June 27th, 1969
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A Friday,
a plane crash,
a phone call,
all it took
for your whole world to shatter.
You never got to tell them
how you’d follow in his footsteps
in his wing span
You never got to tell him...
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Categories:
pronged, death, flying,
Form: Free verse
Affairs of State
...Once again, for a second time in recent history, we're
Living through a master class of deception and fraud.
Where the powerful usurp their greed and influence,
While underneath an umbrell...
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Categories:
pronged, abuse, character, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
Feel the Merchant's Wrath
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‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’
~ (The ...
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Categories:
pronged, humor,
Form: Sonnet
From The Parthenon to Paris
...Let me tell you of a journey- from The Parthenon to Paris
in the springtime - of which real year, no one knew
Riding on an ostrich guided by a gilded leather bridle
traveling back roads dressed in...
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Categories:
pronged, art, bird, fantasy, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
...Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
Predicated on his paying obese sense
to Ronald McDonald patron saint
buzzfeeding his pie hole
courtesy "two Big Macs, Fillet-O-Fish
and a chocola...
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Categories:
pronged, abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Here I am Send me Isaiah 6:8 conclusion
...Just as Hannah dedicated her son, Samuel to the LORD, the LORD God also
selected Isaiah to himself. Then I heard the voice of the LORD saying, "Whom
should I send? And who will go for us?" He sa...
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Categories:
pronged, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Inside the Moonlit Greenhouse: Part II
...Now all that remains is a silver framed photograph
A reminder of when there was a splitting of paths
Between one realm and the other, a bridge uncrossed
One day to be readjourned, but for now is j...
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Categories:
pronged, lost love, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
A Fire Ball Submerging
...RED fire ball submerging,
we slip from the light
watching our shadows bloom.
A smoldering sphere,
not clean-cut, but badly drawn,
its REDNESS wobbles and fumes.
as it downs itself
still smok...
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Categories:
pronged, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Minx
...There once was a lady from Lynx,
Who was a veritable minx,
she wrote about love,
cooed like a dove,
loved mixing ambiguous drinks.
Now the minx was wearing a wig,
Which made her look like a...
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Categories:
pronged, 9th grade,
Form: Limerick
Songs of the Ocean - Nursery Rhyme
...Songs of the Ocean
Sing a song of the Ocean
Marine creatures in motion
The oceans turbulent waves
And those sailors truly brave.
Sing songs of the Ocean bed
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Categories:
pronged, nursery rhyme, ocean, song,
Form: Rhyme
Prejudice
...Slime is a subtle stage for blame I can’t stay stuck to your ways/
I’m a little vague so your game I’ll ante up to plague/
While a tirade goes for their bane they played and waged/
I’ll abrogate w...
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Categories:
pronged, abuse, anger, art, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Ashes
...“Still got that tin box that we used to ash cigarettes in college” she asked.
"Yeah, it still carries the ashes of my tenderness that I burned with every cigarette I lit after losing you...
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Categories:
pronged, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
...Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he th...
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Categories:
pronged, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Kicking the Can
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Kicking The Can
Written: by Miracle Man
November 19 2021
I’m not reluctant to express my opinion,
on consistently kicking the can down the road.
I've a mind of my own and not someon...
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Categories:
pronged, dedication, people,
Form: Rhyme
A Tender Moment From Childhood
...My fond childhood memories;
I couldn't wait to get to my grandparents
During the holidays when I was young.
Their arms always outspread with affection,
Their warm love for us was quite apparent.
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Categories:
pronged, child,
Form: Free verse
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