Short Damocles Poems

predator reaper
gray eagle with global hawk-
swords of Damocles...

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faith plays
her melodic chords
across the
absolute decadence of war
unleashed the bright sword of Damocles...

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Swords
Drawn
Swiftly
From tarnished
Sheaths of bulbous flesh
Transforms pain into audible
Snippets of abhorrent venom sired by taut tongues....

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don't look
just act
like it's

totally natural
having a sword
of Damocles

hanging over
your head by
no less than

a single strand
of horse hair
be aware

but don't
beware
for it

will be
above you
at all times...

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Songs of a People~ Quicken My Heart ~ Music to My Ears
Some May Forget But~ Midnight in the Age of Unreason 
The Statues of the Land are Weeping~ Mourning Mankind
Beneath the Sword of Damocles ~What Will Tomorrow Bring?

7/2/19

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tiptoeing through a minefield of disaster

      in-between games of love and war.

the heart's timpani drum faster and faster;

     the sword of damocles soon to roar.



Bite Size Poem #35 Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
Date written: 02/03/2022...

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The prisoner


Neath the sword of Damocles
the vassal lays supine
gazing up at bitter fate
an endless space of time
threadbare death above him
Hades there below
sacrificial fodder
carrion for the crow
echoing inside his head
he hears the gavel fall
liberty and truth betrayed
injustice for us all...

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the sword looms overhead
here i sit rags to riches
but any moment to be dead 
when it falls hope only it misses

I rule my feelings
with an iron-clad cage
but from the sword on the ceiling 
i feel the immiting rage

my locked heart bends
i am a stranger
to my own friends
that is the danger

of the damocles in me
visable for all to see...

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Sit under the sword
That hangs by a thread
And you may find out
What Damocles said
“My life is in check
And makes me unsure
A terrible wreck
Insoluble cure”

But ordinary life
No difference or sage
A book to endure
How many the page

And danger exist
Around every turn
A fire of time
The book may well burn

So sit in his place
What difference to make
When thread to consider
We all must partake

And biding of time
The sword may well fall
If by fate design
Some cardinal hall...

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 The world is 
         at the tip of
          the sword 
       of Damocles;
    all it takes is just 
        one misstep 
               either 
             by Putin 
               or his 
          counterpart
         Kim Jung Un
 to spark World War 3; 
NATO nation attacked 
               would
       set it  in motion....

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