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And For What

...If you press that trigger,
someone dies.
And for what?
You can't claim it's wise,
Nor blame it on luck.
Only You face the flames,
and You are Satan touched.
If You Squeeze that trigger,
You w...

Categories: ducats, bible, character,
Form: Rhyme

I Love You

...Shades of rufous and crimson oared between the eyes and the mind,
Vestured the feelings that rip the heart as a nagging memory
Overshadowing the pilgrim’s intentions, desires, and dreams.
The peti...

Categories: ducats, lost love, love, lust,
Form: Free verse

If You Pull a Long Face - Part X

...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : PART X

IF you pull a long face
For ten straight nights starting today
You bet you'd look like Canada Bernache
Though fat chance like swan in Norway

But if you pu...

Categories: ducats, appreciation, celebrity, internet, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Endless Cruel Laughter

...Sgt. Bedlam of heavy artillery reporting sir
Bedlam I want you to pick the runt of the litter
and turn him into an agent assassin 
with the clandestine power of hypnotism
yes Generalissimo I am h...

Categories: ducats, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Unquotable Quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men - Xxviii

...Unquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII

                 for Colin Wilson (1931-1913) 
                    regrets for the “provoked” faux pas

To each his own: to Colin Wilson his...

Categories: ducats, anti bullying, black african
Form: Epigram

A Fable

...A Fairy Tale

This skinny lonely wolf reduced to eating worms
Expulsed from his arguing with the leader wolf how best
To catch caribous
Nose to the ground it found an open chest of fifty 
Gold ...

Categories: ducats, internet, january, journey, kid,
Form: Epic

The Ocean

...The Ocean 

When he heard, I had been a seafarer he wanted to know about 
the ocean, “write it down for me,” he said...What nerve.
The ocean has many colours one of them is blue, sometimes it is ...

Categories: ducats, adventure, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Never Forget

...Never Forget 

Oh thou of wretched heart and deed
Inferior our seeds?
When thus thou felt the need to rule
Annihilate deemed weeds

Thou casteth out your wicked net
Of guns and war bent twine
No bulw...

Categories: ducats, history, holocaust,
Form: Quatrain

Currency War At Davos

...Met a hustler named,Funky Cold Cash,

who had a swagger his attitude matched

with buckets of ducats and white collar dollars,

i watched as his limousine crashed...


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Categories: ducats, funny
Form: Free verse

Moneylender (Poem Based On Shylock; a Character From Merchant of Venice)

...Moneylender 

You were rejected by your fellow man
A pound of flesh to heal your wounded pride
A just reward for squelching on a loan

Your hatred toward these men-- I understand
Burns deeply ...

Categories: ducats, dedication
Form: Villanelle

Vignette- In a Garden

...Asleep, under yon olive tree
Disciples one,two three;
A flicker of torches in the breeze
Then,betrayal with a kiss-
Could thirty ducats be worthy of this.

Full story @Mt 26:36-50...

Categories: ducats, people, places,
Form: Narrative