15 July Coup Attempt Turkiye
...Life goes out but faith will not from this body
Heads may be cut but Islam will not from this land
A holy town of Quran you are at your starboard crescent
Mountains and rocks all cry out freedom a...
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Categories:
turks, hero, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
July first two thousand and twenty five
...July first two thousand and twenty five...
signals the eighth year we lived
at our present location,
where fringe benefits (a plug) for perks
living at 2 highland manor drive.
Expanse of green...
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Categories:
turks, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Bitterness now worshipped as religion
...In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers –
lifestreams of Rossiyane and T...
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Categories:
turks, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
After the Flood
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AFTER THE FLOOD
Mount Ararat holds a testament
of stories told in ancient texts,
and stories shared down generations;
the aftermath of catastrophe.
Place names are the remembering
of gra...
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Categories:
turks, childhood, history,
Form: Free verse
Song of The Anemones No 4: AABB
..."*Oui, the winner, American Beauty,"
yet hail these 'Windflowers' Anemones,
flourished yon 'Down Under', 'Aussiszlanders,
indeed a showstopper for bystanders
of all but Europe, Turks, then South ...
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Categories:
turks, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Fringe Benefits a Plug For Perks Yo Man Living At 2 Highland Manor Drive
...Fringe benefits (a plug) for perks (yo man) living at 2 highland manor drive
Expanse of green acres draped
like a petticoat when ye arrive
birds of a feather flock together
and bees gather coll...
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Categories:
turks, adventure, age, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44
Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings,
so please do not hashtag me
as worse than an ingrate
or o...
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Categories:
turks, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Contested Crossroads
...Contested Crossroads
By Mark D. Stucky
On a battleground bloodied across millennia,
on a compact land bridge spanning continents and gods…
Canaanites, Philisti...
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Categories:
turks, conflict, hate, political, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Rohtaas Fort
...(1)
O Thou the beauteous lofty fort!
O ancient manse O royal court!
O land of beauteous holy dream!
Thou art a shield of mortal mort
Thou midst of ancient royal mead
A royal shade A royal ...
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Categories:
turks, earth, freedom, history, passion,
Form: Ode
Edward Thomas Wrote Over 140 Poems In Two Years and I'M Going To Do the Same
...There was that bloke:
That war poet?
Rupert Brooke
He apparently said; and I quote
I suddenly realised that
The
Ambition of my life has
Been - since I was two - to go on a military exped...
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Categories:
turks, africa, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Not Part of the Plan
...The Armenians are’t wanted,
Christians in Muslim land,
we have to make Turkey for Turks,
they’re not part of the plan.
The kulaks are class enemies,
hoarding all the best land,
it’s fine to s...
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Categories:
turks, death, evil, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Have a Parade
...~ Let's Have a Parade ~
A Shriner drives his little car
Hairpin turns upon a star
Red-fezzed Turks play guitars
Let’s have a parade…
A marching band is next in line
Buglers trumpet no...
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Categories:
turks, celebration, encouraging, friendship, fun,
Form: Rhyme
If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:Lxxxiv
...If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI
[Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.]
If...
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Categories:
turks, america, child abuse,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
You Are Owed No Reparations, Part I
...You hear it said a lot these days,
“Reparations! Someone must pay!
Our ancestors suffered, it’s true!
For that we’ve come to take from you!”
Now we could just point out the fact
none of us were ...
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Categories:
turks, africa, anger, history, how
Form: Rhyme
Savages
...You see it in the old movies,
when Indians come into play,
somebody calls them,”savages,”
and it seems to fry people’s brains.
They flip out, demand censorship,
know nothing of real history,
ca...
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Categories:
turks, history, horror, how i
Form: Rhyme
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