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Marcus Poems - Poems about Marcus

Premium Member Allegory - or - Fanfare for Corpocracy's Rise
In silence, we watch shadows pass they shape our thoughts and feed the farce Moulding lives to fit the lies that see us strive, conform and die And scared of what we do not know we do not move or seek to go But idle in their well known forms find safety in such practised norms There is no need to speculate the shadows...

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Categories: marcus, analogy, conflict, freedom, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marcus marrow crowd of visitors past midnight
Marcus marrow beaten into a coma after a gang initiation was allowed 17 gang members to visit him in the hospital past midnight crowd of gang members atleast 9 women 8 men or vice verse 17th street gangster disciples my anxiety disorder panic disorder ptsd agoraphobia i would absolutely die in any crowd because I...

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Categories: marcus, allah,
Form: Ottava rima



Julian the Apostate and Marcus Aurelius
"Their cross will decay Rome will be as a phoenix Helios will reign supreme" "The sun always sets Accept the eagle’s old age Find dominion in your mind" ...

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Categories: marcus, history, moving on, perspective,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Ghost in the Machine
am I just this fleeting moment a ripple in time's flow shackled to one body must follow when it goes or is there more to 'being' an eternal flame that burns and though my mortal flesh must die the soul within returns most now say we have 'one shot' so live a life that's full and while, in part, I see their point I hate to...

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Categories: marcus, beauty, dream, growth, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mila 18 By Leon Marcus Uris
read with absorptive guilt, aged sixteen; it haunts me and will never leave....

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Categories: marcus, books,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Karma
know thyself; is your life on the right track aligned with, refined by, the principles of dharma refrain, abstain, be kind and be calmer meditate, seek meaning: find moral momentum all actions count on this trip to nirvana...

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Categories: marcus, extended metaphor, faith, religion,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Being Feared
Yes, I am what you fear. But it’s only because of what you choose to believe, and what you then choose to see, that you manifest the threat ... which is apparently me. Does that sound familiar my prejudiced friend? I’m something strong, strange and powerful with no common ground shared; but my mind’s unimportant, just how I look - why you’re scared? And...

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Categories: marcus, allegory, allusion, change, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fathers Pride
I’m the prince with calloused palms up at dawn with stifled yawns; pulling on boots feeding pigs and herding cows - stuck in mud, it’s raining now and as I plough, I dream of life... not on a farm of white walled castles crowned in gold (like the tales told of old) where beautiful princesses dance and laugh (with...

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Categories: marcus, allegory, allusion, analogy, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pathogen
fractured; the angry march to I’s nexus red, not gold, tracks.. wired to perfect black catastrophic chiroptera see this cornucopia - what plenty?...

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Categories: marcus, analogy, drug, metaphor, scary,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Queens Man
sat in a prison of my making dark holes in piled skulls an unwelcome reminder I am nothing like that boy so full of righteous ambition certain of what was just; right blinded by that conviction consumed by my fervour I became the whirlwind danger swims in certainty’s waters sirens sing and sailors sink rapt in passions promise armour now covers what’s left immedicable wounds etched within...

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Categories: marcus, allegory, career, fate, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shaman
I did not choose, I was chosen the gate and keeper; killer and cure life not mine for living walking paths you cannot see talking tongues you do not know I am the light burning inside the darkness at the shore that shadow in the corner eyes, windows to be shared extramundane - soul searcher, truth sayer, circle squared I am ancient numinosity no idle curiosity - I...

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Categories: marcus, allegory, allusion, destiny, faith,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Dungeness
copper burns across an endless sky competing caws claim salt, surf and sand sailing high above slowly sagging carcasses long forgotten at the edge of the world buckled rails swim over a shimmering shingle sea the largest of its kind, hinting at some other time; engines once chugged to billingsgate from this beach herring bound for the cinque...

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Categories: marcus, beach, bird, boat, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Travels With Grandad
head cradled on folded arms as a young boy I’d sit rapt in the tales told by an old man as he drew pictures at our dinner table no bragging, not at all just remembrances of arid deserts and tuscan sunsets heaving seas and emptying bellies he saw the world give or take in six years for king and country back then I...

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Categories: marcus, courage, death, family, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cutting Room
the sounds of the night desert me my mind seized by ill-fates once more as ripples dispatched by the ferry lick down this plutonian shore dark deeds in my lifetime like flotsam sailing passed in the after-light gloom arrested in moments so shattered and birthed from my cutting room womb memories I locked in dark corners the ones that break silence at night festering fears...

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Categories: marcus, anxiety, death, fear, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Night In Paris
spires stretch heavenward in a twilight sky crimson hues and nighttime blues do battle as people lope lazily over a dusky bridge like cattle with cameras; snapping the domed limestone giant below, boatmen skim across a shimmering mirror reflecting fragmented moments cast down from the world above floating like flotsam; lifeblood coursing through the city’s stone heart amid those masses, we watched the shadows grow steadily...

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Categories: marcus, anniversary, devotion, family, love,
Form: Free verse

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