Long Dark horse Poems

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OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here and remember too to give your reasons for your choice....

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Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump

courtesy the comfort of his mancave, 
I (a mutated batman wannabe) 
doth prattle and stump
and display wide whirled webbed 
and variegated tail feathers 
(also...

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Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus


I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion

Part I

I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...

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"I am black but comely ", it states in the Holy Scriptures
I am black but beautiful, so why can't people get the picture
she was darkened by the sun which shined upon her skin
she was a...

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From the heart of green naïve village
surrounded by corps field, mosque, ponds, 
ancestral grave yard, school, college, 
madrasah (islamic school) etc he is

brothers, sisters with parents, a beautiful family 
with relatives, neighbors he had

learned person...

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Standing outside
Nowhere to hide
A child 
Meek and mild
Watching my siblings play
Around them I couldn't stay
So many emotions
No notion
What they even meant
Into a well
I fell
The world went on without me
Nothing there for me to see
Darkness was...

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Fortunate failure of fallacy and regret
Contortionist cartoonist illustrating what id like to forget
Proportions of misfortune that I have to measure then reject
Insubordinate illusions of what the deluded ones project

Brandishing bravery as a tool to confront...

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I was born to be the dark horse...the underdog. 
But, I'm nowhere near endearing enough for people to root for me. 
Some look at me pitifully like I'm a blind puppy, others see me as...

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before we can sustain any type of relationships in this life
we need to have the right relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus said that the first commandment is to love the Lord
and the second is...

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An alienation of Revelations

The rudimentary elements, all collapsed broke free
The whole ordeal made no sense at all
Eclipses and darkened wars of solitude made the eve
It was difficult to comprehend and to accept.
The deluge of torrid...

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Writing affects your brain!
So all I want to do is write craftier and harder,
Using supercharged thoughts, converted from quantum data, 
Letting it rain, running through my veins, 
Seen, then caught by my Pen and paper...

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Introduction

From the city on the river
Where the Sage of Monticello
And the Great Emancipator
Birthed the country, saved the nation,
Sounds a call for civil discord
In the service of ambition
From a man whose God is power,
And his name...

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She wails to your soul 
The coming of pain 
The black fairy appears 
Voice of the undead 
in the darkness 

Waking through the mind 
Piercing my inner most shell 
Bringing the death of you 
Pure...

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(A simple poem)


They say I am the dark horse
That is destined till my end
To gallop like the broken soul
In the shadows of the wind
But I am just the simple soul,
And so they say I’ll fail
Because...

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Daisy trips and falls apart
The mysterious rider brings her back
And now wonders how she ll find
The way back home cause is its off the line
And runs away leaving the rider alone
He comes back for her...

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The silence was broken,
By the slamming of the door,
I seen the wood splinter,
The hinges hit the floor,
I knew then it was coming,
That’s when I started to shake,
It wasn’t from any fear inside me,
This was something...

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I did not drive the roan that day,
Just saddled up my old dark bay,
To check out fences far afield
And breathe in life with all its yield.

Near border’s end I came upon
A fresh, dead cow down...

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The world was moving at a breakneck pace
everything in America and the world was
going to waste. Soldiers lives were in harm's
 way bombs and killing were going on every day.

Then came a man called Donald...

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The mythical fates had a dubious task
Sewing the cloth of life for men
“How did that work?” you ask
Well, get three sisters who sew
Give each one a specific job.
When done, down the tubes you go.
Anyway get...

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Abstract acid flash back….psychedelic ***** slap
Man in a black mask….Turned into psychopath 
Suddenly his mind snapped when he began to laugh 
The world became a gas as he struck up the match
What sort of secrets...

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These chains of deceit that bind me to this hardwood seat. 
I bend and break the bars that confine, but they remain, like the haughty, jagged grin of an eroded skull. 
Such good times as...

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The night knight, donned in the clanging shielding armour,
on his dark horse, the symbol of death he rides on,
with a sword the size of his rib, the smallest but mightiest in his unit.

He comes with...

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truly the most moving 
beautiful woman in the world 
on strings as this music tugs hard 
i feel the crying pain 
of hurt release 
i am crying

completely shaken 
as i write 
this sweetest 
honey you...

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He sure had held her in such high esteem
Which was long way to fall so it did seem
Not only that she now was love of his life
Always trying to take her for his wife.

Looks like...

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Concentration is stark
I'm staring in the dark
I'm daring my heart
I ain't keen on living either
Heavy metal is not my thing
I just need some Nickelback dark horse right now
Something strong for the soul too
Booze I’m looking...

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