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Canisters Poems - Poems about Canisters

Premium Member Rats in the Cellar
...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree, things aren't the same as they used to be. When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail, I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale. Such an inj......

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Categories: canisters, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Quiet Not In Riot
...Oh! How great it tastes: Steamy Riot But is it delicious like Quiet? How glorious it appears: Chariot Still in some wars and conflicts: Idiot… I had had to talk about Riot: The scene promisin......

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Categories: canisters, analogy, character, conflict, violence,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Turmoil
...Tumultuous rivers submerged the streets. Variegated shades of humankind Cascading, unfettered by the clouds of Fumes from the canisters and smoke grenades. Guards turned against the guarded wi......

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Categories: canisters, social,
Form: Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ... Beast 666 by Michael R. Burch “... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats Brutality is a cross......

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Categories: canisters, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lynching
...“Lynching” Black man floating in space Knotted rope about his face Crosses burning White sheets chanting Black man squirming Blue knee choking Buildings burning Dark nights looming ......

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Categories: canisters, anger, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Spooky Duppy
...He was the only one from the house of the dead at the cemetery and he scared the living daylight out of other guests at the funeral shuffled in rigor mortis and reaped a few condescending remar......

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Categories: canisters, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Poems Ii
...Completing the Pattern by Michael R. Burch Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead who kept life’s compact and who thus endure harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds and manicured gre......

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Categories: canisters, dark, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loyal
...Animals forced to do man's fatal, dirty work Penalised by the superior species Men without sanity, crazy, berserk Dogs delivering bombs get blown to pieces, Animal mascots, monkeys, pigs, c......

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Categories: canisters, abuse, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Pittsburgh Rain
...Working ethic. steel ethnic. Pittsburgh in the rain like metal canisters. The grain of the Alleghenies. Old labor's hand sings your dark iron tones. Sadlowsky galvanized stainles......

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Categories: canisters, city, eulogy, history, image,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Wrong Move
...We moved house today This house lacks warmth and heart Everything in disarray We don't know where to start Things in packing cases Others in a box A pile of dirty laundry Underwear and socks ......

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Categories: canisters, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Tracking the Past
...Tracks stretch across barren winter fields yet their steel trace like a snail's trail appears polished, glinting in dying light, stifling your breath, towards a dark shed doors creak like a......

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Categories: canisters, war,
Form: Free verse
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph
...Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war, never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied, openmouthed, dumbfounded at in......

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Categories: canisters, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Chaos In the White House Jab Two
...when Democrats outliers gnashed teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws pistol whipped and hashed tagged traitors who roared America went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed when D......

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Categories: canisters, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Eco-Green Rage
... Breathe deep into the shale, vent your anger out into the deep blue Strangle that rage in the seaweeds, let the calming tortoise walk of peace move slowly across the ocean floor bed T......

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Categories: canisters, allegory, dark, environment, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Cake Bombs
...Men with chests and muscles set on trail war had ripened, enemies were to be harvested they filed along narrow path a path that could transform all into charcoal Bombs were thrown, bullets fire......

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Categories: canisters, leadership, peace, satire, war,
Form: Free verse

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