The Israel-Gaza War
...On October the 7th, the precarious peace
of the disputed ancient lands began to cease.
The enraged avengers brought the Al-Aqsa flood
that deluged the Re'im music festival with blood.
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Categories:
flatland, military, war,
Form: Free verse
Never A Flatland Trimeric
...Work with me sisters lead a seance,
I can feel myself on both of my legs;
It may be hard but I must master this,
If I don’t fight I’ve given up on me;
I can feel myself on both of my legs,
st...
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Categories:
flatland, emotions, feelings, inspiration,
Form: Other
Turn Up An American Sonnet
...Driving across country give me that soul,
all the stars and stripes of freedom;
Rock n’ roll and a grill filled with charcoal,
so sweet American hum drum;
From mountains to sea to flatland coun...
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Categories:
flatland, america, emotions, feelings, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
a short memory
...a short memory
There were and still are two airports on the flatland
outside of our town, therefore many German soldiers
where stationed here.
Since roads, and bridges had to be built and mai...
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Categories:
flatland, absence, age, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
Fits the Need
...
"Fits the Need"
All people want
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home
to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free
live life
how "we"
were meant to f...
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Categories:
flatland, future, humanity, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Schooner
...The schooner
On the flatland between the vales, I could see the sea
I had walked uphill for a long time, after the downhill
and the way to the coast, it was easy, but it was
getting cold, I wo...
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Categories:
flatland, absence, bible, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
My Africa
...My Serengeti
I have neglected to visit my “Africa”, the flatland between
two hills that appear like a young mother`s breasts.
I know the trees and bushes, used to drive there to say hello.
Time...
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Categories:
flatland, absence, africa,
Form: Blank verse
The Forest We Planted
...The forest we planted
In the flatland of western Norway
where the wind has no hesitation rolling sheep into a woolly ball
horses turned their rump to the wind hung their heads
Refusing to ...
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Categories:
flatland, abuse, analogy, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Locomotive West
...Straight moves the locomotive train miles
Traveling over desert flatland forging ahead,
Coal steam engine Number 9 chug, chug, chug,
Sound waves rolls through, satisfying sensation is said.
Locom...
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Categories:
flatland, america, family, heaven, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Mowed Down Field Day With Redacted Mueller Report
...Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly
youthfully blocked out mor...
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Categories:
flatland, anger, animal, freedom, humorous,
Form: Political Verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2
...[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cemen...
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Categories:
flatland, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Mean Machine
...Mean Machine
The locomotive was an old mean machine
only used for carrying gods at local stations along
boring flatland. Once it had been a young and
the President of Portugal rode on it, not o...
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Categories:
flatland, africa, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Blank verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2
...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
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Categories:
flatland, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Ink's Wickedness
...Bloodthirstiness of ink's wickedness,
ruthlessly dripped upon parchment
blistering an already screeching sun,
no footprints apparently left in sand as
oceans's bluffs turned oases to flatland,
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Categories:
flatland, allegory, crazy, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
F L a T L a N D
...To resist the op(press)ion
of the two (dement)sional flatland world of glossy magazines,
I have (ob)seen women
Mutilate their forearms with deep(er) strokes of a razor
So that they may prove w...
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Categories:
flatland, abuse, anxiety, body, image,
Form: Free verse
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