Short Siege Poems

Rastaman
African hair under siege
Kinky racism...

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Left
unsaid-
our future
laid siege by our
past...

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clutter invades my home, closes in, burying me alive....

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Kaboom! goes Kabul
Kabul!
Oh! It Kabooms
The Taliban's rule...

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Lying to the liar
My space under siege
My life chased by fire
I am swiftly cast away
Never to know your desire...

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Fallen leaves are 
Battered but not bowed after
The siege of the frost
I blame my long lament
You really wanted to stay...

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She lays siege to pawns across the board
Graceful yet armed with a swift sword



By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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Wind howls
And storms lay siege
Beyond my reach

Wednesday will surely come
Preparations dissolve fear
Rooted in the aftermath


Tuesday 5/21/19
6:26pm...

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Drag me away with
hooded lids
      to the dark of you.

Give axe to gates
protecting cheerless
     spirit under siege.

Swallow me in haste
lest I discover
     we cannot....

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Near San Francisco’s Golden Gate
First to have foghorn that was great
Army siege gun first in the state
Gold rush years many boats aground 
With light and gun no loss of freight
New lighthouse time wonderful date...

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Unrevealed Barrier

Supposed to love
Supposed to laugh
But why does it not show.
Confused inside
Broken alone
Sorrow is all I know.

Cannot explain 
Under this pain
Why does it linger so.
I need to leave
Under this siege
Still it will go unknown....

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Listen to poem:

Mine's bigger than yours
I shout louder and longer
Jump-in interuptus
deterent be damned
I'm gonna have my say.
Mutual self-destruction
is on the cards.
Attrition balition,
siege swarming,
your flanks are weak.
You're not listening, are you?...

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Tanka

NATO…is 
A mean military machine 
Looking for a war 
It found one in Libya 
A monster’s sweet taste of blood 

Tanka 

Hurricane Irene 
Poured rain on Manhattan 
The world press aghast 
A coast guard shack damaged 
U.S. under siege again...

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Dimmissed, defective, unimportant,
Discounted, unworthy,
Unnoticed, undervalued,
Guilt-ridden, under-employed,
Underpaid, misunderstanding,
Unempathetic, overwhelmed,
Under duress, under siege,
Over-whelmed,
Over-dose, undertaker, underground

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C’mon Papa
The gauntlet tossed
The challenge…

Ten rounds
With a 2 year old

Speed vs stealth
Experience vs enthusiasm
Age vs agility

Castle builder vs the siege
Best two out of three cookies
Co-Co melon is not a fruit

C’mon Papa
Let’s go OUTSIDE…..

...

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Clothes
became
yellow-grey-
unchanged many
a
day
until-
battle done
Phillip's siege was
won

Legend that Calico yellow-isabelle was named after Phillip II 's daughter vow that she would 
not change her linen until Ostend fell,the siege lasted three years ! (1601-04)...

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Jesus Couplet


J
E
Savior drew me off promptly from temptation’s ridge, 
U
Sufficed my soul with divine words, freed me from enemy’s siege.



Jesus Monuku

J
E
S
Unfathomable Savior’s Great Love remains forever from age to age.
S





Nov 19,2020
2.06 PM...

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umbrella unicorn underling understood utilizing Utopia
unless uncle Ulrich urged Uranus to undercut unicorn’s union
Union’s underground ugly units united umbrella unicorns
Unitarianism under siege, undercoated Uncle Ulrich,
undetermined units urged umbrella unicorn to unionize....

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Two brothers leapt off from the walls,
The castle under siege one night;
An evil place, it boasts two ghosts,
The ladies dressed in blue and white:
A sister slowly starved to death,
Her pretty looks her only crime;
Abusive father killed his girl,
And then her children, too, in time....

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Acoustic shadows haunted hills
and crawled within a sleepless cave
where peace was whispered in a wish 
and silence was an endless prayer.
The sound of tears dripped in the wind
that carried din until it bled
the last of life from hungry lips,
the last of love from hopeless hearts......

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Strong on the outside,
breaking on the inside.
I'm the shoulder you cry on, 
the wisdom you depend on.
Strong and wise, 
it's all on the outside.
If you could really see,
how the world takes a toll on me.
Only then will you see,
I'm a hero to you 
but I'm a victim of discord's siege....

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constant reminder
the failure I am...

I can stand here and I
hear your ongoing demands...

your disappoints...

your total dissatisfaction
this realism-

your life you criticize...

back off!..

I've heard enough
my only disappoint met
is for you...

...I never was enough......

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Cooler air stream rides
On back of thundering storm
Wicked this way comes

Pounding rain and hail
Weather clash of the titans
Lightning cleaves the sky

Thunder quakes the land
Animals flee fast in flight
Humans seek cover

Dark siege slowly ends
Battle clouds exhaust their rage
Scattered by the sun...

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Dodging a bullet,
the PET Scan loomed large…
results both good and bad

“Nothing today
to worry about,”
but tomorrow left unclad

The moment secure,
the future unsure…
prognosis under siege

The lights of the O.R.
 calling his name
—with hope the last reprieve

(University Of Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Here I stand
in this arena of lost souls
My feet forced me here


My breath fails me
I smell dry tears
Soon,i'll be drunk from it


Tragedy has been here
Pain,a visitor this august
a stranger turned owner


Disaster's home lies here


Family of sorrow,you birthed
its agony fills a book
this houshold despairs


Doom thrives here...

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