The Pied Piperess
...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet
Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...
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Categories:
conscripts, evil, parody,
Form: Prose
The Priest talking on a Pulpit in The Great In-Between
...Foundation.
In this modern world, has mankind forgotten judgment may await if one is religious?
Title.
The Priest talking on a Pulpit in The Great In-Between
(A regal voice whispers)
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Categories:
conscripts, life,
Form: Rhyme
US Inauguration 2025
...We are all like-men
one leg at a time
yet some stand out
trouser-ed or not
some become possessed
a holy mission accepted
subduing the personal ego
as did Christ, Son of God
First Ris...
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Categories:
conscripts, christian, devotion, growth, integrity,
Form: Free verse
More War: 24
...This is constructed in the CUBE16 style I created several years ago.
As conscripts March
and war is nigh,
fear grips men’s hearts.
Stern looks belie.
Their ears are filled
with rifle shot....
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Categories:
conscripts, angst, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Conversation
...My spirit is locked in a conversation with my soul and my heart is crying out for more, you have stretched me to the limit just to see if I am fit, but I kept going to expose my stamina and my intern...
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Categories:
conscripts, betrayal, business, confidence, endurance,
Form: Narrative
The New Face of War
...this soldier took those rounds so they could save
their fellow conscripts from their early grave
how ghastly tannic, tastes such horrid truth
though warm as blood, or tart as sweet vermouth
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Categories:
conscripts, angst, holocaust, horror, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Slava Ukraini
...A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back
If Russia can't have it, they operate a policy of scorched earth
And tu...
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Categories:
conscripts, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
Tanks
...The Meglomaniac of the year,
Maybe seeing his mortality,
Craving a way to ensure
A really lasting legacy,
Launches his tanks
Expecting might to be right.
Conscripts don’t beat patriots
Giving ...
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Categories:
conscripts, anger, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Heroes In Ukraine
...Heroes in Ukraine
No heat, no power
endure aerial bombardment
More brutal by the day
Hundreds of Russian conscripts
thrown into battle every day
Unprepared, they die like fl...
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Categories:
conscripts, conflict, horror, international, satire,
Form: Rhyme
An Absolute Disgrace
...The invasion began on the twenty fourth of February
When in from Belarus came, the filth of humanity
The world soon got to know of their cruel depravities
Each town they invaded, they were gu...
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Categories:
conscripts, children, death, evil, people,
Form: Rhyme
The New World Disorder
...A month into the war, caught by the wheels of
disinformation war, I feel maimed and blinded
by the extraordinary news reels feeding my
immense sadness and grief.
How many more Ukrainians will su...
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Categories:
conscripts, war,
Form: Free verse
Eighty Years
...Eighty summers ago one tyrant’s decision
Sent young soldiers east division by division
Such savage cruelty of his war machine
The degree of which had never been seen
On a cold winter’s morn one...
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Categories:
conscripts, war,
Form: Rhyme
One Man
...One Man
One man, a man crazed with greed
Conscripts and commands thousands of others
Under the pretext of protecting their homeland
To attack and kill their Ukrainian brothers.
One man, repu...
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Categories:
conscripts, inspirational, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Volunteer
...The Volunteer
by Bob Moore (c) 2019
A volunteer is worth, a thousand conscripts so they say
I would never volunteer, if I had my own way
but when the sergeant says, two volunt...
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Categories:
conscripts, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
To War, From Youth
...oh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
yet giv'n to stain the bib of war
a bleed each mother answers for.
the whee...
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Categories:
conscripts, war,
Form: Epic
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