Marshaling Poems | Examples


Premium MemberI No Longer Feel I Belong

That other world
is out there, beyond the quiet
I keep bubbled around me,
the noise growing louder along
the flag strewn streets,
banging drums marshaling
the inflamed minds of the masses.
Something has gone wrong.
I no longer feel I belong.

I keep my door closed
and curtains drawn to shut out
the anger from a passing mob,
reinforce the boundaries of my home
with walls of books. They have
marched through and littered
all the lovely places 
where I once walked, covered 
beauty with garish signs.
Something has gone wrong.
I no longer feel I belong.

Out there, all seems to be
of no worth unless shackled 
to a cause. Tribal camps yell
obscenities across the lines
of division and commandeer
their gods to mouth 
a sanctioned hate. 
Something has gone wrong.
I no longer feel I belong.

And what can I do 
but play with a frail voice
and think of what could be
and on dark days,
take hope and defiance
in the gentle arms
of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
Categories: marshaling, anger, hope, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Spontaneous Stigmata Surfacing

Spontaneous sulfurous stigmata sinisterly surfacing
Membranous molecules meticulously masterfully marshaling
Tangible tempestuous tears tangling thoughts
Radical revelation revealing ruinous rots
Pious priests patronize punishable penance
Impious illusions intrigue impacting independence
Narcotizing nefarious noxious naves navigate
Prioritizing pains portal pandemic perpetrate
False fixation fumigates fragmental fatal fury
Defaults determine damaged destructive demons dreary






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Categories: marshaling, conflict, psychological, self,
Form: Alliteration


Getting Deputized


Round up the posse,
get ‘em vetted Oval Office ganksterized
Appoint the piggy snouts,
then send ‘em out
with metal sidearm power
Ancient oppression done got modernized,
old Egypt Memphis is new Phoenix on the rise
OK the corruption,
legalize the blind Corral mice
Roving Jezebel eyes
got sticky trigger fingers unsanitized
Presidential grifter seal approved,
publican tin badges
skimming off the top of the public trough
Bonnies & Clydes wearing white hats,
got the saddlebags holding the stolen dough
And it looks 
like they done Bernie Madoff with some mo’
Treating citizens mob gankster rude;
those tax cowpokes
are waving their little flag pistols,
talking like tough leather throat fools
Every national treasure asset
is being pirate privatized
Every sniveling weasel with a lizard tongue
is getting Benedict deputized
And truth is being sold in the stables,
non-disclosure is the filly train to ride
Marshaling a high plains moral drifter
to come bail rescue innocent pleb gunslinger you
Remember, Roman toga outlaws
were duly elected judge, jury and executioner too
Categories: marshaling, allusion, corruption, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOut of the Darkness : Collaboration With Jeannie Minor

Lost in a vacuum of darkness
Hearing beats of a distant drum
A marshaling cadence that hearkened
Together we'll overcome

Advancing I pause to listen
The sonorous pounding increased
It's volume and rhythm did hasten
My lonely anxiety had ceased

I knew nothing now could stop me
Adrenaline numbed all sense of fear
My pace became more lively
As the darkness began to clear

Then suddenly another thumping
I tried to make sense of it all
My nerves were raw and jumping
from within I began to recall


A memory beckoned sweetly
Of days forever gone
Tucked away so neatly
For sake of moving on

Convinced my chance was over
For happiness and love
My world had grown so lonely
Like a hand without it's glove 

I, the seedling, springing forth
After I had died
Know the measure of the wealth
Of love when I last tried

Then suddenly the beating
Of the drums began to sync
And all the possibilities
My mind began to think

Here am I, A lonely man
In darkness, 'til the end
Who's heard, the call, to see the light
And shine on me again


          with the brilliant and ubertalented Jeannie Minor
            an original collaboration with Daniel Turner
Categories: marshaling, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOut of the Darkness: Collaboration With Daniel Turner

Lost in a vacuum of darkness 
Hearing beats of a distant drum
A marshaling cadence that harkened 
Together we'll overcome 

Advancing I paused to listen 
The sonorous pounding increased 
It's volume and rhythm did hasten 
My lonely anxiety had ceased

I knew nothing now could stop me
Adrenaline numbed all sense of fear
My pace became more lively 
As the darkness began to clear 

Then suddenly another thumping 
I tried to make sense of it all 
My nerves were raw and jumping 
From within I began to recall 
 
A memory beckoned sweetly 
Of days forever gone 
Tucked away so neatly 
For sake of moving on 

Convinced my chance was over 
For happiness and love 
My world grew cold and lonely
Like a hand without its glove

I, the seedling, springing forth
After I had died
Know the measure of the wealth
Of love when last I tried 

Then suddenly the beating
Of the drums began to sync
Oh, the possibilities 
My mind began to think

Here was I, a lonely man 
In darkness, Till the end
I've heard the call to see the light
Which shines on me again

  - An honored collaboration of
     Daniel Turner 
            &  Jeannie Minor
Categories: marshaling, dark, future, life, light,
Form: Rhyme


I Say Sorry

I Say Sorry

As the reign of what I feel trails,
Cocooned like a marshaling soldiers war lorry,
The load I carry unfurls is to tranquil sorry,
The modern man-made tears built from onion,
Is the cordial skeletal of me the modern scion,
Deep in my heart the language sorry drills,
To you is a cliche that gnaws to thrills,
As I agree to have made it look irksome,
I enjoyed the life we baked as it was awesome,
I say sorry, as my words crave to reach your heart,
Before they evaporate in the mass of moving air,
I say sorry 'coz sorry liberates us,
From the pain we bairn ourselves in,
Noon darkness that needs care before one,
Sorry is the word, am sorry!
Categories: marshaling, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse
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