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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”) the purported line Brutus uttered after assassinating Julius Caesar. Alte......

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Categories: brooked, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trapped in the Ivy League
...Kathy Boudin thought the U.S. beyond repair, She thought she saw the deep reality, and it was unfair. From SDS to the Weather Underground, She dived deep in Marxism, plain sense no longer found. ......

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Categories: brooked, america, culture, freedom,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Angry Buns
...I watched 'Buns of Steel' 'cos I wanted the real deal Did all the exercises Brooked no compromises But when I sneaked a little feel My hot cross buns began to peel......

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Categories: brooked, anger, body, food, giggle,
Form: Couplet
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications
...Dream state yields deep sleep personifications Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, where the sandman beckons and bids dead to the webbed wide world, ......

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Categories: brooked, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Proletarians To the Fore
...Arm to arm, sinews clutch One another, makes friend and crutch; One crimson call, which guidance brought The feeble, stern: the working lot To stand much greater, taller, strong Filled with hope......

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Categories: brooked, class, work,
Form: Free verse



Elegy
...They brought their music to the hills, brooked no softening, yet in time, the Appalachian mists grew softer, the work less dire. Their tunes recalled one Celtic root, one that had broken the wil......

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Categories: brooked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Daddy
...Our daddy said we couldn’t get our driver’s license until we passed our teens. He also said it didn’t matter what he said, it only mattered what he means. Our daddy was a coal-mining man of th......

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Categories: brooked, dad, father, home,
Form: Rhyme
Ya Know
...Each visit was looked forward to, Always new flavoured sweets, For me to chew. Whether it was chocolate, Or Haribo, Anything will do, We were desperate ya know... We went to the park. On ......

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Categories: brooked, blue, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
The Nazis Wrecked His Herb Garden
...The writing on the wall Explained it was “degenerate”. Don’t ask me. Nazis can be crabby. He took it for the sign it was: ‘If they’d deface some matter of taste, it’s only a matter of time .........

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Categories: brooked, art, corruption, evil, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still Counting Past Blessings
...Still Counting Past Blessings! I’m Seventy-Seven and happy to live in the State that I’m in! As a child, Oklahoma near blew us away! The ‘Dust Bowl’ killed some too, and ......

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Categories: brooked, appreciation, blessing, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Embarkation Upon Meditation
...Embarkation upon meditation... Believe me you upon manifestation regarding Das godaddy bing linkedin with avast cosmic consciousness self induced light hypnotic trance I become enthralled u......

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Categories: brooked, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Winkin Blinkin and Nod, Sans
...Winkin Blinkin And Nod, Sans... Wonderful World Of Dreamland Furloughed! Hours elapsed since I did sleep off and feed my belly from the trough. What...the...creaking screech re: sound ding, ......

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Categories: brooked, appreciation, baptism, beautiful, child,
Form: Rhyme
Dissembling Offerings
... He never brooked a lie that couldn’t be spoken Spiffed up with a good spit shine Tin promise made was a buffalo wooden token Re-tale sale, it ain’t worth a dime From Niagra Falls to th......

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Categories: brooked, character, identity, people, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
The Final Brace of the Poetries I Meant As One To Post, But By This Could Not
...It is generally thought of to be one of the myriad, Guiding, governing, binding principles and precepts of all  Mature civilized countries that what horrors that they unleashed in Vilest, bloodies......

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Categories: brooked, adventure, allegory, anniversary, arabic,
Form: I do not know?
Ode To a Storyteller
...ODE TO A STORYTELLER A wise fool once confessed in candour naïve When asked the question “what are you doing there?” With insight deep the reply brooked no disbelief. His words: “Everyone’s go......

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Categories: brooked, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Verse

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