Freedom City Poems

Look look it’s crazy I’m the one they want to represent
Young black girl,I can probably be the president
I’m the voice of the youth,you heard my...

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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly  - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that...

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Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Rare trees and abandoned homes
Where doors are full of bullet holes
And the wicked sun tries to dye the paint
On...

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Beyond the Batumi city, i am endlessly unclothed 
A.m., rose, i ran out of my bed
Hopped into a vile pleasure Naked and unbothered
Being Naked, i...

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Interstate routes
Endless road
Highway travel the threshold
On and off ramp
Distances being miles
Listening to music while
Once and a while rest stop
Sometimes rain could fall on car top
Highways...

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never on the news, never in books or movies
it’s people who like being a forgotten america
who like being on the frontier where the pioneers’
worship songs...

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Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within...

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Reddish city forced
city conquered, suffered...
concussed freedom
lost self life,
enslaved by foolishness
of absurd men..
until when my God!
   Will live like this, without having life......

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I believed I saw you 
at the top 
of Carteret Street 
Beloved*
But it wasn't you 
Just the inspiration of you 

I thought I saw you...

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First conservative People who do not tolerate criticism against religion.
Second liberal People who support the freedom of expression.
Third hypocrite People who can't tolerate criticism against...

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I heard this City is Singing 
By individual voices and tones 
Each is Singing free by willing 
And interwoven into a holy symphony
 
People sing...

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IN THE CITY
The city shines 
But there's no order 
To survive you have 
to rub shoulders with robbers
Walk with sinners
Shake hands with burglars 
Yet you...

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Acquiescence begets hegemony...

Think Putin whose forename
Vladimir translates as great power,
whose singular minded aim
after lobbing bombs into
second-largest country
by area in Europe after Russia
incurring voodoo spells
foisted upon...

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A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...

ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.

Whiling away his time playing solitaire...
initially prepped, honed,...

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show down in O Town
                Freedom
    ...

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