Best Overthrown Poems

King - A Haiku

noctilucent boys
A Persian, friendly king flies
in spite of the friend

enemies scatter
as the children over throw
kingdoms come down hard

in spite of the fiends
as the children over throw
the kingdom comes down

5/11/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr....

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Sensibilities shaped and slapped and stolen.   (aha)
I am indeed a borrowed man.
For where amongst my stirrings stand
priori grand?

Mission thwarted by a bell.
Noble tell.
Some soul such as mine
even, ever thus, declined.

Brokered deal appealed
in youthful fancy;
clung as clung today.
A skyward, inward, aching chance.

Once rejoiced.
A face...

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