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Premium Member Massacred Nation
...The year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives

The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go

Us Lakota were next
To dis......

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Categories: gunning, native american, war, cousin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fear the Walking Dead
...Fear The Walking Dead

Moaning groaning growling too
they stumble in the night.
Looking for someone like you
so they can grab a bite.

Bumping up against the door
and peeking through the crac......

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Categories: gunning, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cinderella What Now
...CINDERELLA WHAT NOW

I’ve often seen you zoom past Mars,
Blonde hair flowing and blowing
In the breeze of the milky way,
And its trillions of stars.
I so longed for you to be mine,
I imagined ......

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Categories: gunning, planet,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Huntress
...Biding her time, stalking her prey;
Knowing that far he can not stray
The huntress has readied her bow
And just waits for his heart to show

She’s set a trap and, once again
The hunted bites fi......

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Categories: gunning, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Ruminations
...Don’t call Moses a liar he was much more than that
There are no sands of time just time and sand
(and not enough of either in this land)
Just one way is one too many way......

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Categories: gunning, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Not Kneeling
...From neglect comes deviation, electrifying radiation, like a leaf in the shadow,
Drying stanza so bore-some, a bit much candidly said,
In the Sun thinly it is spread,
As it comes to - an End.
Unp......

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Categories: gunning, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Unseen Dimensions
...second terra,masters of the nether world,
black is their art,as crafty smoke curls
behind a screen,landscaping scenes,amazing,
chemical elements influence our being
projecting images,manipulating......

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Categories: gunning, allegory, imagination, life, evil,
Form:
Premium Member How Their Eyes Danced With Darkness
...We had a desert mission
Just north of us in Zarghun Shahr
But little did we know that day
We wouldn’t get that far.
We did not doubt the intel
That led us up the road of dust;
an IED exploded,
......

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Categories: gunning, war,
Form: Rhyme
Cowgirl Up
...Subdue my senses like serenities face
a heartfelt happy embellished
his canter skilled with heavens grace
a companionship barley unblemished

except that she rides alone

Into the storm gather......

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Categories: gunning, courage, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
He Never Loved Me
...He never loved me
Well damn I just found out
Took a shot to the heart
Don't know where I should start
I guess I musta been strung out
Cuz I was straight up on his arm flashing that smile like ai......

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Categories: gunning, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Control the Skies
...
heat of the battle
dog fighters command the sky
top gunning air force


© Joseph S. Spence, Sr., (Epulaeryu Master) 1/22/08
All Rights Reserved, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Senior Advi......

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Categories: gunning, adventure, history, hope, life,
Form: Senryu
Cowboy Heaven
...John Wayne will be there 
and the steaks will be rare,
in Cowboy Heaven;
And the Posse will be – not  gunning for me 
- in Blue Yonder sky
 
The saloon’s never dry, 
it’s all free - you don’t ......

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Categories: gunning, song,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Brodmann Area 4
...The debate between free will and fate has taken a hard right
turn to neuroscience, Brodmann area 4 the primary motor
cortex of the brain located in the posterior frontal lobe
(the one cut out of t......

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Categories: gunning, children, death, games, lost,
Form: Verse
Kudos To Barack Obama
...yea tis history - that end gin shelled a mesh by mit Romney wailin
such below figurative belt mortar attack subterfuge and constant railin
 per accusations hurled at barack Obama presidential campaig......

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Categories: gunning, black african american, courage,
Form: Elegy
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To Rome
...Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. 

"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself......

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Categories: gunning, marriage,
Form: Prose

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry