Silence of the West
Clouds of smoke billowed over ruined buildings
That once were homes safe and welcoming.
Schools where children were learning,
Hidden now from view by dust clouds billowing.
Out of the dust men came with guns began to fire,
Indiscriminate in who they killed mothers, fathers.
Such a wailing of grief rose to the
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Categories:
indiscriminate, anger, child, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Indiscriminate Bombardment
Indiscriminate bombardment will flow
with endless pigmented possibilities;
A cross of Penelope pop-socks and indigo;
Abstruse, the two primary colors;
It must be that brush of butterfly effect
the wild one pulled from under the covers;
Intangible to all but the one who strokes
the canvas with bubbling neon flames;
A smeared showpiece each drop stokes;
Quilted texture of poodle-prairie red
dances
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Categories:
indiscriminate, color, creation, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Flies of Fate
Fly! Fly! Fly!
In the field of Reeds,
Walk through golden breeze,
Smell the scent of allure,
Clear sky and clearer mind.
Fate! Fate! Fate!
Promise me the world over,
Promise me you wouldn't leave the prey.
Destroy all I love.
Grant me intoxicated blithe.
And let the flies of fate rain glory.
Burn! Burn! Burn!
Drown me in the mud of flames,
Where no water could
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Categories:
indiscriminate, death, fate, fear, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Indiscriminate Hugs
People with indiscriminate hugs
they’re full of false pleasantries;
Never a thought when out of sight
it’s nothing but a formality;
They’re full of false pleasantries,
I’m too tired to fight go on lie;
It’s nothing but a formality,
that gesture is empty with no words;
I’m too tired to fight go on lie;
Never a thought when out of sight;
That gesture
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Categories:
indiscriminate, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Pantoum
The Indiscriminate Slayings of the Innocents
The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP.
It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives
For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives,
Have recorded everything, which occurred, from top
To bottom, from sunset to sunrise, from the start
To the end. God knows what’s going on in every one’s heart.
God knows what took place in Cleveland,
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Categories:
indiscriminate, abuse, angel, baby, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
A Missile Flew
A Missile Flew
I saw a missile fly over head
Eighteen injured and six dead
An apartment’s dark holes
Collapsed floors, beds on the edge
Licked by orange flames
And black tongues of smoke
Like a dragon peering out from a cave
Unimaginable terror, nowhere to hide
The safest place in the world
Your home, decimated, walls shattered
And peeled open like a tin.
Under orders,
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Categories:
indiscriminate, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Indiscriminate Fate Doth Captcha All
Despite cosmetic surgery to stave
inevitable demise cheating grim reaper
indefatigable measures undertaken
buzzfeeding mortal legacy bajillion
dollar industry remaining eternally
youthful cold comfort knowing eventual
degradation conquers biological aging,
yet open casket bestows approving
nods upon aesthetic corpse denouncing
any telltale evidence rigor mortis stole
once hearty life source attested by
tranquil poise, albeit deathly stillness
former body electric forever quiet
among the mourning crowded house
impossible mission
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Categories:
indiscriminate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Indiscriminate
Butterfly on my window ledge,
So still you lie.
Did you know when you stopped to rest;
You would never again fly,
That silken wings that always carried you,
Now so paper dry
Would be clipped forever-
That you had laid down to die?
You have touched one with your passing
Pretty insect as in peace you lie.
Blue bottle,nasty thing on my ledge,
So still
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Categories:
indiscriminate, death, discrimination,
Form: Verse
Death's Indiscriminate
Death never favours
Death does not discriminate between
Saints and sinners
losers and winners
Princes and paupers
followers or leaders
Dependents or
breadwinners
The fatter or thinner
Those who over ate of life's banquet
and those who austerely skipped its dinner.
Or the healed and the healers
the kinder or the meaner
The angels of death almost acting
as finders keepers
Today to lie in shrouds and coffins
yesterday's pall bearers
But
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Categories:
indiscriminate, death,
Form: Rhyme