Hopeful mind
Time's gone, religion's in decline,
Why don't we care about this line?
Used by tyrants, the poor consider it fate,
Do they care about the poor's state?
The night of darkness started soon,
But still shining the brightest moon.
Tyrants swimming in a pool,
Poor watching, feeling cool
Different religions, different rules.
Poor confused, but they are fools.
Horror dreams, horror thoughts,
They are holding charity
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Categories:
tyrants, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Walk In the Forest
I punched you out for what it was
That small space we call real estate
Beyond the Island of doom the cock doodled at noon
Then I saw that time for you
Became more urgent
More urgent than purchase
I saw haunting silhouettes of the people you drove crazy
I punched the clock that took advantage of time
But you blowed
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Categories:
tyrants, allusion, change, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Sea of Tyrants
When you are lost,
look for the stars.
They share a mission,
lost in time,
lost in graves,
lost in feelings.
Become what you sought out
to become.
There is more than one
of you.
But they reside in
the same body.
Choose wisely
who you befriend.
The world is only cold,
when lost in
someone's hands.
Never abide by regret.
Shade the feeling
of hatred.
Look away from stems
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Categories:
tyrants, 12th grade, allah, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Season of Tyrants
In seasons of great tyrants, love is slain.
Despotic virus rules throughout the lands.
Destruction of the millions brings no gain.
Atomic power rests in godless hands,
who have the means to shelter from black rain.
Perhaps the precipice of World War Three.
Once more self-centered masters preach in rage.
Sick people deemed controllers by decree,
power acts of cruelty on life’s stage,
their
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Categories:
tyrants, earth, leadership, power, war,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Tyrants
An abnormal desire
to scathe and to kill.
If we all let them
they can and they will.
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Categories:
tyrants, war,
Form: Free verse
Tyrants, Despots and Dictators
Tyrants, Despots and Dictators
remember it never ends well for tyrants, despots and dictators
4-13-22
Contest: Bite Size Poem No. 42
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
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Categories:
tyrants, irony, life,
Form: Monoku
Clothes Make the Man
Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear).
– Seneca
About two thousand years ago,
when Quintilianus said it
(at least, that’s who gets the credit),
his paradigm was apropos:
the words “Vestis Virum Reddit.”
Garbed in leather, silks, and cotton,
emperors took his words to heart
(at least, they tried to look the part).
While rags for the misbegotten
kept wealth and hoi
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Categories:
tyrants, history, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Tyrants Walk
Tyrants Walk
What shall I feed my children?
The garden is empty,
the plants have been pulled up.
The dog, we ate already.
There are no rats in the traps.
Instead, they live in the palace,
where the fence is live wire,
and the guns shoot the chickens,
begging for scraps or seed.
People that
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Categories:
tyrants, america, childhood, death, heaven,
Form: Narrative
The Tyrants Den
In tribute to Lt. Col. John W. Bell,
B24 pilot during WWII.
He was an ace in his flying machine,
Could spiral downward at full speed,
Then pull out and level off just in time,
To touch down safely on the landing field.
Well taught and ready for hostile combat,
Sent off to fight, our freedom
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Categories:
tyrants, conflict, courage, flying, freedom,
Form: I do not know?
The Son of Tyrants, Part Ii
Reporters swarmed, the rabid jackals,
around my house they made a big crowd,
even harassed my poor old mother
to the point she could barely go out.
I growled loud at more than a few,
got one locked up for trespassing,
thankfully they found other nonsense
and the frenzy wasn’t long-lasting.
But the damage had truly been done,
the internet will never forget,
I was
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Categories:
tyrants, america, change, dark, family,
Form: Narrative
The Son of Tyrants, Part I
I was born in far Morsania,
a small, backwater Eurasian state,
known to most folk in this wide world
for my grandfather’s prodigious hate.
My given name is Jocefeus,
but I mostly go by Joe these days,
because that tyrant grandpa and I
unfortunately share a name.
I have no real memory of him,
I was a baby when my mom left,
only learned later
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Categories:
tyrants, america, change, dark, family,
Form: Narrative
I Love Africanamerican Christian Culture: Forgiving Slaveholders and Tyrants
Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF
Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus' Gospel
For the same Reason they fled HERE to Native Indian lands
Catholics to Lord Baltimore's Maryland, Puritans to Massachusetts;
Persecuted Quakers to Penn's America - for debts Kings owed the Admiral
(Indentured white
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Categories:
tyrants, africa, bible, black african
Form: Verse
Tyrants of the Ruling Sun
Tyrants of the Ruling Sun
Let the universe swallow my slaving soul
As the sorrows surround the sinking shoal
The light lingers before it falls on my face
Edacious echoes engulfed will embrace
Sisyphean stars of sadness will defuse
The barbarians of Babylon will bemuse
Silent screams slumber in nomadic night
As the dogmas of deceit deluge in delight
Wandering waves of woe thru
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Categories:
tyrants, depression, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Alliteration
War of Tyrants Part 8 Rejoice
Bright sons and daughters of war
Rejoice for you are now the bringers of light
Vanishing the darkness
Now take life by the hand
Tie the threads of a new upbringing
To be in cold, desolated in the nature of evile
Now we can scream from are vocals of joy
We have escaped the void
The chosen few stood against many
Escaping the deepest
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Categories:
tyrants, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
This Is What Tyrants Do, Part 2 of 2
(Victor Hugo fought against the dictator,
first on the barricades, then in scathing
poetry like this - "Souvenir de la nuit du 4".)
She took him to the hearth to warm him up,
not noticing his legs, already stiff.
Alas! Our mortal fires can't give back breath
to those who've felt the icy hand of Death.
She bent
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Categories:
tyrants, political,
Form: Blank verse
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