Pledge
...May the groom's vows adventure from heart to soul
Forever like restless surges in endless circles roll.
May the bride's vows yoke rivulets to the doting main
With interlinked steps of brass chain....
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Categories:
javelins, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Communal Clash
...From old and new squabbles sprouts!
After some side boundary rules flouts:
Its own list of blood-freezing deaths submitting;
A number that would send the humane vomiting.
From time to time shar...
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Categories:
javelins, anger, anxiety, conflict, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Joy and Jinks
...JOY and JINKS
Jolly jocund jubilant Jack Frost wearing thick jacket
joyfully jumped sharp on snow losing jade-locket ...
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Categories:
javelins, 8th grade, appreciation, snow,
Form: Alliteration
Icebox Disaster
...Icebox Disaster
Only living son
Home from steamy jungles of New Guinea
Wearing strips of a Master Sergeant
Tales recounted from Australia – Sydney R & R –
In spear points and javelins;
Malaria ...
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Categories:
javelins, family, memory,
Form: Free verse
Rolling Stones
...Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice
Crest be blessed with gold, and silver, the sunset and the c...
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Categories:
javelins, funny, mountains, ocean, river,
Form: I do not know?
A Black Oak Tree
...A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any grief
Golden fall is long gone,...
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Categories:
javelins, april, creation, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rock Bottom
...Stand and flight, or fly and flee,
The two choices we face.
Stand unmoving,
Or fly above.
Trampled by the world,
Torn to pieces by your “friends,”
Your family.
Facing it in solitude,
Goin...
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Categories:
javelins, dark, death, grief, lonely,
Form: Free verse
The Warlord Wars No More -2
...Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats o...
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Categories:
javelins, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Amend the Amendment
...I propose amending
the U.S. Second Amendment.
The right to own and transport and fire arms
shall be constrained
to include only those who demonstrate sufficient mental health
to have no desire...
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Categories:
javelins, health, humanity, mental illness,
Form: Political Verse
Poets Sports
...POET’S SPORTS
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are magnets and sharpener,
We sharpens people,
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are great,
We are poets,
We cannot cover our faces,
For we are gr...
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Categories:
javelins, beautiful, inspiration,
Form: Alliteration
Nigeria Prisoners
...NIGERIANS PRISONERS:
We are Nigerian prisoners,
We are not happy.
Where are our counterparts?
We are Nigerian prisoners,
Here we are,
Here we are like a cat.
We are calm and cool like, you.
E...
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Categories:
javelins, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Alliteration
Colour
...THE ANGELS:
Oh!
My angels,
My hands are in the,
Air for you,
Pardon me for abandoning,
You for some times, age,
Like Ojukwu properties,
In Lagos state.
My angels,
I am sorry for sometimes t...
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Categories:
javelins, beauty,
Form: Alliteration
Ripped Apart
...I move around campus
both hands twined on my back
I recall actions of notorious campus students
ripping apart useful pages
of book of the jungle with umbilical cord
Others, self-styled athlete...
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Categories:
javelins, allegory, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
It Is What It Is
...11/28/16
Thrive survive and live
It is what it is
A day of nothing or success using sieves
Carbonation in the soda pop making it fizz
Distinguished areas for hers and his
Individuals invo...
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Categories:
javelins, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Shooting Blank Verse
...We met in rage, incarnadine fury,
meandered, then, became tenacious friends.
From wary circling hearts, we took the chance,
we joined our hands, we spun in place, we laid
a spiral architecture do...
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Categories:
javelins, life, love, magic,
Form: Blank verse
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