Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
Preface:
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on Union-occupied
Fort Sumter off the South Carolina coast.
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
Starting but not completely reading a
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Categories:
tantamount, absence, america, anxiety, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Rise Nigerian Youth
Hello Nigerian youth!
How are doing?
I salute your courage
I salute your resolve
To take back your country
Bedeviled by evils of unimaginable proportion
That threaten and becloud your future
You are leaders of today
Making you believe otherwise
Tantamount to fraud
Say no to divide and rule tactics
A booby trap to keep you subjugated
Stand firm
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Categories:
tantamount, birth, bullying, confidence, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Tantamount
TANTAMOUNT:
Whether by genes or by blood,
Whether by menage or by clan,
Whether by power or by class,
Whether by race or by nationality,
Whether by age or by gender,
We are all tantamounted inherently.
None of us is special above the other,
For we all have our unique qualities.
Everybody is yoked with weaknesses,
And with strengths... inseparably.
So why should I
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Categories:
tantamount, age, birth, creation, people,
Form: Personification
Tantamount
To you I'm a number
A census head count
A baseline, statistic
Not special
Tantamount
A blip on a radar
A bump in the road
I'm just human traffic
A bipedal drone
I'm only a age range
A line on a graph
A check with a Bic pen
A dot on a map
I want you see me
Know who I am
That I breathe,
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Categories:
tantamount, angst, desire, hurt, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
To Trump Was Tantamount
To Trump Was Tantamount
We read a blow by blow account
That never arrived at a fair amount
And the further into we all digged
Discovered system had been rigged
That to each fact was tantamount.
Jim Horn
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx
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Categories:
tantamount, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Tantamount To a Trinity
Rejoicing tongues taste a tripled fortnight of psalms.
Parched throats anointed with vintage myrrh
commemorate a solemn departure.
Hands reflecting no piercings -
Feet devoid of spiked reverence and divinity
expire within the jackal’s private Calvary;
a dark abyss strangled with misguided beggars
blindly choosing a Dante's purgatory for themselves.
For they shun not the light dispersing absolution - selfish claws
steal
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Categories:
tantamount, faith, inspirational, on writing
Form: Free verse