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
The 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
How 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
What 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
Worn 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
Mea 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?
Rangitoto College Reunion
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I
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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