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Best Sarajevo Poems

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Premium Member Sarajevo - Under the Linden Tree
Sarajevo - UNDER A LINDEN TREE
The morning lights and to another day
a pirate's chest you've found but will not stay
for longer than the blinking of...

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Categories: sarajevo, conflict, tree, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Introduction To Sarajevo: Carlama Galerija
We spoke in images
Our hands our mouth pieces
Oiled by plum brandy 
And the certainty
That what I said
You understood,
Or wanted to
Which is all that you have...

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Categories: sarajevo, art, confusion, drink, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sarajevo - the Sniper
SARAJEVO - the sniper
He hides behind the dirty window pane
with eyes all cold and void of any care 
in blinding heat or through a drizzle...

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Categories: sarajevo, evil, hate, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Bridges of Sarajevo
BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO
So stirs the heart of man, the great delight,
   to raise a banner high, the march of fate;
to lead the way,...

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Categories: sarajevo, death, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sarajevo 1995 - Another Cease Fire
SARAJEVO-1995  Another Cease Fire
As old as death and cold as nevermore
all set to stone, by those who've died before;
the acts of love, though viewed...

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Categories: sarajevo, abuse, hate, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Sarajevo - Death Comes
Sarajevo - Death Comes
For Sarajevo, death is never known,
to bring an end, to what the body feels,
in love or hate, together, or alone,
death has no...

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Categories: sarajevo, allah, conflict, faith, god,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Peacekeepers - Sarajevo
SARAJEVO the peacekeepers
Tomorrow there won't come a morning bright
filled with a hope that peace has come at last
and smiling girls can't dance out of a...

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Categories: sarajevo, allah, god, hate, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Other Side of Vrbanya Bridge
Their story haunts my memory, I'll tell it to you plain..
in the city of Sarajevo, a place war could never touch,
and hope it never will...

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Categories: sarajevo, heartbroken, love, parents, prejudice,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Inhumanity of Man
SARAJEVO - inhumanity of man
Have you a home to call your very own
where sounds of children busy at their play
are all around, and it is...

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Categories: sarajevo, politicalhome, children, home,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member To the Victor
SARAJEVO - to the victor...
Another cease fire's come and gone into
the same old past, their bit of history,
as morning gunshots greet the mourning who
have come...

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Categories: sarajevo, political
Form: Sonnet
Global Dystopia
Mogadishu ...
Black Hawk helicopter down
Caracas ...
Riots burning everything to the ground
New Orleans ...
Katrina tears has gotten many more drowned
Manila ...
Government death squads are roaming around

Global...

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Categories: sarajevo, death, pain, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Love
You rest your head upon my hands
And look up into my eyes
A gaze so crazed and wild, I see
Too much life in a dying child.
Half...

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Categories: sarajevo, childhood, death, devotion, faith,
Form: I do not know?
A Few of My Favorite Things
A few of my favorite things

A few of my favorite things 

Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt Van Gogh and Rodin 
thinking of their lives...

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Categories: sarajevo, allegory, analogy, light, memory,
Form: Free verse
Erasure
not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof....

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Categories: sarajevo, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Curse
SARAJEVO the curse
The shadows have been cast our way
both dark and bleak and black and gray
to play upon each foolish mind
no one can reach or...

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Categories: sarajevo, allah, conflict, god, war,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things