Edicts of Silent Concession
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A wall patched with lies
keeps the cracks from widening
but mementos fall
books, portraits, medals, and gifts—
gravity claims all relics
curtains shroud the crimes
centuries of stifled scre...
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Categories:
culpable, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Lyric
come home
...Come Home
I dislike Israel, but I accepted her as a historic
happening and a place where Jewish culture
can flourish undisturbed by foreign culture, and
thus can sink into navel-gazing.
Bu...
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Categories:
culpable, absence, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: ABC
Chaucerian Acrostic
...Can anyone accuse you of pretence?
Are you inflicting pain for pain’s own sake?
So little can be said in your defence –
Unless you have some argument to make,
Apart from spitting venom like a sna...
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Categories:
culpable, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
The Owl
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above the mist of
kohl tombstones . . .
moon hides its face
Wind screams through the graveyard,
and leaves on the ground are scattered around old tombstones
where a modern Cherokee ma...
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Categories:
culpable, angst,
Form: Haibun
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
...The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a t...
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Categories:
culpable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Quarry
...Now you are the quarry
Until then, You were hang up on yourself
You didn't have due regard
Someone has rained on your Parade
Cant handle it
Your eyes have grown tired
have you a safe place t...
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Categories:
culpable, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Out Of Luck
...I desperately wanted to come back
And you surreptitiously checked out of my life
I no longer have a friend, confidant, lover and wife
Indeed, I’m out of luck
Thank God the firmament remains blue
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Categories:
culpable, blue, break up, i
Form: Rhyme
Lovely enchantress of cyberspace
...Lovely enchantress of cyberspace
Betwixt and between us
lies an immense untraversable realm
of never knowable forbidding possibilities
quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic...,
where ta...
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Categories:
culpable, absence, adventure, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
See To it Yourselves
...Then Pilot said, “I have questioned this man called Jesus,
But I could not find him culpable of a Roman crime.
So, I sent him north to be judged by Herod Antipas
Who is Tetrarch of Galilee at thi...
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Categories:
culpable, bible, gospel, jesus, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Come and think it over
...your not welcome as a fool
leave it to laissez faire
You not guilty playing up
culpable in other words
we all rejoin someday
A surrender in other words
Try and be cool
think it over
before yo...
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Categories:
culpable, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
prevaricated amongst
...Amusing said the Unicorn
whose offspring ran riot
amongst the golden corn fields
In toad stalls fiery hornets roamed
By the wanton pavilion
all hope was gone
a fire crackle sentence serenad...
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Categories:
culpable, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Shower Shoes-Naani
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shower shoes sloshing, soapy, slippery,
and teeming with colossal cleanliness,
toweled,
culpable
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Categories:
culpable, imagery,
Form: Free verse
In the silent passage, toward the night, where stars descend
...In the silent passage, toward the night, where stars descend,
Time slips through fingers, like a thread of sand, gliding, blending,
I've sought your gaze in the Big Dipper, during my tactical wande...
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Categories:
culpable, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
...Neigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowd...
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Categories:
culpable, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse
selling england by the pound
...Said emerald isle im sinking
the weight is culpable
hope and glory all gone
the tent cities array in London,
chewing the remnant of greatness
selling england by the pound
digest the news
the p...
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Categories:
culpable, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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