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Diehards Poems - Poems about Diehards


The Trumpet of Parrots
... If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor – Desmond Tutu The Trumpet of Parrots Patriots rally to the trumpet sound, its blare echoes the lies ......

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Categories: diehards, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Bogeyman
...I lurk around for prey. Young or old, morose or gay Seeking you is all too easy. Cold blooded diehards that are sleazy I’m the bogeyman a wild animal Some of you call me Manimal I’m a freak o......

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Categories: diehards, animal, crazy, halloween, rap,
Form: Personification



The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part I
...Now I know you’ve heard the story of how I all was way back when, when cowboys rode with Indians near our small town of Buzzard’s Bend. Not long after the Civil War, when it was a hot mining c......

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Categories: diehards, corruption, god, hero, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member A Circuitous Discourse
...Who are we really? It’s my nature to—to what and how do we know it’s our nature, an inherent part of us? “The Scorpion and the Frog” an animal fable, teaches hurting others even when it is not in th......

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Categories: diehards, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Strange Vampires
... "Strange Vampires" all those years ago, when conspiracies flourished around did we or didn’t we go to the moon, when we were once human, proved to be lies, whicheve......

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Categories: diehards, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Open Date On the Calendar
...The director of the arts center told me he was trying real hard to sign Bukowski for a reading but Buk had the audacity to die leaving an open date on the calendar and shoes entire......

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Categories: diehards, life,
Form: Free verse
Premature Irrelevance of Donald Trump
...Premature irrelevance of Donald Trump? Heartfelt congratulations to Raphael Warnock, now slated to become first Black senator of Georgia cuz he defeated Senator Kelly Loeffler quite a shock ......

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Categories: diehards, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mack Tries To Set Them Up
...One Eyed Mack remembered not what two eyes felt like He had lost sight in his left eye when a little tyke He has been preaching since he was three or four Inviting all the neighbors to church fo......

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Categories: diehards, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Fawning Paying Tribute To a Human
...He sees things others could never see even when partially opened So what should they do? Lock him up or worship him? Some do one, others do the other. After he is locked up, and away the followe......

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Categories: diehards, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'the Count of the Cemetary Clock
...'Tis of time fragments its seconds strike three, One enters through the world's door till strikes four, Locked in Twilight's zone, witch brew set it free, Chaos and Havoc, the demons......

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Categories: diehards, analogy, death,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Devil's Hour
...'Tis of time fragments its seconds strikes three, One enters through the worlds door till strikes four, Locked in Twilight's zone, witch brew set it free, Chaos and Havoc, the demons twins be, ......

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Categories: diehards, allusion, bible, conflict, dark,
Form: Villanelle
Rainy Morning
...Dreamy Rainy Morning Indian Summer heat broke and now, Rain on morning windows streams down; Coffee seems to taste better this day, Cool and cozy, a day to play, A warm robe around the shoul......

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Categories: diehards, rain,
Form: Light Verse
Awake the Hip Hop Disciples
...Where art thou hip hop chosen ones I went around corners of the globe can't see you Arise, shine and give us more music The base you set was classic Pac could say 'we still breathing' I wo......

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Categories: diehards, analogy,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member Back To the Barnyard - Security At the Hen House
...Security at the Hen House All around the peaceful barn yard everyone’s sleeping while I’m on graveyard watching for the shrewd fox dude Cock-a-......

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Categories: diehards, animal, fantasy, farm, fun,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things