3 Poems
...Sy Roth - 3 Poems
12/17/20130 Comments
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Silence
I’ve dreamt often that she crept deep
Into my cellular structure,
Some time in the nightfall of my being
And planted deeply into my...
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Categories:
scabbards, conflict,
Form: Free verse
What a Mess
...With sanctions imposed frequently between
Countries around the world,
With Trump and Little Rocket man, still rattling
Scabbards, ridiculous, absurd,
With Hong Kong’s unhappy population,
Protest...
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Categories:
scabbards, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Gemini's Gist
...A daunting press of gifted dreams
The boyish boasts and sculpted schemes
Brother, fore, and brother, aft
Stead to ply their father's craft
Each consecrated to ...
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Categories:
scabbards, appreciation, hero, music, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
I Owe You Mother
...Your lips start to move
and I hear the sound of your worries,
numbered like the children of Abraham,
boundless, like the sands in Egypt,
all of them, calling audibly.
the wrinkles beneath your e...
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Categories:
scabbards, age, mother, old,
Form: Free verse
Hearts of Rusted Iron and Cold Steel
...Hearts Of Rusted Iron And Cold Steel
Riding along paths of illusions, glory bound-
Men with steel and fever in hard beating hearts,
Minds driven by deep desires and aching pains
Emotions deeper...
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Categories:
scabbards, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Palace Guardiennes
...The Palace Guardiennes were the sultan’s delight,
resplendent in their tight uniforms
of scarlet and magenta silks,
embroidered with golden flowers,
with sterling silver scimitars in
ruby studde...
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Categories:
scabbards, adventure, arabic, courage, irony,
Form: Free verse
Nothingness
...By: Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian), Written on 18th November 2012.
Loud dins of nihility whirls and twirls around,
Reverberating sharply in my churning mind,
Humming lowly & resonating strange they soun...
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Categories:
scabbards, introspection, life, me, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dance of Shame
...Let them dance
Men clad in robes of shame
Let them wiggle and mingle
Twist, turn and tingle-
Till they burn in their joyous flame.
We will watch silently
As their perspirations wear them out.
Silen...
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Categories:
scabbards, political,
Form: Rhyme
Peace
...I rest now in peace
Placed thy swords in their scabbards
White flag flies up high...
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Categories:
scabbards, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love,
Form: Haiku
Bloodroot
...Photographs, fragile as Dead Sea scrolls,
hold two of you, dead before my birth,
stiff in sienna spring, serious as scabbards
on south Missouri farm.
Rosie: wind-hard in rock-scrubbed bla...
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Categories:
scabbards, death, family, life,
Form: Free verse