Bitterness now worshipped as religion
...In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers –
lifestreams of Rossiyane and T...
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Categories:
ottoman, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
The Lord was able to deliver me from a plot by demons Q and A and commentary
...Q Because of my relentless and persistent 'wool gathering' were Satan's
demons actively plotting 'to put me out commission due to my willful
acts of disobedience?
A Yes
Q Did God...
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Categories:
ottoman, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Dream-like Quality
...What is to be known of the honey comb?
A frightening look at overcrowding at home.
She comes to this tribal gathering in robes,
wearing slippers, newsprint on her thumb.
Affection awaits the ...
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Categories:
ottoman, dream, poetess,
Form: Ghazal
let's talk 'bout mine engram
....
well
i'll talk
y'all listen
'twuz
1992
she kissed me
she rea...
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Categories:
ottoman, beautiful, blessing, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Starts With O and Ends With N
...The other day I read a Facebook post,
where they asked this silly question again.
Find a word that starts with the letter O,
but that word must end with the letter N.
Of course, I know it’s jus...
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Categories:
ottoman, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44
Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings,
so please do not hashtag me
as worse than an ingrate
or o...
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Categories:
ottoman, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Ottoman
...Dusty musty air hit me as I open the attic door. Turning on small torch, I pause whilst my eyes gently get acclimatised to the dim light. Brushing away the long cobwebs which hang from th...
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Categories:
ottoman, clothes, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Haibun
No Regrets
.... for public domain
Sighing, she withdrew from her life's labors;
her age beckoned a restful luxury
from her now-passing spouses, grown children,
busy neighbors, and weary market treks.
Much...
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Categories:
ottoman, age, joy, old, peace,
Form: Free verse
Gallipoli,
...A Poem Of WW1
ANZAC Day
25th April 2018
Let’s have at Johnny Turk
Winston Churchill said,
We’ll secure the Dardanelles,
Keep our Russian trade fed.
His words so casually uttered
May hav...
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Categories:
ottoman, memorial day, military, remembrance
Form: Rhyme
Happy and Complete
...John had a favorite reading chair
near the corner of the room
angled towards the fireplace
with a tall lamp light
set at just the right height
padded with his wife's
embroidered cushions by...
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Categories:
ottoman, bible, christian, dream, family,
Form: Free verse
Battle of Beersheba
...
I
“Charge!” they said and charge they led
from out of a dry desert wadi.
Every man of the Light Horse Brigade
across the desert thundered -
their pulsin...
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Categories:
ottoman, courage, history, war,
Form: Narrative
Gallipoli
...In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
...
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Categories:
ottoman, war,
Form: Sonnet
Khata Sin, Christianity End Times
...The pleasure seeking body blindes me. All I leave is death and slavery behind me. In pride my unbelieving faith is founded, my previously living vessel is now grounded. The trumpets sounded and I was...
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Categories:
ottoman, angel, betrayal, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
The Shilluk Kingdom and My Heart
...''The Shilluk Kingdom and My heart''
Genre: Poetry
poet: Gum Mapuol Mabior
''The Shilluk Kingdom and My heart''
I was going to be a Prince
Of Shilluk kingdom today if we
Did not lose our...
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Categories:
ottoman, adventure, africa, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse
We Take Leave of Our Senses Under Tents
...We get buried under tents
in cemeteries, a sensible
insurance send off,
throwing roses into a hole.
At parking lot carnivals in June,
I throw rings at
impossible duck necks,
tommy-g...
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Categories:
ottoman, death, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
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