Long Powder keg Poems

A situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil. (dictionary definition #2 of Maelstrom)

Today’s opinions are so contrasting and divisive that nobody seems to know up from down!
I believe fairly strongly in what I...

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My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to remember, however...

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Since the 1990's Red China has been using an intelligence gathering
radar station monitoring USA's military operations of the southern
United States.  Now they are establishing a military training center
also located in Cuba just a few...

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It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it shows
In what you say
In what you write
The sarcasm hidden under...

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bin laden is dead.  

his dream, however, is very much alive &  
what he wanted was to force america to bleed,
fighting endless wars in the middle east---
and with the invasions of iraq &...

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Demons

I try to get sleep but the demons just keep running round in the back of my brain, and no matter what I do they break me in two, and they're driving me fuc**ing insane....

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Don't forget to cross the Ts
and dot your Is
because if you don't do that
they're just lines vertical on a page.
Lets us forget about the imperfect words
that make us cry
the vertical lines,
like jail bars hold us...

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He stands, 
his left leg resting upon a powder keg,
slightly bent, 
with arms resting upon his knee.
                  ...

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It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
Hurting others but
Killing your own soul

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it shows
In what you say
In what...

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There are those who say offensive words
should be banned from public speech,
oblivious to the fact that saying such
is incredibly offensive to me.
They prattle on, convinced that only
their own ideas hold the truth,
I wish I could...

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Slam poetry evening 
Offended 
Leave now
In fact why have you come
If this is not for you
Or do you 2 wish to slam
And are here looking for a muse
To abuse or accuse 
To ignite your fuse
Try...

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Give me a headache
The fury of a migraine
The pounding of temples
The powder keg sensation
Of explosion a minute away

Give me a tummy ache
The kind that makes you double up
Fist pounding the bed
Hands clutching sheets
Retching into a...

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Never be mentally shackled
         and pinned to the ground by
   the gnawing what-might-have-beens
           Don't look...

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Seventeen minutes to midnight - the world enters a new era,
nuclear arsenals reduce as peace creeps ever nearer.

Fourteen minutes to midnight - our hopes begin to fade,
as we discover no new world order, just the...

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Heros all around us,
men and women who give all,
leaving home, family, and friends,
life paused to be picked up later,
out into the nightmare,
head long into the darkness of war,
some never returning home.

A hero is a soldier...

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From whence come wars,
what birthplace spawn them?
The cradle of covetousness,
exceedingly covetous lust
Desiring to have what someone else possess
This is the genesis of war
Once an evil, fighting spirit is conceived,
it must flourish and breed
Fear mongering multiplies...

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Have I ever told you...
    that you laugh with your eyes full of stars 
      shining brighter than the afternoon sun?
      ...

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To see one is rare but to buy one is obscene.
A tall snob. She casts frowns from under her gables.
He, the new owner, is in the cellar to clean
Dusting and throwing out boxes without labels.

Can...

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Striking teachers demanding higher pay
Immigration hiccups giving "dreamers" a migraine
Gun violence perennially choking America's throat
Numerous scandals plaguing Washington politicians

Outspoken Black Lives Matter activists take to the streets
Foaming at the mouth with righteous indignation
  ...

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A Soldier’s Prayer

I’m hearing the whispers in the night,
I know what I hear is just not right.
The whispers continue on and on,
Then all of a sudden they are gone.

The battle rages on the other hill,
I...

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One man once saw a forbidden land
Under a sky of gold
A place to land

Nature asked the man
Why did he seek?
Was it to gain more land to help feed the weak?
Was it to take the land...

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Jail cell turnstile ... 
two coming in, one leaving out
Rehabilitated prison farm menu;
criminal cold turkey, 
and hot caught fee bitter words 
makes for a tough cement wall chew
Only the well-adjusted few
will make it thru
Leaving byway...

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In the rearview recesses
I spy crestfallen stresses
Binding might tugging my lift
When I grasp your tiny hand
I plunge into that quicksand
Until my breath begs to drift

Once the daylight fades away
I won't miss that solar play
Since we...

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Lightning struck the vision, ripping up the sky, 
flashed photo sensitivity upon the surface eye; 
exploded on the retina with white electric rain, 
spitting down the optic nerve, developed in the brain. 
Then the synapse...

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Maties I will say Ahoy
And tell you things that just annoy
The wind out of all my sails
As I state a little tale
Of something that irks my ship
While we take a little trip
Through the waters of...

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