Silence in the Cemetery
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Written: May 28, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "If you come to visit my grave, my tomb will appear to dance."By Rumi
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Categories:
typhus, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Rinkydinks: Volume 2
...Q: Who is the current Chief of Staff?
A: The resident President.
Q: What is an old, lame, deaf, half-blind Sherlock Holmes?
A: A defective detective.
Q: Who is the magician who ate all the pa...
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Categories:
typhus, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Bells
...Birth of the Saviour, they announce
With beams of merriment, they bounce
Curiosity they provoke
Spirit-filled graces they invoke
Souls of the holy deities
Brim-fill with infinite gayeties
Beg...
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Categories:
typhus, sound,
Form: Rhyme
A New House
...a new house
I saw a photo from a long time, so long it doesn’t matter when
the photo was taken; by a couple still youngish with four children
of school age outside a newly constructed house
Th...
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Categories:
typhus, blessing, creation, easter, history,
Form: Blank verse
No God For Expiation
...No God for Expiation
By Sy Roth
Held in ungodly thrall
Their bodies wracked blasphmely dry
Loosley held together by the striped cloth.
Typhus-infested, David-starred beasts
Caricatures of h...
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Categories:
typhus, angst, anxiety, dream,
Form: Free verse
Kyra Wants Back In
...Fix up this love or I'm tearing it down
You took a decent house and turned it inside-out
You sealed up the windows and padlocked the doors
Why wasn't I on board with these plans of yours
And no...
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Categories:
typhus, absence, angst, betrayal, funny
Form: Verse
Memories
...Life was harsh for me
very harsh from the beginning, in the little village in Greece.
We hardly had anything to eat because everything was
destroyed by WW2 and by the five years of civil war
tha...
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Categories:
typhus, courage, god, life, memory,
Form: Bio
Irreversible By Design
...thunder is a game i used to play
lightening is the reaction to the end result
hail is the expression of the record of my career and my life
the wind is the temperamental cry of my struggle in deep...
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Categories:
typhus, perspective,
Form: Free verse
America By the Square Foot
...America By the Square Foot
We here in this part of the country,
love God and stand for the flag.
We here in this part of the country,
honor the military,
help widows and orphans...
and ta...
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Categories:
typhus, abuse, depression, devotion, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
They Told Us To Hate, Part Ii
......They told us to hate those people
who take a risk to make profit,
that instead we should idolize
those who say they’re socialist.
Bu t I look a their history,
and it’s utterly insane,
just b...
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Categories:
typhus, hate, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Typhus
...There's a store I frequent they've got really good prices
Can't remember it's name, Naughty Beaver or Happy Typhus
Now I remember
Twas a jungle defender
Giant TIGER it is, needed all my m...
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Categories:
typhus, fun,
Form: Limerick
Kongo
...Kongo
Your past is a mint of blood and tears
Daughters tearing their way to decay
Sons castrated by poverty and superguns,
Kongo, a dream battered and bruised
Your conscience poliorised by...
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Categories:
typhus, abortion, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Death My Pal
...Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth
He liked to play games with me
“Be ready,” he said. “I am coming for you.”
I waited, was all ready to go,
no fear,
no agony...
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Categories:
typhus, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
4 Elements: Water
...t?sse?a st???e?a: ?e??
?e??: mainland china-
the year is 1930 and the
people of china have
been suffering for 2
years now because of
widespread drought which
caused famine in three
northern...
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Categories:
typhus, life
Form: Free verse