Collateral Poems - Poems about Collateral

...Words left borrowed heavy on the heart Actions defaulting stillborn and dark Pawning the foundling orphan on loan Love unbequested — dying alone (Dreamsleep: April, 2024) ......Read the rest...

...I shore up my doubt, behind a loosely bound hope Which in turn is propped up without foundation Cynical of a life, at the mercy of luck Collateral damage feeds my reservation I shore my up to......Read the rest...

...I was never quite a candy kid But I jumped right into the soup I had a list of my favorite chemicals on the wall in college, a tribute, an ode My first cigarette owned me, called on a claim alread......Read the rest...

...The stars shoot straight, no curve balls, they light us up, we feel the silver bullets ricocheting inside our eyes, even when they are closed. There's is no such thing as low caliber starlight, ......Read the rest...

... We walk the earth as lords of all only judeo-christian types of course We crush the weak and heed no call history is written by the winners We think ourselves the smartest rac......Read the rest...

...I wanted to try both types of the Rispetto form. The first one is 11 syllables and the second is 8. I know the Iambic tetrameter is not perfect. Ignorance fails to hear a heart's silent......Read the rest...

...The world has become jaded by the news we observe It’s not until we notice something morally monstrous Neither peacemakers nor warmongers have the nerve It’s the emotions of the weak that raise ou......Read the rest...

...How could victims of Holocaust recede to the logic of stone age? Look again at Netanyahu's map, no trace of Palestine! Listen to his rage against the new Amalek, the rhetoric of extermination, the n......Read the rest...

...No, I'm not one of those who say, "It's nothing, it's collateral damage for just cause." How much I regret this plight of conscience, people walking around unmindful of the tragedy. Have they no ......Read the rest...

...LONELY AT THE TOP Amidst the cheers, a lonesome sound, A throne of solitude, I have found. The top is where victory flames brightly burn. After the wars, I'm still sticking to my gun. Though ......Read the rest...

...One fine day your face will crumble, until you hardly recognize it. The very walls which you live within may seem to judge you, everything you have collected around you will seem to be just ......Read the rest...

...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war After extorting pound of flesh lifetime humiliation drummed into captives hammering indelible nightmare no amount of therapy can expunge. Lifetime traum......Read the rest...

...Aftermath of war: onerous task... to salvage flotsam and jetsam of human wreckage amidst a sea where triage witnessed courtesy scattered corpses populating the Gaza strip more'n pound of cold......Read the rest...

...I stole a garden hid it from flames, to try and keep just one thing alive; Collateral carnage of war games, a single bloom of evolution won't thrive; Detonation of everything but peace, so car......Read the rest...

...In this modern world We all live in today Beauty Ain't the norm anymore per - say It rather seems to be like it has seen better days Beauty should surely come with no Hidden catc......Read the rest...