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Fear And FearlessCourage of a plane
Crossing lightning and pressure
Made passengers pray....
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Categories:
courage, humanity, power, prayer,
Form: Haiku
In the Eye of a HorseYesterday, I stroked a horse:
I ran my hand along his back
And watched his every muscle twitch,
So sensitive—what a proud and
Ceremonious beast. He held his head
Lightly—comfortable, with no fear—
And his ears tipped gently forward,
Relaxed. They flicked...
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Categories:
power, animal, care, horse, nature,
Form: Free verse
Timeless MortalityMan cannot surpass dying—
He cannot live past his own death.
Power fades and falls. Like the tide,
It disappears. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, "
Is that not what Shelley's traveller said?
Yet, this infamous statue—a pillar...
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Categories:
poetry, poets, power,
Form: Free verse
Nature's SentinelIn a great, entangled forest, stands a metal monster—
An impossibility of nature, made by man. Alone;
Broken—it looms over all things natural
And asserts its right over the creatures that belong.
They do not look to him (this...
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Categories:
nature, power,
Form: Free verse
The Almanac of PowerThere's a story to be told,
That even Hollywood shared in part.
Showing entertainment by its fiction,
Could drown the mind and fill the heart.
Historically, great showmen of the day,
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Categories:
character, political, power, religion,
Form: Narrative
Toy TownA smile is illicit in this city
Where policemen hang their hats
On the beaten bodies of little boys
And bribes
And just not giving a s**t about whoever
Whatever
It's not their problem
Just leave em how ya found em and...
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Categories:
power, abuse, betrayal, child, children,
Form: Free verse
Powerless to PowerGod can take one out
From powerless to give him
Power from heaven....
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Categories:
heaven, perspective, power, truth,
Form: Haiku
Lilith"Truth are not from the valley of the shadow of death ... Lilith, like all mythological entities, are humanity's creation, to explain--what they cannot," ... by The Poet
Hawaii Nei, bidst Aloha, inoa Pelekane ke'o ke'o,...
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Categories:
power, abuse, america, betrayal, bible,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Guns and Roses It was 1986 I was setting in after giving
birth to my first son after wearing wires
pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts
of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer
loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...
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Categories:
chicago, integrity, poems, power,
Form: Dramatic Verse
FreedomDoubt. Fear. Par for a world
of quakes and shakes --
droughts and flakes
upon the mountains
contrarily bring
fountains to the
desert bakes – separation
has bound us together --
the world a reflection
of man's ambient Light --
we...
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Categories:
power, earth, environment, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
His Name is Not Superman
He jumps into his pants
gulps down an espresso
Fairly flies out the door
caught up in the flow
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Categories:
business, humanity, irony, power,
Form: Rhyme
People's PowerPeople hire leaders
Force comes if there's travesty
People fire leaders....
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Categories:
history, people, political, power,
Form: Haiku
Checkmate You LoseDo you tremble,
as the monstrous cadence,
of the rhinoceros' stride reverberates,
like the buffalo's onslaught?
Vipers at the water's edge,
darting hither and thither,
not above but beneath the surface,
their sinuous silhouettes fabric of nightmares, tearing sinew from skeleton,
swifter than...
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Categories:
power, adventure, animal, change, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Be A BeastBe a Beast
Wake up everyday and feast
Be like bread
Rise like yeast
Two fives don't equal a ten
Quick math don't try it again
I'm the king, that's me
Never give way to the heat
Let your fists flow with the...
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Categories:
power,
Form: Rhyme
The Candidate
Doggedly pursuing all races, all creeds
hoping to please every last one
The hollow chamber on top of his neck and his shoulders
~ a...
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Categories:
hyperbole, political, poverty, power,
Form: Couplet
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