Oath Breaker
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With one hand laid upon the Holy book
The new Judge raises her other hand high.
She swears an oath that millions before her promised:
Faithful service, unbiased justice, no compromise.
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Categories:
chillingly, judgement, political, prison,
Form: Rhyme
The strangers tale
...In shadows deep, where twilight tends to creep,
A tale unfolds, in Serling’s whispered tone,
Of worlds unseen, where secrets often seep,
And man’s true nature, chillingly is shown.
A town...
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Categories:
chillingly, literature, people, perspective, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
In times to come, heavy as steel that freezes stories yet untold
...In times to come, heavy as steel that freezes stories yet untold,
The sky wraps itself in ash of thoughts yearning to be confined.
Silent streets converge towards a doubtful, mechanical horizon,
W...
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Categories:
chillingly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Searching For Velvet at Midnight
...Sultry softness beckoned
by a thousand touches
caressing
the air that encircles
the body divine
chillingly
embers buried deeply
in the soul of passion
burns
charging the heart’s desire
year...
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Categories:
chillingly, desire, longing, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Unknown world
...The world that unfolds before me is unknown, but for some reason it is mine. Yes.
Anyone could say that my life is monotonous. But not. I protest. This is not true. Only mine.
No one just understoo...
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Categories:
chillingly, life,
Form: Free verse
Kill the Shrill
...there was a young man from Seville
whose wife's voice was chillingly shrill
he said please shut up
he’d more than enough
sending him looking for advil!
(caveat: no endorsement of prod...
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Categories:
chillingly, funny, humorous, hurt, husband,
Form: Limerick
Dearly Departing Christians
...Many of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,
United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hu...
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Categories:
chillingly, america, christian, culture, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Quick Change
...Cold yesterday
weeping to warmish now.
the year is old,
now young,
now a grey cross-eyed cat
perched on a green wall.
The young grow more beautiful
it's hard to catch-up.
Google sucks
the we...
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Categories:
chillingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vampiric Love
...come sit with me
not so close -
oh go on then
you’re chillingly cute
most mute and pasty
and today
i have the stale mulligrubs
lay and play with me
lap a little
dip the lip if you want
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Categories:
chillingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Vampire Love
...come sit with me
not so close -
oh go on then
you are chillingly cute
and today
i have the stale mulligrubs
lay and play with me
lap a little
dip the lip if you want
drink -
sip me witl...
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Categories:
chillingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Before She Was Born
...Second sight in some infants, short tenure belies
Unbiased newness unpicks societal manufacture
To passers by, lurking spiritual assets recognisable
Pervading expression classifies their clairvoya...
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Categories:
chillingly, baby, child, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Chaim Nachman Bialik: On the Slaughter of the Jews
...Holocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter of the Jews"
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Merciful heavens, have pity on me!
If there is a God approachable by ...
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Categories:
chillingly, bible, holocaust, horror, murder,
Form: Verse
Stray Dog Roaming
...Oh, where did you come from? The sad sight of you
breaks my heart in two. I see that you're lost,
scared, disheveled and emaciated.
You wan...
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Categories:
chillingly, animal, dog, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Tristich
The Ballad of Agnes Bean
...From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jai...
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Categories:
chillingly, abuse, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Narrative
It's Cold Here
...It's cold here.
It was cold long before
Winter arrived
harsh frigid stares
as people passed by
subtle cues
to warn us off
send us packing
"This is not your neighborhood-
you are not welcom...
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Categories:
chillingly, jealousy, people, perspective, places,
Form: Free verse
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