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CRUCIFIXION OF AFRICA

...Africa, the land of first breath,
Where the sun kissed the soil and diamonds wept from the womb of the earth.
A continent dressed in gold and green,
Where rivers write scriptures and mountains sin...
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Categories: pillaged, abuse, africa, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSmoke And Mirrors - Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe - A Musical Video- POTD

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POTD June 15 2025

Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe

When regulation picks at pillaged dreams

The searchlight shines its ...
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Categories: pillaged, anxiety, emotions, identity, inspiration,
Form: Ballad



Adoritrix

...Serried spirits walk on the wind

Paratrooper raindrops collecting courage before descent

Drunk off your paints, tasting life in your landscape 

Heart ablaze, my fantasies have been conquered...
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Categories: pillaged, allusion, black love, for
Form: Free verse

As an underdog given a short leash on life

...As an underdog given a short leash on life

alternately titled give one targeted scapegoat a break,
an unquenchable thirst for moolah before I wake
from nightmare of computer hackers. 

I tread...
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Categories: pillaged, adventure, age, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPillaged Poet

...I heard echoes of scurrilous snarls, 
from my conscience as it spoke
contemptible remarks aimed at me.
What shame those words delivered.

"Fatuous one, why does your hand quiver,
mimicking the ...
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Categories: pillaged, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberCastles in the Sky

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When life’s been pillaged of calm
I yearn for welcome release
Somewhere far beyond life’s qualms
To know solace and deep peace

I build castles in the sky
Where I retreat now and then
I buil...
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Categories: pillaged, encouraging, inspiration, introspection, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCome Visit Me

...You read out of obligation,
a tit for tat consolation...
a "thank you for your visit" affirmation

it's cool, this unspoken rule
I do it too, so what’s new?
It's only being civil
community cod...
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Categories: pillaged, appreciation, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Sixty Fangs: Part Two

...I remember now!
His name was the Crenshaw Cowboy!
He was the one who told me I descended from kings!

This is why I jump over the fence
Why I kick the fence
We pillaged and burned
Doing only w...
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Categories: pillaged, animal, fate,
Form: Free verse

Avoidant love

...At this my next to the last
Enlightenment

The curtain positioned to fall

I got nothin I am so sorry
Layed back to share with you all

I am decimated kids
done in by my very own hand

Rap...
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Categories: pillaged, august, surreal, write,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMountain Speaks

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A Matt Calliri Contest: Are You A Mouse or A Mountain
18 June 24
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Comes the morning fog
sprawling on my territory where northern glens dry from rotten stubble and mess of debris... ...
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Categories: pillaged, feelings, mountains,
Form: Narrative

Personal

...The silver spoon that poisoned me
Secrets that pillaged an open heart
took my healthy blood and turned it rotten
Caused me remorse beyond repent
Lead me to another lifetime
Of correction
Surely...
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Categories: pillaged, abuse, angst,
Form: Other

Rumination

...People with heavy minds
 They are of all kinds 
Yet all are entrapped with the same binds
They think and think more, Than they blink 
in few clinks, Of those binds.
How heavy of chains they bear...
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Categories: pillaged, conflict, depression, feelings, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Minstrel of Moscow

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"I follow the Moskva
and down to Gorky Park-
listening to the winds of change" - Scorpions

All the heads of state and their spouses (or significant others) have arrived and been seated for thi...
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Categories: pillaged, judgement,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberIn The Year 2424 Science Fiction

...The air is foetid and breathing is so difficult. 
The open window allows floating debris,
To spread its pungent staleness over all.
It’s a difficult struggle for sunlight to shine
Through the clo...
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Categories: pillaged, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoland II

...A blitzkrieg wipes your innocence away
and only heaven’s hand can help you now.
Your counterparts lie trepid to the fray,
for they can sense the wolfen on the prowl.
Oh dear Poland, there’ll be n...
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Categories: pillaged, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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