Best Embalmed Poems

IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XLIII– the Embalmed Mona Lisa in the Glass Pyramid

If you pull a long stymied face
Make certain you peel eyes that do not stray
Or else the faces you make will make-up put out-of-place
Yet the legions who march past portrait...

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Here we are, in this lucid dream,
shaped from thoughts we ourselves did stream;
stoic our stance, free from fears that bind,
as soul embalmed in body-mind.

With rage, lust, envy and greed trounced
and world of illusions renounced,
we’re toward love and light inclined,
as soul embalmed in body-mind.

Nonchalant through life’s...

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“Embalmed” 12/24/18
“Pain has turned to hurt, and turns another page,
All that’s left inside, this growing, vengeful rage.
For what you do not see, I will not give away,
I cast you now aside, so you cannot betray.
I trusted you before, and now I’m much more wise,
No more...

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Black folk kept in sad condition
By owners without contrition.
What to do, what to do?
Wage war for emancipation
And forge a fresh slave-free nation.

The Forrest-Byrd Klan and Jim Crow
Surely are the ones you should stow –
What to do, what to do?
They rule and oppress your city
Blame them...

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