God, Tell Me Why
...God,
One day, will you tell my why
little babies have to die?
Children starve while mothers cry
Deadly bombs drop from the sky
God, tell me. Tell me why.
God,
Feel the ground about to shake
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Categories:
sniped, angst, christian, death, god,
Form: Rhyme
Who The Police Protect, Part II
......It went up on the internet,
people argued in vain,
some said, “Monster,” some said, “It’s good
that ‘the rich’ know their pain!”
Tyler ignored all the hoopla,
knew nothing would be done,
all...
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Categories:
sniped, conflict, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Narrative
The Nuke
...The wandering clouds, over the Japanese sky
With mirth and joy passing by
Unknown of the upcoming crisis
laugh of folks in merry bliss
The birds chirping, blessing good
never was it prominent an...
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Categories:
sniped, anger, death, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Changes In Me
...Open eyes to bright sunshine
This feels like the first day
Can't imagine what went before
Like a scene from an Ibsen play
The thought of you a lightning bolt
The kind that hits you twice
Yo...
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Categories:
sniped, beautiful, change, destiny, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Peg's Halloween Party
...Last Halloween was scary
with evil brewing strong
when Peggy planned a party
and things went off all wrong
In tatty robe, her hair awry
she slaved all day with care
her neighborhood to satisf...
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Categories:
sniped, funny, halloween, holiday, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Witch Hunt
...There was an old lady, a frumpy old bag
who people called horrid, a witch and a hag
And 'though she was ugly and danced 'mid moonbeams
all was not quite as it might've then seemed
Old-fashioned...
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Categories:
sniped, community, humor, humorous, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Eightieth Trimester, Part Ii
...Hux said,"My mother realized
that I was a being apart,
but if you’re all sure I’m a mistake,
then please, come stab me in the heart.”
To ensure that he drove home his point
he then pulled out ...
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Categories:
sniped, abortion, conflict, courage, culture,
Form: Narrative
Settling Old Grudges, Part I
...This house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did trek.
It had once been a g...
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Categories:
sniped, conflict, confusion, family, father
Form: Narrative
N'Iron
...strife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
thrang in thrall of other realms, banners furling, batons flung
across ...
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Categories:
sniped, community, culture, destiny, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Warm Cup of War
...As the suicide bomber detonates himself at a roadside check
I wait for my coffee machine's light to turn green and beep
Carnage unfolds after all bits of shrapnel finish their courses
I add my spo...
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Categories:
sniped, conflict, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Bound By Ceiling
...Sitting at the edge of a bubble
uncooled, trying to light an eternal flame of anonymity;
counter the wrangler, one skull in each hand,
of ancestors, you prepare for the crime of breaking
the umbilic...
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Categories:
sniped, art,
Form: ABC
A Mothers Tornado That Lands In Quicksand
...This vicious cycle invades masses,
Deception overwhelms their human eyes,
Little ones grow up before you know it,
A mothers lies,
Become her cries.
This disease of the mind keeps her raveled inside,...
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Categories:
sniped, life, mother, recovery from...,
Form: Verse
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...
Doth it not thrill thee, Poet,
Dead and dust though thy art,
To feel how I press thy singing
Close to my heart?
By Richard Le Gallienne
(The Passionate Reader to His Poet)
Mama ha...
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Categories:
sniped, people,
Form: Verse
Like Toy Solidiers
...We fall down,
spit,
fight
get ready for battle.
Almost like it's mandatory-
oh but that wouldn't be story.
It'd ruin the plans,
lose all the fans,
take a way that unique quality,
of taking ...
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Categories:
sniped, death, dedication, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Bound By Ceiling
...Sitting at the edge of a bubble
uncooled, trying to light an eternal flame of anonymity;
counter the wrangler, one skull in each hand,
of ancestors, you prepare for the crime of breaking
the umb...
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Categories:
sniped, childhood
Form: I do not know?
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