Alexamenos Who Looked Up High
...(Poem in honour of the ancient Christian named "Alexamenos" who was mocked with Christ and named in the "Alexamenos graffito" in Rome)
A man who looked up high towards the blood-soaked cross of ea...
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Categories:
graffito, christian, dedication, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Acrostic
Apres Le Deluge
...Après le déluge
Après le déluge, moi
2 1/2 hours to work in my car
It’s part of the game
And I’m grateful
Driving in circles
I am faithful
To my calling
What have you become?
What have ...
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Categories:
graffito, beauty, courage, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
graffito, art, loneliness,
Form: Concrete
Identity Apples
...Identity Apples
iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting
from the sad memories of dada
and dark mysteries of aminism
iam buganda
i bleed hope
i drip the honey of fortune
makerere, think tank o...
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Categories:
graffito, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Didactic
Escaping Rhymed Detonation
...Malevolent imploded uncontrollably,
twisting wildly maniacal posies
amid diabolically toasted brainstem,
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses
purging stinging speech patterned rhymes
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Categories:
graffito, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Critiquing Greek Hieroglyphics
...Fanciful musings written in challenged braille scribbles
midst reveries' graffito on stone-cold deafening walls,
like Greek hieroglyphics for the poetically deranged
awaiting symmetry's refl...
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Categories:
graffito, allegory, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Free verse
W O M E N ' S
...The graffito worried him of
W O M E N 'S
Women's what?
He thought of all our attributes
He therefore wrote
M E N ' S
on the showcase wall
to see what the response would be
Sharon phoned
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Categories:
graffito, relationship,
Form: Light Verse
Tagged
...young buck, half buck, maybe two buck duo
maybe troubled like infamous Dutch painter
maybe a whole gang'a bucks that you know
shakin' cans for markin' their container
a mark of art - some meaty gra...
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Categories:
graffito, adventure, art, imagination, social,
Form: Quatrain
Categories:
graffito, art, sea
Form: Monoku