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Sword Of Damocles Poems - Poems about Sword Of Damocles

Premium Member HOW DO WE LAUGH AND DANCE AND SING
... How do we find time to laugh, to dance, to sing in times as uncertain as these? When so many men, women and children in the world live under a sword of Damocles. For me it goes back to when I w......

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Categories: sword of damocles, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Tossed Grenade
..."Watch out! This here is much worse than falling timber!" --quote by poet You flirt with risk one too many times. The pin is p u l l e d; it's now airborne. Oh boy, you've really overdone......

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Categories: sword of damocles, allegory, anxiety, horror, poetry,
Form: Verse



Premium Member If Anything Be
...'Twas bit of a joke for most of the folk that had rallied round the town 'twas the first I heard a bit absurd so I went and asked around 'twas up the hill and down again......

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Categories: sword of damocles, allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE EVOLUTION OF MY PRAYING
... Growing up in the Catholic Church the rules and regulations were so demanding… but it was the dichotomy of the nuns behavior I had trouble understanding. How they could be so brutal in their at......

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Categories: sword of damocles, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of Damocles
...Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches global threat half cocked. Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttime......

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Categories: sword of damocles, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member War War War
...Ease is to your own ruin, to this fight at once, Life offers no escape, Fight you must. No candies or featherbed on your way, No comfort or ease along your path, the dagger dangles over th......

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Categories: sword of damocles, allegory, bible, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poison
...A Concealed exercise concocted, Wuhan Lab the playground, secretive China obliges, Western media consenting, Medical experts silenced. the age of censorship, Dictators feigning incognit......

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Categories: sword of damocles, abuse, america, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones Kristallnacht
...Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttimes iterated throughout history though an atheist (actually Unitarian), no doubt this, that or another psalm countles......

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Categories: sword of damocles, abuse, angst, bullying, environment,
Form: Rhyme
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable
...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)... ready for night time in bedlam after swallowing me favorite dram, cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam. Whiling away his time playing solitaire.........

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Categories: sword of damocles, anger, city, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Dangerous Ground
...tiptoeing through a minefield of disaster in-between games of love and war. the heart's timpani drum faster and faster; the sword of damocles soon t......

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Categories: sword of damocles, analogy, anxiety, conflict, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Side Chick Legend
...I am a side chick I have existed from time immemorial In ancient times I was a prostitute In biblical times a concubine Otherwise known as a mistress The other woman She that never ......

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Categories: sword of damocles, business, conflict, corruption, extended
Form: Free verse
A Hoodlum Albeit Respectable In Bedlam
...A hoodlum, (albeit respectable) in bedlam whiling away his time playing solitaire... November second two thousand and twenty fast approaching the final countdown With less than twenty four, t......

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Categories: sword of damocles, america, change, conflict, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stray Dog Roaming
...Oh, where did you come from? The sad sight of you breaks my heart in two. I see that you're lost, scared, disheveled and emaciated. You wan......

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Categories: sword of damocles, animal, dog, encouraging, imagery,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member 100 Seconds To Midnight
...An endangered species, living on a ledge, 100 seconds to Midnight, then over the edge, Nearest to Doomsday, humans have ever been, Vaporised! inside mushrooms of boiling hot steam. Casually go ......

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Categories: sword of damocles, allegory, conflict, earth day,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Consequences
...Choices you make in life, kid, especially abominable Ones eventually lead you down the road to perdition Never keep dangerous company; it could cost y......

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Categories: sword of damocles, 9th grade, child, encouraging,
Form: Acrostic

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