Palatable Unpalatability
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Are my thoughts too loud,
Does the breeze of my breath graze your skin in the heat of summer?
And my hands cling too tightly that your palms sweat,
And you count the seconds until I notice?
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Categories:
rubbled, discrimination, imagery, introspection, war,
Form: Free verse
Stalingrad II
...Let fortitude confront the raging beast
for wolfen corps from Hell have entered in.
They surge in packs, savagely unleashed,
to mutilate the innocence within.
Let ev’ry child and mother of its n...
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Categories:
rubbled, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Howzit Howitzer
...Howja geddit by firearms?
Gotta back to Semtex rams?
As the world warms
societies suffer dying fams
Letcha now my Lucid
Insanity and conflict did
Homes were demolished to rid
Livelihoods rub...
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Categories:
rubbled, love, war,
Form: Ballade
Staying Power
...A flash in the planetary cause,
a momentary held applause
on the evolutionary roll of time paused;
These last seconds on the timeline hesitate
when man appears upon fostering the world's fat...
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Categories:
rubbled, america, earth, time,
Form: Rhyme
Be It Only By Dreams
...With the onset of advancing age, so I find,
A man grows weary of all mundane talk;
Occupies his every spare, idle thought
With that of the slow, reflective ki...
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Categories:
rubbled, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
War Torn
...Silence clung to the weeping wind,
As the people lay huddled
In the cold hands of war.
Earth torn and blood stained
Beneath weary feet.
Echoes of destruction,
Hauntingly whisper in ravaged ea...
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Categories:
rubbled, dark, war,
Form: I do not know?
Loves of My Life
... L ovely metallic lady lost in Aisle Eight,
O n a rubbled spillway frightened and alone.
V ehicular damage on fore and aft flanks;
E legant figure now ravaged by...
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Categories:
rubbled, farewell, lost love, love,
Form: Acrostic
The Tower Rebuilt
...I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
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Categories:
rubbled, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Reproductions of the Body
...There is no pain
that is unaccompanied
by light blinding
or translucent like seeing
the sun through a flame or another's petite morte
as you climax,
and heap in rubbled bodies,
others cast in panop...
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Categories:
rubbled, political, social, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
A Little Thought
... The festive season is nigh on
give thoughts and prayers, to those who have none
of the simple luxuries,most take for granted
the felling of trees...
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Categories:
rubbled, caregiving, christmas, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Lone Survivor
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"Lone Survivor"
By M. Taha Effendi
(Sonnet)
He wandered through each ravaged street,
death lurked wherever strayed his feet,
His ears resounded with frantic, dying calls,
of tho...
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Categories:
rubbled, war
Form: Sonnet
Our Mistake
...A mistake we made,
now the troubles will repay.
Should have kept going,
cause now were dreading everyday.
My life is not bad nor troubled.
I hope you dont get to sad or rubbled.
One day aga...
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Categories:
rubbled, caregiving, confusion, friendship, hope,
Form: Free verse