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Wilkes Poems - Poems about Wilkes

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Dark Dimension
...Could I simply call it hell? Wherein every evil dwell...! Does there ring a constant knell? Don't matters midst men go well...? Dormammu ruled Multiverse, By bitterness turns a curse; Strange......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, fun, life,
Form: Rhyme



Loop
...10/22/22 They try to get the inside scoop By beginning to snoop But they're just full of poop Like the ground floor of a chicken coop Rarely intentions honest, too many out to dupe Pathetic......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Changing the Past
...a strange sort of flow comes with thoughts of long ago spews a welcome glow nostalgia may just soothe when mixed with lies and half-truths Hitler and his ilk less troublesome than spilled mil......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, confusion, history, perspective, political,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Memorabilia
...My wife and I met more than a few of this type of “shifty wheeler-dealer” during our many years dealing in antiques and collectibles. ......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, sports,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Swear, Your Honor - I Was Duped
...“Well, Your Honor, it’s like this: I was totally shocked when I found out these fools had robbed that bank! All I did was drive the van, and now I’ve got these jerks - who used me like a stupid paw......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, funny, humor,
Form: Verse



Nostrae Vicaria
...The music called the dancers to the floor The poet waltzing freely —with his eyes (Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania: March, 1980)......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, dance,
Form: Free verse
A Son To His Father
...“A vision into your future “A mirror of your past” (Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania: March, 1980)......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, father,
Form: Free verse
Caste a Spell
... O foolish Amerikan klan, who hath Klux bewitched thee with pale poof? Kluless to the celestial truth, Love immutable is infinity grand Children of the Aryan band, what doth the dark......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, allegory, hate, imagery, truth,
Form: Couplet
Hollow Drums
...Disco burnout, fever rampant erosion Empty glances, mirrored hollow drums Bleeding, starving, passive alertness Madeup, putdown —treadmill run (Woodlands Hotel: Wilkes Barre- January,......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Opinions Matter
...Opinions matter If you have an opinion Don’t keep it inside Don’t go with the fiction Or truth is denied Don’t reject any knowledge And say you know squat Just cos John Lennon Spoke out ......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, confidence, courage, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
...It was brief and short sad moment of time That still flashes and rings in the painful memory of the country Enjoying and his wife Mary Todd the play 'Our American Cousin' In the midst of the laugh......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, america, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dawn of New Day
...DAWN OF NEW DAY Sweet sixteen Scarlett so madly loved me, my mistake I refused to marry her. As my wife her life could write grand story in dismal strife-torn years of......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, character, film, war,
Form: Sonnet
Mississippi Voices
...Dark echoes of the past reverberate In Mississippi voices filled with hate. This morning nooses hanging from a tree Remind us all of lynching history. Some people claim great progress has b......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, america, black african american,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Annals of History
...Review the annals of history Murder upon murder you'll see Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain Who murdered his brother Abel in vain Then there's Moses, the saintly lawgiver Who mur......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, history, murder, remember,
Form: Couplet
A Place of Today's Past
...The silence of morn makes this place forlorn in the fields, the hillsides, and trenches. Over two hundred years since the bloodshed and fear, yet you can hear the yells, smell the stenches. The c......Read the rest...
Categories: wilkes, america, history, perspective, places,
Form: Rhyme

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