Long Relegates Poems

There is no beauty in death
Not a lack of, but none at all
Death is a hunter, a fierce one at that
You and I are mere prey

From the moment of birth
When you take your first breath
It...

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A DICTUM BY DARROW

If you add an “s” to the word care you get scare
Perhaps that’s why it scares me to care
I’d like to care but simply don’t dare
And to me that really isn’t very...

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SEA PAST THE MAST

For most folks I know…….. 
that which has come to pass is stowed well away in the past
They’ve cast off the shadows and shelters of their history
However my past is wedded to...

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The foliage unruffled, 		 the tree trunks utterly baffled
                          ...

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For my soul feels agitated 
with desire for my rights
overriding reason.. desire
to overcome the oppressors
The yoke of oppression

The set of the system..
relegates me to a state
where i have to struggle
against great odds to be
accorded opportunity

Opportunity...

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dropping annie at the church
has become a habit now
every early morning
while we drive
i just look at the magnificence
of the rising sun then she talks about
trials troubles and tribulations
women are made to talk, i notice
she is...

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Villanelle : When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide

When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
Proclaim citizens who kill under the patrie’s pennant heros
Permissible by far all things done to boost national pride

Killing for...

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accursed creepily haunting
Phantasmagoria wraiths
vandalize residents psyches
within their sleep induced state

Sublimation shunts
slumbering souls
unknowingly held hostage
successfully sacrificing

Semi-smothered silent species
snoring simians steadfastly succumb
subsequent sibilant sounds
woo woebegone wicked transmogrification

dilapidated divested bodies deposited
wizard waves wand
watching whirling wretched lovely bones
whipsawing (in...

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A huge reputation speaks loud even with sealed lips
his presence now relegates the entertainment into sips.
Without his jockey, a huge reception like this lacks
hides among the guests but yearnings for his skill backs.
For such a...

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Like questioning the existence of a presence
Ancient and authoritative manuscripts
Choose a blank in word usage and omit this

As some Bibles forget and use words
Written how an adulteress is forgiven
While scribes question her living
The son of...

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The deep darkness of a somewhat fading frustration
Has me feeling aggravation
An agitation that relegates my soul to sheer tribulation

Devestation activiated by my permutations and calculation of the situation
Why you?
Why so soon?
Why am I in this...

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her back against wall;
nowhere to run.

bricks close in,
hardly the sun.

the last light
will be a spark —
terror

triggers
final bullet
of Fall.

window panes
like empty pews
look on
with wan faces.

enemy’s close,
whites of mine eyes
camouflaged over;

uniform green
relegates retinas.

what petrifies more -
the sands...

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Rage of potential writhes
                      Rears its demented face
      ...

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