Best Oakland Poems

*A assignment was due in class. *

Every time a gun shoots
A tree looses its roots
Every time there is bloodshed
Along with it millions of tears are shed
Every time a heart is stabbed
Someone else’s life gets barren
As violence grows
Many more mothers moan
The sounds of destruction
Overpowers the voice...

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ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC SUCCESS

Man feels guilty, thus Man feels bad :
conscience halts “pleasures” to be had.
Psychs seek cure - Man must not feel bad,
with drugs remove what make him sad.

Good, lucky Man is free from guilt :
no shunning of what shouldn’t be built.
He’ll use base feelings...

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A Part of the Past Frozen in Time

You can
drive your whole life
not look upon the face
of harbingers in spring wet earth
Remembering the ephemeral warm
Mediterranean summers
clean petrichor fresh rain
bucolic life
setting

Yielding
a nostalgic
propinquity city's
efflorescence dress brick buildings
The epiphany of an old church as
it sings the echoes of erstwhile
Redolent...

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Oakland Cemetery Atlanta 
  (7-30-2016)

 I gazed on a sunny day
Across a shady lawn
Beneath its simple beauty 
Lives forgotten, families gone.
To the left are moments big and small, 
Mighty reminders of ancestral love,
Come to rest, come to call

Though these lives are no more, 
I...

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Innocence was lost years ago
Not mine, but everyone around me
Some things changed
White turned to black
Friends turned to enemies
Wrong turned to right
And happiness turned to depression
Escape was nowhere in sight
But i needed more than anything to get out of here
Everyone around me was changing Yet I...

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The Isley Brothers, The Chi-Lites, Four Tops
The Emotions (Flowers)
Roberta Flack (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face)
Jane Fonda
Elvis
Stars...
Lulu (To Sir With Love)
Paul Le Mat (American Grafitti)
Suzanne Sommers
Mackenzie Phillips, Aretha Franklin
Manuel Padilla Jr. as Jai (Kid in Tarzan series)
Harrison Ford
Ron Howard
U2
Cher
Heat Wave
Commodores
The Jackson Five
The Pointer...

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Dearest Santa, lovely to see.
You wear a white, satiny suit.
How lovely you are!
With golden gloves and golden
boots.
Your face full of merriment.

Quite the sporty guy you are,.
Driving an Oakland A's sports car!
You are huggable, too.
Soft and oh, entirely lovable.

Trying to be the grooviest dude
in this wonderful...

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   ~~~~Let's Go Oakland!~~~

        Beat the Tampa Bay Rays!


50,000 fans heading your way to watch you play,
In this very exciting Wild Card Game.

There will be no hearings as to who won the game,
Nor, if Russia colluded...

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