Map Battle part 1
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In this world, where chaos reigns supreme,
I am the voice of the people, the one who leads the dream.
My heart beats with a passion that cannot be tamed,
I am the fire that ignites t...
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Categories:
contemptuously, art,
Form: Rhyme
Avuncular viscosity ::Graphic content::
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(Probably more a short story than free verse
In any case it’s true,
seen through my eyes as a child)
He was a heavy smoker sat by the fire
Coughing and wheezing hacking up phlegm
spitting...
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Categories:
contemptuously, child, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
Mocking Dance of the Dead
...Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Silent One
"Do not be afraid of death. Death transforms to something wider. Death is where it all...
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Categories:
contemptuously, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
A Soldier That Lost His All
...A Soldier That Lost His All
Despite his means, despite his plight
He rendered help to those in need,
No place he had fixed for each night
His life lived in faith and creed.
Dressed in tatters,...
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Categories:
contemptuously, america, girl,
Form: Ballad
The Buttery
...Lisa, a freshman in our residential hall sister-suite, and I have become fast friends over the last couple of weeks. Before we began hanging out I penned a piece about her that she thought was hilari...
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Categories:
contemptuously, 12th grade, autumn, culture,
Form: Free verse
Finding a Rainbow
...He stood at the French window fascinated with the storm outside.
Thunder boomed as lightening formed serpents in the ebony sky.
There would be no rainbows beneath the heavy dark clouds.
The unco...
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Categories:
contemptuously, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Let's Burn Their Flag
...Let's burn their flag
their Confederate flag
The flag of traitors, of betrayers
Let's burn their flag
Let's light them on fire
their Confederate flags
The flags of those who humiliated
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Categories:
contemptuously, africa, america, discrimination, fire,
Form: Verse
I'M the Master of My Destiny
...I'm the Master of my destiny.
No one can take that away from me.
Many will try but they will see.
I'm the master of my destiny.
I'm the master of my destiny.
I really don't care what they thin...
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Categories:
contemptuously, change, cheer up, deep,
Form: Rhyme
The Archer
...SONNET IN THE WIND
(The Archer)
Hark! What wind doth blow in yonder forest
Stirring the spirit of a long dead archer
In his endless search for the unwary doe
He stealthily lifts his bow – ai...
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Categories:
contemptuously, nature,
Form: Sonnet
A Beguiler's Last Laugh
...Well now, beneath the darkest realms
In nightmarish gists, I am the one
Who instills fear and in putrescence I dwell
In variety, isocheimal ulteriority is all I've done
Laureled with the metall...
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Categories:
contemptuously, angst, betrayal, corruption, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Money
...Money has no color,
whether it came from Black, White, Asian
or any other tribesman, a dollar is a dollar, not more or less.
Money doesn’t smell,
therefore, it weighs the same, whether it co...
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Categories:
contemptuously, money,
Form: Free verse
The God of Wind
...I was then and I am now,
Never a time when I wasn’t around,
Warm I am, howbeit frigid I can be,
Been through times when have been on my knees.
Always to lift both spirits and sand,
Across t...
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Categories:
contemptuously, wind,
Form: Free verse
The Archer
...SONNET IN THE WIND
(The Archer)
Hark! What wind doth blow in yonder forest
Stirring the spirit of a long dead archer
In his endless search for the unwary doe
He stealthily lifts his bow – ai...
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Categories:
contemptuously, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Toadus
...Hey Toadus!
Make
A ham sandwich
Such that I
May consume it
At my leisure…
Hey Toadus!
That
Ham sandwich
Is very good
Might I
Have another?
Yes Sir
I will be quite glad
To make
As many
Ham sandwich...
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Categories:
contemptuously, introspection, me,
Form: Classicism
The Kissing Ground
...Sophie's sweat
landscapes
the claret red horizon
thick serum
trickles
from a Sickroom -
a death ward
where cracked knuckles
spatter the fjords
moistening the planks;
bathing the laths ...
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Categories:
contemptuously, dedicationdeath, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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