Best Vanquished Poems

Changed climate is not a surprise
With drilling for gas on the rise
Where can life forms hide
From carbon dioxide
And methane let loose in the skies?

Neo-druids auger gas wells
And add fluids with sulfurous smells! 
Are poisons they've tapped
With their magic wands trapped
Evermore by sorcerous spells? 

Votes and news seem not relevant
The unrelenting elephant
In all our best rooms
Is...

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She wipes the sleep from her misty eyes
                               With fragile hands and polished nails;
           ...

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Admitting painful cause of childhood fright
I would cringe hearing … “Ghosts appear tonight
especially to the cowardly nervous…”
Such tortured me with panic so grievous.

Yet, in pretense, my heart struggled to cope
while loathing ghost stories that vanquished hope
robbing me once of bliss I yearned to claim…
Such propped me to face weakness against shame.

Nurtured by parents midst loving...

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-VANQUISHED-
                            
Upcoming sun that must rise in the East                 
Vanquished in loss...

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As jade and amber

      lightly touch,heaven and earth

              rejoice in union......

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If you a seeking for trust? 
Behold deep within your inner self.


Prisoner in a castle called chest.
Captive in a chamber that's blood red.


Bound by shackles of impure deeds.
Whose jagged edges have defiled.


The basic definition of humane kind.
She is the love child of hope and charity.

Apocryphal gospel preached by demigods.
Inundating the analytical mind.

Begetting a cesspool of...

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An unseen ghost
Knows just who to scare
By bringing fear

He meanders down an alley
To find an unsuspecting man

One taste he wants
To indulge to the fabric
Of this life’s being

He appears to him
This man of vanquished spirit
So pained he ignores

The fearful ways of a ghost
So rarely cast aside by pain

No soulless being
Has ever withstood a ghost’s
Intricate forceful ploys...

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You pride yourself as the conqueror of humanity
You boast that your power over man is awesome
And strike him numb with fear
You sneak into his life announced
Sometimes you appear unannounced
But always with devastating finality
The rich cannot tame you
The poor quake as you come knocking
The mighty tremble before you
The royalty dread you perpetually
As a veritable threat to...

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Darting up and down, left and right
Over my little being
With fright you easily show your might
Have I ever sought your meaning?

Have you ever stopped and wondered?
Torrid pendulum striking, yet unheard,
Of what use is that behaviour?
Of losing your utmost valor!

Even if your shield is your armor
And your weapon lies in being an actor!
Vincible you are and...

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Playful sea lions debouching with dead fishes….vanquished.


Composed by Dalila G Agtani  9/8/11
Entered in a contest sponsored by:
Constance La France ~ A Rambling Poet ~...

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Sangfroid vacuum,
Striking terror in craven hearts,
An eerie quiet portentous of ominous,
Sudden resplendent flash of blades,
And blood gore in flood,
Exploding shots in blinding blaze,
Cries,shouts and grief,
Dead and half so,
There was gain,
Behind all the pain,
One side fled,
After they were entirely bled,
A patch of land,
Was perhaps gained,
Some wrong was done right,
Behind all this strife,
One chieftain derided other,
Rode on...

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Their pride was wounded,
And the win turned pyrrhic red,
Felt nigh defeated
When they saw some hands wave flags
O from a pile of dead rags.
__________________________ 
Tanka |04.03.2022| war

Poet’s note: The way unequal Ukraine has given fight to the Russian might, knowing of their resolve amidst the so-called friends deserting them, and the way the invading Russians are...

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All I ever hear in my ears,
"All your fears finally disappeared."...

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Fighting halos & absurd romantic logos
Trying to rid myself of this feeling
This feeling of surrender
Trying to rid myself of this needing
This needing to surrender

Afraid of what I might become
If I come undone
Fearing I've already pushed my love away
Knowing he & I were meant to be

Crying hopeful tears of regret
Sighing breathless words into the wind
Thinking back...

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Let go, buddy, no need to sulk and cry,
I won this girl’s heart, fair and square;
No, I won’t say ‘Sorry for your loss’,
After the pains you put her through.

Nothing you’ll do will bring her back to you,
Go, go, go, buddy, find someone new;
Kathy belongs to me now and she’s mine
And you’re not taking what belongs...

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