Best Charter Poems

LET'S CHARTER A YACHT AND GO WHERE IT'S HOT
AND PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THE WAY
WE'LL START OFF IN GREECE WITH CHAMPAGNE AND CASIS
THEN SAIL UP TO NICE, ST. TROPEZ
AND IF MISTRAL SHOULD BLOW WE'LL JUST GO BELOW
AND DO WHAT'S APPROPOS BELOW DECK
THEN DINGHY ASHORE OR...

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La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan

Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs, pas l’essor des Blancs :
Faites-nous des égaux, pas ceux dépendent...

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La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan


Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs, pas l’essor des Blancs :
Faites-nous des égaux, pas ceux dépendent...

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he in his elegant black sits in the corner

 will he touch... tread..    lightly between the rows
 of the american gothic families 

their drawn out figures seem to fasten
 throughout the lengthy periods of the santuaries silence.

 that same silence forged in...

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Charter Boat

A charter boat the man catching fishes.  

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 17, 2010

Poetic form: Monoku...

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if i ruled the world
'love your neighbor as yourself'
my magna carta


written 23 Aug 2020...

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The blaze surrounds me
as if I jumped into an ocean of plasma.
Though Jesus came to me with the
The Forgiving Charter.

A ship filled with damaged souls
all within his grasp of love.
He steers this vessel
surrounded by admiring angels and doves.

An outreached hand into the heat,
showing scars beneath...

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Seal was written for S words contest sadly I missed deadline.


hot red wax drips down
parchment charter awaits seal
gold ring descending...

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