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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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Jim Yerman
Categories:
sword of damocles,
inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
sword of damocles,
allegory, anxiety, horror, poetry,
Form:
Verse
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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Hilo Poet
Categories:
sword of damocles,
allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
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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Jim Yerman
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
sword of damocles,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Oluseyi Akinbami
Categories:
sword of damocles,
allegory, bible, christian, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
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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Oluseyi Akinbami
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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Matthew Harris
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
sword of damocles,
anger, city, corruption, education,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
sword of damocles,
analogy, anxiety, conflict, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Augustine Ogoegbunam Eseke
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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Matthew Harris
Categories:
sword of damocles,
america, change, conflict, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
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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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
sword of damocles,
animal, dog, encouraging, imagery,
Form:
Tristich
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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David Kavanagh
Categories:
sword of damocles,
allegory, conflict, earth day,
Form:
Quatrain
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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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
sword of damocles,
9th grade, child, encouraging,
Form:
Acrostic
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