Stalingrad I
...As gods go forth to set the world a fire
‘tis ego that consumes the despot mind.
While domination seeks its epic spire,
the raging wars from east to west align.
‘Tis mere despite that veils a wai...
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Categories:
obstinance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Pearl Harbor III
...Beneath the ash its morals face defeat
as segregation separates is corps.
The scars outline a union incomplete
and wounds define its failure to restore.
Though rally calls have filled a Nation’s ...
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Categories:
obstinance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Moscow I
...It caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s plan has given due consent
t...
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Categories:
obstinance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Conflicting Beliefs
...We never engaged in the pleasure of love-making,
they banned us from giving embraces and kisses:
how belief shaped the naiveness of our minds...
making us fear and keep us from sweet giving!
W...
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Categories:
obstinance, anxiety, conflict, emotions, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Barbarossa II
...As Barbarossa roars into the East.
its southern barb cut swiftly to the core.
And as it raged the slaughtering increased,
consuming any force that stood before.
His swift barrage devoured the ran...
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Categories:
obstinance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Battle for the Atlantic II
...With lone intent, all freedom it will wrest
if obstinance you let these wolves deny.
As tonnage sinks beneath the torrid crest
your struggles for survival magnify.
Each flailing ship that ferries...
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Categories:
obstinance, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Flipside
...
"The Flipside"
We write
our hearts out
we pull
the catch back in
slowly,
they read,
we think,
too fast
swallowed
in the hollowed out
hallowed heart...
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Categories:
obstinance, muse, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Resurrection
...I rise from deep within the earth
out of pressured lavas
I rise above the level into
breathable realms
I rise following the risen
He who set my path and
monitors my lift lovingly
tenderly,...
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Categories:
obstinance, change, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
Sex Ed Failures
...Watching the clock I'm wary of time,
listening to words that mean nothing to me
If I could do better and take useful notes,
then maybe the lesson I could finally agree
It's no good to be diff...
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Categories:
obstinance, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Unrestrained Hatred
...I have often seen perfidious faces
wandering through dark hallways
without showing any human resemblance:
ah, is it envy, ah is it jealousy;
or an unquenchable absurdity
that doesn't admit their...
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Categories:
obstinance, anger, character, death, hate,
Form: Lyric
A Prayer For Any Moment
...Obstinance, indifference, blind tendentiousness towards one's own self. These are all the shattering of my scattered thoughts of myself and you today.
Just as I woke up to these conditions that I ...
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Categories:
obstinance, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio
The Depth and the Difference
...Faith offered in the advance of ourselves, in our Creator, in all life is the best leverage for the (H)onest, (O)pen and ever-(W)illful heart. Letting go of this for another is the gracious welcome a...
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Categories:
obstinance, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Trixie My Muse Is Obstinate
...Winged horses could not get me to do that
She says to me with her nose stuck up.
She can be prissy when she wants to be.
Trixie is in obstinate mode
I try to reason with her
But I am no matc...
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Categories:
obstinance, funny, humor, humorous, muse,
Form: Free verse
Overgrown Weeds
...Spring is here as well as the weeds,
they are growing profusely all over,
thinking about weeding the front garden,
it means bending down and yanking,
as they scream and are chanting.
Determina...
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Categories:
obstinance, garden, metaphor, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Intransigence
...Wikipedia describes intransigence as
"refusal to change one's views."
A trait that people of faith
are known to demonstrate; if put to the test.
Don't get me wrong,
obstinance is not a ...
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Categories:
obstinance, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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