9 DEAD BODIES BURNED ALIVE BY GARGANO LAYING IN THE HALLS
...THE BODIES REMAINED IN THE HALLS DUE TO THE SMALL EXAM ROOMS NO DOCTOR COULD WORK IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE NO DOCTOR WOULD SQUEEZE A CROWD INTO A TINY ROOM IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN CIRO GARGANO DECIDED TO SLA...
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Categories:
smoke filled, allah,
Form: Naat
Death of a Young King
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Eight of the strongest and bravest of warriors were gathered in all
Each chosen for their strength, each the same in weight and in tall
Their task was not an easy one there to carry home their ...
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Categories:
smoke filled, death,
Form: Ballad
wildfire
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flames burn
sky smoke filled
dark like late day
the smell of burnt wood drifts-
I weep...
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Categories:
smoke filled, fire,
Form: Cinqku
Fire - Joseph Wright of Derby - 1395
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The fire was an obvious choice of landscape art for the painter to accentuate the effect between moonlight and smoke filled sky so dark.
A canvas illuminating the power of vivid red hot to stark.
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Categories:
smoke filled, fire,
Form: Ekphrasis
Milton Creek Election Week
...Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue
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Categories:
smoke filled, america, conflict, prison,
Form: Narrative
A Career in Undercover
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It's no surprise
that I'm back here
looking out over the river,
painting thoughts, dripping
memories, smearing streaks
of the here and now
across the canvas of a dull,
overcast day.
Th...
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Categories:
smoke filled, art, business, career, poets,
Form: Free verse
what must I say to get you to speak
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what must I say to get you to speak—
I’ve tried the soft approach,
the hard approach,
drank whiskey alone in dark corners
wrote letters I never sent
screamed at the night sky
asking the moon ...
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Categories:
smoke filled, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
White Smoke
...Perhaps the new pope
Can offer some hope
To those who are lost and in need,
But to ones who can’t cope,
At the end of their rope,
That improvement is not guaranteed.
Though white smoke fille...
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Categories:
smoke filled, change,
Form: Rhyme
9 HELPLESS PERSONS BURNED ALIVE BY GARGANO OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY
...NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO ME 9 HELPLESS PERSONS PERISHED MOST FROM NO AIR SMOKE FILLED THE BUILDINGS OTHER REACHING FIR HELP WHILE THE BLAZE CAUGHT ON THE PANELING PAISLEY DRAPES APRONS HOUSE DRESSES...
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Categories:
smoke filled, allah,
Form: Naat
AM PM Revisited
...I wrote this on a bus ride through the city
An early morning excursion with no sleep
A chance encounter flooded by unknown
Original reference AM/PM 26 years ago
The gritty rhyme blindly spoke f...
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Categories:
smoke filled, memory,
Form: Free verse
Digital Regret
...Digital Regret
Smoke filled the room as dark shadows play,
A man sat lost, day after day,
With a mouse gripped tight in hand,
In a pixelated world, hes made his stand.
The hours slip...
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Categories:
smoke filled, addiction, change, children, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Your sorrows
...My friend, how deep can be your sorrows?
Through smoke filled maze of modern days
When time flies by in bleary haze
And we don't know about tomorrow?
Your eyes, once bright and full of life,
N...
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Categories:
smoke filled, friendship, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
The voice of Emilien
...The voice of Emilien
(A lone voice whispers)
I once met the King of all Darkness
In France
As we played poker for my soul
In a burnt out house
While Edith Piaf sang
La vie en rose ...
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Categories:
smoke filled, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Player's Lament
...In cozy sweaters, played with fire,
While smoke rings danced up high and higher;
Seven years of warmth I'd known,
Till her spark made me her own.
Through Italy, in knitted threads,
While cigar...
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Categories:
smoke filled, betrayal, crazy, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Intact
...Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can't hurt me so let's draw a truce lock arms and go dancing under this year's 1st full moon. Giving all praise to my creator while you give praise to h...
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Categories:
smoke filled, allusion, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
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