The BirdDid not the Bird,
warn us, by his airs?
Fewer by day...more by
night – the owls survive
longer! Did not rodents
warn us? Depleted by
owls, they both now suffer.
Better men open their eyes
to Light – for, even swooping
shadows, will not long survive
such night…....
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Categories:
history, abuse, bird, christian, community,
Form: Free verse
The lies they killed us withThey starved our bodies of love
Then complain how our bones shake in fear
They strip us of our dignity
Then glare at us when we jave nothing to wear
They take our souls
Then question when they hear our screams in their dreams
It's why when the wind fills their ears
It sparks chills
And the echoes...
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Categories:
discrimination, history, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
The many languages of black voicesWe dont have to use our voice to scream
Because a voice isn't just words
It's art, it's our presence, it's how we exist
It's being unapologetically black
Our presence is like the rain after a drought
And the rain nourishes the ground
It's like walking into a room and it's brought back to life
Where once was darkness, has now been...
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Categories:
history, discrimination, jealousy, metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Eisenhower Postage StampI remember it very well.
It was before the birth of email.
It was a real 'show and tell, and
It rings in my heart like a bell.
Mankind has always found bigger
And better ways to communicate.
Over time and space, such avenues
Have been greatly excellerated.
In the early 70's, cell phones were large
and rare, but landline phones were everywhere.
Those landline...
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Categories:
history,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Crown of Silence: A Lament for King Charles IIIYou wear a crown forged in centuries of silence,
Not of gold, but of tears—each gem a wound,
Each jewel a stolen breath from lands unnamed.
The sun never set on your empire, Charles,
But neither did its shadow.
At seventy-three, you ascend a throne
Built on the backs of broken nations.
Malawi mourns not your reign, but its own hunger.
India remembers...
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Categories:
abuse, betrayal, history, sin,
Form: Free verse
The Dustbin of History: A Requiem for Western MediaOnce, they claimed to hold the torch,
To light the world with truth and reason.
But the West’s media empire—
Was born not in truth,
But in treason.
From BBC’s royal scripts,
To CNN’s manicured myths,
From Fox’s fury-laced fables,
To NBC’s polished distortions—
They were trained, not to inform,
But to perform
For the empire's applause.
Every lens tilted,
Every headline coded,
Every silence calculated—
To shape the world
In...
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Categories:
history, film, funeral, nonsense, western,
Form: Free verse
How Quaint
Ring the bell-hop, how quaint
Dial the Operator? – Translate! …
Western Union’s clickety-clack, now faint
alongside the sensory lure of wet paint
All of these ~ today, ain’t
...
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Categories:
history, loss, moving on,
Form: Monorhyme
A Victorian Christmas CarolDid Robert Browning say it best when he
wrote, “winter takes the old ones”? Possibly.
Bronchitis, pthisis, whooping cough, T.B. –
they ran amock in 1863.
I trust it’s not too jarring if I jump
from modern miseries (ecoli, Trump)
to mid-Victorian London’s social rump,
and John Snow (doctor), and the Broad Street Pump.
The City Hall had never heard of germs.
They dealt...
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Categories:
history,
Form: Rhyme
- The Gate Is Open -
- One must make some choices,
even if some may be scary - quote by poet
Charming ancient cobblestone streets
Buildings meticulously maintained
Haunted castles with
bloody myths and dramatic history
...
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Categories:
history, mystery, myth, night,
Form: Free verse
Antiquity
If we'd lived in olden days
days of yore
the golden days
and I were a troubadour
I'd serenade you with my lute
unless I had a flute to toot
or go more than the extra mile
and sing a song to make you smile
not with the end of a lance
would I beg my lady's favour
but gallantly request a dance
mayhaps a carol...
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Categories:
england, fun, history, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
HomogenizeThe grand plan is to homogenize nations
strip them of their faces
replace them with a plastic mask
force feed them into a blender
dismantle the middle class
make the masses dependent
feed them their own blood
turn bones into crumbs
take away their means to defend
put shackle to God -unleash Satan.
Godless governments
are putting lipstick to pig
telling us it is a...
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Categories:
corruption, history,
Form: Free verse
It Was All an Illusion
All a mirage, an aberrant illusion
acceptance in America
professionally, socially
we even became sought-after marriage partners…
Educated people seemed...
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Categories:
america, farewell, history, jewish,
Form: Free verse
India and Pakistan: Divided by History, Bound by BloodBrothers once, beneath the same monsoon sky,
Before foreign flags touched your soil,
You drank from the same rivers,
Laughed beneath the same banyan trees,
Shared gods, grain, and ground.
But when the map was sliced by hands not yours,
When borders were inked in sorrow and salt,
A mother wept—her children pulled apart,
Not by will, but by wounds too deep to...
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Categories:
history, allusion, conflict, discrimination, family,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
history, allusion, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Verse
White SupremacyGod said: “Go, and have dominion over the Earth”—
Not over each other.
But you crowned yourselves kings of skin,
Painted whiteness as wisdom,
And turned melanin into a mark of sin.
You called yourself the center of the world,
A lighthouse of reason—
Yet every stone of your fortress
Was carved from stolen hands,
And every beam of your empire
Lit with oil drained...
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Categories:
angel, character, color, history,
Form: Free verse
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