Freedom On the ballot 2024
...I wish these were different times,
when I could write about pollen
and bee, when I could write about
silvery moons, and adventurous
pathways on uncharted romantic
sea --
But all I can write ...
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Categories:
hacksaw, christian, corruption, courage, political,
Form: Free verse
The Teenage Body After Suicide
...The human being
(also referred throughout history
as 'long pig' and 'hairless goat'
in the case of younger specimens)
Observing the anatomy and skeleton,
one can see that the human animal
after...
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Categories:
hacksaw, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Murdering Your Wife
...If you’re planning to murder your wife,
Using poison, a gun or a knife,
You must plan things with care
Or, if not, then prepare
To face jail for the rest of your life.
For a husband, who’s now...
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Categories:
hacksaw, murder,
Form: Limerick
Every Minute Palpitation In Covid War
...Agreeable Dawn for a
In though a blade
No other goal .... "Go just bounce around"
Every clump made me haggle with fate
Twinkle in my lips at the end of walk
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Categories:
hacksaw, destiny, fear, horror, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Saving Seventy-Five Men
...Saving seventy-five men
Was truly a noble act;
Doing it without firing
A gun brought a huge impact.
Hacksaw Ridge is a story
Of the medic Desmond Doss;
He had played the greatest role
To ...
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Categories:
hacksaw, poems,
Form: Quatrain
Conscientious Objection
...Don't let me hurt with these two helping hands again
A lot of reasons Satan gives us. We say, "Don't worry, God forgives us!"
But what excuse could I give Christ to hit humans?
Don't let me run ...
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Categories:
hacksaw, christian,
Form: Rhyme
The Next Moonless Night
...Its chain cut again…
the demon is loose
Deep into the night,
she hunts darker truths
The hallway’s back stairs,
her favorite retreat
Pending daylight’s return,
when her bite bec...
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Categories:
hacksaw, dark, night,
Form: Rhyme
On Rescuing An Injured Pigeon
...ON RESCUING AN INJURED PIGEON
I.
sliding screen door screeches, pigeons scatter
thump of wing against breast, shockwave breeze
more frequent than in the past, shimmering necks
soundtrack squirr...
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Categories:
hacksaw, analogy, animal, pain,
Form: Personification
The Next Moonless Night
...Its chain cut again,
the demon is loose
Deep into the night,
she hunts darker truths
The hallway’s back stairs
her favorite retreat
Until daylight will threaten,
and her bite be...
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Categories:
hacksaw, moon, murder, night, violence,
Form: Rhyme
The Pen
...Tucked away feeling safe in the notebook's metal binder
Waiting; the pen thinks of the times spent with the poetess
She would slowly, gently remove him and caress the arthritic padding
Maybe e...
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Categories:
hacksaw, horror,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal
...BETRAYAL
Cassandra in me, you unleashed
I sense in you a sunken moon
You served me a casserole
Of limping dreams, hollow love
and deaf weeping dolls......
Looming from the dark,
the scary fl...
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Categories:
hacksaw, angst, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
American Gentleman
...American Gentleman
He’s obsessed with Industry and Commerce:
He commemorates it by sniffing iron fillings,
Masticating rusty nuts and bolts and hooks
Which he then washes down
With a pint of...
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Categories:
hacksaw,
Form: Verse
Destructive Obliteration
...Hacksaw…
Obliteration within;
Scream the shame---
Make it a nightmare:
Walking zombie,
Destroy imagination…
Annihilated.
Russell Sivey
Entrant into Debbie Guzzi's "Something Differen...
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Categories:
hacksaw, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Quarter Hour Penny Theatre
...QUARTER HOUR PENNY THEATRE
Where is my muse?
When I am a puppet
With no puppeteer
I wore out my shoes
Dancing alone
No strings attached
Scissors on a stage
Cutting a rug
Pen upon a p...
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Categories:
hacksaw, art, loss, music, sad
Form: I do not know?
Love and Slaughter
...Love and Slaughter
Sheep are by a goat while
cattle are like swine, prodded, yet
cattle go by hammer while
swine are by the hind leg hung
then swung about to spigot.
Quicker, infinitely cle...
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Categories:
hacksaw, lost love
Form: Free verse
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