Long Battle axe Poems

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Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...

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Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...

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Prelude

After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul 
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole

But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...

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somber thoughts in disarray
broken moments of a jaded day
under siege of firing brigades
the bed you lay in is the bed you made

tattered talons from battles fought
a mind full of colorful forgetmenots 
fragmented pieces of what...

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Daily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...

illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed courtesy far fetched circumstances)
exacts significant mental expense,
which logically and rationally
makes perfect figurative cents
nevertheless offers assigned therapist
Renee Cardone...

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Upon bitterly cold dawning hours of one January 2000 day
the Harns family desperately sought a place to live – “hay
there” Nelson Swartley (an independent realtor) 
politely responded bringing unwelcome news viz our sos re lay
informing...

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No sooner than we set foot within said domicile
attestation to so called gentleman’s’ agreement with guile
initially infrequently, but incessantly as time elapsed Isle 
never forget (nor will spouse forgive) with rancor and rile 
ceaselessly besieging,...

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Only when yours truly busies himself...

Feigning to emulate NON GMO
garden variety English major oh just so
ho-hum, this ousted son and cingular bro
biological byproduct of papa's yoyo

after mama taut Peppy how to grow
big and become vein,...

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Matriarch mastermind manipulated minions 
rang their hells bells signifying 
damned to traverse highway to hell
dirty deeds done dirt cheap
(names changed fo' malady to remain anonymous,
cuz they got thunderstruck
with psychological trauma).

Preface:
Upon bitterly cold dawning hours of...

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“She’s let me down again Clare Cox” the ‘missus’ fumed about her wayward aid.
Now with the job to do upon her own. For other arrangements have been made.
“You’re helping me today” she pointed “And I...

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I am lifeless,
 coldest of the coldest 
Sculptures of stone  .
An alter lies barren
With my name 
No hymns are sung 
No flowers adorn
my halls.
Where once you came 
And prayed
Asked me for joy 
Love, ...

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The leopard kills for love
sun burns for souls,
The moon moans for blood
stars frost the steppes,
The fire of your eyes
warms the wastelands,
Alone the horse rides
Tree of Life leans to the winds,
The arrow strikes deep
a wound becomes...

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Down deep with
   is where it lies,
burning and churning
in the purple blackness.
Until it hears the latch click,
      then the world
   finds out
what's in store.
With its release
the...

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If you fight with fervent heart,
roar of lion from your part,
perhaps true kindness will impart the vengence of a Goddess staved,
the moon now red with the noon's dead,
in your heart I'm sure is dread,for this...

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Twenty one Earth orbitz ago...
February fourth two thousand and twenty...
Shana Aubrey Harris
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREETING,
albeit eleven days early

Countless years after papa
took thee and Eden
to favorite outing namely five below
other go to places included
Target, Old Navy, Chipotle,

and...

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I am a treasure 
that has no measure 

i am bought with a price 
therefore no man can trouble 
me 

i am a pillar 
that needs no filler 

i am a battle axe 
not an...

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From the North, they came in wooden longboats,
to the monastery of Lindisfarne. A Kingdom of Northern Brine  
to plunder the church and steal its gold.
The priests had their blood splattered too ill-equipped to fight
as...

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Long long long long long long very still and longer yet
When men were men and women tried hard to forget it
The Germanic and Franks used an ancient warrior name
Strangely enough no one who used it...

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Prepare for a battle with fire. Grab your spear and pick axe and launch your graceful
movements at the flames. Swing till blood swells the ground like a sponge. There is no
punishment for your actions, you...

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Getting Off to a Good Start With the New Boss

By Elton Camp

The employee lounge buzzed with news.
After a search, a new boss they did choose
And what gave us all such a big surprise
They had picked...

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The forest had an eerie enchanted feeling.
His blade was itching to be slashing and reeling.
Vermouth stood his ground in this canopied ceiling.
Hearing the enemy in every whisper and dealing.

His men watched him carefully, at the...

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O,  elvenstone! O, elvenstone!
O, would that you could be my own.
To quest exhausted, all these years,
And not obtain those pointy ears
To sharpen sense, to hear my phone.

O battle axe! O battle axe!
For thy pursuit,...

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I fell in battle, sword in hand, 
Invading someone else’s land.
Then I saw her, and she reached down, 
To escort me from the battleground.
I’d let her take me anywhere, 
With her winged helmet and braided...

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THE LORD OF SECOND CHANCE

‘I will give you back years eaten by cankerWORM’
Promises like this are to our heavenly father, a NORM
Ability to honour His words are what make up His FORM
No matter the challenges...

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SOLDIERS IN AN AIRPORT

Soldiers on a bench in the camouflage
fatigues of the Eighty-Second Airborne
the Seventy-Fifth Rangers, or the
most-deployed Tenth Mountain

Known only to each other, they are adolescent
eagles, their hooded eyes everywhere and every face
a mask...

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