Outnumbered Poems - Poems about Outnumbered

adjectives ooze like black blood

...words tiptoe through my mind’s dendrite fields
struggling with an inner battle
do they want to be shared
or merely heard by someone?

adjectives ooze like black blood
under the shut doors of my...

Gaza

...Two thousand five, the Israeli PM thought there he knew the way
HE had to get out of Gaza, it's impossible to stay
"We can't rule over all these people, and the world will thank us too"
So he pull...

Red Banner, No Quarter

...
Early on a cold March morning
a handful of men took a stand
in the year of eighteen thirty six
when a sabre drew a line in the sand
it was victory or death for the valiant few
outnumbe...

Latter-Day Don Quixote

...
When and how
did we see chivalry last
or is it now
a thing of the past
and honour among thieves
is no honour at all
while beating my brains
against the wall
besting the dragons
at ...

I Am A Black Man In Florida Buried In A Unmarked Grave

...
they built a ballpark over my bones,
laid asphalt like a priest's last lie—
no headstone, no name,
just beer guts and baseball caps
spilling nacho cheese
where I once bled.

I was twenty-thr...

Why Your Cities Burn, Part I

...I’ve seen many look to the sky
and to the gods earnestly plead,
what sins have the committed that
require so many to bleed?
Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands,
do things that make your stomach c...

Private Tears

...I questioned everyone and everything back then, 
Except you... so much that I sat in that mess,
I watched those click of vipers brain washing your soul,
I felt overwhelmed and outnumbered yet I st...

You’ve Got Your Hands Full

...If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart. The wrangling in of these three boys can be the hardest part.
I’m quite outnumbered everywhere we go, by the looks on their faces, we can rea...

My Views With Men

...This New Year
Wish half of the world
Always be successful in life
May all of us men stay
Strong and responsible in the eyes
Of the rest of the world
We are the hope of X chromosomes 
The forev...

Four Hundred Thousand

...Four hundred thousand waking hours passed
A blink of an eye, it seemed so fast
Between when he was born to the month he would die
His mind replayed it as his sons gathered by.

He said "I raised...

Crime

...Dummy
tries to rob gun store
outnumbered...

The Chrysanthemum Throne

...In the ancient Empire of the Chrysanthemum Throne, horsemen riders from the southern regions, their steel swords close to their sides, clang heavily to their waist as they ride hard to the capital. B...

Desolate Trekker

...A desolate trekker who walks undauntedly, 
Truth moves slowly but surefootedly
Through matted crowds of lies,
Ever stung by lethal fangs of vice. 

Her trek through moistureless terrains 
Unper...

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
ev...

Quietly Watching

...I’m just quietly sitting watching 
Through a younger man’s eyes.
You wouldn’t know if you looked
For my brain’s there in disguise.
It’s wearing the body of one
Who’s of a much greater age,
Tryi...

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