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Thwacks Poems - Poems about Thwacks


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

Premium MemberTHE 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




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