This Is A Song - 2025
...This is a song for a man or a boy
It’s a song for a woman or girl
This is a song for the straight and the gay
It’s a song for the whole of the world
This is a song for the cheerful, the fearful...
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Categories:
marauding, joy, smile, song,
Form: Lyric
Cricketing Nirvanas and Nadirs
...“Heady heights..bright neon lights..giddy delights
Arsonists torching the Indian empire
Reputations scorching..awash with brilliant whites
Gilded generation ire… spoils soiled in an oily qua...
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Categories:
marauding, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
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“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
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Categories:
marauding, muse,
Form: Narrative
Ah the glory of a restful sleep
...Ah... the glory of a restful sleep
Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feeling zonked out staying up
late after a hard day's night
binge ...
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Categories:
marauding, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alte...
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Categories:
marauding, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Songbird
...Lirena was a songbird born of yore
Who dearly loved her husband everyday;
She sings her songs of contentment no more.
An adversary’s troops ransacked the shore,
A ruthless marauding they did di...
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Categories:
marauding, bereavement, bird, courage, death,
Form: Villanelle
Monkey Business
...marauding foxes
mutilating fruit
minutemen mischief-makers
marching upon us
pick our pockets
laugh at our loss
“No mangoes for sale”
maimed, mangled, mashed
sweetness sham...
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Categories:
marauding, animal, culture, environment, fruit,
Form: Free verse
The song of an outcast
...Living in an unwanted world
Tossed to and fro
With heavy breeze breezing
All hope seems lost
Lost in the midst of ravaging storm
Tossing East and North.
Caught amidst the combat of immorality...
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Categories:
marauding, 1st grade, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories:
marauding, dark,
Form: Free verse
Beyond the Bars
...“A person who is remorseful over his past actions without any inclination to change just punishes himself. On the other hand, remorse with a desire to change is so constructive and will yield wonderf...
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Categories:
marauding, angst, betrayal, destiny,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I Couldn't Talk About it, So I Wrote a Poem
...A seed of love rests dormant in my heart.
Unable to get it sprout on fertile grounds,
It still lies thick and hard like a dried nut.
Can I hope, a cool shower of rain will soak it,
Ca...
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Categories:
marauding, depression, loss, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
He Has Only Just Begun
...He Has only Just Begun
He has only just begun creating new days
whether inside hours
or by the river that flows from the throne of the Lamb.
He has only just started planning for fresh suns...
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Categories:
marauding, life,
Form: Free verse
There was a Great Silence
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"There was a Great Silence"
There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all the cacophony in t...
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Categories:
marauding, muse,
Form: Free verse
monz'stir
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me
mine
my marauding monz
mostly
morningz
maybe midnights
mm...
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Categories:
marauding, allusion, character,
Form: Alliteration
Heartbroken
..."Broken families beget culprits, and late remorse can never set things right"
~ By Poet.
Scenes reel back casting dark shadows,
Of the fated day I had to leave my home,
Handcuffed and g...
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Categories:
marauding, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme
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