April Blank Verse Poems

A client kingdom

So here we are a day older and yet learning more
who would have thought the blowing up of the North Stream 2 helped...

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Captain cook


I built a ship in a vale of stones and thorny bushes
It took 24 years and more to set sail on a dream 
boat...

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Livorno

The communist uprising in Livorno was a serious menace to Italy because that army sent tanks, not big tanks but big enough in narrow streets
At...

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A fierce and angry snow storm swarms around me.
I trudge to the house, my feet pink in my cold wet socks.
There are frosty icicles on...

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long-distance marriage


I sat on the terrace, thinking of my children and their
mother who had lived in a pool behind the houses
She they became adults had...

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NATO's war.

It was on a bright day in 1949 the Washington treaty was signed and later called NATO.
This treaty was purely an American undertaken and...

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Someone perusing all the lines I penned
before this century would surely think
I must have signed a contract to produce
just poems with the strictest rhyming schemes!

It...

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In every man, there is a child.--Santosh Kalwar

I cannot contemplate a child--
His essence is much too complex;
Though I look deep into his eyes,
His soul I...

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Gorgeous petals blew up in light of dawn,
gracing the air with their lovely fragrance;
Casting their rays like the dazzling sunshine; 
Spreading their wings like the...

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Spring and winter are wrestling with March
One day it is seventy-two and almost balmy
By that evening we are in danger of getting frostbite
For two days...

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To what avail are scriptures etched on stones 
If it’s true, we must feel it in our bones”
       ...

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ACHANDA

Achanda  was a no-nonsense lass
Nurtured from a well meaning home
Went to a well established school
Harvested the good grades 
And went for further education
And finally...

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Kids do not understand how losing works 
perhaps they don't know what endeavor means.
Some coaches play around with youngsters' minds
by setting goals which cannot be...

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Poem Title: “SAD FACTS”
By: Amb. Woyea Writes
Date: April 19, 2022

Certainly, not wholly,
Life stretches its,
hands-of noble souls, 
noble hearts are transformed,
not for the best,
but the worst.

Dreams...

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“Wars and rumors of wars” – the Bible says
That being so, then we should not be surprised
When selfishness and greed are bubbling over
When covetous, malicious,...

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