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Premium MemberVIGILANTES

...VIGILANTES

The elder trees stretch skyward in a lace of silent bark.  Wands of rising branches become dancing silhouettes in the pale moonlight. The wind dies, and the limb...
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Categories: vigilantes, 12th grade, tree,
Form: Haibun

Dirt Road

...We built this house
On a dirt road at the edge of the forest
And between two coyotes dens
So it’s hard to know if the howling at night
Is sibling rivalry or civil war
Serenade or sacrifice

Th...
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Categories: vigilantes, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFreedom's Fragile Chains

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Overcrowded prisons,
brings joy to early released criminals.
Taxpayers may be happy,
but there's predators at playgrounds,
rapists at bars,
stalkers, stalking,
violent hooligans back at match...
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Categories: vigilantes, allusion,
Form: Free verse

The Branches

...Thorns and prickles dangle at the root of the tree and the temperature is shouting at a hundred and seventy degree; destiny is baking a global cake and you have to get your slice before they close th...
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Categories: vigilantes, business, career, color, creation,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberNight Creatures

...Like a gecko, that one changes their colours
speaks in tongues long then short blue
climbing up and down walls clicking
translating the draconians’ poetic profusions
all are night creatures in th...
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Categories: vigilantes, mirror, muse,
Form: Free verse



For the Birds, What In the Flock

...Yardbirds are hopefully smug cockfully strutting, 
     cutting a rug?

         Parked car birds are vigilant vigilantes? 

          No, they're nust enjoying a juicy bug?

         Dejour, ...
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Categories: vigilantes, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWords in the Wind

...Words in the Wind

By Mark D. Stucky
Winds carried away the words
that Jesus, the Word made flesh,
wrote in the dust,
while sitting near a trembling woman,
who was the ...
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Categories: vigilantes, judgement, love, political, sin,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRaces

...(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race for billionaires.)

Races

By ...
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Categories: vigilantes, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Mob Rules

...In the shadows of a distant village,
By the light of a Crescent Moon.
With death in the air, vigilantes swear,
That vengeance will be coming soon.

With hate filled hearts and eyes of fire,
The...
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Categories: vigilantes, child, death, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek Bank

...In the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were now well underway
To hold a party in his h...
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Categories: vigilantes, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form: Rhyme

Help

...Help!
Help I am being held captive
            in this nursing home by persons unknown,
Maybe Homeland Security or vigilantes.
            I  have not been tried or charged.

I think I just got...
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Categories: vigilantes, parody,
Form: Blank verse

Mosque Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off

...Mosque cowed covenant I keep Putin off...

and withheld broadcasting
the following communication
tucked away these many years,
when president number forty five
donned, jump/kick started, and tw...
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Categories: vigilantes, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAlice Assaulted An Antelope

...Amazingly, Alice assaulted an antelope
Because Bobby’s beavers became bold,
Considering cantilevered canines
Deliberately devastating donor’s doled.

Evelyn entirely excited electric eels
Faili...
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Categories: vigilantes, fantasy, fun, word play,
Form: Abecedarian

The First Anniversary Since Being Pelted

...The first anniversary since being pelted...

with pistachio shells April 3rd, 2021
sitting in the exact same chair
yours truly sat three hundred 
and sixty five days ago. 

Watermelons, grapef...
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Categories: vigilantes, abuse, adventure, anger, april,
Form: Free verse

Texas Abortion Law

...Words fail me
When I think
About the abortion law
In Texas

That effectively bans abortion
And empowers vigilantes
To enforce their new 
Taliban like decree

And I think of new restrictions...
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Categories: vigilantes, judgement, political,
Form: Political Verse

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