Vermin Decamp
...Rats and cockroaches
have moved to the country.
The city is overrun with unsanitary humans,
it needs a clean cloth to thrive upon,
not the dishcloth grime
of much degraded minds.
It is a di...
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Categories:
decamp, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Dream of Steam
...The 'tock', 'tock', 'tock' of the station clock,
the clickety clack of the board.
Telling the time and destinations
but no one to cry 'All aboard!'
The 'bang', 'bang', 'bang' of the carriage d...
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Categories:
decamp, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers
...And this song fell out from my father's lips:
Of boys learning to drop the corpse of their
parents' bodies on the high mountain of Jos,
Of girls who came home learning to place fingers
on the ...
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Categories:
decamp, abortion, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse
A Prisoner Is Shown the Torture Implements
...The bricks were sweating, nervous. Icy slime
had soaked his coat-sleeve, much to his disgust.
Tall baulks of formless timber seemed to climb
towards the bulbous shadows. Guido, trussed
an...
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Categories:
decamp, history,
Form: Ottava rima
The Hippie and Confucius
...The Hippie And Confucius
The sign said ‘Hippies Use Side Door’ but there was only one entrance or exit
and a revolving door she ponders the conundrums sent for resolute resolution ...
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Categories:
decamp, life,
Form: Rhyme
Values
...Principles,values,ethics,mottoes
Like sparkling,vivid emeralds
In my gloomy,sumptuous mansion
Possessively linger to sojourn
Endeavor yet to decamp from my cocoon
Revamp,acclimatize and be apo...
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Categories:
decamp, abuse, anger, drug,
Form: Free verse
Vision In a Dream
...( vision in a dream )
Always moaning,
In the last gasp! the vision.
Moaning, so! I decamp;
lonely,far and away
Amid - smoggy haze.
Sharpen a pulse
by sorrow.
Moaning, then weakly!
In t...
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Categories:
decamp, dream,
Form: Prose Poetry