Wishful Thinking
...It's the New Year's boom
with colored fireworks lauding,
the toast of the town.
The proud, old guard has vanished,
with its dreams, yet unvanquished.
Hues light the plum night;
'midst crash a...
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Categories:
unvanquished, celebration, color, dream, memory,
Form: Tanka
The Dying of America
...A painful darkness looms within this land.
The prized American Dream is now at bay,
by foolish minds that failed to understand,
their precious price of freedom cast away.
A time of maniacs has ...
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Categories:
unvanquished, abuse, america, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Two Sisters
...Deafening Silence
By Sy Roth
Are they going to die like that
Buried under the silt of time with it all unresolved?
Are they a ribonucleic disaster, a broken string of DNA
Deposited in a wear...
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Categories:
unvanquished, anger, break up,
Form: Free verse
Various Heresies 5
...Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temple...
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Categories:
unvanquished, creation, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Verse
Observations On the Bridge
...Hart Crane tribute
forsake our eyes
in a lovers cry
&sigh
shadows sweep decends
that
doubtful day:
a lie revealed
now proved
first seen
in its fall
on a cloud
beyond...
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Categories:
unvanquished, literature, people,
Form: Ekphrasis
Trump
...Triumphed against all enemies
Remaining unvanquished
Uniting all who oppose him
Might makes right
Patriots unite behind the Great Leader...
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Categories:
unvanquished, america, anger, angst, howl,
Form: Acrostic
The Ham Was Off
...After: "Letter of Mithridates to Phraates, King of Parthia"
Historiae VI by Sallust
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I am a man more poisoned against than poisoning.
That’s my version anyhow, an...
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Categories:
unvanquished, character, environment, , western,
Form: Blank verse
Longing and Belongings
...It's not without reason that it rained that day.
Those winter clouds were paler than my dead
grandmother's face. The wet blanket, which
the morning air wrapped around my sleepless
back, bore no p...
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Categories:
unvanquished, conflict, feelings, i am,
Form: Free verse
Demonicalicosis
...DEMONICALICOSIS
Revel in past doubt, mistakes
Deny as devils casted out the gates
You can hear the coyotes in rank hysteria
As they salivate and moan for more putrid failure.
Waiting to be rippe...
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Categories:
unvanquished, absence, addiction, angel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Digital Smoke Signals
...Digital Smoke Signals
by Odin Roark
Yesterdays keep pushing todays into tomorrows,
Yet history’s boyhood games
Remain in limbo with sand paintings
Holding imagination delic...
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Categories:
unvanquished, history,
Form: Free verse
Unvanquished Cold Turkey
...And now and then eager lips
Give way to trips
But then again a composed mind
Tries to bind....
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Categories:
unvanquished, depression, recovery from...,
Form: Haiku
The Being (Part One)
...Aeons and Aeons and Aeons of Energy
Beaming Both Ways into Infinity
Ultimate – Top Level – Supremacy
Pure – Power, Full-Force – Almighty
… Too Awesome in The Intensity
for Either you or me, to...
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Categories:
unvanquished, dedication, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
At Last In Love At Sea (Sonnet)
...Our qualms doth not live aloft our dreams to confer
Upon heavenly horizons where every soul shall dwell
Twas meant to turneth thy sight away from a lovers stare
Should sunshine always show, sho...
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Categories:
unvanquished, adventure, death, devotion, life,
Form: Sonnet
Shrapnel of Karma
...To the North, South, East, and West...
Geniuses are lost in the jaunty jewels of rakish cads,
The hazard morsel palaver allot odium on idioms...
Rankle virulent mishmash wheeze addle chagrin...
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Categories:
unvanquished, adventure, anniversary, education, children,
Form: Imagism