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Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
...Within the frame a sepia scene a dusty porch a rickety chair the fabric of your dusky face creased with ceaseless sunbaked woes your old pair of getaway feet gives a different walk of life......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Count It With Numbers - Gulf of Guinea, September, 1839
...Dropped anchor off the Fever Coast ‘board a rake-masted schooner Spooked by Ahab’s ghost. Lamps glowered through the yawning blanks Casting bone-twisted shadows Over teakwood planks. Salt bi......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, slavery,
Form: Ballad
The Trap
...This is the home of the heartless Corporate concrete Where you become captive To the same things you thought set you free Where solutions to society's problems Don't correct anything Class ......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, addiction, conflict, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions: Apropos of Hughes's Proverbial Question
...What happens when rotten strange fruit… Hanging from trees of auction block wood Become stinking pieces of black flesh… Dried blood putrefying in murderous streets…? When crystallized tears......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, 12th grade, allegory, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Eve of Destruction
...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it. Yet more grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be resuscitated and refined. Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber, takes a gander, de......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Figurines
...Figurines Lace up your shoes Wear your black hoodie And your Timberland’s, too You’ll never know what ‘ll happen to you Or where you’ll end up On your way home Your ancestors have wal......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, abuse, africa, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Living On Titanic Land
... I’m the son of a slave, living in ancient Greece of modern day I was born in a city-state: Detroit, South Carolina Iron oar delivery through the transactional Middle Passage way ......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, allegory, metaphor, slavery, truth,
Form: Bio
Car Number Sixteen
...This train is coming down the main This train is rocking my brain This train is the overcrowded train This train is washing in the rain This train is the messy train This train is filled with pa......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, confidence, desire, endurance, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions
...(Apropos of Hughes’s Proverbial Question) What happens when rotten strange fruit… Hanging from trees of auction block wood Become stinking pieces of black flesh…dried blood Putrefying in murder......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hard Butter Lies
... The powers that be love keeping vital things hidden from view, necessary things we need to know Survival is up for sell on the lottery auction block But the bids are rigged Who should ......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, metaphor, political, symbolism, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Whips of History - 1
...This whip is a relic of war an instrument of severe education, come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar, it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention, feel it's supple weight, the simpl......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Grandma's Hand Sewn Quilt
...When the auctioneer first shows it, I feel a sudden piercing shock. My grandma's hand-sewn antique quilt Is on the auction block. It is the lovely basket pattern And her stitches are so neat, I......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, age, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Planned Parenthood Diabolical Money Maker
...Planned Parenthood’s Diabolical Money Maker!!! The most heinous crime that has been demonically inspired surely came from Hell below; tearing an unborn helpless baby from inside his mother’s wo......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Vacation With Middle Passage Memories
...On Vacation With Middle Passage Memories Out over the alluring expanse of the Big Water--- where the sky rest upon the water’s edge--- where undulating ships wait to fall off the earth--- w......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Erudite Monk
...THE EURIDITE MONK (Apropos Thelonious) The misunderstood rhapsody of the ebony-ivory union reflects a oneness of time and space fathomed but to the freed ears picking up the syncopation ......Read the rest...
Categories: auction block, analogy, music,
Form: Free verse

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