Shook
...Shook
You whispered to the brokenness of my sleep
Sweet as though a pillager in a gaseous light
And as I was a castaway by every concoct
The horizon faced me forward once again
There were wars...
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Categories:
pillager, absence, age,
Form: Ode
Waterfront Pub
...Heard in stories of ancient times,
a ship at sea of the privateer line.
A rat infested rigger with a creaking deck,
sailed into Point Berry as a seafa...
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Categories:
pillager, sea,
Form: Rhyme
The Pillager
...The Pillager
When checking my medicine jars, my wife called me an old Pillager
“No, that's a Danish Viking,” I said: “ I am a Polypharmacyphileger.”
That's a person who takes five or more drug...
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Categories:
pillager, addiction, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Sir Morgan: the Man Who Saw Crime Pay
...Sir Henryi Morgan lived a life
of rags to riches. In his time,
he first was an indentured slave.
When freed, he drifted into crime.
The century was seventeenth,
The New World under Spanish ru...
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Categories:
pillager, history,
Form: Quatrain
Opulent
...The chamber once sprawled
without the comfort of softness.
Each step would echo off the
cruel marble without sympathy
for the churn of my blood taunts
as it yearns to fluidly move free.
Ornat...
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Categories:
pillager, faith, mystery
Form: Free verse
I Am
...I am the builder of books
the pillager of paragraphs
the stalker of sentences
like a serial killer i stock
my next victim named inspiration
once it is caught
I suck the life-force out of ...
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Categories:
pillager, allegory
Form: Free verse