Beloved Sarah
...You wore your vernix like a crown on a budding successor
Head held up high and then there was an almighty scream
I cut the chord and crowned the royal moment with a kiss
The inauguration of...
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Categories:
incumbency, birth,
Form: Free verse
Amaranthine Temptress
...You - amaranthine temptress!
Pay attention for a sec.
Let's give it a hap,
Ad-lib like vagabonds on the road,
Rambling to dusk in a single step,
Just before the first stars
Appear in our eyes,
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Categories:
incumbency, adventure, kiss, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse
The State House
...The Jerusalemic platy households-
The gigantic bungalow,
In the middle of a plural city
Staring at monumental poverty-
Stricken huts,
whose dying glowing through cracks
Pecked from eggs of dark...
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Categories:
incumbency, community, conflict, corruption, desire,
Form: Imagism
Dark and Bright
...Dark and Bright
Am wrong because am right
Am not good because I support
What is right
Who is good
You who close the fault
Of a fellow with deception
For gains or me
Who have said yes to
Good...
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Categories:
incumbency, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
The Ghosts of Capital Hill
...I used to be into politics,
I would shout loud, and chant, and march,
believed we could change everything
if only we could be in charge.
Get new blood into hallowed halls,
the old paradigms we...
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Categories:
incumbency, change, corruption, crazy, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph
...Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at in...
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Categories:
incumbency, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bicycle
...The sun has centered me
into a fascinating glare,
humble reason
amongst simple people
no to be misplaced.
They carry a hidden regret,
that constant abstraction
makes them survive
the unnam...
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Categories:
incumbency, day, journey, rain, river,
Form: Free verse
Imagine the World Without Family
...Imagine the world
without family;
it is like living in the jungle
with other animals.
It's gross to say--
That’s the essence
of family that forms
and rules in the society.
It l...
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Categories:
incumbency, birth, birthday, family,
Form: Free verse
The Giant of Lisbellaw
...Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently reclin...
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Categories:
incumbency, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Novelist
...'Twas the night of that particular evening whose noon-tide bade wondrous twilights and whose moon suffused in its consummated prophecy. Men perched themselves around balefully dire fires and professe...
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Categories:
incumbency, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Gilded Silver Jubilee Peg
...I insisted the jubilee amiability
to stir up with twilight-ed spirit
zeal of desires aroused
as the silverly rays crowned me
to pour out the gilded spirit.
Earstwhile crimson years
With some bichrom...
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Categories:
incumbency, happiness, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse