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Tripoli Poems - Poems about Tripoli
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Your Hands Are Not Clean, America
...Your lips preach freedom, but your hands drip with the oil of innocent blood. You speak of peace, but your bombs have baptized the earth in chaos. I have seen your flags fly high in Baghdad, i......
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Chanda Katonga
Categories:
tripoli,
love,
Form:
Free verse
An Invitation to the Dance
...We’re in the Souk in somewhere like Baghdad, but not so land-locked. Tripoli, more like. “He stole an apple – catch the little tyke!” The hue and cry goes up. They chase the lad, whose crime is h......
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Michael Coy
Categories:
tripoli,
integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
L M N O P Q R S T
...Layla, Lilly and Lollypop lollygagged through life Making musical merry mischief for Mr. Farmer’s wife Nestling near nasty Nicholas’ notoriously sharp needy knife Optimizing oscillating orneriness......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
tripoli,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
ABC
shipwreck
...Shipwrecked He was Japanese, smiled politely and took his shoes off I smiled also, it was the right thing for us to do, shipwrecked sat in a rubber raft of the type leaving Tripoli Lib......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
tripoli,
8th grade, absence, angst,
Form:
Blank verse
Deployed to Kuwait
...The camel musk entered my tent today a quiet sand storm arouse the warm wind settled outside white garments blew in the breeze i could hardly collect myself my thoughts were on American t......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
tripoli,
allah,
Form:
Munajat
Just Another African
...Just another African Once full of sun and hope Train to Venice from Milan At the end of your rope Horrors seen at just 19 Crammed onto a flatbed Desert burning red Human carrion in the sand O......
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Sharon Keely
Categories:
tripoli,
africa, boat, discrimination, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Mafioso Mouse
...There is a famous shore of Tripoli Extremely far from Little Italy Holy Montezeuma Did you hear the rumor Mafioso Mouse ~ now in Kissimmee......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
tripoli,
celebrity, silly,
Form:
Limerick
This Ancient Heart
...POEM " ANCIENT HEART " by martin gedge Tears will fall from aging eyes to drop into the sea and turn to stone from the depths of Rome to the shores or Tripoli and lights of fire to burn the skie......
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Martin Gedge
Categories:
tripoli,
conflict, courage, heart, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Internet Iniquity, Injustice and Impertinence
...Iniquity, impunity, injustice invade Internet interaction Alongside odious obliteration and cunning coercion Facilitated and militated with unabashed attention and intention To minutest detai......
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John Sensele
Categories:
tripoli,
poems,
Form:
Free verse
Aeon
...Old man looking back in time He remembers it well when the Mediterranean was rich grassland had many lakes and the people living there never starved. A mountain ridge between Spain and Afr......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
tripoli,
absence, adventure, age, allusion,
Form:
Blank verse
Tripoli
...Fray full fantasies fill frightful phrases. Sight of faint light fades thru hills of forgotten shade. Sweat lingers to slidepanfulls of forgotten tide. Only lesions of rain play spiteful thru forbidd......
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Jason Jenkins
Categories:
tripoli,
beautiful, creation, desire, devotion,
Form:
Classicism
Cursed African
...21st January 2013 at the US capitol Was the day men saw their idol. He stood, brisk and spry, And his order, no man could defy. Africans and Caucasians stood in awe For Obama was indeed a man of......
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Temajung Michael Tanjang
Categories:
tripoli,
africa, betrayal,
Form:
Blank verse
Vacation
...Vacation I have been invited to the golden coast of Spain White beaches blue sea, cooling in the sun. The Mediterranean postcard beauty, tempting It is also full of thousands of dead bodies.......
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Categories:
tripoli,
absence, abuse, angel,
Form:
Verse
Hillary As Envoy To Tripoli
...For bi-partisan gift to Hillary, Trump might name her envoy to Tripoli. If she flubbed for heavens sake, "What difference would it make!" Except some more well-deserved pillory! Robert......
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Robert L. Hinshaw
Categories:
tripoli,
humorous, political,
Form:
Limerick
The Marching Band Played John Philip Sousa
...The marching band played John Philip Sousa My daddy held my hand Lining the streets elbows to my head My daddy put me on his shoulders, where I could stand ~ The marching marines stopp......
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Bonnie Jennings
Categories:
tripoli,
child, nostalgia, patriotic,
Form:
I do not know?
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