Where Buffalo's Jump
...Politics & Religion
boneyard
of existence
Power & Corruption
misleading
in kind
Promising & Deceiving
legislation
and dogma
Politics & Religion
deathtrap
— for mankind
(The New Roo...
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Categories:
deathtrap, death, political, religion,
Form: Rhyme
White Rabbit: Fast Food Robberies and Other Crimes
...In her ivory tower, she was raised,
A sheltered child, a life of ease,
But Alice's tale, Lorina's heart had seized,
Her mind now set on a different phase.
Married at twenty to a man much too ol...
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Categories:
deathtrap, woman,
Form: Free verse
2009 Hyundai Sonata An Infuriating Rattletrap
...Time and again finances stretched
to breaking point
crackle, pop, and snap
'curse Alfred E. Neuman
smiles at yours truly
(this luckless papa)
with with his toothy gap
haint even Abel nor Cai...
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Categories:
deathtrap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Black Widow
...black widow webbing
intricate labyrinthine
deceptive deathtrap
AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2020...
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Categories:
deathtrap, appreciation, art, death, insect,
Form: Haiku
Exploding Airbags
...Exploding Airbags
There you have it, another car user death reported in an accident..
Somewhere in Houston , Detroit a 17 Year old is the latest statistic...
As in any day, while being on the ...
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Categories:
deathtrap, anxiety, car, community, education,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Emptiness
...Made dwelling at own home but living in emptiness,
The lumbered dreams are dying, what a heave is that;
Setting fire in water so fool wish,
What hell have you done to me, what a damn is that.
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Categories:
deathtrap, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Give Up
...The ship under full sail
The ocean murmurs an old tale
Nearby cutting through water is a whale
The fresh air enters your lungs as you inhale
The huge albatross spreads its wings
The wind in th...
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Categories:
deathtrap, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Jupiter Dwellers
...By GILBERT MAPENGO MWANGUKU
Rotten and forgotten
Mealing once a day
As if they are on a fasting session
Jam-packed as they sleep
Like maggots in a filled latrine
Stinky is their world
Can’t even r...
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Categories:
deathtrap, truth,
Form: Verse
Relativity
...A microscopic arachnid
tinier than a poppy seed
spins diminutive filaments
barely visible to the eye;
a spiral silk lacework deathtrap
for infinitesimal prey
strung high between white c...
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Categories:
deathtrap, philosophy, universe,
Form: Verse
Darling Darla
...Take your crucifixes, Your holy water.
Immortal love of a vampire's daughter.
Silver stakes and a garlic deathtrap.
Like a Priest's slave and a fatal attack.
Your final need for Darla's blood.
Reapin...
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Categories:
deathtrap, lost love, religion, life,
Form: Free verse
U-Turn
...every rose has a thorn and every road has a turn
dancing with the devil and i'm sure to get burned
some jokers never listen...some jackyls never learn
2 seconds from 4ever...i make a u-turn
scr...
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Categories:
deathtrap, inspirationalme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Rome
...Destroy moral bounds
Distill the damnation
Produce temporary soothes
Attention deficit deathtrap
Empires made of scrap
Mass media’s contagious
Meant to enslave us
Distracting virus
Never sile...
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Categories:
deathtrap, angst, history, life,
Form: I do not know?
The Last of Summer
...Blasted through the arteries of great wide open spaces
like fuel-injected bullets from some laser-sighted gun,
over-priced and deathtrap built, nothing cars to nowhere places,
trailing prisms of b...
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Categories:
deathtrap, allegory, death, history, life,
Form: Verse
System Setbacks
...The system is a deathtrap,
for the ones left back,
Difficulty to move forward,
Critical to step back,
definition of system setbacks,
Many take risks to get that,
struggle stimulate soldiers
to...
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Categories:
deathtrap, inspirational, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?