TO YOU, THE TRAITORS
...To all those house *******, alienated by the darkness of the Republic,
You have forgotten the horrors of slavery and colonization,
To believe in the delusions of assimilation and integration.
Know...
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Categories:
gauls, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I CHOSE
...I chose to write,
For all those torn-off branches,
For all those scarred backs,
For all those dehumanized bodies,
For all those centuries of persecution.
I chose to read,
To decon...
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Categories:
gauls, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jaun Elia Translations
...I am strange—so strange
that I self-destructed and don't regret it.
—Jaun Elia, translation by Michael R. Burch
The wound is deep—companions, friends—embrace me!
What, did you not even bother t...
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Categories:
gauls, city, hindi, love, memory,
Form: Couplet
The Warlord Wars No More -1
...Clemency is a quality that I never understood
until after I crucified the Cilician pirates on Pergamus,
amusing isn't it, that I see mercy where brutality stood,
Death has a heartbeat for all of u...
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Categories:
gauls, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Lost In Britannia
...Darkness clings now to war's bloody field today
Leaving haunting moans crackling from shattered bone
A stench still hangs from the human decay
And cries are heard rumbling, in a field of stone
A Leg...
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Categories:
gauls, war,
Form: Rhyme
Gaius Julius Caesar
...I will pave the farthest road,
see my likeness known in marble and gold.
Is it power, is it greatness I pursue?
Yes, it's destined, it makes sense,
that I should come to prominence,
Oh, world, C...
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Categories:
gauls, history, inspirational, time, uplifting,
Form: Dramatic Verse