Best Relegates Poems

Villanelle : When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide

When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
Proclaim citizens who kill under the patrie’s pennant heros
Permissible by far all things done to boost national pride

Killing for your god even to ward off a remark thought snide
Fellow...

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There is no beauty in death
Not a lack of, but none at all
Death is a hunter, a fierce one at that
You and I are mere prey

From the moment of birth
When you take your first breath
It is beside your bed to introduce itself as death
“Hi, I’m...

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The foliage unruffled, 		 the tree trunks utterly baffled
                           The reign of darkness all along
A nightly hoot of owl,		...

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For my soul feels agitated 
with desire for my rights
overriding reason.. desire
to overcome the oppressors
The yoke of oppression

The set of the system..
relegates me to a state
where i have to struggle
against great odds to be
accorded opportunity

Opportunity to eat
off the sweat of my brow
the set of the...

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Break apart all those facile screens
Organized overdrawing of institutional bleeding
Walks through maps and tourism
Pushing hour glasses beyond comprehension

At the ground level, animals are recurring
Human bounty participates at the nexus
As species consolidate their voices
Power and choice conglomerate each family network

Brother in arms bent apart
Relegates to the...

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A huge reputation speaks loud even with sealed lips
his presence now relegates the entertainment into sips.
Without his jockey, a huge reception like this lacks
hides among the guests but yearnings for his skill backs.
For such a blast, he looks unprepared for the show
minute after minute, the...

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Like questioning the existence of a presence
Ancient and authoritative manuscripts
Choose a blank in word usage and omit this

As some Bibles forget and use words
Written how an adulteress is forgiven
While scribes question her living
The son of the Ancient of Days
Uses the ground to omit their presence
Ending...

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A DICTUM BY DARROW

If you add an “s” to the word care you get scare
Perhaps that’s why it scares me to care
I’d like to care but simply don’t dare
And to me that really isn’t very fair

Lately they’ve all been walking away
The ones I care about...

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accursed creepily haunting
Phantasmagoria wraiths
vandalize residents psyches
within their sleep induced state

Sublimation shunts
slumbering souls
unknowingly held hostage
successfully sacrificing

Semi-smothered silent species
snoring simians steadfastly succumb
subsequent sibilant sounds
woo woebegone wicked transmogrification

dilapidated divested bodies deposited
wizard waves wand
watching whirling wretched lovely bones
whipsawing (in toto) within abyss

whooshing whistling wheezing
whets warlocks appetite wakening
brutish nasty nightmare
sinister...

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dropping annie at the church
has become a habit now
every early morning
while we drive
i just look at the magnificence
of the rising sun then she talks about
trials troubles and tribulations
women are made to talk, i notice
she is beautiful though
i like the splendour
of the church
the golden altar,chalice
the gold...

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SEA PAST THE MAST

For most folks I know…….. 
that which has come to pass is stowed well away in the past
They’ve cast off the shadows and shelters of their history
However my past is wedded to withering woe and the winter’s wind so blistery
Betrothed to the...

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Anthrax
By Tom Wright
10/14/2001

Silently mobile,
Produces anxiety,
Offensive bacteria,
Relegates caution,
Emitter of fear,
Stealer of life....

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Darkness envelopes me seeping into every cell
Icy tendrils as unyielding as the moment that brought me here
Here to this place of unrelenting grief.

My breath is excised from this remnant of my former self
As I wander alone in the overwhelming expanse
Of this darkness that has become...

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Rage of potential writhes
                      Rears its demented face
                ...

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The deep darkness of a somewhat fading frustration
Has me feeling aggravation
An agitation that relegates my soul to sheer tribulation

Devestation activiated by my permutations and calculation of the situation
Why you?
Why so soon?
Why am I in this crowded room 
And I cant seem to think of anything...

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