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Premium Member Surviving Your Own Life
My 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 2
Yet 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 Respectable
A 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 Bedlam
A 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' Type
Emotional 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



Premium Member On Searching For a Vocation In the Universe
Nothing 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 Damocles
Grisly 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 Kristallnacht
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 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
Premium Member The Poison
A 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 Elegy
You 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 Horror
blue 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 Damocles
You 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 Trembling
Son 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 Household
Our 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 Household
Our 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
Premium Member 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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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: damocles, allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery, irony, parody,
Form: Free verse
Schrodinger's Lesion
Their 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
Premium Member 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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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: damocles, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stray Dog Roaming
Oh, 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
Premium Member 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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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: damocles, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Words At a Funeral
Let'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
Premium Member 100 Seconds To Midnight
An 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
Premium Member Putin, Xi, and Damocles: Three or more than
C|==>      
        ...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: damocles, change, character, fate, leadership, lost, people, power,
Form: Sonnet

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