Barstool Bandit
...He’s a bandit on barstool a writer in possession,
The recreation of life lived hating his self image A rocks on cause he just got his rocks off,
That’s all he ever chases,
A deserter of instin...
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Categories:
deserter, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Artists At The Vanguard
...Tie my hands so I may not touch others with potent realities
Bind me from what transpires about
Shackle m...
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Categories:
deserter, future, poets,
Form: Free verse
Strayed Sheep - William Holman Hunt
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Straying away from the straight path
in search of sumptuous grass,
Me and my friends meander to the mountain top
on a crisp clear sunny day,
The cottony white clouds mirror our soft tufts...
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Categories:
deserter, animal, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
It makes William more Desirable
...William shows his absolute integrity and empathy when he says
“If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead.
How can I write to you after what I’ve done?
What I’ve seen?”
Sure, he is a desert...
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Categories:
deserter, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Prodigal sheep
...Jesus, you say bring home my sheep
You say be a shepherd like perfect You
I say my sheep have gone prodigal
They have my credit card, I say resigned
At least they buy cheap wine on my dim...
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Categories:
deserter, addiction, depression, drug, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Death To Death
.... . . I stoned the lord of death to death
we lye, now, side by side
as
effigies of who we tried to be
among countless
revolutions
among countless
massacres
evaporating into mixtu...
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Categories:
deserter, death, deep, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
The Deserter
...One dark day you came,
With heavy pack on your back
As your tears roll down....
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Categories:
deserter, dark, sad, soldier,
Form: Haiku
Julian the Emperor and Deserter
...Archon of the west, whose spouse was the worldly Sophia
Who blindly abandoned his childhood lamb, to search for unseen light
Though the lamb could have showed him the pure gnosis he craved for
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Categories:
deserter, betrayal, history, irony, jesus,
Form: Sijo
So Sorry Am I Lord God-
...In the busy day lit crashing;
So sorry I am Lord God;
Vigorously relinquishing the dawn;
I am a deserter ashamed My Father;
So sorry I am Lord God;
I talk to my Father;
Holy Forgiver...
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Categories:
deserter, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness,
Form: Munajat
Shout
...Shout
shouts of reason hard to explain...
their pharoah is to blame,
Share to rock asunder;
belly is the beast to stand still nor defeat
rivers run in order
march their swif...
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Categories:
deserter, analogy, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is Peace Fighter
...My poetry
is not a deserter
nor fugitive ...
It is a brave soldier.
at the front
that does not leave the fight
and die making
peaceful
poetry...
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Categories:
deserter, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Tragedy of Celestina, Part Ii
......It was two days before she lost them,
and an arrow slashed her small finger,
a small wagon train did take her in,
but a doctor found gangrene in her,
chopped her pinkey with barely a word.
Fe...
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Categories:
deserter, absence, heartbreak, history, journey,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Just Be Encouraged---
...Just, just be
Just be encouraged
No matter how you feel
I know the feeling is real
Be encouraged
God's got you...
It's Okay
Jesus is here
Don't be dismayed
Stop being afraid
In a flash...
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Categories:
deserter, analogy, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Deserter of Faith
...Deserter of faith
If not today, tomorrow
Veers off glory road
Date written and posted: 06/13/2018...
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Categories:
deserter, faith, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
The Splendid Times
...Strain not your eyes in the darkness of loneliness
For the deserter has forsaken you
His face is lost in the whirlwind of time
You feel nostalgic about the past splendid times.
Your craving for...
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Categories:
deserter, allegory, dedication, loneliness, missing,
Form: Ghazal
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