Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Pun...
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Categories:
ennobled, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
colonialists
...Colonialists
They came to see conquered
plundered other nations' heritage
voices of dissent hung in the breeze
The elite thought of themselves
as educated
Wrote learned books about stolen ...
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Categories:
ennobled, africa, angst, august, best
Form: Free verse
These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears
...These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears.
We are still cave people.
Democratic cave people, perhaps, but that brings little comfort.
Our struggle is to emerge from the cave.
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Categories:
ennobled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In a world of flowing shades, my hands stained with waves of ruby
...In a world of flowing shades, my hands stained with waves of ruby,
A tapestry of pain and sacrifice, in suffering I drown.
Through the shadows of despair, true love emerged,
A gift of agony, a dre...
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Categories:
ennobled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Below the veil of twilight, memories sway in the moon's oaring
...Below the veil of twilight, memories sway in the moon's oaring,
Effigies of the departed rise like incense smoke amongst ruins.
They have sprinkled us with pale dreams, and now, flowers of forgetfu...
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Categories:
ennobled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
IDEALISTA mondrian brancusi
...IDEALISTA
fertile
futility
of mental
conception
of un- ideals
captured
visualized
refined
for all
to see
in a
permanent
mirror
held
up close and
ennobled
sym...
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Categories:
ennobled, art,
Form: Didactic
Beneath the deep silence of reason hides a breathless house
...Beneath the deep silence of reason hides a breathless house,
The remains of oblivion, where dreams die like shadows at evening.
My soul weaves its infinity with countless shortcomings,
Heavy shado...
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Categories:
ennobled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Spheres a Freed Verse
...SPHERES
authors
of
sovereignity
with
prerogatives
reserved
situations
proclaimed
in
a visual
transpositionin
both
comprehensive
&panoramic
arrangements
repeatedly
seen
in...
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Categories:
ennobled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
So Close So Far
...My ambitions elitist
reality bourgeois
My palate continental
taste buds still raw
My ambition ennobled
vocation unhailed
My reality sordid
—future travailed
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...
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Categories:
ennobled, life,
Form: Rhyme
Mutare
...Beauty changes
the embattled soul
A transmutation
ennobled whole
In darkest throes
to spread its light
Forever bathed
—in pure delight
(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...
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Categories:
ennobled, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Virility's Throne
...The bigger the battle
the greater the man
His future uncertain
his past to command
To struggle ennobled
beyond outcome or fate
Godlike in war
—divinity’s mate
(Dreamsleep: November, 2022...
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Categories:
ennobled, war,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Reflection
...life's an awesome twist.
we find our meaning and fate~
in our chemistry.
summer drowsiness
the sunshine beams penetrate~
elevated clouds
If I humor fear
hide behind anger and ...
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Categories:
ennobled, analogy, solitude,
Form: Haiku
Shades of Black
...the best answer for
the restless wriggle of day
ennobled darkness
my inner river
in the darkness of the night
goes away softly
nanna's bees are thrilled
they change hues to ma...
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Categories:
ennobled, analogy, beauty, dark,
Form: Haiku
An Ode To Life, Part Iii
...And O Life safe art thou, nor yet secure,
Those averse to danger can scarce shun it,
It better be braved, let streets be unlit,
No success walks in on its own for sure.
A farming field art...
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Categories:
ennobled, journey, life,
Form: Ode
Safe In Our Beds
...Diminished
but ennobled,
the soldier came home
his two limbs
traded for the
sanctuary
of a deeper peace
Broken
in completeness,
his braces held proud
each battle
medaled
in the memory
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Categories:
ennobled, courage,
Form: Free verse
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