Here Smells Hell
...Hell smells on this nice land
Land where there is severe killing
Killing of innocent people
People hating their neighbors
Neighbors with grudge
Grudge against everything
Everything has deca...
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Categories:
squadrons, abuse, conflict, hate, horror,
Form: Free verse
A Little Ants Sword
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Sam is a novice gardener who stamps on all ants
He doesn't like them near or crawling on his plants
Their Queen was angry and wanted revenge
For the ones that had fallen she wanted to avenge.
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Categories:
squadrons, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Aquarium
...Dim tunnels curve a segmented ocean.
Bat-winged feeding specters
browse glass. Scaly hulls
blow gas tanks. Rainbow skimmers
flick and soar.
A child’s sweet nose pressed
against a face so horr...
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Categories:
squadrons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Oak
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"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
y...
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Categories:
squadrons, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Blue Avians and the Poetic State of Mind
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"Blue Avians and the Poetic State of Mind
post apocalypse
the mother
sought the assistance
of Blue Avians.
when it came to
eggs stolen from a nest
who better than ...
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Categories:
squadrons, muse, psychological, symbolism, war,
Form: Narrative
Dragon Days
...The stables stretch gloomily yawningly empty
Carefully cleaned and tended each single day,
As they have timelessly been, keeping pledge
Ever since the Royal Dragons had flown away
Through that ga...
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Categories:
squadrons, fantasy, imagery, imagination, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
The Usa Is Not Perfect
...The USA is not perfect
never has been
never will be
Unlike Russia, which has
‘no alcohol problem’
‘no civil disobedience’
‘no LGBTQ populace’
Not to mention no truth i...
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Categories:
squadrons, america, history, international, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Aquarium
...Dim tunnels curve a segmented ocean.
Bat-winged feeding specters
browse glass. Scaly hulls
blow, rainbow skimmers
flick and shimmer.
A child’s sweet nose pressed
against a face so horrible,
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Categories:
squadrons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cross Demons
...I had a dream that squadrons of crosses were falling from heaven,
upon striking the ground they instantly turned into demons
Wielding scythes, they began cutting down the screaming masses.
I was ...
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Categories:
squadrons, heaven, hello, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
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"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"
Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
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Categories:
squadrons, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Aquarium
...Dim tunnels curve a segmented ocean.
Bat-winged feeding specters
browse glass. Scaly hulls
blow gas tanks. Rainbow skimmers
flick and soar.
A child’s sweet nose pressed
against a face so horr...
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Categories:
squadrons, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Muttering Mosquitoes
...mosquitoes mutter
against the backyard deck screens
they say let us in
kamakazie rain
drops shower on their squadrons
that's evolution
life just comes and goes
as if of it's own accord
a...
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Categories:
squadrons, allegory, analogy, animal,
Form: Haiku
The Last Frailty
...monstrous sound slashes silence
the bellow of a giant beast,
or the flutter of a thousand wings
elevations and indiscriminate creed will not heed
sinister stirs the mix, the rise o...
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Categories:
squadrons, animal, bird, flying, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
Irony In the Sky
...White chevron squadrons usher in spring
With squawking and honking and flapping of wings.
Their return brings a weekend to revel in fun.
The locals all love it, and hundreds more come!
But the po...
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Categories:
squadrons, spring,
Form: Couplet
Bleeding Before Rome -2
...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
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Categories:
squadrons, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
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