Studying a Language
...“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me”
Julius Ceasar Act 1 scene 2 by Shakespeare
trying to study the language of ancient Attica
is like studying all the rules in ma...
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Categories:
attica, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Serpico
...Serpico
limit tree eye
a passing passerby
with tulips that fly
into the eye we shall see
burning with fire
a gun for hire
Serpico as Al Pacino
go with the flow
came out years ago
carry ...
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Categories:
attica, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form: Free verse
The Orb
...Of the orb I speak in awe
Of the Moon with its slender claw
Finite in size, elysian in presence, there to watch
Crop the doubt, step up a notch
As is he - facile princeps - a sublunary prince,
D...
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Categories:
attica, for her, funny love,
Form: Verse
Attica To Alcatraz
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From sea to shining sea,
‘Merica ain’t never been nothin’ but
a prison for
angry black boys like me
Childish rage moved my hands,
hateful oppression reaction expression
made me fee...
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Categories:
attica, history, prison, slavery, truth,
Form: Bio
Virgins In Attica
...The soul is dead in passing
The spirit lost its belonging
Running out of Ancestors peripherals
Last breath of thee, a gasp
Trees are throwing out branches
Thinking of a single brain
Diam...
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Categories:
attica, myth,
Form: Concrete
A Man
...A Man
Now that im older I catch myself reflecting on the things I do, my father use to do when he’s stressing; once he bit his lip and his eyes twitched,then you were in ****, I saw him shoot the ...
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Categories:
attica, anxiety, appreciation, black african
Form: Lyric
War Shall Come and With It Pestilence
...The raptors, the vultures, the scavengers,
They circle the sky in search of meat.
The carcasses of the fatalities of plague
Lay outstretched on the hills of Attica.
Those that chose not to abstai...
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Categories:
attica, history, war,
Form: Sonnet
A Demon In My View
...Having my own Georgetown street; while walking within it's sunrise's
Shade somewhat quiet today this Memorial weekend: a slight cool breeze
Wisking us away as passing Victorian's once upon a time's ...
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Categories:
attica, baptism, love, , memorial,
Form: I do not know?
Through That Window
...Lying in an augur's aviary..
Reneging on my virtues,so credulous..
The feying fay being taken to
bury,
I see things called ambigous.
Slowly fading odour of scantity..
In Attica, end of aug...
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Categories:
attica, me
Form: ABC
The Parthenon
...Oh, Parthenon,*
Sublime aesthetic structure,
Embodiment of unparalleled elegance,
Incarnation of history, philosophy, and sciences,
Everlasting beacon of human civilization,
Glorification of a...
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Categories:
attica, art, beauty, culture, western,
Form: Free verse
Finding My Way
...Hello darkness, my old friend
Just when my heart is on the mend
I realize I’ve built walls
And no one listens to my calls
When times get rough
And friends just can’t be found
Walls close...
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Categories:
attica, faith, introspection, old, old,
Form: Lyric
Inheritance
...Mother England surrogated me
And O her white breast was sweet
Honey on my tongue muting misery
While banana trash tied my feet
She stripped me naked in her bed
No culture clothe me from winter...
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Categories:
attica, historymother, england, me, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Up Until
...Up until I found
That love card..
not meant for me...
That was the moment...
I began to see...
16 years of marriage,
and I never got a card,
Now one I stumbled upon
Hidden below some clothes
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Categories:
attica, angst, depression, loss, heart,
Form: Bio