Freedom Blank Verse Poems

The Mystery ship
I have read about things like people from March
with dinner-plate eyes and long, thin bodies
If these people are among us, why aren't normal
like...

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Seven Mossad Agents came to Norway a winter day 
when a snow drowns the needs of the homeless
asleep in a shop's doorway absorbing the sarcastic...

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the past revisited 

He was going back to his home in a tiny village from 
where people congregated living close together and professed to hate...

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Russia, my lovely

Why do I remember this now on a Christmas day 
galley boy on a tank ship that was old in 1956
as the youngest...

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Trappings..

These are the persuaders 

For the reign of separation..

Trappings appear

As words and stories

Memories and plans

Which are called home..

A home built on endless

Trappings.....

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It was not your fault 
you hit me daily but did not discipline me 
It is not your fault
I learnt to lie when you were...

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That morning
you had asked
your maid
why she wasn't
smiling happily.
Was it not
Independence Day?

She had paused
in her meticulous
dusting of you
priceless paintings.
She had looked 
at you;
dead eyes
set in a
blank...

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Pedagogy 

Many schools were built possibly at the time when labor was in power, It was vital to bring education to the masses, but since...

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The Battle for Independence 


Going up the stairs leading to her flat the steps appeared to be in pain not used to anyone walking on...

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Freedom or whatever

Is it a wonderful idea where we can say what we like? 
To act as we like without concern what others might think.
I...

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It's far better to be an ass
Than to be bothered by an ass.1

Had God not known what an ass was,
He'd sure not have denied it...

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This living,
This path, 
I feel trapped,
In it I feel trapped,
It's like a cage,
But I'm willing to stay, 
To stay in this cage for a little...

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Luanda 1975

It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters)
was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed
to rape, murder and pillage.
The Portuguese...

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I die bad deaths in my dreams 
But that is fine  I am alive when it's real

I face real threats in my sleep 
But...

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How to Become a Fascist

Clan thinking and group thinking are always dangerous 
Our loyalty to the group we belong to betrays us
Waving of flags makes...

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