Best Shrapnels Poems

A songbird dances on a power line;?
a man in white at a market square
sings, swings, ears to a distant drum—?
a tuneful hum from a frenetic...

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Exploding Airbags

There you have it, another car user death reported in an accident..
Somewhere in Houston , Detroit a 17 Year old is the latest statistic...

As...

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As peepholes windows rattled on over pot holes,
 In the inner sanctum, dim-light show darkly,
 As prolific pickpockets glimpsed full fat purses;
 With stealthy filty...

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If there is life there 
must be an encounteration.
Even the moons and 
the suns, all get to return 
back if they passed 
to their eventual...

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flawless wreck
floating wrapped in lulled current

by fluid veracity you have overheard  
draft of my soul's architecture
moaning from the pellucid frame
embedded in that petty-bourgeois wall

I...

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T'was a thick dark night 
When the captain gave charge 
T'was a strong cold night 
When the matadors are guiding the duke

We are loaded with...

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Come see my world where the body is found
After the feast of worms is done; come see torn apart
The life and prospects skipping rope in...

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Who would have thought
that so much money could be made
from humans killing humans

And how ingenuity could be harnessed to
the industrious fabrication of weapons

The unconscionable necessities...

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Joined by the funeral, we sit down,
under the blue sky, fire watching, sequentialling
the processions. Ultimately one by one they come,
to dust, hands turned down. After...

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The fake postman under the spell of your sob story
had dropped the forty-ninth letter in nine months
Envelope stained with cerise lipstick, perfumed with promises,
sealed with...

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Dreams Fade

Curtains lift to changing scenes– 
mountains conquered, fairytales.
Leisurely visits to heavenly beaches,
dissolves of scenic Bali, 
montage of bohemian safaris,
unicorns, ocean of repertoire, 
kaleidoscopic and...

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(Dedicated to all Refugees, the world 
over)

Here we are
Soaked in hunger
Dressed in thirst
Drenched rags
Fear, our pillow
Neglect, friend...

Then...
Our land yields peace
We sleep with eyes closed
We snore
And...

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How could a promise so perfect ended so wrong
Where did the scream enter our song
I looked for love in you and found nothing but scorn
Why...

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It is the road through the woods again
The car is the fortress
Through the misty mind and glitch
I fog it for you
So we shall meet nothing...

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Confused world, complex challenges,
contracting earth, climate changes;
conflicting cultures coalesce.

Booms, bangs, shrills, shrapnels
flood the air; blood clots in the street. 
Shredded homes float for sheltered

peace: victims...

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