THE TWILIGHT OF SPECTATORS
...When I lift my eyes, the sky offers no stars,
only missiles parading with arrogance.
Before me, mountains of corpses rise,
my pupils dilated by human savagery.
Humanity has been consuming its...
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Categories:
purveyors, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Brian Charles Lara
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Have to admit.. do have a bit
Of a trenchant penchant
Alright adore southpaw purveyors
Dabbles..pique aroused..rabbles in the stands roused
Unique sleek cheek of their chic espoused
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Categories:
purveyors, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Emotional Shrapnel
...Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
th...
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Categories:
purveyors, anxiety, august, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
A F D
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F or
D istraction
i g farben, now bayer pharmacutical firm, worldwide reach seems almost charmed.? Purveyors of zyklon b the
Cause of great harms.' Still today a legal entity' in lawful
St...
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Categories:
purveyors, assonance, education,
Form: Rhyme
Wind and Snow, Fire and Ice
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The gods are angry
and growing angrier.
Poseidon views his beautiful ocean
despoiled with garbage,
poisoned and polluted
by heedless humans.
He rages to Hephaestus
and Vulcan, gods
of cre...
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Categories:
purveyors, anger, emotions, environment, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Lead Me To Exodus Rime Couee
...Exhume my gone exuberance,
I’ve always been drawn to a chance;
Such enticing grandeur;
Resurrect me from hollowed ground,
I long to indulge lush newfound;
Run with me, wildflower;
Missing all...
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Categories:
purveyors, emotions, feelings, love, romance,
Form: Other
City of Crime
...Glenn Hughes's "City of Crime", from the film Dragnet, shows us what happens when a municipality goes astray. The city - Los Angeles. This story, which is also true, depicts another town which has...
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Categories:
purveyors, city, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Inspiration
...Searching for inspiration
I am numb by numbers
I've got a low wattage bulb
Where to begin
Letters don't come easy
shuffling selves circle liner
weighed down by desperation
yet old purveyors ke...
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Categories:
purveyors, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Purveyors of Disruption
...The winds of chaos run amok
To cause my soul to stress
As those about the Evening News
Delight at my distress.
These purveyors of disruption
Rot the world from within.
They fornicate their ti...
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Categories:
purveyors, confusion, stress,
Form: Rhyme
January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening
...January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening
Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter
for mass communication
mediums stop the presses
when I, a regular schlemiel
take shampoo to...
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Categories:
purveyors, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun,
Form: Free verse
This New New Year
...Its cold amd damp outside
But brighter that yesterday
Maybe a sign of promise
This new New Years’s Day.
The shops are counting profits
The shoppers their new debts
Today is another Bank Holiday...
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Categories:
purveyors, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Fortune Telling
...oracles as purveyors of all destiny
what was holding hints of that which shall be
the reading of cards with colorful themes
journey of select stars not what it seems
direct result of some prede...
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Categories:
purveyors, change, destiny, fate, future,
Form: Sonnet
Because Ignorance Is Bliss
...Please do not laugh; yes, I am “woke,”
Volumes I’ve cried because ignorance is bliss,
That our social studies are demonstrably broke
When realities of our past we coldly dismiss.
Ch...
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Categories:
purveyors, education, how i feel,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophization
...anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,
especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
pun...
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Categories:
purveyors, 12th grade, anger, computer,
Form: Rhyme
Eye of the Beholder
...Told beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I realize I’m getting uglier as I grow older,
My fair skin is now blotched and fine-lined
And any beauty increasingly hard to find.
Mirrors, cons...
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Categories:
purveyors, age, beauty, me,
Form: Light Verse
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