The Archive for Sour Sorrows
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In the vault of sorrows, the lights are dim,
Memories dangle stiff, stark, cold and grim.
In glass-fronted vaults of remains half-dead,
Haunting to avenge losses, regrets and dread.
Bitternes...
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Categories:
riles, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
World War, Overdue
...No prophesy, epiphany or convoluted scheme
Forecast it’s not. For sure, no joke. And isn’t a pipe dream
But something tells me, instinct chimes, we are so overdue
For global war, as tensions build...
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Categories:
riles, war, world, world war
Form: Rhyme
Ignorance, Shoddy Goods and Poor Service
...Never accept shoddy goods or poor service, you have consumer rights, if they don't address your concerns, contact their chairman.
Quote by poet
When I was growing up my dear ...
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Categories:
riles, culture, happy, how i
Form: Rhyme
si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
...si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
if your name is melancholy,
the scant tidbits I know of French.
perfect cold day to down
a cup of hot chocolate, java or joe
in tandem with an intelligent con...
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Categories:
riles, adventure, angel, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
...I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then...
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Categories:
riles, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Hope is a Bird Wordless that Sings
...I watch first rains on dusty countryside,
And know, no pathways etched are by despair,
And yet, hope comes like first showers to guide,
Give ample hints on how to go and where.
And a way out ...
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Categories:
riles, hope,
Form: Ballade
Si Vis Pacem
...You see them loot on city streets,
attack people and leave them beat,
take what they want with no regard,
it’s ‘easier’ than working hard.
We see them take a human life,
with no regard for peopl...
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Categories:
riles, evil, humanity, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill
...He wrote kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill all over his paper.
He is nine, opinionated, and loves negative attention.
He likes positive attention too,
but getting negative attention works f...
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Categories:
riles, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Mama Bear Who Flies Into a Rage For Almost No Reason
...Today's entertainment for the cave is easy.
We watch an easily manipulated grizzly fly into mama bear mode
She races toward the sea, plunging in, looking for her cub
He is not there.it was a lie;...
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Categories:
riles, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Alpha Pistols
...Alpha Pistols
It’s a nice warm summer’s evening in 2004
The cool man was on top of the Manchester tower block
He fires down with various guns at his lower targets
There is a builders yard two hun...
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Categories:
riles, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form: Verse
Venal Glands
...Venal Glands
The Troll thinks he’s something smart and cool and all that
Having a go at the soccer player who is a talented one
The Troll states the player can’t score a goal at 5 yards
This rile...
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Categories:
riles, angst, anti bullying, soccer,
Form: Verse
Peace Accords Established and Hidden
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The Abraham Accords Signed!
But one would never know it.
How very juvenile, the USA is!
A major moment in history happened,
Fake News looked the other way.
Jews,Arabs and Islam...
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Categories:
riles, america, international, truth,
Form: Couplet
Gilgamesh
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Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Uruk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out Gilgamesh, without any further ado
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Categories:
riles, adventure, best friend, brother,
Form: Epic
Moment Spent With a Mermaid
...Under the sparkling waterfall, cascades
of rushing amber waves. A breathless
spirit of invigorating grace - she fades.
Just as quick, she reappears, with cockle shells
dancing upon ...
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Categories:
riles, sea,
Form: Verse
The Hawaiian In Keanu
...From one film to the other, your creative styles,
Rebels joined, save a world, then you, sacrificed a girl,
Online programmers that you had caused their riles,
Mr. Santino wanted New York as part ...
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Categories:
riles, betrayal, conflict, dark, power,
Form: Acrostic
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