The Echo Returns Not
...The Echo Returns Not
Sponsor : Unseeking the Seeker
[ Poet’s note : SOLOMON MAHLANGU was a South African Freedom fighter & cherished leader in revolutionary army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was sen...
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Categories:
cadre, adventure, africa, angst, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
Grim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvest
...Grim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvest
the following written
for no particular rhyme nor reason
quite aware the exit (stage door left)
allows, enables, to provide every seaso...
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Categories:
cadre, 12th grade, absence, angel,
Form: Rhyme
God Stops Tower of Babel
...God had with his finest sensors
Picked the edifice and its sponsors,
Then surfaced to have it videoed.
What angels could have Him radioed!
God,all along Himself radar,
Knew what to do to Man's...
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Categories:
cadre, cry, god, people, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Free Association Comprises Ratiocination
...Free association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewe...
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Categories:
cadre, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Folly of the Miscreants
...What is all this wild, crazy talk of Civil War
From enraged right-wing extremist groups?
Is rabble-rousing all they are living for,
A mad cadre of gun-toting nincompoops?
Who revere a...
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Categories:
cadre, america, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Bigger Better Bigger
...More is so much more
More than creation could have to offer
The better we can do
If we meddle and then we tamper
Make it better it will be BIGGER
THERE beneath the muscle mass
The egg yolk re...
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Categories:
cadre, crazy, nature, technology,
Form: Free verse
Daylight Freedom Quest
...I slide and heave with brittle bones
along this pitch black tunnel ,
twisting, rolling, writhing in a sea of tar.
Vapors hot and sticky
taunt my nose,
as thoughts of orange-red sunsets,
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Categories:
cadre, age, art, character, courage,
Form: Imagism
Wikileaks
...WIKILEAKS
We made a decision! Secrecy is evil!
So we reveal the secrets of our democracies
(they probably won’t kill us if they catch us)
Our leader’s face is visible, public, smug,
and confin...
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Categories:
cadre, political,
Form: Free verse
Training Day 0--
...All is still and quiet on the drill pad.
Even night still sleeps at zero dark-thirty.
Celestial bodies lend their light, but sparingly.
Though their contribution will hardly be noticed once
she b...
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Categories:
cadre, career, dedication, military, native
Form: Free verse
To Whatever End
...I was a member of your cadre
I was one of the coven
I sailed with you in the seaspray
I rode in deserts hotter than an oven
I blazed with power brighter than a fire
I delved into the well
I s...
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Categories:
cadre, adventure, books, fantasy, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Free Association Comprises Ratiocination
...Free association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewe...
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Categories:
cadre, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Saturday Dawn
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Saturday Dawn
Yesterday was a holiday, I want my
readers to know.
First time off in 11 months from PS.
I tell you, typing with one finger is slow.
It still is an ac...
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Categories:
cadre, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Declension
...Man’s intrinsic apathy's negligence-justified frown
Is the actual defining substance of a mortal clown;
Who with hollowed prejudgments fellow men slays,
And likens to hallowed duty his thoughtless...
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Categories:
cadre, abuse, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Last One, Lord of the Flies
...In this world this feeling of being secluded and alone
with only a cadre of youth that represents innocence and
the wilderness
In this whole wide world, the conch, the rule to speak
some democr...
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Categories:
cadre, allegory,
Form: Couplet
Condolences Forever Invoked - 9 11 2001
...Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001
(I sit corrected for typing year 201, when most of America untrammeled by hordes of humanity, and probably far more similar to the garden of Eden, which app...
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Categories:
cadre, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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