Angst Tail-Rhyme Poems

Too steep! Too steep!
I simply cannot sleep
I should be off in slumberland
The hill! The hill!
Its incline haunts me still
What if it does not go as...

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When a black man has a knee pressed against his throat
police brutality has no known antidote.
He can't breathe, cut no slack.

Though obviously choking, they ignored...

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Live your life gratefully,

       believing it's been blessed.

       It will happily be so.


Spend...

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Our mundane obsessions 
have marred and blurred 
the glorious vista of our Sky.


        Our idolatries of the day...

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To undo what was done,

       to find again what was gone,

        ...

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I’ve felt loneliness break my heart
while searching for my counterpart,
someone who’ll love me from the start.
Time slipped away!

In a myriad of places
amidst a thousand strange...

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Death came for you on a midsummer's eve,
and there was nothing I could do but grieve.
As a dying sun sets.

The air smelled of roses starting...

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I smell the coppery sweet scent of blood,
a soldier lies dead, his face in the mud.
I mourn the soldier's death.

War is a putrid expanding abyss,
where...

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My Friends, My Faith, My Hope

My friends infuses our time spent together
As musk from a perfume seller,
Time spent in their knowledgeable company priceless,
Positive demeanor, manner,...

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Beneath the skin we are all brothers.
Why do we maim and kill each other?
We are all the same.
Is there a God that applauds bloodshed?
What dark...

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I'll open the windows to dry the tears that flow,

Endless grief and emptiness are on it’s blow,

Fate seems to be enjoying itself playing the part...

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When city lights fade, red to kohl

Sullen this dusk rising to cajole,

Pain beckons its shades

As flickering dreams sail on flights;

To unearth memoirs that recite

Wails stabbed...

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He sits and wonders why he's here
As his tears flow into his beer
Deep inside where the pain is kept
His whole life he has felt so...

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What is a silly boy to do?
He wants to find a love that's true.

Drawn to sexy and so bad.

Duty says a wife and mother
Still attracted...

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I want so much total tail rhyme
if only to ring your cold chime,
desperate... I am for
in this troubled world i seek
someone i care for in...

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