Black Hole Love
...Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought me...
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Categories:
bloodier, husband, relationship,
Form: Free verse
I was born there
...I was born in the odds,
I lived through it,
dotted the lines on my path
I was born among hyenas,
these scrambling to stiffen the last breath,
Amidst hurts and hate first from home,
A lot c...
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Categories:
bloodier, africa, allegory, allusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Jimmy Doyle Wright
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Jimmy Doyle Wright
Born: 7/29/1948 Died: 4/4/2016
By Tom Wright
Jim was a loving husband, father, and brother,
who will be remembered by most for his wit.
Jimmy’s life beg...
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Categories:
bloodier, bereavement, brother, death, faith,
Form: Free verse
Pen Pals
...I am pen pals with the reaper and although he never writes back he’s my closest friend. I write him daily though not through the words of a young man but rather through the pain I display on my wrist...
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Categories:
bloodier, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Ancient Times
...This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced ...
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Categories:
bloodier, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
A Nuclear War Is Really Dumb
...Everyone agrees that war is cruel
Everyone agrees that war is suicidal
Everyone agrees that war brings mortar, anger
Hunger, pain, suffering, death, horror and terror
But a nuclear war is deadlie...
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Categories:
bloodier, anger, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Jimmy Doyle Wright
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Jimmy Doyle Wright
Born: 7/29/1948 Died: 4/4/2016
Written: by Tom Wright
Jim was a loving, husband, father, and brother;
Who will be remembered by most for his wit.
Jimmy’s l...
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Categories:
bloodier, brother, cancer, death,
Form: Free verse
Tear-Tainted Sail
...In the beginning this boat was bare,
Greenest with infant's sinless stare;
Before soles more selfish than sane
Had trodden its dreary derelict main.
First to blacken its still-tiptop form
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Categories:
bloodier, age, allegory, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Elegy
Knowable Unknowns
...Do you know, static clocks move faster than moving clocks?
Do you know, silence is not the best response to a fool?
Do you know, a man is also a woman?
Do you know, snakes don't like to bit...
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Categories:
bloodier, humanity, imagination, irony, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
I Just Want To Rhyme
...I just want to rhyme and have fun
Look at everything I bounced back from
Going back to write about every path I crashed on
Orgasmic flow, so when my pen touches the paper, my pad comes
We all enj...
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Categories:
bloodier, courage, encouraging, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hungrier
...5/3/17
The world getting hungrier
Times getting uglier
And bloodier
Compared to animals, have people always been nuttier?
Needs growing
And greed showing
Far from easy going
Regardless...
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Categories:
bloodier, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Purity Pawned
...What does innocence cost, you ask?
It seems it's just a grand,
For I know a girl who had hers sold
By her Aunt, in a foreign land.
They sold her soul at fiftteen,
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Categories:
bloodier, abuse, people, violence, women,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing With Bones
...Once upon a time we were falling in love
Now you look down from up above
Once I was as free as a dove
Now I sit alone in this dark conner
Friends turned to strangers, loner
My heart does not ...
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Categories:
bloodier, angst, i love you,
Form: Free verse
The Modern Super Hero
...Made up super heroes we're taught to love
Made up archetypes we watch get rough
We cheer on as they dispense justice
We've stopped questioning why we idolize this
As our heroes have become mo...
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Categories:
bloodier, corruption, courage, hero, mythology,
Form: Couplet
The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Oh bloody and evil Catherine de Medici.
The queen has acted impetuously.
Thousands have died because of her demands.
Witness her red bloodstained hands.
A wedding is a time of joy and jubil...
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Categories:
bloodier, history, death, death, evil,
Form: Quatrain
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