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Erin Lee Dec 2014
My body is frozen and my heart is filled with dread,
I see her shock with the shaking of her head,
I screamed out “NO” and offered to take Prim’s place,
Effie called his name to and we went up with haste,
They took us to a room where we said our goodbyes,
I promised to win as I started to cry,
The group was quiet as we boarded the train,
I meet out mentor Haymitch and he seemed far from sane,
We meet the other tributes all different in size,
Some seemed very foolish but other seemed wise,
We practice all day to make sure we were fit,
For the pain we will endure will be far worse than just a hit,
I know I should save Peeta as a repayment of my debt,
But I remember my promise to prim and I’m filled with regret,
After I say goodbye to Cinna I see the Arena and feel pain,
Why did Peeta and I both have to be in the Hunger games.
Another old poem I wrote about the first Hunger Games novel.
Madeleine Toerne Mar 2014
The slow **** of an ice-breaker
spearmint or cinna,
requires the utmost concentration.
The discipline to savor, the fight not to bite,
the earnest sensitivity to flavor,
like the first glance of attraction,
attention reeled in,
and action unsure and disabled.  
Bite too quick on the line, too soon hooked and released
but bite slow and revel  their favour.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Wondrous strange
Shakespeare in the Staunton night

Beauty brown wood
Stage alight

Julius Caesar
The men all fools

But noble women
I taught in schools

Dr. Cohen
Interesting lecture

Sic Semper Tyrannis
Mason Nation conjecture

Cinna the Poet
Me as well

Rome an Empire
And Rome fell

American Empire
'Ain't no tongue can tell
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
Reading Julius Caesar in Reno
          Sage Ridge School
                 Dos annyos
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2021
I've known my share of illness
No, it isn't fun

7:30 this morning
Talk to my middle son

Shakespeare in little Staunton
Highway 81

Cinna the poet, Cinna the poet!
But the mob has now begun
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
America life is essentially chaos
Would Canada be better?
Autumn in Reno
Halloween sweater weather

Gratitude for therapy
I talk, get not closer
Women in the water
No need to overdose her

Little Sage Ridge School
Julius Caesar, Hemingway
Up in the night
Sleep in the day

               Despite chaos
                     xie xie
Mischievous souls laid upon the dead scrolls
Unravelled hell from unleveled gravels
See the words travel fear provoking thoughts
I was brought by paying attention lynching
Clearing the judges to lawyers *******
On my name **** shame crime flames
Dames makes for the worst claims independent
But use you as a dependent say they innocent
Conscious glancing money chancing dancing
Around the stripper topics flashing optics
Microphone prophet watch me lock it drop it
Like a rocket blast off then back at the loft
Mansion style living still giving sins wind
I invoke pain harder than migraines stains
The medulla see me run right through ya
Mack truck chickens deluxe cobra clutch
Ya losing breath fams got damns my jams
Spread all over the thorough heads read
On the front of your streets sweep creeps
Mix Hendricks Gin and Schweppes
Smoke mean green with Swisher sweets
Lace grape to cherry rary strawberries
Yo I'm tryna miss the cemetery
My thoughts tried to bury enemies hurry
Tied me into a guns flurry scurry no worries
Im use to the threats watch spinnin' bagguettes
Turn flesh into maggots detect the Dragnet
And watch the haters get bit cold glitch itch
If ya want ta fuanta pop ya cells shells
Making body swells fans thoughts carousel
Wondering why I shoot more darts
Than Sam Cassell pours fools gimme yours


Yo i Shook from the world's Cinna swirls but herls
All the Boys and girls mind curls earls pearls
Shining off the neck of my favorite girl
Fifth plus thou how art thou take a bow
See the eyes of a foul owl night stalks
None could walk a pitch out the park
Set a spark causin' a wild fire disaster
Master def plaster soul elastics
Stretch it wider than mr fantastic
You feelin' drastic that's just my magic
Working fools mad cuz I'm hurting flirting
With the goetias through pen and papers
Pentagrams photograph a telegram
Watch my enemies from a birds eyes
view try to slam exposing their shams
Eagles nest buries of treasure laid it to rest divine manifest
Picking suckas off like Lawrence Taylor
Thats how a defense raider degrades ya originator
Playa from birth laid out my perks see the girth
For what it's worth I'm catching mirth
From the demons tryna scheme triple beams
Miss my head cuz I'm brain dead all thoughts shed
Tears the afterlife
Instead pain sticking like a knife said
****** was the case escape the ****
Of life's ******* that scrapes crumbs dumbs
Succumbs by the hallowed numbs media drum
I cut off the melody and choose a new switch
Broke the computer glitch shootouts like Mitch
Richmond hit man
The henchmen fools can't comprehend
While I'm breaking shaking hands never faking
Raw undertakings raking money like dough the biggest baking
Pillsbury industry but no tickling me
I'm just tryna keep a legacy like romes papacy
See the Misty skies ties between gods eyes
Universe never lies see the flies baptize rise
Sunny tilt the guise shadow snake eyes
Hypnotize by the demons intervention
Strengthen dominions once i up the domonion
Oregano flavors the beat unique mystique
Styles slick so ya can't çompete easy sweep
Paces of a creep evil lurking pain smirking
Looking for ways to bang positive at
Sways barks of the AK shooting its nutshell
Invoke the spell ragin' from cartel to cartel
No bail stick the slick snake with rod rails
Golden and sunny like my honeys brown
Big nose petite pretty toes keep far from hoes clothed
In they right mind naked far from behind
Hairs cinna-bun i see ya wanna taste the great one
Closed ya eyes let the memes paint ya black
Eyelids see the ink I shot more than a squid
On the attack locals ya grids sold out ya bids
Running back and forth trying to make ties with lies
Blys caught up in fake light of moon pies
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
It's not true
The various religions
Modernity arrives
Just sweeps 'em away

Science fiction
The Sacred hides
She was not my bride
Callooh! Callay!

Sage Ridge School
Reno blue
Basketball too
Yesterday

Drift toward death
Anxious breath
Silently, Seth
Julius Caesar the play

       Cinna the poet!
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
I regard myself as ridiculous
But I do love words
Taught for almost 18 years
The Giver in Taipei

Julius Caesar in Reno
Brutus is deluded
I am Cinna the poet!
Common people rage away

Little Sage Ridge School
My friend John
Coach a little basketball
Tahoe in the snow

53 and falling
2 Master's degrees
1 horrible marriage
No one really knows

            Elsewhere
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
I associate poetry with women
Sent many in the mail
Does true love prevail?
Does she think I'm mad?

Once I was a teacher
7th grade English
A little world history
Now I'm just a dad

Taught Julius Caesar
I am Cinna the poet!
Republicans don't know it
Sweet Sir Galahad

Rome on my honeymoon
Contraria Sunt Complementa
Her dress was magenta
She is why I'm sad

       Best time I ever had
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
Dr. Cohen calls Shakespeare's plays a gift
Surely he is right
Rene Thornton as Prospero
I launch the car into the night

Brutus is deluded
King Lear is a Fool
I am Cinna the Poet!
I taught at Sage Ridge School

God bless Garrison Keillor
And the Writer's Almanac
God bless Andy Samberg
And his snack attack

Desafortunadamente
My favorite Spanish word
Hope for la Gente
Wonder if she heard?

      Yo soy un Theonerd.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
Julius Caesar playing in Staunton
Dr. Cohen gives his lecture

I stand and watch
Lights on my conjecture

Sic semper tyrannis
Motto of Virginia

But the play is cautionary
Anarchy within ya

                  Cinna!
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Sage Ridge School
Quietly in Reno

I teach Julius Caesar
Cinna the Poet we know

The Old Man and the Sea
Fight on, Santiago!

Lions on the beach
Othello not Iago.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
I don't have to have it all figured out
Just have to play my part
I am Cinna the Poet!
Not Napoleon Blown Apart

The wedding was in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv was blue
Sent her City of Ember
And Horton Hears a Who

Elly de la Cruz
Cincinnati Reds
Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio
Grandma's Feather Beds

I'm still on the lookout
Still plot and plan
SJW
The Mosque of Colors in Iran

                  Love in a Chevy van
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
As I said before
The obscure ones are me searching
Searching without clearly finding
Alone

Black the Night an Ocean
Forlorn parking lot
At the center of no map
Drifting

I miss Sage Ridge School
Beware the Ides of March
Cinna the Poet!
I come to praise not to bury

            Younger Days

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