Long Reprisals Poems
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Beware the Ides of March 2023
Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Indifference
Perhaps like me, you have heard the expression, ...
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Categories:
reprisals, race,
Form:
Free verse
Oceans and Winds
Oceans and Winds
I have an obsequious unnatural inclination
To sustain my external compulsions
And convert them to a pre-text of a sub-text
Of instantaneous conclusions
Bi-Partisan confusions, melted humans and rheuminations
We seem to be caught up in the...
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Categories:
reprisals, corruption, courage, creation, humanity, visionary, war, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part I
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to
beware the...
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Categories:
reprisals, adventure, celebration, conflict, death, eulogy, fate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Ukraine In Flames
People of Good – strengthen your ties!
Glory to the heroes-defenders
of the Donbas
//////////////////////////////
Message to the Ukra-President
?? who sows the wind, reaps whirlwind
How can you live, oh, “Independent” leader,
A...
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Categories:
reprisals, patriotic, war, integrity,
Form:
Ballade
More Advice For Those Who Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Notes
More free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with notes
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations]
K386: kaadchikku eliyan kaduñchollan allanaal
...
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Categories:
reprisals, america, patriotic, people, political, power, spoken word,
Form:
Epigram
The Parables of My Soul
In the twilight of my melancholy existence, love savors its bravery, like a vulture allergic to the suspicious aspects of ephemeral glamour, in a final macabre choreography.
On the edge of the precipice of my...
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Categories:
reprisals, 12th grade, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Mideast Peace Oxymoron
Mideast Peace: Oxymoron
Though descendent of Jews,
I feel boggled at the brutal,
nasty and wanton war between
Israelis and Palestinians.
Many innocent victims
bred to know and hate their enemy
impossible mission
to reconcile one Semitic
group of peoples from another.
The bloody English
begat...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, anger, angst, arabic, bereavement, conflict, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Rationalisation of Explanation
Rationalisation of Explanation
Do not question
The almighty plan
For such are the reprisals of fear
That turn blind despair into adulation
The evident proof
Existent in raped women and children
Irrefutable in famished stomachs
Undisguised in all the suffering
Hangs stark and...
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Categories:
reprisals, lifelife, life,
Form:
Free verse
Greatest Figures
Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some kind
But going with them their unique characters.
Wasn’t the explosion of...
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Categories:
reprisals, history, work, history, work,
Form:
Prose Poetry
NO KINGS
We our blessed with many freedoms in America…
We may not always agree on what freedoms each of us select…
and where we often get into trouble is when our opposing views of freedom intersect.
We are free...
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Categories:
reprisals, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Retrieving Reprieve
He was caught in a mine of a mind in reprisals admonitions and self-reproach
Had been looking for diamonds and gold but then the escape shaft caved in
Gotten shafted and the stake stuck like an...
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Categories:
reprisals, confidence, conflict, courage, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Children Are Crying
The horror has continued unabated, the killing of innocent mortals in our clime, and the attendant reprisals that follow has refused to stop. The scary and slippery road we took to get here I...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, africa, children, cry, death, heartbroken, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Ratings War
Ratings War
By Odin Roark
His trembling fingers press remote buttons
Finally pausing on…
The News Channel.
Breaking News –...
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Categories:
reprisals, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
In Memory of a Cat
In memory of a cat
In those years of innocence
When actions were not guided by much sense
I once killed a little white cat
That had trespassed; I guess, while on the trail of a rat.
I...
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Categories:
reprisals, cat, fear, innocence, kid,
Form:
Rhyme
The Passing
The velvet sky was strangely quiet...
The Earth still and hushed beneath my feet.
No mountains groaned, no crumbling stone
Giving voice to my defeat.
The lake... calm and placid like...
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Categories:
reprisals, grief, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Bittersweet
She would,intimidated at the hubbub of the spoon
Tapping the dishes at meal times,
Strive to elbow her way through the kitchen egress
Otherwise mount the window and the netting abrade
Exasperated my wife would with her broom
Endeavour...
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Categories:
reprisals, animal,
Form:
Free verse
The Dark Rider
The Dark Rider
From a dark and distant time, so very long ago
In a land, time has forgotten, sunken below
In an era when the blackened heart of man
Struck fear and despair within all the land
You could...
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Categories:
reprisals, conflict, dark, evil,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Laugh With Jack Number 3
Ninety-seven percent of all U.S. currency
Contains a trace amount of cocaine
Sniffing your George Washington's every day
Causes a mellowing of the brain
If we were able to live on Planet Mercury
Each year is only 88 days there...
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Categories:
reprisals, humorous, planet,
Form:
Quatrain
A King’s Ransom
What is the gift in your life
Is it your husband or wife
Is it your children, your lover, your pet
The notion of someone you haven’t met yet
Is it the door that you shut on the...
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Categories:
reprisals, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Reprisal Or Regret
Reprisal or regret - both are meant to punish
Reprisal slaps the hand; regret lingers in the heart
Competitors of the fiercest kind,
Like weeds sown in among the wheat,
both sprout in the same field,
but only one of...
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Categories:
reprisals, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
A Not So Lovely Light
There is something special about the way
the early morning light is drizzled across the park.
A yawning of softness lingers in the air.
Better pictures are stolen before the light fully awakens; ...
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Categories:
reprisals, light,
Form:
Narrative
Storm Warning
The gathering storm rattled snakelike over distant hills,
Heads of dust and debris thrown as charcoal relief
To the vast expanse of the sky;
In the drought of reason, heat radiated a stillness,
Diseased and brooding, motionless as fissured...
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Categories:
reprisals, death, history, life, loss, sad, social, storm,
Form:
Blank verse
Israel Vs Hamas
Could conditions terribly sad
Lead captives to do something bad
When a sheriff not cool
Won’t let compassion rule
Do lifers in prison go mad?
Did structure that forms Gaza’s pen
Encourage the Hamas gunmen
And with vengeance hot
Will Israel’s...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, anti bullying, forgiveness, war,
Form:
Limerick
Windpipe Malignancy
They love to puff the beryl nicotine
Incendiary lungs
sucking down the cancerous green
Hard drag queens,
dressed to mass extinct kill,
inhale poisonous mushroom dreams
Napalm verbal smoke:
fungi promises coming out of plastic windpipes
Pinocchio nose choke
pollute the global atmosphere with...
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Categories:
reprisals, imagery, metaphor, truth, visionary,
Form:
Free verse