Your indifference is the abandoned torch that scours old bridges
...Your indifference is the abandoned torch that scours old bridges,
Hiding in shadows the echoes of each tremulous and cold step.
Your wounds, coppery reliefs that lure me dishonorably,
Urge me to e...
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Categories:
dishonorably, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Not All Tongues That Wag You Gag
...Not all tongue that wag
You dishonorably gag …
Of course not that of my Neighbor
Which assigned to itself Christ’s Labor
For it doesn’t behind lag
And will ever out ***,
While demolishing kni...
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Categories:
dishonorably, character, god, wisdom, women,
Form: Rhyme
The High Cost of Inflation
...It's the High Cost of Living better known as the High Cost of Inflation! It is not just the rising cost of gasoline! It is the high cost of meat, groceries and other items! Including the high cost of...
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Categories:
dishonorably, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Heavy Medal Addiction
...
Uncle soldier Sammie
is too flashback far Saigon
The bad memory withdrawals
are too ganja gun smoke strong
So he pumps up the blame volume,
saying who’s dirty napalm wrong
He’s...
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Categories:
dishonorably, allegory, history, leadership, war,
Form: Epic
Medals Pinned To a Dead Man
...winning his ticket home dishonorably, the victor lies in a ditch
12/23/2018
Contest: Winners and Losers
Sponsor: Silent One...
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Categories:
dishonorably, war,
Form: Monoku
The Adventure, Her
...THE ADVENTURE, HER
Eyes
Deep, shimmering pools
Drowning fevered fools
Voice
Feigning tenderness, tragic
Whispered, lilting magic
Scent
Je Reviens en...
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Categories:
dishonorably, adventure, appreciation, beauty, body,
Form: Couplet
Behind the Glass
...Behind the glass I've longed to be
so that the world is mine to see
who'd have known it'd come to pass
my life would end behind the glass
he had a gun and temper hot
he did not care who it w...
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Categories:
dishonorably, conflict, life, perspective, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Writing
...Where did my poetic voice go ?
Creativity ?
Trying to signal Maya Angelou that spoke to me.
A struggle to continue
Irony.
Writing a poem that perceived me.
"Life is like a house and failure is ...
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Categories:
dishonorably, metaphor, write,
Form: Narrative
Rectify Is a Better Word
...acrostic
Regiments of verse march in rhythm.
Eagerly they traipse word by word
Combing the theater of my mind.
Trying this ancient captain’s orders.
Inspired to pass the roll call of muster...
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Categories:
dishonorably, 11th grade, allegory, military,
Form: Acrostic
My Father
...My father never was the man
I expected him to be
He wasn't the drunk
who would lose his temper
and out lash at the ones he claimed
to love
Nor was he the man
who raised his fist out of ange...
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Categories:
dishonorably, abuse, family, father, father
Form: Free verse
Bringing Down the Mob
...The mob operates in New York silently,
stealing from people quietly,
Everyone is afraid to make them
accountable,
so they sit back and allow them
to act dishonorably,
hiding their chicanery,
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Categories:
dishonorably, introspectionpeople, people,
Form: Prose Poetry