Give Me Five Minutes
...Give me five minutes to face all the facts. The notes on the fridge of not coming back. A half-track of slow turns in a glance for a gone. Next to a “shelter” and “give me” a song. All or a nothi...
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Categories:
half track, angst, death of a
Form: Free verse
Carl Ray
...He sat in an old wooden porch swing,
Elbows on knees; Salem Menthol burning down.
Thinking, smoking, Salems his favorite thing.
Fingers colored over time a deep tar brown.
Veteran of a war long...
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Categories:
half track, dad, depression, devotion, family,
Form: Ballad
Stalingrad Scope
...Stalingrad 1942
City surrounded
Bloodied human zoo
Shattered buildings
Architecture ruin
Walls of peace
Blasted and strewn
In the rubble he crawls
Suited white
Background blend
Silent...
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Categories:
half track, death, war
Form: Rhyme