Sockdologizing Old Man Trap
...You sockdologizing old man-trap long decayed
where claws curl tight in dust and brittle bone
your lies are hyenas dancing in the flame
their jaws a rattle tearing flesh to stone
their laughter cr...
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Categories:
gnashes, betrayal, corruption, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Epic
Flickers of Paranoia
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Written: February 14, 2025 for Brian Strand Contest
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In twilight, specks become stars,
bridges locked in gold,
Engraved whispers on walls
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Categories:
gnashes, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Humanity
...For all the tolls of the war dead,
for those who starve for bread,
for persecuted martyrs dying in the Lord,
for young and old victims of domestic discord,
I live in grief and sleep in gnashes,
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Categories:
gnashes, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Leader
...The weight beheld his shoulders slump,
The cries this world on him so dump,
Threats beseige his state that made,
His own lay wait with graveyard spade.
Prayers abound a'lofties roof,
His tears...
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Categories:
gnashes, allah, conflict, courage, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Keeps a Day
...Poetry will not keep you warm
Not like a cat nestled between legs
But, it hunts down manic thoughts
Gnashes the static till the mind gives
Chases a thought till claws are bloody
Keeps you drenc...
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Categories:
gnashes, depression, desire, missing you,
Form: Free verse
White On White
...The wails and shrieks
of a banshee
warns of death;
hidden amidst the chaos
within a whiteout blizzard.
Bare skeleton trees
rattle their bones;
as Winter's wrath
shakes and pounds the...
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Categories:
gnashes, anxiety, image, imagery, snow,
Form: Imagism
Ashes Bashes Clashes Dashes
...eager exotic eyelashes
doubly dilly dots and dashes
quixotic crazy slashes
friendly farm ashes
wild window splashes
breakneck barley bashes
goodly gnarly gnashes
heavenly hopeful hashes
slick...
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Categories:
gnashes, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Poison
...It was everything it was, all it was ever going to be. That moment containing such endless possibilities... Vast and infinite. The raw power of creation, spawning time and space itself. Magnanimous a...
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Categories:
gnashes, dark,
Form: Free verse
Covid-19 a New Darkness
...darkness ...
it is closing its careless bite
upon ALL of us
it knows no favor, no age, no disposition
fear and all its dim shadows
paint the tremulous sky above
and swirl the murky waters a...
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Categories:
gnashes, dark, health, hope, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Winters Song
...Winter’s Song
The darkness of the pewter moon
Casts its light
Upon the dreary December night
Curtains close for autumn’s harvest
Leaves and cones and needles swept underground
The arct...
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Categories:
gnashes, death, depression, snow, spring,
Form: Free verse
Flames Fade
...Fake smiles everyday when I'm away now that you're not here.
Life feels so listless, so dim.
The candle that you lit has faded as it's meant to,
But it also struck a match to light in another's he...
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Categories:
gnashes, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Tiger In a Cage
...Tiger in a Cage
It paces roars and gnashes teeth,
a tiger has its stripes.
Red and white and black and brown,
and paws so big with claws.
But most of all I wish I was
our God as he’s above — b...
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Categories:
gnashes, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of Yolotli
...Yolotli, the beauty of Tenochitlan,
She was a tender, loving woman.
Every day she was catered to.
That is, until she was stolen.
Men, Warriors big and strong came from an opposing tribe.
They ...
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Categories:
gnashes, culture,
Form: Ballad
Canto Xxii Hell Translation Part 2
...(continued previous part 1)
The duke then: “Tell now: of others indeed
Some Latin among sinners do you know
Behind pitch?”. And he “I had to secede,
It’s not much, from one who near had to ...
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Categories:
gnashes, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Useless Trivia You Need To Know
...Here's a bit of trivia from World War Two I'll bet you didn't know,
Concerning the war-time Prime Minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo of Tokyo.
After the war hapless Hideki was jailed in Tokyo's Sugamo ...
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Categories:
gnashes, humorous, war,
Form: Couplet
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