Best Cargo Hold Poems

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Beyond The Titanic Script

Older Rose 

The day came when they told me they were...

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Hey bruh, 
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate 
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing going for ‘em,
so what have they got to lose
He’s gonna...

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NEUER THE ACHILLES


Horse power?
Let the horses keep their power
Neuer power is now the toast of all


The day all cats chose their king
It was Tiger that first wore the crown
But Lion roared, bore his fangs
And bristled up his mane like Tsunami
In a jiffy he dethroned the...

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Deadly chemicals
parked in the cargo hold
of an American military plane
Destination: the jungles of Vietnam
Guerillas in the mist ...
communism with an Asian face
is on the uptick
It's the 60's, man
Free love don't like none of that 
paid warring
Progressive rock-n-roll got a hippie soul,
but seeing flags burning make...

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Here’s the thing ... 
needful truth of an urgent matter
Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem:
Dark Age Crusaders of Hate
say the right color is on the genetic wrong side
of the racial debate Holy Grail divide

Here’s the rub ... 
a lad in a refugee camp,
holding...

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Clink-clink
Black panther eyes peering 
thru the concrete canopy
What do they see in the blood-smoke midnight air ... 
safari sound waves shocking,
moving the ghetto leaves
What do the tree leopard tar-pitch, onyx ears hear ... 
a white rhino with a little horn tooting
Bars and Stripes liberty hypocrisy
Star...

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Once  upon a time

I was, it seems like 100 years ago,
on an old fashion cargo ship, the carried all sorts
from potatoes, flour, machine parts, plastic flowers,
and tinned fruit, meat, and hats for the wife of the president
in Honduras. 
For some reason, there was a...

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When God created this world, everything was nice and dandy and perfect,
But the disobedience of Adam and Eve introduced sin and sowed defect,
Soon thereafter sin manifested itself as envy, hatred, and murder,
As their first son named Cain, killed Abel his younger brother. 

With the passage...

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It’s a terrible thing to be treated
as less than human ... all should abhor
Considered only as beast of burden — 
that’s the lying end of it, nothing more

Iron yoke was our neck collar,
leash was a throat chain
Valued sixty cents on a dollar,
man is a doggone...

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the poet is the ship's Captain
the story is about the sea sailed upon
a tale beneath in the cargo hold
at times the most tranquil of waters
filled with benign waves
become walks along Elysian paths
or a tempest, red skies on the horizon
filling the falling journey into night
no longer...

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We always gotta give America
her ego massage
Put cucumber visions in her eyes,
gentle finger her a comforting mirage
Lady Liberty likes you to give her
a righteous back rub
Tell her how beautiful she looks,
and how much
she's adored and loved
While her children gives your children
the Ugly American hate snub
Telling...

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My melanin bar code pain
feels like a time encapsulated link chain
The future and the past
are excruciatingly one and the same
And this bleak present
is probable cause tense — 
Just being black in America
is a police cruiser death sentence

So why should son of Kunta Kinte I
really want...

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Alone at the Seaside. 

Sunday, October sunlight, I´m at the marina admiring 
a boat made of wood, hull, deck and the bridge; I was 
dreaming of mystical islands in the Pacific. An elderly 
man near me spoke, said it was his ship, it had been
a...

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Auto Pilate
is carrion klaxon blaring
a false viral alert 

The warning signal says cadavers don’t vote:
“Let not your lying eyes
believe this smear currency contagious hoax”

With pandemic fear spreading,
speculator pockets get fatally hurt
False profits on a spit propellor decline

Supplies warehouse withering on a purchase vine,
bad news ain’t...

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A grave in Istanbul

He fell down the cargo hold, a long fall
the hold’s floor was made of wood and lessened 
the brutal slam when he hit bottom.
He got up, waved to us and climbed the iron-
the ladder onto the deck, he said he was ok
He...

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