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Concession Speech

...When a candidate loses,
That person must reach
All who gave their support
With a televised speech.

So I watched VP Harris,
The crowd fighting tears,
Though it didn’t do much
To assuage all m...

Categories: close ranks, america,
Form: Rhyme

Port Hedland strikes them down'

...At last a rationale has struck! And the poisions out of style
Port Hedland council has recognised that deaths have
Grown.. Too wild; and how.' I'll give it here to you.! From one a week
On average...

Categories: close ranks, allah, appreciation, assonance, education,
Form: Rhyme

A Study In Bronze

...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go...

Categories: close ranks, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Captain Pugwash and First Mate

...Your voyage began in the summer of 69.
The adventures of life lay ahead.
Though you knew it would not all be plain sailing,
Your four years of prep put you in good stead.

At times, when your se...

Categories: close ranks, anniversary, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Death of a Lancer

...My one true love with eyes of sparkling blue
Our hearts as one it was our destiny
Heaven sent you for me and me for you
It would not last but end in tragedy.

War intervened I’d have to go away
...

Categories: close ranks, death, horse, love, soldier,
Form: Sonnet

Usins and Themins

...USINS & THEMINS

Usins had a funeral, for a boy who’d seen enough
He hung himself on Wednesday, up in Ballyduff
Themins had a funeral, for a girl who died too soon
She’d been bullied all her lif...

Categories: close ranks, political,
Form: Rhyme

Copla Tres: This Bad Guy World

...COPLA TRES (THREE):  This Bad Guy World

Bad guys signal to each other
In cryptic lingo and hand signs
Close ranks bind ties

Egg-white eyes of the murderer
Encroach the pupil with designs
Embryo die...

Categories: close ranks, philosophy,
Form: Didactic

Rondelet: Panic Stations

...Panic stations
Uneasy the herds where packs rode
Panic stations
Packs close ranks when lone wolf notions
Disrupt the pecking order mode
It's the lone voice that bears the load
Panic stations

(c) ...

Categories: close ranks, philosophy,
Form: Imagism

1861

...1861

Dust rises from the rutted road.  Cannon laden caissons rumble slowly forward.  A red sun competing with the campfires glow. Weary troops break camp, joining the ranks of
colleagues on the move...

Categories: close ranks, historydeath, men, war, death,
Form: Narrative

Mother's Day

...MOTHER’S DAY                                                                


Mother in the family, is a joy and light forever
Their sacrifices from infancy to adulthood,
Are all extensions of ...

Categories: close ranks, dedication
Form: Free verse