Best Dred Poems
There were three mice, members of the mob
Wanted to retire, so planned one last job
It was deep winter and it started to snow
But they weren't deterred, and the job was a go.
Their names were Gnasher, Scratcher and Dred
And you dared not cross them or you'd end up dead
Even cats were afraid of their deadly scratch
But very soon they would meet their match.
The target they hit was John O'Neils dairy
But things were now going to get a bit scary
At the main entrance was a large welcome mat
And sprawled all across it was this mean looking cat.
Their luck was in and the cat was asleep
They ran towards him and then took a leap
There was a small hole by the front door
Soon they were in, and on the shop floor.
With some small cartons they built a bridge
Reached the door handle and opened the fridge
In the mousey world it was the ultimate goal
A rare box of cheddar cheese and that's what they stole.
Meanwhile outside puss began to wake up
Was very thirsty and wanted a sup
Then in the snow small footprints he spied
The game was now up for the three mice inside.
He spotted the thieves and he gave chase
But they sprinted off at a very fast pace
The God of mice was looking down on them today
They didn't get the cheddar, but they got clean away.
The camera's were played back the very next day
As the drama unfolded there were gasps of dismay
Puss was so happy his boss he did please
By foiling the robbery and saving the cheese.
O'Neil was so impressed with the actions of his cat
He rewarded him with sardines and a brand new mat
But for the three poor mice, it ended in tears
They were eventually arrested and all got ten years.
Written 16th January 2018
Going fishing with a cane pole and
a can of worms and hooks and a
bobber too Down at the fish-
ing hole there stand a might-
y oak the best place to
fish and lie in
the shade of
the big
oak
Down at the old fishing hole that dad
and grandpa fished at before
me is the best place on earth
Specially on a hot
summers day to fish
and swim and lie
in the shade
of the
tree
Summer is the time for fun Playing
with friends going swimming and
fishing at the best place in
the world is the old swim-
ming and fishing hole
It has been there
for a hun-
dred years
FUN
My father he's one of a kind
Very smart and wise.
He takes care of me everyday,
I dred every second he's away.
If we fight
I'm sorry but it's alright
Because I love you
Through day and night.
Even if you're a million miles away
We are connected anyway
With a force bigger than you think
A force that my heart brings
I know I have been on repeat for 15 years
I lost all my originality when I was sick and stolen from
My guess is it poured out along with my soul and fears
chasing after my sanity as it flowed away in tears
Its hard to come up with inspiration when your on pause
trying to justify the actions of those who love you
or at the very least come up with a justified cause
one they could of chases based on misinterpreting something they saw you say
or do
But best laid plans and lost causes your once dream life was taken from you
with nothing but a barely believable story that I can only take accountability
for not being strong enough to stay in the right when they made moves to take
my light and say it wasn't true
confused in the dark is not a reasonable place to figure out culpability.
The only thing I have left in me because I shed my soul daily I dont save up
because I cant promise all good every day so let it go good or bad send it
home
and start fresh the next day but I can't shed the memory of the darkness and
the way out it stays in me like a circuit loop in a conduit.
So I can travel in the darkness to shed light on those who stay there and
hope they find hope to search for light because follow me or you when its
their fight is not the best way.
all this said and I am still not right I no I may be meant for darkness to help
others overcome.
if thats true what all the pain to keep me here
so much inner strength it takes to just find a smile and a way to help others.
heal
when all I could been is gone why is that the deal
unloved and alone for 15 years fighting a war that free others.
but dooms me to something that I cannot hate or regret only dred
Hope that i did bot deserve it that I volunteered otherwise I may die in
clovers
But surely it is hell that waits for me.
I feel so unheard I pour out words that are not great
but they would carry meaning spoken to anyone strong and meek
from ear to ear of peasants and kings
and these words will carry a truth for all who truth seek
the table listens
dred forcing glue and nails to
throb and melt
as the color red is shunned
in public
claw feet
embedded for grinning centuries
stand silent
as birds with no feathers
drift silently to earth
with only sonic flashes
to remind the trees of their collusion
branches fall without warning
stunning rushing rivers
direction pre-determined
a gathering of hearts bend
but
their capacity for love
is never breached
as
goodness
only
grows
01/16/14
I keep my left foot in the war zone
I keep my right foot in the jungle,
While I scramble for my cheerios[ 0's }
I do it bundle by bundle,
It's the year of gettin' yo' money right
and my pockets are hollow,
I've seen street soldiers fall young
so I dismiss tomorrow,
I keep my head high as look to the sky,
Everyday is like a rerun
So am I chasing a lie?,
I've been in & out of bad places
some filled with villians & shanks,
I put love inside my pistol
But it clapped out blanks,
Because we're roamin' on a cold planet
So the block are gelid,
I anylize my visions of where i'm headed,
I regret my decision & I dred it,
And I wonder will my family mourn,
will I see the Pen again
while i'm being baptized in the storm?,
In the world it's like your days go by slow,
I don't want to miss my loved ones
so I choose to retrospect
I listen to smooth music with my closed,
I think back on my days as a youth,
in the pits of the Game
I'm wondering did they teach me the truth?
now when i look back in history i have come to discover
that true African-american history is basically undercover
most cultures know their history and from whence they came to be
but somehow that is missing when it comes to African-american history
the Proclamation Emancipation and the Dred Scott Case
two important historical incidents that were concerned about race
and when i look at the Constitution i did find
that in 1865 on February 1st was the day that President Lincoln did sign
but in fact the actual date that this law came alive
was December 6th in the year 1865
a covenant fulfilled God sent the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
an anointed man of God who made civil rights his thing
a covenant fulfilled is when we testify
as eye witnesses of God's work and how African-americans have survived
the evidence is written in the Holy Scriptures
a corroboration of testimonies that gives the full gospel picture
you can't let the stones in life impede you from getting to Christ
and don't allow the stones to cry out as a witness to your life
and don't let the stones hinder you by putting obstacles in your way
just trust in God to move them as you praise Him and pray
a covenant fulfilled in telling our people's story
as we're witnesses to God's goodness, mercy, grace and glory
a covenant fulfilled bringing a brother or a sister to Christ
to let them experience the goodness of God that can change their life
a covenant fulfilled
The history of the two hundred year war
T'was blackness at it core
A Feudal Economic plan
It good conscience it couldn't stand
Thousands died in fields of waste
Quenching its bitter taste
Edits like Dred Scott
Its effect not soon forgot
Raiding maunders of the Klug Klux Klan
Hanging trees and a poll tax plan
Atrocities committed in Rosebud
Civil Rights a justice thud
Dispensation in the name of Obama
No ending there but a coma
Today they march commemorating its story
In false glorification of its history
We Are Not Afraid
Why should we be afraid?
If this were the case,
Then there would be no United States.
The founding fathers were not afraid
To face imprisonment or death;
General Washington led the Continental Army
To defeat British tyranny in America.
And if the Electoral College had not been constituted,
Abraham Lincoln would not have been elected.
And if President Lincoln had been afraid
Of the plantation owners, sympathizers,
And the Supreme Court justices,
Black Americans would still be enslaved.
And so, when bullied for political belief,
Remember FDR’s inaugural speech
To the nation during the Great Depression:
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”
Stand up and say, “We are not afraid!”
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Notes:
1) George Washington(1732–1799) : 1st President of the United States (1789 to 1797)—no political party.
2) Abraham Lincoln(1809–1865) : 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865)—Republican Party.
3) Franklin D. Roosevelt(1882–1945) : 32nd President of the United States (1933 to 1945)—Democratic Party.
4) Sept. 17, 1787: The “Constitution of the United States of America” was adopted and signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
5) March 6, 1857: ‘Dred Scott Decision, aka Dred Scott v. Sandford’ (United States Supreme Court): ruling 7–2 in favor of Sandford. In the opinion authorized by Chief Justice Roger Taney stated that ‘Persons of African descent cannot be, nor were ever intended to be, citizens under the U.S. Constitution…’ i.e., Black people were not and never could be American citizens and therefore not protected under the Constitution.
6) November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected POTUS with 40% of the popular vote but won the majority of the electoral college with 180 electoral votes out of 303. One hundred and fifty-two electoral votes were needed to win.
7) The Great Depression (1929–1939): The Great Depression was a period of severe economic hardship, affecting the industrialized Western world.
It's the most significant day in Black American history
December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery
It was 157 years ago
When they finally let God's people go
In the year 1619 was when it all started
Africans from the Motherland were permanently parted
And when in 1787 the US Constitution came to be
The southern states now wanted the slaves
To be considered more than property
Hence there was a compromise to that plan
Black slaves would be denoted as 3/5 of a man
But in 1810 an alarming trend America would then see
The slave population started growing exponentially
Also there were now many free Blacks as well
Who were educating the slaves and causing all kinds of hell
So in 1830 the white Americans enacted a law
That teaching slaves to read would be no more
But they didn't stop at that they came at the Black preachers too
To stop them from giving knowledge and preaching the gospel truth
The Abolitionist movement in America was then born
This mighty democratic republic then became torn
The Dred Scott Decision to Blacks was a devastating blow
Until Abe Lincoln came into power to now run the show
11 southern states abdicated and the Confederacy came to fruition
A Civil War erupted in defiance of the US Constitution
The Emancipation Proclamation was then handed down
Lincoln said I'm president and this conflict over slavery stops now
And in 1864 the 13th Amendment was drafted and enacted
It ended slavery with a lot of southern dissatisfaction
Abolitionists went to Congress on January 31,1865
To make sure that Amendment in session would not be passed by
Yet it took almost an entire year for enough states to ratify
Then legally & federally slavery in America did die
4 million plus Black Americans were now legally free
Abolition Day a momentous day in Black American history
Awhile back,
in the Dred Scott decision,
SCOTUS denied rights of citizenship
to people of color
"as a subordinate
and inferior class of beings,
who had been subjugated
by the dominant race..."
So, we need not dig too deeply
to rediscover where straight white male supremacists
and systemic racist allies
might find our strongest
most toxic heritage
language
beliefs
lack of inclusive discernment,
absence of multicultural intelligence
united citizens experience,
values of all people
for all creatures here below.
Anyway,
with this precedent in place,
we might similarly nuance the Citizens United language,
giving corporations the rights of citizenship
without the responsibilities of healthy stewardship,
authority to buy media speech
and heavily invest in purchasing political competitions;
This right more transparently unveiled
as the authority of a superordinate
and superior class
of capital-acquiring beings,
masters of organic Earth's climate degeneration
who have subjugated the unstraight
unwhite
unmale
suffering from non-elite lack of multiculturally appreciated face,
too slow race,
These assumptions
of who is SWM better than whom,
rooted in outworn
and unhistorical
and supremacist
win/lose environmental theories,
blossom as further toxic prejudice
against Earth's primordial health rights
and humane responsibilities
to repair damages,
restore peace of natural/spiritual
left/right
west/east
north/south cultural hemispheres
advocating resonant geopolitical balance.
How would such corporate persons be baptized?
And confirmed
to be raised in ways and means of a loving Creator God
rather than a competitive and jealously greedy Mammon?
More of Horn Horrendous Haiku
new account create
we found success in our fate
and then celebrate
had been incumbent
of entire government
not sure what they meant
while we had been cursed
scenario which was worst
like a bubble burst
after hard had tried
always let God be my guide
He kept me in stride
errors in report
what we did as last resort
mission would abort
what we always dred
had raised interest rate by fed
stopped using club med
cleaning section meet
and again we may repeat
wipe off toilet seat
they could quarantine
best for people always mean
betwixt and between
chickens re raising
large egg production praising
really amazing
must try to relate
After we will immigrate
then did consumate
would try to elude
while we had been very crude
being in the nude
quiet with no sound
was agony all around
fear there we had found
money may be cheap
up stock market prices creep
counted some more sheep
we then took a tour
merrimack and monitor
loved each one for sure
Jim Horn
Dignity, purity, hope,
Entwined in a delicate rose.
These are the colours which hold
The futures of all women to come.
Run, run, run,
To the Free Trade Hall we run,
Eyes bright, souls lifted, the taste
Of excitement on the tip of our tongues.
Suff-ra-gette,
Was the name they gave us, scribbled
In every single newspaper, as if to say
"THESE WOMEN ARE TROUBLE."
Emm-el-ine
Pankhurst, her name. Equality, her goal.
The union, her child. The cause, her pride.
The name "SUFFRAGETTE" became our own.
Man-che-ster,
Where it all began. Where
The fires of change lit and stoked and
Spread their message in the dangerous smoke.
Da-vi-son.
Whatever became of poor Emily? I heard
It was she whose body trampled
Beneath the hooves of the King's horse.
Im-prison-ment.
Prison, the only place strong enough
To handle our emblazoned spirit. And so
They dampen it with poison down our throats.
One hun-dred
Years passed since our victory. I
am young but their strength runs through me.
My present is the history they endured.
To the women who came before,
We continue on your notion.
After all, it's "deeds, not words"
Which set the change in motion.
Our lives are like sand....
Not lasting long....We are a hour glass as it stands,
We are the enchantress that comes with a haunted song.
A goodbye turned all wrong,
Our once beating hearts in rhythm with the dead,
The chill of death....we do not dred,with the seeping of the window
with morning light,chasing away the darkness of the previous night.
taking with it all the evidence that we were here,And showing that light can help with
the swallowing of that bitter pill.
So long after years,mouths,and days that we have gone,
you all will still be singing that song.
Remembering the imprint we had on the world with our lives,
IS the pulsing beat of your heart
the ACHE of your SOUL yearning to entangle itself with anothers.
It is all that captivates you.
We all hope, we want, we wish, we YERN.
How few, how so few found IT.
The fated star crossed lovers, torn apart always.
Societies rules, RULE.
Not Love is enigma.
Its the blood rushing throught your veins
the tears pouring out of your eyes.
It her, oh not her.
Not the one that thinks with her heart and listens with her head.
NEVER!
Love lost, well its inevitable for the outsider.
Never belonging here nor there, nor stayong long enought to care.
Giving without return.
Blind to this world.
Zombie.
Thats what she shall be deemed.
Forever a zombie to life.
Did I not say NEVER, not her, not the one.
Awaken.
Suddenly clear, to her it all seems so real
to feel, for the first time
and know its real.
To hear laughter and feel warmth.
To see despair and feel dred.
Once it all felt like a dream.
No more, no longer it seems.
To then crawl from the womb and embrace this place.
Facination, observation, motivation.
You see with your eyes atlast.
Seperate yet beating as one.
It is the enigma of the human soul
to surpass this, this NOTHINGNESS