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Premium Member The Headless Horsemen
On the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsemen, adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse



The Four Horsemen
I saw the Four Horsemen -
the famous apocalypse guys.
They rode silently past neatly folded laundry,

They approached me in silence,
their breathe a rye and meadow wind.
Each...

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Categories: horsemen, allegory, death, fantasy, future,
Form: Free verse
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The last book of the Bible-Revelation, has intrigued and terrified many a reader in the last 2,000 years or so since...

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Categories: horsemen, bible, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Didactic
Elevators: 5 Horsemen
Part 1

Onion

the delicacy of friendship

I found you in the flowers
Standing tall we become one
Looking down from gangly towers
Squash, you burn, you pillage, son.

Follow me you...

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Categories: horsemen, angst, depression, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Square For Two
you ... are the paramour of right angles
the square of a square - complete, quite aware
how two must adore you
for all it sees is itself,...

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Categories: horsemen, appreciation, math,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Helter Skelter
"I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles 

apocalyptic revelations spinning 'round inside my head/have me tossing keep me turning wide awake upon my...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsemen, confusion, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Viking Warfare
I left my home, the world to roam
it’s been now twelve years gone.
From a boy to a man
was a dreadful short span,
as I journeyed to...

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Categories: horsemen, conflict, courage, hero, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Darfurian Girl
I enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my...

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Categories: horsemen, bereavement, character,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Hanging Tree
Dead men tell no tails, or so the winds of 
Destiny’s say.
On judgment hill from on high, 
Voices do echo downwards, as the 
Noose does...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsemen, adventure, evil, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One-Way Ticket To Midnight
Let the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran 
India vs Pakistan
Sunni vs Shia
The 38th divide of Korea 
China taking over the sea...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horsemen, death, war,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Thousands
Thousands living in fear
For they knew Hitler was growing near
In Poland her career would soon to be
As she helped scared persecuted to flee

Gas chambers were...

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Categories: horsemen, history, obituary, tribute, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Light of Reckoning -2
The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in...

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Categories: horsemen, creation,
Form: Epic
Stitched Beauty

The surgeon generals 
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin

Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put...

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Categories: horsemen, allusion, truth, wisdom, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Sleeplessness
Looming ...

The possibility of crisis
          Life-as-you-now-know-it-ending crisis
         ...

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Categories: horsemen, conflict, depression, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse
Judgment
“But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous...

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Categories: horsemen, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs