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The Most Tyrannical King: the Overthinking
Ever jumped from one thought to another faster than the speed of light or at the speed of your internet connections full might...

Within each thought...

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Categories: tyrannical, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: tyrannical, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tyrannical, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Drink the Kool-Aid
Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug – 
no matter the fly in our
President's mug, the bug in 
his thinking...my reflecting on
his ailing brain, and it's obvious
volume shrinking:

Those mindless, confusing...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tyrannical, christian, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
Under the Same Moon -In Afghanistan
Here in violence and in beauty, living under the same moon
The beauty is so ancient, but the present violence here consumes
On one hand Afghanistan is...

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Categories: tyrannical, appreciation, conflict, culture, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Troll
"Troll"



The silent
incessant chatter
thick black ooze

jeers and laughter
jolt lightening barbs
slicing a heart in two

the dark undercurrent
pulls a light soul under
while writing life striving revolutionary new

troll smirks...

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Categories: tyrannical, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rant With a Slant
I challenge you to a rhetorical
to prove me wrong else be unconventional 
‘bout a problem that’s gone systematical
everyone’s so radical and cynical   
once...

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Categories: tyrannical, culture, freedom, grief, love
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Clanging Echoes
When I’ve gone
to the place
where my fathers’
have gone before me 
and the last tribute
has been paid to my memory,
may my singing words
crack the silence with...

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Categories: tyrannical, allegory, analogy, death, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry
Time
Within oppressive oblivious organisms,
   a tyrannical tormentor here lies;
Amidst the scheming sinister schisms, 
   another moment within us dies…
Reflecting resistance upon...

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Categories: tyrannical, conflict, deep, time,
Form: Rhyme
Death Valley of Dissent
The day Democracy died,
I was a little lad, yea, knee high

Papa turned on the telly
to watch the White House news
Curious to hear if the 
whether...

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Categories: tyrannical, dark, freedom, political, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Barefoot Buccaneer
Bronwyn the Barbaric was a buxom lass
the envy of all her peers
She spoke with unrivaled swashbuckling sass
her pirate-ess fashion was fierce

She could charm off the...

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Categories: tyrannical, fantasy, fashion, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Day
My snarling flash drive 
numbed my approach
as I drove fifty clicks
into the morning, still dark.
I did obeisance
to my tyrannical inbox,
it showed no mercy
to either side...

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Categories: tyrannical, perspective,
Form: Free verse
It's Ironic That It's Called the Throne
bowed before you once again
i’m worshipping you 
when i said i wouldn’t 

bent in half
i’m surrendering both my dinner 
and my fears

knelt down before you
my...

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© Essie Wixs  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tyrannical, body, depression, image, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thanks But No Thanks
Bartholomew Barton; his friends called him Barty
Eighteen years old but no birthday party
Slumped in the mud, a gunshot to the shoulder 
But unlike his comrades...

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Categories: tyrannical, appreciation, betrayal, hero, thank
Form: Rhyme
Sons of Liberty
Sons Of Liberty
Samuel Adams was a most wanted man
In pre American tyrannical land
In insane taxes the colonies drown 
They were indentured servants to the crown
The...

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Categories: tyrannical, history,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs