Best Usurious Poems

Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Goree Island
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February/2014


 I see the blood
of my ancestors 
that swell
 in the Atlantic ocean 
on 
Goree Island -

The unmerciful ill winds 
that fell 
over my people, 
in Senegal, 
on that 
horrific night, 
brought the European's, 
across the Atlantic, 
to our Village -

Everything 
in the world 
changed forever, 
and 
will never be forgotten,
when the "unthinkable" 
cruel acts 
of...

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"Steeped" in resentment at usurious taxes, a Revolution was "brewing!"
History records that the Boston Tea Party was to be the Brits undoing!
An anguished groan was heard as barrels of tea were hurled into the sea!
Their grog of rum they might forego, but never their tot...

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(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

     Melancholia is one of the more...

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Along with other assorted mail, I received the telephone bill today.
I thoroughly examined it and discovered much to my dismay,
A bewildering assortment of taxes, fees and sundry charges.
It seems that with each passing month the confounded list enlarges!

A new fee was added called "The Low...

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The younger crowd will not believe this bit of lore I fear,
But operating vehicles was more complicated in yesteryear!
For example, to signal turns you hung your arm out the door,
And to dim the lights there was a dimmer switch mounted on the floor!

If, alas, you...

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1.


In an ahistorical fog:

all the Ways home,

all the signposts,

treacherously hidden 

by greedy men and women:

all eyes off the ball:

mere contemptible bourgeois folly.


2.


The rain is unending,

the wind howls,

the flooded river races,

its banks rapidly disappearing

in this darkness at noon.

Laid bare by the flashing, crackling

lightning, the wagon teams...

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Ah! For the good old days when you could fill the tank for a dollar.
If folks paid more'n a quarter a gallon, my, how they'd holler!
Nowadays, it necessitates a usurious loan from the bank,
Or a second mortgage on the house, just to fill the tank!

Politicians...

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Rapacious greed
  avarice's creed
voracious appetite
  devours every bite

Never enough silver
  craves ever more gold
his insatiable lust
  never grows old

Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini
  Porsche, five Ferraris
Cadillacs and BMW's
  beneath him ~ sorry

Charges usurious rent
  hoards every last cent
on his family tree
...

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Amorous
Passion’s roar

Arborous
Tarzan’s door

Curious
Probing more.

Luxurious
Plush galore

Ominous
Gloomy gore

Belarus
Boxer born

Bilious
Anger pour

Furious,
Angry core

Usurious 
Using bore.

Pluribus
Think as one.

Unanimous
Agreed…
“NO MORE!”...

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walking the way of the freckle face boy
one and only one verdict comes to mind
nobody knows who is calling the shots
various factions reluctant to spill the beans
well things have a force of their own
a constant reminder for Prince Bingo
jackpoteer to the crowned heads of Europe
the...

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I will always love you
Days may shorten
Nights may tarry
But in all
Your love will live in me

In the days you' ll be my sun
In the dark you are my stars
In the cold you hearthen my soul
In the heat you are my cool fountain 

You thought me...

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Who are you? Self awareness is very tricky.
You’re very complicated, we all are,
people are the most complicated things
we encounter in our everyday lives.

Now imagine two complicated people together.
We manage this complexity by limiting each other,
with social contracts, to limit usurious behaviours.
If we abide by the...

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I’ve never dined on caviar,
The finest instead, a Mars bar.
No palace key for this housing Czar
Sip water alone, not at a gilded bar.

The challenge must be taken on the chin
And not merely with audacious spin
A moratorium won’t fix the cause
Of that usurious interest clause
And gestures...

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Pulchritudinous virtual crime pulled off without a cocked hitch

delivered me back in the dark shadows
and the underbelly of the web,
where impossible mission 
to differentiate the outer limits 
cast by edge of night 
essentially rendering a twilight zone
where obscured criminal activity 
clear as day in retrospect,
versus...

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