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Watchtowers Poems - Poems about Watchtowers

The Future of Israel

...As spoken by the Voice of Wisdom

O House of Israel,
Heed the sound of the wind that carries ancient truth across the sands of time.
Once you wandered through deserts and kingdoms,
Once you suff...
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Categories: watchtowers, betrayal, child abuse, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt ain’t heavy it’s my boulder

...One must imagine Sisyphus’s 
boulder, marble-sized these days
And Ozymandias’ plaque,
spinning despair into praise
Look on, ye hypocrites, 
and sneer at my undoing
Your universe is a giant sand...
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Categories: watchtowers, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme



Why Your Cities Burn, Part IV

......After a bit her cries died down,
everyone could see she was dead,
a small head hung between her thighs,
mother and son covered in red.
He had seen so much callousness,
but this he just couldn...
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Categories: watchtowers, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic

Two Mountains Crumbling In Daylight

...Eons ago, near two flowing rivers in old China 
Lived an old, white clothed man ninety-nine years of age 

Who glared at two mountains he knew from his long-dead childhood 
Who glared at the gian...
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Categories: watchtowers, dedication, endurance, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Imagination

...Every second, every minute, every single thought about you
Wonders of this still could be too good to be true
Fluttering in my heart, palpitations go amiss
I yearn for the touch of your skin, and ...
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Categories: watchtowers, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



What Lesser Mortals

...
What lesser mortals? 

What lesser mortals
than Rimbaud
claim themselves 
a poet within 
another self, 
for there is more 
than just one self

depending on the
time a...
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Categories: watchtowers, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberA Truce Hovers In the Air

...An uneasy truce hovers in the air
    combatants tense, no soldier dares
  to catch a minute's sleep
    the price of that, far too steep  

  Minutes pass, they feel like hours
    searchlight...
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Categories: watchtowers, fear, soldier, time, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDaylight Freedom Quest

...I slide and  heave with brittle bones
along this pitch black tunnel , 
twisting, rolling, writhing  in  a sea of  tar.
Vapors hot and sticky 
taunt my nose,  
as thoughts of orange-red sunsets,
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Categories: watchtowers, age, art, character, courage,
Form: Imagism

Manifesto

...There is a war of rage being waged.
I want to run into the heat I feel,
And fight to save global souls,
Not ease into the frost surreal.

I hear my commander’s voice,
Calling me out to come and...
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Categories: watchtowers, allegory, america, bible, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIslands In the Stream

...Islands in the Stream

Islands linked together like forged argent charms, 
In straights of silent, surging currents,
Where Watchtowers of Fresnel lens sound fog sirens
Where sacred shoals harbor...
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Categories: watchtowers, adventure, introspection, journey, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJehovahs Unwitnessed

...Unworthy of the Watchtowers gaze
No gentle guiding dove
A million miles away, was He
The God I chose to love

Abused, my innocence defiled
By those I’m taught to trust
My words rebuked, my sou...
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Categories: watchtowers, abuse, angst, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme

Oh, the Directions

...Oh, the directions
My god..

South in the mind, the ripping
How it tears us all to pieces 
Then just as fast, a smiling child
Clutching onto a skirt 

North, the stretch of asphalt 
That dis...
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Categories: watchtowers, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, child,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThreat of Extinction

...Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning


Letters ...
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Categories: watchtowers, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNew Year Sale

...Special offer for forbidden fruit two for the price of one

Discounted pleasure until ultimate stock clearance lasts

		Adam’s apples included

		Unisex versions available

		Sustainable and ...
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Categories: watchtowers, new year,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVallum Hadriani

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              Hadrian's wall
        Stood proud it was the empire's pride 
      The Picts were a thorn renowned for their gall
        So Rome built a divide
  With watchtowers and forts i...
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Categories: watchtowers, england, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

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