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...

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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...

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The foliage unruffled, 		 the tree trunks utterly baffled
                ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Rage of potential writhes
                     ...

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her back against wall;
nowhere to run.

bricks close in,
hardly the sun.

the last light
will be a spark —
terror

triggers
final bullet
of Fall.

window panes
like empty pews
look on
with wan faces.

enemy’s close,
whites...

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