Cannister Poems


From Ashes Anew

...All the times we shared
I look back now and it was like you were never really there
Indecisive behavior gave birth to your nature
A year wasted,
Bitter sweat it tasted.
Watch as the clock ticks ...
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Categories: cannister, black love,
Form: Bio

The Charge, Or Last Day At Gettysburg

...Cannister shots explodes overhead,
stripping the leaves from the trees,
a rain of jagged steel above…
it takes courage not to flee.
The generals say we strike the center
and the Yankees will run...
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Categories: cannister, conflict, crazy, death, history,
Form: Narrative


Dear, Dear Lady

...Dear, dear lady, with crumpled
tissue paper skin and
spidery fingers fretting hanky,
'Couldn't find cannister,
don't know where it is, Em. ' 

Silent me knows is always in the same place. 

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Categories: cannister, emotions,
Form: Free verse

New Jersey State Police

...New Jersey State, New Jersey State Police,
we came with guns and excitement in our 
skins and uniforms, the guy had a beef with 
time and the unions and the bosses and his 
life in general, New J...
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Categories: cannister, community, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Disordered

...protests now do detest them
the helmets will address them
run panic and distress them
banish to cell and condemn
claim right to rule again

hard-and-fast the policy
fell hard that commodity
h...
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Categories: cannister, community, courage, emotions, imagery,
Form: Rhyme


Aiding the Breeze

...The shame in age
Stages of rage,
All complaints gauge
Like insignificant sage..
Waiting, mailing complaints out
That say there is no fat and ugly
Only less educated and under dressed
 
Insatiable cre...
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Categories: cannister, friendship, imagination, religion,
Form: Rhyme

S(Wordplay)

...Have You Seen the Moon this nigh??
curvaceous cylindrical colors, up to me thigh....
  I asked for vanilla (among the 31 flavors)
  but received only chocolate hardship for my endeavors...
within...
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Categories: cannister, hope, introspection, love,
Form: Rhyme

Puzzle Pieces

...He poured out the shoebox
onto the floor
he said don't you worry
I have plenty more
  I know that you're in there
I've saved you for years
there's even a cannister
full of your tears
  you'll...
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Categories: cannister, introspection, old, old, time,
Form: Couplet
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