Long Damocles Poems
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Surviving Your Own LifeMy father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times I caught glimpse of his load.
His freight always sealed with...
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Categories:
damocles, family, father son,
Form:
Ballad
Give Peace a Chance Part 2Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line
With speed and
alacrity
Or be headed back to
Europe
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
them in action
At Treblinka and
Auschwitz, brother
With their atomic
bombs in Hiroshima
With their...
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Categories:
damocles, peace,
Form:
Free verse
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit RespectableA Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...
ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.
Whiling away his time playing solitaire...
initially prepped, honed, and crafted
November second two thousand and twenty
slightly tweaked February nineteenth
two...
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Categories:
damocles, anger, city, corruption, education, february, freedom, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
A Hoodlum Albeit Respectable In BedlamA hoodlum, (albeit respectable) in bedlam
whiling away his time playing solitaire...
November second two thousand and twenty
fast approaching the final countdown
With less than twenty four, twenty three,
twenty two... hours
harkening, heralding or (worse case scenario)
hindering...
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Categories:
damocles, america, change, conflict, destiny, discrimination, grave, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
Damocles Sword Renamed Donald Trump Dagger O' TypeEmotional guillotine clefts
irredeemable psychological umbilical accord
witnessing heart breaking,
woe-begotten inhumane rip cord
gut wrenching shuffle board
(indiscriminately sporting)
most...
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Categories:
damocles, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
On Searching For a Vocation In the UniverseNothing is devised or divined in the Universe to forever be.
Nothing is held always in truth; nor ever wholly wrong.
So look to those who find in life, wonder, beauty, and song.
Foolish Men:
There's always room for...
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Categories:
damocles, conflict, men, music, power, universe, wisdom, world,
Form:
Narrative
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of DamoclesGrisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches
global threat half cocked.
Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times...
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Categories:
damocles, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, angst, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones KristallnachtVladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the Bible
references Armageddon and doomsday
impossible mission to remain
cool, collected and calm.
Whether...
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Categories:
damocles, abuse, angst, bullying, environment, farewell, grief, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
The PoisonA Concealed exercise concocted,
Wuhan Lab the playground,
secretive China obliges,
Western media consenting,
Medical experts silenced.
the age of censorship,
Dictators feigning incognito,
The diurnal and nocturnal schemes of top players,
A script...
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Categories:
damocles, abuse, america, confusion, corruption, discrimination, introspection, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Tanya Lowe's ElegyYou gaudy stars do not get giddy when I grieve
Nor wrest through clouds to melt this darkness
That so befits what logics to your destiny weave
For all dreams, and all theories prove finiteness
Where death draws the...
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Categories:
damocles, death, faith, may, stars,
Form:
Elegy
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horrorblue war red hot political issues dont amount
to a hill of beans
when Sword of Damocles count
approaches zero hour
as global tensions mount
signaling increased chance
...
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Categories:
damocles, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, culture,
Form:
I do not know?
Thee Grim Reaper As Pedagogical Savior(fear not stalwart reader, the sword of Damocles just grazed thy chest when fate found us a place to call home).
to avoid the pitfall of prospective homelessness
which near future prospect
induces existential...
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Categories:
damocles, angel, dark, destiny, farewell, horror, journey, obituary,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Sword of DamoclesYou win ever so calmly never to know
what may be hanging straight above your head.
Under complications we break and bestow –
Habitual ponders and worriment are gifts to our dreads.
Always constant surveillance of our...
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Categories:
damocles, people, philosophy, political, visionary, men, men, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Day Out.we went out for a drive in the car,
we travelled near and travelled far,
then ended up at white scar cave,
take in the history and behave.
the doorway was discovered in 1923,
by a student from the univercity,
his...
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Categories:
damocles, places,
Form:
Verse
Son of TremblingSon of Trembling
The Sun will stop to shine
Where trapped they do recline
Where they drink and dine
Yet, search, pine and repine.
Would Humane inside him stir
To forsake malicious flair
Has he conscience ever known
To He has he...
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Categories:
damocles,
Form:
Couplet
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris HouseholdOur own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...
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Categories:
damocles, angst, depression, hope,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris HouseholdOur own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...
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Categories:
damocles, angst, depression, hope,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
If Anything Be'Twas
bit
of a joke
for most
of the folk
that had
rallied round
the town
'twas
the first
I heard
a bit absurd
so I
went and
asked around
'twas
up the
hill and
down again
until
I found
my friend
'twas
then I
learned
he too
not heard
what rallied
round the town
'twas
curious
tad furious
that
neither
him nor I
heard not
a thing
about this...
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Categories:
damocles, allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery, irony, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Schrodinger's LesionTheir numbers drawn, the backwards lottery
Almost none were aware they were playing
Assaulted by the poisons that save them
Hairless children with steroid-swollen cheeks
Feared stigmata of chemotherapy
Daily valiance, heroism unsought
Magic bullets are a relative thing
Modern wonder...
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Categories:
damocles, cancer, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
THE EVOLUTION OF MY PRAYING
Growing up in the Catholic Church the rules and regulations were so demanding…
but it was the dichotomy of the nuns behavior I had trouble understanding.
How they could be so brutal in their attempts to make...
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Categories:
damocles, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Stray Dog RoamingOh, where did you come from? The sad sight of you
breaks my heart in two. I see that you're lost,
...
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Categories:
damocles, animal, dog, encouraging, imagery, sad,
Form:
Tristich
Of Fatalism*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay.
Of Fatalism
'Tis past the eleventh hour,
As time ...,
Here in the bunker,
I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway,
Walked I, away from expressionless gazes of our hereafter,
Longings tethered...
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Categories:
damocles, hope,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Words At a FuneralLet's cast these words at a funeral like shards in clay pots
like hard sounds n bright noise of memories of this lot
of feelings real and surreal meant
of just lies like this life as...
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Categories:
damocles, abuse, addiction, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, art,
Form:
Free verse
100 Seconds To MidnightAn endangered species, living on a ledge,
100 seconds to Midnight, then over the edge,
Nearest to Doomsday, humans have ever been,
Vaporised! inside mushrooms of boiling hot steam.
Casually go about our business, without a care,
While the Sword...
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Categories:
damocles, allegory, conflict, earth day, meaningful, natural disasters,
Form:
Quatrain
Putin, Xi, and Damocles: Three or more thanC|==>
...
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Categories:
damocles, change, character, fate, leadership, lost, people, power,
Form:
Sonnet