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Friday Night Blast.
Friday night's here at last ...lets have a blast.
Teenagers dash to discos ...ready to dance
to throbbing beats  and combo drums
rythm and blues....kicked off shoes
as...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, people,
Form: Free verse



Barrett and Browning Runaway Lovers
RUNAWAY LOVERS

Sat Ba Barret restless in her room
Drinking death in dark and gloom
Tragedy seemed her last name
Despite the books that were her fame
Letters reached her...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, history, hope, husband, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Pistols
The Jihadi’s got an entire hour to kill
Hundreds of helpless patrons shocked and awed
An eon of murderous rage until
The long awaited reward from his “god”

Like...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, america, humanity, violence,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Night Flight
"Night Flight"

the sky is 
an open eye
blue as the
Orpheus ocean 

clear in the 
shallows' grit
naivety irritates it 
birthing hard gems

it calls in 
from beneath 
the...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, humanity, peace, sky, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowards Not Terrorists
Cowards, not terrorists, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children both near and far
Cowards, not terrorists, Call them what they are

How much...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, violence,
Form: Free verse



In My Eyes
One to ponder: ,
The other in wonder,
With me added as your
Newest member ...
In the end, we will not remember,
Why this tragedy comes mostly in
December,
Amber signal...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, baptism,
Form: I do not know?
Blue Mondays Revisited
Many songs and poems have been written 
about blue Mondays which have bitten
those who work for a living
and have jobs that are unforgiving.

Mondays are hard...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Winging It
sitting ducks

                       ...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, bird, political,
Form: Senryu
My Husband
MY HUSBAND 
My dearest husband 
The father of my children 
The man to whom I pledge allegiance 
A goddess you have treated me
And I have...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, africa, anger, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
Abstract Cursed Items (Slider Rules)
rules to play by
ring the bell then knock on wood
one good turn deserves another

take one thing replace it with another
stalking a box
circled with chaos
we only...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, history
Form: Free verse
The Expendables
Sending out her distress call, that early April morn; their sitting ducks
Ambushed, amid foreign waters; sold to be bought, these chain link treats ?
Roasting atop...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, art, baby, cancer,
Form: I do not know?
Puppet Show
It's a circus says the hypnotist
telling you subconsciously
how to feel amongst lions and tigers and bears
when you go to the zoo
not knowing its part of...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, confusion, imagination, introspection, mystery,
Form: Free verse
They'Re Trying To Tell You
They’re trying to tell you
That your superstitions and machinations 
Are an exhausting game of whack-a-mole
They’re trying to tell you 
You’ve assumed a version of them
That...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, corruption, environment, money, political,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Cowards Not Heroes
COWARDS, NOT HEROESv

Cowards, not heroes, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children, people both near and far
Cowards not heroes, not terrorists, Call...

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Categories: were sitting ducks, violence,
Form: Rhyme
No Such Thing As Losers
Treading feet-clubbed into daylight, baring bone,
shorn of fleshtone, gaping vulnerable;
sitting ducks begging for hits
to the bullseye;
unknowing of strategies to swallow us,
part and parcel, dismantled bits.

Walking...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: were sitting ducks, life, love, philosophy, uplifting,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs