Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool
...Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool...
because you watch
and see that democracy will unspool
military (intelligent)
industrial complex tool
at Trump's beck and ca...
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Categories:
thwart, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
BEYOND THE VEIL
...
Handicapped by charades,
A cacophony of voices
Comes from the real owners of the world
Who gather, roar, and whisper in a coven.
Wolly bat and tongie dog
Adorned with black wrappers
Teeth...
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Categories:
thwart, 12th grade, identity, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I Wonder What Anne Frank Would Say
...Anne* Frank's earthly life, coldly cut short,
yet, in our hearts and minds, she always lives,
as, it seems, her spirit no one could thwart,
nor the humanity her message gives.
Sorry if I ...
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Categories:
thwart, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
...As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
Vultures swooped overhead
and preyed on my vulnerabilities
forcing me to carrion camping
as fine young cannibals
sharpened their knives
an...
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Categories:
thwart, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Excellent marksmen women set his her sites
...Excellent marksmen/women set his/her sites...
I can hold out for upcoming mental health therapy until Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Yes, and you (like I) will probably presume me deservedly cursed for...
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Categories:
thwart, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Doing absolute zero endeavors
...Doing absolute zero endeavors
Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
othe...
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Categories:
thwart, absence, adventure, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
A Baby with its Mother
...
The baby sat joyfully on her lap
The mother on his tender thighs did tap
It tickled the boy to laugh and laugh
He was just one and a half
Both invariably enjoyed that sport
No on...
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Categories:
thwart, beautiful, child, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Prisoner of Poetry
...Metaphors and similes flow freely from my pen
when I am scripting and scribing in poetic verse.
Across the width of pale parchment pages
the nib of my feathered pen continues to traverse.
Ink c...
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Categories:
thwart, muse,
Form: Rhyme
The Titan
...The Titan
They say he is a callous narcissist, all great men in our civilizations were self-focused it is what made them hated by some and loved by others We are confronted with a person who only ...
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Categories:
thwart, anti bullying, creation, dream,
Form: ABC
WILD HEARTS
...She said, “Show me a world that’s different from mine!”
Tranquility’s lost on the wildest of hearts
Too tame and mundane for a diamond to shine
There’s not enough love here, in a cold work of art....
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Categories:
thwart, feelings, natural disasters,
Form: Ballad
When the Trump Blows
...Oh, not again, the voices sigh,
The star-spangled banner hangs heavy in the sky.
The 47th dawns, his name the same,
Is this a new chapter, or a replay of blame?
What will he do? The whispers co...
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Categories:
thwart, freedom, future, judgement, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Fruit of Faith
...Failure is a weed that sprouts from unbelief,
Choking out the more desirable fruit of faith.
Marvel at how God weeds out unbelief:
The little girl's confidence in God's power,
The prophet's reli...
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Categories:
thwart, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Dark Juane
...Sandy sat staring down at the cracked photoed frame. Two little smiling princesses playing in the mud. She loves traveling in her dreams, imagining glowing and bickering in Juane's sweet sweet nectar...
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Categories:
thwart, care, dark, dream, evil,
Form: Prose Poetry
Art going bananas
...Art’s going bananas well nigh--
Apple still of many an eye
And an object of art
Winning no mean a heart,
Why a banana taped for millions vie--
A fruit best in ape’s hand,
In lewd limerick’s lan...
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Categories:
thwart, art, humor,
Form: Limerick
Common Sense Returns
...The country spoke in numbers strong
rejecting notions, we knew were wrong.
Porous borders against our laws,
defund police, those thoughts are flawed.
In regards to the letters,
DEI and CRT
re...
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Categories:
thwart, simple, truth, usa,
Form: Rhyme
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