VIGILANTES
...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
Freedom'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
Night 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
Words 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
Races
...(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
The 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
The 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
Alice 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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