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Inquisitor Poems - Poems about Inquisitor

The Great Halls of Eden

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The Great Halls of Eden

(A lone voice whispers)

Walking in like the Grand Inquisitor
Tomás de Torquemada

Dressed in a dark robe

With Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata” playing loudly in he...
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Categories: inquisitor, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Gainsboro Charcoal

...Light and Darkness,
two opposing forces.
A bold indifference
to the vast array of color
being their sole commonality.

And yet,
there is Gray.

The marriage of these
polar opposites amidst
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Categories: inquisitor, appreciation, death, encouraging, fear,
Form: Free verse



I Rest My Case

...(Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 208 of them, Or just 8% of the recorded history. Estimates for the total number killed in wars and genocides throughout all of hum...
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Categories: inquisitor, peace, war,
Form: Free verse

Faul is as faul does

...I crave the creativity of imagination
Conceiving an idea that excites the idle soul
To toil it for value and purpose
As Aristotle intended it to be.
But waiting for the time to do 
Limits the gl...
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Categories: inquisitor, conflict, journey, lost, me,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Rustle of Bushes

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   The rustle of bushes means what
     a squirrel in search of a nut --

   something more sinister
     awaits the inquisitor...
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Categories: inquisitor, animal, scary, sound,
Form: Couplet



Premium MemberHow Do You Breathe

...How do you breathe?
With my nose I guess
I mean, do you use your diaphragm?
Maybe
Yes or no?
I stare at my inquisitor.
I am totally unsure.
Have you had breathing lessons? He asks me.
I am am...
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Categories: inquisitor, life,
Form: Free verse

Kafkaeqsue

...There’s a charge against you
Though we can’t say what it is 
In time, your list of crimes will be released

Pardon our procedures –
We consider grievances
We’ll clear your good name after you’r...
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Categories: inquisitor, anxiety, business, corruption, work,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberWhat Kind of Steampunk Fish

...What kind of fish are you? The curious girl asked the mechanical bass.
We are steampunk fish, the bass replied, thinking the question crass.
When I think steampunk I think metallic, silver, gold an...
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Categories: inquisitor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Evil

...“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”                                                                                            
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Categories: inquisitor, evil,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWorn Away Walls

...I live in rooms
housed in the interior,
some just small
cells cut into bone,
spaces barely big enough
to fit a soul. 

Others offer more
with sweeping views
of oceans, mountains, waterfalls
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Categories: inquisitor, imagination, seasons, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMea Culpa

...Who would praise a god of pestilence and death
make of the “grand inquisitor” their guest
while pounding “Mea culpa” on their breast
a fool’s concocted heaven as their quest.

While we add life ...
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Categories: inquisitor, dark,
Form: Sonnet

The Missus Pounded Mine Posterior

...The missus pounded mine posterior...
causing percussive rumpus 
to vibrate like jelly

Me experienced quite disruptive sleep
(quite early in the morning 
of November 10th 2022 -
no shut eye co...
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Categories: inquisitor, abuse, anger, blue, fun,
Form: Free verse

The Inquisitor

...Beyond six feet of distance 
and seven heavens of this pull of woods, 
I draw intensities of sounds and words to placements,
Calling me beyond the territories of these leaves.
My soul sought prof...
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Categories: inquisitor, deep, literature, passion, perspective,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberRangitoto College Reunion

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Hearken back to the old rule nazis how
  Deputy Fuhrer Hart led assembly -
with his bell, megaphone and monobrow
  it was more like a Hitler Youth Rally!
And C...
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Categories: inquisitor, school,
Form: Rhyme

Poet's Saga

...The outside the world,
it moves without our effort.
Life goes on normally, without our interference...
Without asking our permission...
on TV THEY CRY ANOTHER DEATH...!
A television death...!
A...
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Categories: inquisitor, allegory, allusion, discrimination, extended
Form: Prose Poetry

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