Best Revered Poems

Having heard the harping howls 

of a hungry herd on the prowl

I realized reticence is a revered gift

like the sweet love song of a swift...

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The Revered and the Forgotten


colorful young flamingo
hailed by the moniker Domingo
toast of garden parties
mingling with elite in tepid lakes
narcissistic moments 
enraptured by his own image
“pretty bird, pretty bird,” 
gloater extraordinaire muses
confident in his precious plumage
wasting not one thought on aging

Rutherford, maligned buzzard worn by years
sports...

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Five score minus eight years ago
January eighteenth two thousand twenty one
father of civil rights movement
the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored
as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppressed African American population

without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination April fourth
ninety sixty eight at the hands
of a crazed gunman...

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The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy 
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior 
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppressed African American population
without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal...

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When hunger becomes 
a little god. You start waiting 
for a miracle to happen. 
Like a grandfather clock, you 
had stopped moving. Time 
becomes a scoop from your ancestor’s 
skull. You start digging 
the floor for broken pins, 
holding the secret prayers. 
You watch yourself...

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~ Back Then ~ 

One, a Cabinet Officer
  the other, a Veep
disagreed about policy
  their feelings ran deep

They'd end their discord
  by means of a duel
Burr and Hamilton
  brave pair of fools...


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Every woman should be 
For we are the backbone 
And the bearers of life 
& the one's who give birth 
And the glue that holds 
The family unit together...

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The Revered Female

Female Muslims, supressed they say.
Thoughts and voices kept at bay.
Born to breed, must take heed.
Brains in chains, master reigns.

Wives and mothers, fit for purpose.
Conceal their strength, limit their wealth.
Faith constrains, potential wanes.
Feminism jailed, Islam, failed.

Yet Islam stands for equality.  Promoting personality.
Establishing legality....

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Born five score minus seven years ago
minus attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior 
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppressed African American population

without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination April fourth
ninety sixty eight at the hands
of a crazed...

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through a window, near my bed, the moon shines
stars sprinkled, twinkle brightly, in the night sky
your eyes crinkle when they smile down on me
love is here, sweetly revered, and it is mine

tangled sheets, touching feet, skin on skin
passion heats, no retreats, from searching lips
wrap around,...

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Aftermath of Covid19 you say?
Beautiful ideas enter our mind
Creativity has found a sweet way
Deliberate hope for all of mankind
Enthusiasm brings muses to play
Foremost forever, this is so cool.
Girls and boys glad to be back in school.
Heartfelt happiness, it’s a brand new day!
Introduction to The Golden...

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the sound of a voice
far and yet near
whispered words
and thoughts I hear
hold me close
till you appear
love holds fast
and is revered...

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eerie contractions etched
fostering fractured fetch
poring punctured pulses
worn winds wield
felon feigns drooped
hoisting hankering drools

bruised barks moaned
heaving sigh sown
by blitzkrieg enthroned

dark diminuendo dribble
cupping callous cripple
nocturnal nature nimble

spunky shaver severed
rondure creeps revered.
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Note: Of vying vision....

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(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy
of sharecropper grandparents
whose objection to racial segregation
based on an affront to the will of God,
whereby the young whip smart precocious lad,

(whose impact we now memorialize)
showed his true colorful promise
when a young student at
Liberal Crozer Theological...

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planting the seeds of ardent activism
that gave rise to
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC),
an initial platform
allowing, enabling and providing acclaim

hoisted up by petard
invariably only heightened
(his) posthumous status
as thee most articulate orator
spelling binding the listeners
with his metaphors about his emphatic march

to a promised land where all
men/women could...

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