our hero has arrived
...OUR Hero Has ARRIVED
When we were children playing in the street
we had our hero, usually a rugged actor
perhaps it was Gary Cooper. He had to be tall
walk with a swagger
To be able to do thin...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, adventure, age, appreciation, best
Form: Free verse
slaying dragons
...Slaying dragons
I sat in my den, trying to compose a poem
which is not easy for a pretender
a scream from the living room, she heard
something in the kitchen and sent me there
to slay the dr...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, adventure, anti bullying, color,
Form: Blank verse
Year of the Rat
...How strange it is and how bizarre
a pandemic should threaten from afar -
some say a bat, some say a lab
and there’s no pill and there’s no jab!
Sniff! Sniff! I smell a virus worse than th...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, evil, political, world,
Form: Couplet
The Dragon
...There are men (fair knights) who always get what they want.
If suddenly, Mr. Knight doesn’t get - say, a girl (the fair maiden) - he’s confused - what IS this, he wonders but he doesn’t KNOW. We wil...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, analogy, character, education, lost,
Form: Free verse
Like Bilbo
...I would like to live in a house in the The Shire;
sit upon the stoop, smoke a pipe, blow fancy rings
into the air.
I would like to go adventuring; slay the dragon,
retrieve it's hoard...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, adventure, fantasy, literature, myth,
Form: Free verse
I, Zombie, Part Iv: the Turning
...In a Zombie’s world
There is no up, only down
And the ground is hard
In a Zombie’s world
There’s no forward, only back
An the doors are barred
But a Zombie’s world
All is not at all as it ...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Haiku
Vodka and Love Songs
...I've got to let go, so I'm hoping my pen can hold this verse
I gave you somewhere to cry and now my shoulders hurt
I slayed the dragon to save you, just for you to stab me in the heart
From now on...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
We Need New Fairy Tales
...As far as this mind can remember
The tales I was told where of a fair maiden
Living in the shadows of despair and pain
Longing for a new life over the jealous hills
So she can be made anew i...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, change, cinderella, life,
Form: Free verse
Last Gasp of a Basilisk Witnessed By Five Italians
...As Michael slay the dragon under God's command
Reni and Palumbo outstretched their hands
As that ancient serpent was finally cast away
Young Jacopo the dyer painted all the day
As the seraph vanq...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, allegory, destiny, evil, faith,
Form: Rhyme
She Was
...She was the picture of peace for my spirit
That picture that said “it’s ok” when I saw it
She was of a good nature mellow down to earth
So worthy that everyday was joyful because of her being my p...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, absence, anger, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme
Flying With Wax Wings
...Is it time again
Is this another day again
where I sit up once more
waste my fingers to the bone
to describe my grievance with the Sorceress
named Sarah...
No...not this time
Is it time again
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Categories:
slay the dragon, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Precious Baby Girl
...Her laughs sweeter than sugar
Dancing around the room In circles
Until she gets dizzy and can't stand no more
Her smile was contagious
Too bad life happened
And that smile had seen its last day...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, abuse, beautiful, deep, depression,
Form: Lyric
A Different Kind of Dragon Slayer
...She moans and tosses
He sleeps lightly as always
And quickly is wide awake
Aware of her every move
He knows what will follow
He is ready
The moaning becomes a scream
He feels the terror
Kn...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Twin Dragons
...The rushes sway gently in the wind
There is sea of them as they murmur in that wind
As wind blows through there appear waves on that sea of reeds
They are as mysterious as the soul
They are bea...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Formula Won
...Untimed
Untamed
In the face of a thousand horsepower
Up rises the man of the hour
His passion peaked
His focus tweaked
Raw
Pure
He spins and loops
Whirlpools each lap
Egos over rev
An enc...
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Categories:
slay the dragon, hero, sports,
Form: Rhyme
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