Inherited Jawbones
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I’ve taken up polishing skulls.
Not trophies,
just my kin—
their sockets still
echoing
what they aren't
ready to hear.
Though it's only
what they've said
themselves.
I never knew
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Categories:
escalation, family,
Form: Free verse
Personal Note of Gratitude and Departure
...I wanted to take a moment to write this message, as many of you have been incredibly supportive and kind to me since I began using this platform. Your encouragement has meant the world, and I’m truly...
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Categories:
escalation, hurt,
Form: Other
The in-between
...I am the unseen titan who stands with a height so vast. I am the bridge, the body, the threshold. In stories tales and film of some dull design. As ones passes leaving behind there shell upon there l...
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Categories:
escalation, creation, death, heaven,
Form: Free verse
A smile that never fades
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The pale yellow sky, reminds me of a smile that never fades
From a greeting etched in memory, immune to words like cutting blades
The tall emerald trees are drawn toward the layers of light
A ...
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Categories:
escalation, color, light, peace, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Sherriff Middle East
...Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer
Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Middle East - Remember 9/11
The conflict in the Middle E...
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Categories:
escalation, allah, child, death, evil,
Form: Bio
Escalation
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First eyes stared, and the air was filled with mystery.
The senses grew acute; there was certain chemistry.
Slowly they opened up, and things were progressive.
Quickly things began to tr...
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Categories:
escalation, addiction, adventure, africa, age,
Form: Rhyme
Peacespeaker
...Pairing knives peppered the garden growing by the river.
Eerie sounds slid sideways into the lowering light.
Alfy and Alice were still out cavorting beyond the barn.
Children in dusty blue dresses...
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Categories:
escalation, farm, peace,
Form: Acrostic
Solar Wrath
...Noble northern lights
illuminate the
nocturnal sky
(a gift from the
Solar Kingdom):
an extreme G5 s*T*o*R*m
hammers a little
blue marble
BLISSfully violent
yellow god-sta...
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Categories:
escalation, dark, society, space, sun,
Form: Free verse
Divine Salutation
...Behind the guise of the masks & words
lay a truth concealed by clever nouns & verbs
Now a fire's lit to match the lies with truth
bearing an eternal flame lighting a wick with proof
From the tree...
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Categories:
escalation, introspection, leadership, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
...Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and ...
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Categories:
escalation, anger, angst, community, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
PEARL HARBOR
...P Propelled into the war after tora, tora, tora.
E Escalation arrives in Oahu, paradise explodes.
A Amorous and hula skirts set aflame at once.
R Reveal of a takeover plan, pot shots extreme.
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Categories:
escalation, america, war,
Form: Acrostic
Peppermint Persuasion
...Bonjour mon amour
This is a peppermint persuasion
Occasion excellent ecstasy
Audacious illustrious elation
Spicy nicely give me more sweet
Freshly impress me please
Eroticlly stress me squeez...
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Categories:
escalation, appreciation, beautiful, dance, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Chapter 134 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: For the Love of Holly
...Date: Late November 2049
Damian and Holly were conversing
In her bedroom. Damian informed
Her, "I want the babies names to
Be Damian Jahani, Benachi, and
Davon-Sahi." She disagreed.
"U...
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Categories:
escalation, clothes, emotions, family, father
Form: Alliteration
Chapter 123: Damian Delilah Mallory: the Punch Line
...Date: April 2049
11 pm late night paradise. Some are
Conspicuously conspiring as to their
Next day. Damian's Household now
Consisted of his brother Sidney
Sidney's wife Saderi their two so...
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Categories:
escalation, beautiful, birth, black love,
Form: Alliteration
World War 3
...The territorial aspirations of the dictators
change in the course of aggressive adventure,
the geopolitical scenario through regional conflicts,
with the dreadful potential of global escalation.
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Categories:
escalation, conflict, war,
Form: Free verse
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