'A Thousand More October Sevens'
Bibi exchanges hundreds of murderers
with blood on their hands
for a handful of hostage civilians
fueling Hamas’ evil plans
for ‘a thousand more October sevens’
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Categories:
sevens, jewish, murder, sleep, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Sevens, Shovels and Spades
Sevens, Shovels, and Spades
Dig, dig, dig. Black soil and stone
Earth worms wiggle , Decay bones
Dig, dig, dig, scatter seeds there
Sprouting, searching sun and air
Dig, dig, dig, To hide our dead
Six feet under, body bed
Dig, dig, dig, create new life
Born of earth, Feed appetites
Dig, dig, dig, Shovel and Spade
Flowers grow from planted pain
Dig, dig,
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Categories:
sevens, death, farm, garden, grave,
Form: Free verse
Number Sevens Gone To Heaven
The people came to Alberton
To honour the man whose life was won
For he played the Port Adelaide way
And Russell Ebert won our hearts we say
His family spoke of growing up in the Riverland
A family who built a pride that still stands
On the football field a reputation made
From father to sons across all grades
Peter Woite
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Categories:
sevens, football, remember, sports,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Life In Sevens - Part One
I am seven.
It’s a sunny, autumn day in 1948.
The sky is blue, the air is crisp
And Old Man Ironton’s leaf piles await us.
Manuel, his handyman, has carefully raked them into
Inviting, leafy mountains
In his mansion’s spacious front yard.
They look like termite mounds on the African plains.
I go next door to get Guy Geiger
And together we run
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Categories:
sevens, life,
Form: Free verse
My Life In Sevens - Part Two
I am fourteen.
It’s a hot summer day in 1954.
My mother, father, two brothers, one sister, and I
Pile into our 1952 Chevrolet station wagon
And head to Coady’s Creek in Perintown, Ohio.
It’s actually called Stone Lick Creek
But the Coady’s have a camp on it,
So we call it Coady’s Creek.
When we arrive,
We all pile out of
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Categories:
sevens, life,
Form: Free verse
My Life In Sevens - Part Three
I am twenty-one.
It’s a hot, summer day in 1963.
I’m in Lubbock, Texas, at Reese Air Force Base
And I’m climbing the ladder into a supersonic T-38 jet.
The parachute strapped to my back is cumbersome.
I can feel the sweat running down my legs.
Settling into the ejection seat, I strap myself in,
Attach my G-suit to its umbilical cord,
Connect
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Categories:
sevens, life,
Form: Free verse
My Life In Sevens -Part Four
I am seventy-seven.
It’s a hot, summer day in Florida in 2019.
I have just finished raking our backyard.
The carrot wood and live oak trees have littered
The lawn with their leaves.
I rake them into neat piles and put them into bags.
With each stroke of my rake,
I hear Guy’s laughter and I see Old Man Ironton
Peeking through the
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Categories:
sevens, life,
Form: Free verse
Roll the Dice
Roll the dice now...
hope for six, not a seven.
Crapped out, snake eyes!
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Categories:
sevens, games, humorous, nice, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Eternal Sevens
ETERNAL SEVENS
A post...a wandering beagle
how old? I count my fingers
...tapping out eternal sevens
forever ago it seems…
is way too long
...but my heart jolted
upon reading this post…
an old dog found
5/1/2018
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Categories:
sevens, dog,
Form: Free verse
Sevens and Eights
Wake up, her magnetism is perpendicular
Concentrate, renunciation isn’t an option
She coveted her beauty to be paramount
It may not lie adjacent, or acute, closed nor open
Yay, Nay, or,
A night, a century, dissolves from her
Shedding a seventh layer
Shedding the eighth
The understanding of such linear artistry proves to be facile
An acquittal, forthcoming
New art, new liberty
The acquittals continue to
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Categories:
sevens, life, , cute,
Form: Verse
The Sixes and Sevens Veil
All of those words and emotions
Are tired of lingering in my throat and Mind
I want to caress them onto you
But how can I? Anon. there might be a time in our days
I want to tell you-- I'm worthless, Broken, Diedre, Torned, Discarded, Abuse
The past shouldn't control the present but it lingers in my spirit
The words
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Categories:
sevens, allegory, confusion, death, dedication,
Form: Lyric
Hunting Sevens
"Wondrous" this dynamic group,
That concocts their hearty poetic soup,
Then sit, then wait, always polite,
For comments that the others write.
But lofty are artistic goals,
As we bear our hearts and expose our souls,
And catapulted into heaven,
When we receive that cherished rate of "seven".
A "six" is like a pesky "B",
Like the one I got in chemistry,
Then pondered of
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Categories:
sevens, funny
Form: Rhyme
My Number Sevens
The seventh day of week and month
in seventh month of the year,
number seven dominated
when I decided to appear.
I was seventh in my family,
five brothers, Mother and Dad,
also the seventh granddaughter
each of my grandmas had.
When later, two more children came,
I then was one of seven;
unless you count the baby
who went right straight to Heaven.
My seventh
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Categories:
sevens, historychildren, day, grandchild, granddaughter,
Form: Narrative
At Sixes and Sevens
Somewhere decorum, somewhere pandemonium
Somewhere parsimony, somewhere bleeding heart
Somewhere love, somewhere hatred
Somewhere revenge, somewhere forgiveness
Somewhere bondage, somewhere liberty
Somewhere eccentricity, somewhere selflessness
Somewhere egoism, somewhere humility
Somewhere complexities, somewhere simplicity
Which ones to permit the soul?
To acclimatise and dominate
Life keeps changing every spur
Discrepancies are inevitable
To be water or a rock?
Will it attain a pool of boundless solitude?
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Categories:
sevens, confusion
Form: Free verse
Sevens
How many wonders of the world have you seen,
they say, the number is seven, but I have never seen.
I know the seven deadly sins of the earth,
am I guilty of any, will they destroy , and hurt?
We know the days of the week number seven,
many things we have, are given in sevens.
I've heard if you
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Categories:
sevens, life, mystery, visionary, world,
Form: Narrative
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