Best Stoning Poems

What was the ethics of homefires
when homeostasis had gone awry ?
There were no concrete truths.
I will not wear the lies instead	
like fly ash on my...

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“You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet...

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The Prophet


I read the words of a poet
From the days of tomorrow
His verse flowed backwards in time
And rhyme 
I, a fair maiden, doomed to a...

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Written: February 15, 2024
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I ultimately rule over these...

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In seeming innocence		you lie in the warm ochre
in the center of a dust-kicked street,
a remnant of larger issues	crushed to just the right size
	 by killing...

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Silent voices

Acid in eyes
Silence

Raped by suitor
Silence

Burned with kerosene
Silence

No books for women
Silence

Beating wives
Silence

No education for women
Silence

Woman must wear masks
Silence

Women must obey
Silence

Women used and abused
Silence

Honor Killings
Silence

Stoning women...

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Jumping the jam,

I am peter pan,

doing a man,

don't know his name at this dam.


Down-stream is a clam,

up is a nap-

I creak when I walk,

never stop...

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No greater injustice than this:


To condemn people to death, just for tender acts of love,

While

Rewarding others, for committing barbarous acts in war! * 









© Demetrios...

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~ With  God's  Help  ~
(The  Goblet )


~O~



I'll  just  put on  my   best 
Face  and ...

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my agent grew nervous
when he discovered
like the rising sun 
on a sea of shark fins
that one must gauge and become the gauge
what is it that...

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Just try in the imagining of this
And the point of it all try not to miss
His Mother told Him that they were all out of...

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But the tenants seized the servants and one of them they beat, another they killed, and third they stoned. Matthew 21:35

How violently the tenants acted
Besides...

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rocky wind blows
stoning my heart
boulders crush
our love...

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She stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands 
Her...

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Here-

this day's last light clouds gray
to run-round and un-green in star-chaining

in pebble hush
and fish stoning

in leaf murmur
and trembling wing tuck

in cool frightful burrows
and tears that...

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