always wishing that she were real
For the time......
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Categories:
escorted, fantasy, childrendance, heart, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Will Amuse With Proper Shoes
...we may have the blues
should stop then we will amuse
choose the proper shoes
read news page by page
when my bright mind may engage
could see cat in cage
constant covenant
good looks appear......
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Categories:
escorted, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Haiku
And Now They'Ve Gone
...I've searched nearby hillocks and sand.
They've gone missing sooner than late:
no wildflowers to perk barren land,
gypsy flowers by garden gate.
Where are those tiny violets
that snuggled clos......
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Categories:
escorted, earth, flower, garden, missing,
Form:
Quatrain