The Bum and The Mob Boss
...Savaging what he has left
after the mafia takes his last
bowl of soup his last slice of
bread his last cup of coffee
the mob boss then gives the
bum a cigarette and a light
pats him on th...
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Categories:
savaging, allah,
Form: Naat
Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries
hoisted on ...
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Categories:
savaging, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Been sleeping with the lights on
...#Been_sleeping_with_the_lights_on
Been sleeping with the lights on, images of you, not being right next to me, haunts me in the darkness, I want you to know that you are all I need, believe me, thou...
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Categories:
savaging, absence, bereavement, betrayal, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Interlude
..."Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an interlude of peace.
My poetic ...
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Categories:
savaging, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
War Whores
...The bedrock of war is the ego of greed.
When flocks of takers swoop down on the meek.
Savage hearted beings are born every second.
Leading their flock to the twin summits of..
hopelessness and...
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Categories:
savaging, animal, war,
Form: Free verse
Mister Money Bags No More
...Mister money bags no more
Ah..., how I idolize the days of yore
before June twentieth, and twenty first
two thousand twenty three
when utter senselessness wore,
a trail of woe brutally
ravagi...
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Categories:
savaging, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
A Gentleman's Airs
...To qualify as an educated gent
to certain boarding-schools one must be sent
To learn how to position one's fork and knife
and raise one's pinkie, unlike lowlifes
A gent speaks wit...
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Categories:
savaging, culture, drink, irony, society,
Form: Couplet
Cyclonic Storm
...Dawn arrived beleaguered
and redrew the peaks
across a bruised sky that churned
a displeased blue and pewter.
Soon lightening, a brilliant white
with titanium opacity,
crackled with scraunch...
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Categories:
savaging, earth, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
Feigning Fabulous Fractures
...sassy smirk scrunched
spanking salient sucks
smog smithereen scorched
sorting saucy sauce
savvy strengths spent
savaging sumptuous sects
dark dribbles drooled
damping dainty doom
dense dug ...
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Categories:
savaging, hero,
Form: Sonnet
Aftermath of Hurricane Florence Eye Deux
...discovered primacy birthright
(i.e. revanchist deeded sic - seeded),
what "she," viz Mother Nature
felt tubby "her" right,
bar no holds Gaia
pulled out all stops
punishingly rava...
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Categories:
savaging, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Funeral
...The Funeral
Juxtaposed we find
metaphorical possibilities
on the 'oft heard word
"Great.."
in recent discourse..
The funereal gathering
marked with precision
and heartening oratory
cele...
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Categories:
savaging, celebration, conflict, courage, golf,
Form: Blank verse
Salveja
...I
I live in a society,
That does not know me.
I live in a community,
That does not owe me.
I feel a stranger,
In my renowned hometown.
And act a savage,
In my parent's town.
Who knows me???
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Categories:
savaging, allegory,
Form: Imagism
Tropical Island
...The singing of the ravens catch my eye in the dead of night,
the whispering of pines reveal the lingering of my loneliness.
No other human can be seen, with two sticks a fire I ignite,
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Categories:
savaging, imagination, journey, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Cats
...Cats
Patiently, cats eyed, alert and poised for action;
More than ready to eat, not greet, or fuss affectionately,
'She’busies herself with the important work
of savaging your rucksack s...
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Categories:
savaging, appreciation, beauty, best friend,
Form: I do not know?
Tell You a Story I Tell You My Struggles
...For the starvation of the spirit I seek the wilderness,
For what is wisdom and unknown of the tree,
For the words that looms a man depth of a soul,
I ask forfeit as it may sound when may I ...
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Categories:
savaging, art, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
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