Pale Words Riding the Revolution
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“Pale Words Riding the Revolution”
it takes a woman
to bear the pain
of a world ripping
wide open, apart
a part,
the child
crowns crimson
marked forehead
c...
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Categories:
trojans, horse, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Holes, What Are They Good For?
...Somebody should start digging,
a big hole, we need a big hole.
Big enough for 300 babies, 300 children,
300 young women,
300 old women
300 fighting men, 300 just talking men.
300 charging hor...
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Categories:
trojans, poetry,
Form: Free verse
frightening barn owl masks
...I have seen masks that give me a fright
But the barn owl masks are truly not right
They turn the warriors into crying babies.
Running away as if we all have rabies.
The barn owl masks are spook...
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Categories:
trojans, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Epilogue
...A flash of light,
Yes, in her eyes
Was the only gesture
Of a sign in the first
Adam when he met her.
Time of his manhood
Glows like moonbeam
That coy the sun.
There was terrible toil,
For...
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Categories:
trojans, inspirational, myth, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Deliver Us From the Future
...Oh, Electromagnetic spectrum,
Forgive us our transgressive Trojans,
As we forgive those who send us viruses, malware, and spam.
The configuration of wisdom starts with a simple click,
Encrypted c...
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Categories:
trojans, 12th grade, analogy, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Hector
...In ages long ago, when heroes roamed the earth
And gods and monsters roamed the land,
There was a mighty warrior known throughout the realm
As the greatest of them all, a man of might and courage,...
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Categories:
trojans, character, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Epic
Memento Mori
...What good would it do,
Son of Peleus,
To pull that arrow from your heel?
As you lie there helpless,
Legs useless and folded beneath you.
Your hand clenched around its fletchings
Searching for...
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Categories:
trojans, mythology,
Form: Ekphrasis
Athena
...A bold warrior goddess
Aided Odysseus
As he murdered Trojans
Adjusts Medusa to
A scary Gorgon, FREEZE
Aptly spins perfect web
Arachne can’t surpass.
2.22.22
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Categories:
trojans, mythology,
Form: Pleiades
The Get-Together
...The Get-together
Like crispy autumn leaves
tinged in vibrant orange hues,
that drop and freely float ;
Before settling for some rest,
Unless the breeze waltz
makes them dance to its tun...
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Categories:
trojans, beautiful, friendship, fun, giggle,
Form: Verse
Trojan Horse
...TROJAN HORSE
A decade long battle left them exhausted,
Squeezing mettle, dusky vigour fading,
Tired warriors, planning failing,
Dejected lay the war songs ashore!
Wisest of the mighty Greeks...
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Categories:
trojans, courage, dedication, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Symbiosis
...Like tyrant Trojans
pandemic prophets proclaim…
Habitual horrid hosts
the wolf seeds the lamb,
Fallacious fevers encroach-
masters of mayhem dictate.
( 5,7,7,5,7,7 syllab...
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Categories:
trojans, conflict, future, storm,
Form: Sedoka
The Treasures In Old Books
...The treasures in old books
Historic events,
The times that have been,
Adventures to live in,
Those wonderful dreams.
Thrillers and killers,
And spies by the score,
Dancing, romancing,
The h...
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Categories:
trojans, appreciation, books, imagination,
Form: Verse
Damned Patrons' Victims Proved Helpless Agonised
...damned patrons' victims proved helpless agonised
ministers agonised inside wombs, starlit shields of beheaded
offenders glassfuls of blood, elegant marks indelible, bricks in moonlit lorn
pits, go...
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Categories:
trojans, allegory, allusion, dream, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Underpass
...The Underpass
By Lola
It was the right place at the wrong time
They had the right words but not the ryhme
They lay trojans in each others broken minds
There was evidence of passion without th...
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Categories:
trojans, addiction, depression, fate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Woolly Wolf
...Mixologist witch. You serve a drink but with a nasty twist. You said you despair, as you’ll so easily break a pair? Never a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, always a spoonful of saccha...
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Categories:
trojans, anger, hate,
Form: Free verse
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