Short Cannons Poems

The cannons have grown silent
Were they stilled by death
Or was I...

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Eagels soaring over head with
their mighty wings open wide as the
open cannons that lie beneath....

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With cannons of emotion,
heartache was sunk

The future retargeted
—joy on the rise

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)...

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Soldiers and cannons
Bastions and ravelin structuring
Fortifications




   http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/war-3.php...

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Blood
flowing,
scattered
bones and bodies
lay forlorn, forgotten on battle field 

Screams still ring out as cannons fire
just pure carnage
ravens feast
on dead
flesh...

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No jingles,  no bells
in silence you came.
No shopping hype,
holy was the night.

No cannons,  red  carpets,  
you came as child, 
to bring us close to Father, 
on this silent night....

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VOLCANO
                                         burning red mammoths
                                spear howl dust rock roar cannons
                                        scramble mice and men...

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THE THUNDER OF WAR
(In solidarity with the innocent.) 


The thunder,
Caused by the myriads cannons of
War,
Has rendered humanity deaf 
Thus
Unable it is today to hear the cries 
Of 
The innocent! 

      

© Demetrios Trifiatis  
01 SEPTEMBER 2013...

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My heart is a little lonely home with 
confetti cannons;
It soars with smoke and sparkling stardust;
My heart pounds with no destination for the rush of everything so intense;
At the risk of an unintentional direct hit? 
I shut it down in self defense....

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Pulled out hairs of thoughts pierced in to skull,
But failed 
Filled it mud in brain and filthy blood in heart.

 Shivering hands while plucking hairs 
 Sunk in shades,

 Fired cannons pulled the bullets back.
 But never won

 Whimsical mind periled…......

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hear the scream oft' called silence

hear the scream when the cannons stop
hear the scream when a child dies
hear the scream when love ends

hear the scream
        of fear
        of loss
        of despair

listen to the silence

Collection: Night
Written: October 2019...

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Pirates filled with desires,
And thieves filled with wants,
Sailed and swayed they crossed 
  the white lapping waves,
Sunken ships unfolded
  yet spirits unwaned.

In the depths of the sea 
  their anchor laid,
On the deck smoke wafts
  and great cannons ignite,
Nowhere but the unknown
  lies their fate....

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In war, the horses are for All to ride.

Nothing but mere vessels for an enemy or ally.

The cannons, the guns, the swords and arrows...instruments at best.

I don’t quarrel with tools, nor do I wish to wrestle flesh.

Invisible forces are what drive mere vessels to shove their instruments through your chest....

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I still find beautiful pictures of you
Painted on my frail heart.
One, two, maybe three but not few,
Hanging beneath its wounded parts
Daily blurred further by nostalgic tears.

Your voice re-echoes  
Like fired cannons,
It haunts worse than geckos
Peeping through dark shadows from aeon.
Adieu lost love,once again....

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I crossed the Fields of Misery 
And wept in blood-let streams. 
I saw the face of Terror 
Frozen in a soldier's scream. 

I heard the sound of laughter; 
Children playing in the sun. 
I heard the sound of thunder; 
Clapping from a torrent gun. 

I knelt with bitter silence; 
Mute heroes washed ashore. 
I heard the distant cannons 
Chanting hymns of civil war....

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Into the woods crawled the brave wise men
Where the cannons boomed again and again
Screams and shouts as the shots did fly
And the trees thought they would die

Out of the woods crawled the brave wise men
Out of a thousand remained just ten
A lifetime seemed to have passed them by
And the trees they began to cry

Into the woods
Sponsored by Silent One
10/01/2019...

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Galleons, uncharted oceans,
honest merchantmen take heed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
paradigms of pirate greed.

Storied legends blaze through ages,
rape and pillage mark the sway 
of buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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Tick tock, tick tock,
 strikes the old clock.

Boom, boom, boom!
 roar the sounds of cannons.

Roll, humanity's ship, roll,
 cast your net, drag the troll.

Unending curse of history
 marches to the same folly.

Tick tock, tick tock,
 strikes the old clock.

Boom, boom, boom!
 roar the sounds of cannons.

Time slips away, drifting by,
 same ending, innocents die!...

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we are all passengers
on this great ship called America
some only want to simply relax
others are willing to work and pay tax
some will man the cannons
others hide in decks below
some protest, scream and yell
others think all is well 
some fix leaks as they appear
others sit back and swill some beer
some strain and help pull the main sails up
others think it just runs on luck...

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Galleons, uncharted oceans,
honest merchantmen take heed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
paradigms of pirate greed.

Storied legends blaze through ages,
rape and pillage mark the sway 
of buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijackers both vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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roving black hole
devours
a misplaced life
somewhere
in the futile fog
of wandering warfare

it's baked in the cruel cake:
an ultimate deletion
is coming for us all
with groaning glee

we scratch an incendiary itch
under the hood of 
a mutilating maelstrom
where cryptic terror gushes 
from loose AI cannons

I fear it all
but there's nothing
to fear but 
the imperfect 
storm...

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Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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Galleons on uncharted oceans,
paradigms of pirate greed,
hijacked by the vile and shameless,
honest merchantmen take heed!

Storied legends blaze through history,
rape and pillage mark the sway of
buccaneers hell bent on mayhem,
cannons blast in fierce array.

Without compassion for a compass,
murderously resolute,
they take no prisoners, show no mercy,
sack the sea lanes, dissolute....

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