Mutinous Poems

No Respite

...No Respite

No respite for one who comes as broken as I am 
Quietly contrite I passively question the morality of man 
Without delight I mention that it’s possible to take a stand
It’s close to ...
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Categories: mutinous, life,
Form: Rhyme

Still Saluting Putin?

...Will Putin listen?

Siberia gulags glisten

Hysteria seeds myopia

Creeds..deeds feeds dystopia

Crimea bleeds...greed cornucopia

Impassioned stock shock rationed

Shepherd & flock fashi...
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Categories: mutinous, political, power,
Form: Rhyme


Meatball Noose

...Corked off glue, oral mucosa clamped, oyster bald razor, thumb running along twine binding the package, a conductor testing violin tension. Hairy balls of fire, a jackdaws caw, drawing her in with di...
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Categories: mutinous, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Meatball Noose

...Corked off glue, oral mucosa clamped, oyster bald razor, thumb running along twine binding the package, a conductor testing violin tension. Hairy balls of fire, a jackdaws caw, drawing her in with di...
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Categories: mutinous, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

More habit forming than any drug or liquor

...More habit forming than any drug or liquor

I considered myself sophisticated and wise,
but the addictive power of texting
and subsequently sexting
took me by surprise,
and impossible mission t...
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Categories: mutinous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse


Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby

...Cri de coeur courtesy thirty something English earl cry baby

the Earl of Yarmouth (William Seymour)
a descendant of very late
(to the power of Google - ha) Jane Seymour,
Henry VIII's third wife...
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Categories: mutinous, adventure, anger, depression, england,
Form: Free verse

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...mysterious mystical myriad-minded Milton
mustered mutable muscle-bound Man’s
mutinous modernistic money-making merriment
mystifying mushy mike’s mangled monkeys...
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Categories: mutinous, word play,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberWhere Tides once Gossiped

...Where tides once gossiped for many an hour
about what lovers share; like grapes gone sour, 
the strong opinions o’ friends will minds devour.

A reputation guarded against smut
and smiles that’s...
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Categories: mutinous, emotions, imagery, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet

His Gift

...God made her as his gift and she, once laid
beside the luscious, tempting limbs, acceded
to profane acts under God’s Sacred Tree
and slurped the ill-timed juice, the god-damned seed.

She gave h...
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Categories: mutinous, bible, confusion, creation, death,
Form: Blank verse

No Brave New World

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  In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, 
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, 
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness 
wronged-vaped, winged
to the w...
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Categories: mutinous, art,
Form: Rhyme

Flaming Glorybower

...Blackened. Charred.
Are the blossoms of autumn's acclaimed abundance
No longer dance they in vivid wonderance,
Singed by the frigid frost,
Stand they forlorn and lost.

Barren. Desolate.
Stand...
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Categories: mutinous, appreciation, color, courage, flower,
Form: Rhyme

Musical Souls

...Words
neat
quiet
mutinous
never go silent.
Words overflow the mind and turn 
insentient paper into realms of melodies.
Black and white paper become pianos of unvoiced dreams that summo...
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Categories: mutinous, color, dream, music, words,
Form: Fibonacci

From River to the Sea

...From river to the sea, an ocean of blood, filled with cries of children;
peace is broken, homes destroyed, lives shattered, a sea of refugees fleeing torrential bombs, under the ether of Western civ...
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Categories: mutinous, anger,
Form: Free verse

Overzealousness and Assiduousness

...Overzealousness and assiduousness...

now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decre...
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Categories: mutinous, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Pirates

...Their ships must ride
a rolling sky,
masts too high to sail into view.

They appear, board the land,
they buccaneer.

The clamoring mob
fall upon a scuttling prey
pluck the weakest
into hun...
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Categories: mutinous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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