Cenotaph Memories
...Cenotaph Memories
And silence fell around the stone buildings,
As thousands gathered to remember
And some to forget, friends and family lost,
No longer there to support,
Every heartbeat, a tea...
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Categories:
bremen, anniversary, christian, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Winding Roads
...Did you flirt with Kant, perhaps Aristotle? While you scrutinized Metaphysics, Scholasticism, Augustinianism? Did you look into the constellation of Taurus as you studiously calculated a parallel un...
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Categories:
bremen, appreciation, blessing, community, deep,
Form: Epic
D'Amor
...Love intoxicates
Makes your heart palpitate,
Makes your emotions radiate,
Scaling highest current, electrocuting feelings.
Love is bad
Love is hard
Love is bald
Love is mad.
Tune you ...
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Categories:
bremen, love, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
Decisions of Love
...Germany post World War II,
torn, impoverished.
Ruled by Marshal Law,
imposed by the victorious.
Occupational forces walk
the rubble streets.
Civilians cower
in fear,
in hunger,
uncertainty.
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Categories:
bremen, introspection, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Bleeding
...In a Texas commercial circus
the journey is set
vehicled by hormonal energy
beginning from the cashier's tag
well placed on her blue shirt
exactly on her very firm left Breast
with ...
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Categories:
bremen, desire, fantasy, rude, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Horrors of Boko
...Chinua Achebe should write a
book
From the grave
To soothen the hearts of the
afflicted
the arrow of god is upon us
Things have indeed fallen
apart
Niyi Osundare can en script a
p...
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Categories:
bremen, violence
Form: Free verse
Today's Mission
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For us, it has become an everyday scene.
The only world we know now is our B-17.
Over Adolf's territory, we drop our bombs away.
We have been flying missions both night and day.
We want...
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Categories:
bremen, adventure, history, war, night,
Form: Rhyme
Another Mission
...For us, it has become an everyday scene.
The only world we know now is our B-17.
Over Adolf’s territory, we drop our bombs away.
We have been flying missions both night and day.
We want to crippl...
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Categories:
bremen, history, war, night, night,
Form: Rhyme