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Forerunners Poems - Poems about Forerunners

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i

...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alte...
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Categories: forerunners, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse

After drenching biblical rainfall

...After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.

Once drought stricken vast landscape
...
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Categories: forerunners, adventure, africa, august, earth,
Form: Free verse



Twenty first century civilization gone I askew

...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty ...
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Categories: forerunners, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (ma...
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Categories: forerunners, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse

The Ark

...Two by two,
They went in,
Male and female alike,
They needed to bond,
Increase in number,
From the least to the greatest,
From the smallest to the largest,
In their kind, specie and class,
No...
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Categories: forerunners, change,
Form: Free verse



Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv

...Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... 
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").

Ever since early forerunners 
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted 
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Categories: forerunners, animal, confusion, family, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumn

...Awfully splendorous fallen-leaf paintings on landscapes!
Ultra momentary changing of sky colors and shapes!
Trees, true forerunners, paving paths for the winter princess!
Umbrellas bidding farewel...
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Categories: forerunners, autumn,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberRighteousness Exhalts a Nation Proverbs 14:34

..."Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34. Both Socialism and Communism have atheism as their very own state religion! And the USA is definitely on the brink...
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Categories: forerunners, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

This Soothsayer's Warning July 24th 2021

...This SoothSayer's Warning – July 24th, 2021

Dire prognostications 
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,

sans total mo...
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Categories: forerunners, abortion, abuse, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Poetic Depression

...Does a poet also suffer from depression?
Lives in perplexity, exhaustion!
And groans in the pain of mental death!

To me-
Poetry is a spontaneous life partner,
An indicator of purity, a prophet...
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Categories: forerunners, life, poetess, poets,
Form: Free verse

Death Through My Life Part One

...Death did enter thro’ the gateway of Disobedience in the Garden,
A separation from the Presence of God existed ‘twixt Heaven and earth,
And it was the spiritual separation ‘twixt the One and the on...
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Categories: forerunners, art, bible, christian, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Omen of the Taste of Twilight

...Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
<...
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Categories: forerunners, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse

Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew

...Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?

Methinks perchance man
     kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
     from human being:
uncivil, unethical, unsocial,...
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Categories: forerunners, america, death, destiny, heaven,
Form: Free verse

This Soothsayer's Warning - 2018

...Dire prognostications 
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation

when human (and many)...
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Categories: forerunners, age, conflict, death, destiny,
Form: I do not know?

Escapism

...I remove my glasses to blur my view, 
of my disgraceful face, that’s painted a strange hue.
Reality peers back at me, from the bottomless
shallow mirror, 

My self peers back at me, 
with disbe...
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Categories: forerunners, anxiety, life, loneliness, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

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