NO KINGS
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We our blessed with many freedoms in America…
We may not always agree on what freedoms each of us select…
and where we often get into trouble is when our opposing views of freedom intersect.
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Categories:
reprisals, america,
Form: Rhyme
To Be as a Child
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It’s more natural to be as a child
untouched by vices and greed of the world.
to wonder at ladybugs and dragonflies;
to swirl like a butterfly with wings unfurled.
To make up adventures while...
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Categories:
reprisals, joy,
Form: Rhyme
A King’s Ransom
...What is the gift in your life
Is it your husband or wife
Is it your children, your lover, your pet
The notion of someone you haven’t met yet
Is it the door that you shut on the havoc
The sanc...
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Categories:
reprisals, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
The Parables of My Soul
...In the twilight of my melancholy existence, love savors its bravery, like a vulture allergic to the suspicious aspects of ephemeral glamour, in a final macabre choreography.
On the edge of the prec...
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Categories:
reprisals, 12th grade, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Mideast Peace Oxymoron
...Mideast Peace: Oxymoron
Though descendent of Jews,
I feel boggled at the brutal,
nasty and wanton war between
Israelis and Palestinians.
Many innocent victims
bred to know and hate their en...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, anger, angst, arabic,
Form: Rhyme
Israel Vs Hamas
...Could conditions terribly sad
Lead captives to do something bad
When a sheriff not cool
Won’t let compassion rule
Do lifers in prison go mad?
Did structure that forms Gaza’s pen
Encourage t...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, anti bullying, forgiveness,
Form: Limerick
Women In the Cloth Robed Wall
...How many lies have you extolled
How many commandments have you broken
How many futures have you stole
How many people have you made to suffer
How many pennies have you pinched
In order...
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Categories:
reprisals, 11th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Oceans and Winds
...Oceans and Winds
I have an obsequious unnatural inclination
To sustain my external compulsions
And convert them to a pre-text of a sub-text
Of instantaneous conclusions
Bi-Partisan confusions...
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Categories:
reprisals, corruption, courage, creation, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2023
...Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fift...
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Categories:
reprisals, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Essay On Humanity
...To be more complete
and closer to humanity
what the Lord wants....!
First I need a woman
who loves me, even if she is not a muse!
A cause I defend
with grace and honor, but that
does not ensla...
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Categories:
reprisals, allusion, appreciation, education, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
Troublesome Kid
...He was a troublesome kid,
Who punched the others and hid
If this wasn't safe, off slid
To be of reprisals rid...
Venturesome troublesome kid,
Who pot distances from lid
And could 12:00 pm fro...
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Categories:
reprisals, age, change, child, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part I
...Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 iss...
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Categories:
reprisals, adventure, celebration, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Pride of Place
...The movers wheeled the piano in the apartment
my tutors revealed plateaus climbed as an artist
hours flying pages turned black and white keys charted
scoured trying ages I played packed plight ...
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Categories:
reprisals, age, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Monorhyme
Deep Scars Remain
...Reprisals are sharp thorns from stabbing tongues
causing deep wounds that may never heal.
Regrets are sown in the seams of a guilty mind
where no salve can reach, and scars remain.
No...
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Categories:
reprisals, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Indifference
...Perhaps like me, you have heard the expression, "I don't know what it is like to be you". These a...
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Categories:
reprisals, race,
Form: Free verse
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