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Best Wilkes Poems

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Caste a Spell
O foolish Amerikan klan,
who hath Klux bewitched thee with pale poof?

Kluless to the celestial truth,
Love immutable is infinity grand

Children of the Aryan band,
what doth the...

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Categories: wilkes, allegory, hate, imagery, truth,
Form: Couplet



A Black Man's Perspective
Life in Africa was full; years in the bush, a treat.
Music made us happy; drums sounded for dancing feet.
A loving life with family always made...

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Categories: wilkes, africa, america, black african
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Lincoln Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincoln he no stinkum
he was good man, yes siree.

He the one that set um free
makeum homes for you and me.

Him the one who...

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Categories: wilkes, america, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Proven
today it has been proven that our justice system does'nt represent justice. it just 
fixes things the way they want things to be fixed. today...

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Categories: wilkes, allegorytoday,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Shenanigans
There was an old lawyer named Ruth
Who didn't mind bending the truth.
No scoundrel too bad,
If money he had.
He'd have pled self defense for Wilkes Booth.

For...

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Categories: wilkes, funny
Form: Limerick



Useless Useless
April 14, 1865
A chilled southern wind
Lincoln's last hours
Our American Cousin...

John Wilkes Booth
born: May 10, 1838
Taurus the bull
claimed he had too great a soul
to die like...

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Categories: wilkes, education, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shot Forsooth
Alas, Abe Lincoln was fatally shot forsooth,

By that nefarious cad John Wilkes Booth!

Booth was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett,

Sending him on his well-deserved eternal orbit!

Robert...

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Categories: wilkes, history, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
South Street Bridge Memories
Use to work at Wilkes
walking across South Street Bridge
on my way to work...

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Categories: wilkes, work,
Form: Haiku
Oval Sanatorium

Nutty grandpa president
is talking crazy uncle Donald again
His little Chucky thumbs
is tapping epithet tweet nonsense
Batty grandpa’s been 
grumpily sucking 
on the hate hot sauce bottle
stashed...

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Categories: wilkes, humor, parody, satire, word
Form: Light Verse
Can a Historian Explain This
Lincoln elected to Congress in 1846
Kennedy elected to Congress in 1946 
Lincoln elected President in 1860
Kennedy elected President in 1960 
Lincoln's secretary named Kennedy 
Kennedy's...

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Categories: wilkes, history, mystery, political,
Form: Free verse
Mississippi Voices
Dark echoes of the past reverberate 
In Mississippi voices filled with hate. 
This morning nooses hanging from a tree 
Remind us all of lynching history....

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Categories: wilkes, america, black african american,
Form: Quatrain
A Place of Today's Past
The silence of morn makes this place forlorn
in the fields, the hillsides, and trenches.
Over two hundred years since the bloodshed and fear,
yet you can hear...

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Categories: wilkes, america, history, perspective, places,
Form: Rhyme
Douse That Prophetic Fire By Nightfall, Sir, Or the Neighbours Will Complain
To be. To feel.
To feel, to love,
To love. To rage,
To rage, to die
Like a good Romantic, or to sleep like this,
Ghosting about
Like a loose plastic...

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Categories: wilkes, betrayal, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Annals of History
Review the annals of history
   Murder upon murder you'll see

Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
   Who murdered his brother Abel...

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Categories: wilkes, history, murder, remember,
Form: Couplet
Aurora
so, another shooting in
the belly of the empire…

i wonder if Charlton Heston’s
withery old cock just 
sprung to life?

i wonder if Ted Nugent & 
Charlton Heston...

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Categories: wilkes, life, culture, cancer,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs