Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
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Categories:
thwacks, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
THE CORRUPT GUTTER
...There’s a constant hammering
Alongside my bedroom window
Repercussions of a corrupt gutter
The maddening drain
Obstinately and persistently has refused
All rehabilitation efforts
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Categories:
thwacks, corruption, metaphor, political, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Depressing Times
...Oh thwacks of pain,
You made slightest of my optimism go vain!
Swirls, oh I feel momentary,
Made my actions in a longer run to be involuntary!...
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Categories:
thwacks, dark, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Oblique
...Oblique!
(The day the gray line Wavered)
It was hot again, for the third straight day, but it was the 3rd of July; the time the place was Gettysburg and the year was sixty-three
The fence is ...
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Categories:
thwacks, war,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal
...The tree does not at the hewing suffer
Albeit the callous thwacks all edges raining down
Nor the tons of muscles befalling on its cadaver
But savvy ing a bisection of the axe stems from her own
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Categories:
thwacks, betrayal,
Form: Free verse