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Premium Member Why Can'T We All Just Get Along
“Why can't we all just get along”
Rodney King once uttered these words
As current today as it was back then
Our “head in the sand” thinking, it...

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Categories: rodney, life,
Form: Rhyme



Why Are You So Loud
there comes a time when
people you once respected
reveal
or you discover
the real
person behind the mask

face facts
people who never wanted you
to do better
than them
are now wishing
that you...

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Categories: rodney, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Threesome - Now a Bawdy Collaboration
One evening Bob nervously said
I kinda like three in a bed
She said I’ve got friends
And each of them tends
To share the desires in your head

The...

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Categories: rodney, desire, humorous, lust,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Dandelion's Lament
In some circles, I’m like that comedian
Rodney Dangerfield, whose catchphrase
was, “I don’t get no respect.” 
I can’t say scorn doesn’t faze me.
I’ve always been terribly...

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Categories: rodney, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Now I Unleash With Rum Rage
You see I had lots of respect

NOW you are begging for attention 
and a reality check, so try me,
Try me like satan tried jesus,

Your trying...

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Categories: rodney, education, self, hope, self,
Form: Free verse



The Angry Soup of Racism
ain't it a shame

when hate lynches 
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little ***** girls 
in 1963...

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Categories: rodney, angst, care, old, care,
Form: Free verse
Trump In Motion
TRUMP SMELLS B.O.


TRUMP SMELLS B.O.

BUST UP THE BEAT TO INTRODUCE IT'S TEMPO

GOT ME PLACES TO GO

SILENCE IS GOLDEN GOT BLOOD THAT"S UNFOLDING

SITS IN HIS IVORY...

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Categories: rodney, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Rastaman
Walter Rodney
One evening leaving the bamboo hall
Stood me
Impaled with questions
Die me
To the dead colonial dreams
Wiped my tears of history
And showed me
Rastafari wading through the flood
Making...

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Categories: rodney, religionsound, children, sound,
Form: Free verse
Here Is My Take On Bullying
Rodney King said it best.
"Why can't we all just get along?"

Anger is an emotion when unleashed,
it causes harm.

Like firing a gun, you can't take the
bullet...

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Categories: rodney, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Bazooka Joe Is Gum - 1000 Ways To Die
David slings a rock
Cop holsters a glock, Lizzie Borden packs an axe
Mac he packs the knife, Billy battles with a club, Tommy’s gun is a...

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Categories: rodney, conflict, courage, death, metaphor,
Form: Shape
In Loving Memory of Someone Else
We were all saddened to learn of the death this week of one of our hardest working citizens. SOMEONE ELSE.  When SOMEONE ELSE died...

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Categories: rodney, death of a friend,
Form: Ode
Raage
YOU SHOULD RAAGE...
Against your Civil rights being disregarded.
RAAGE...
Against children playing with toy guns blown away.
RAAGE...
Against seeing mother grieve over her dead teen.
RAAGE...
Against some deep protect...

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Categories: rodney, conflict, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Comic Relief
The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the...

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Categories: rodney, dedication, funny, people, thank
Form: Rhyme
The Comics
The Keystone Cops were funny
Chaplin, Keaton, and Fields too.
Laurel & Hardy and Will Rogers
were some of the names we knew.

Who can forget the Stooges
or all...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rodney, dedication, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Black
I love black / I am black / I"m blacker than Rodney King when he got his ass beat 
by the police/ i am blacker...

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Categories: rodney, lovelove,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs