Gaia’s Last Breath
...We were given one garden,
One womb spun in stardust and sea foam,
But we — children of steel and smoke —
Turned it into a battlefield of greed.
The trees whispered secrets of balance,
But we s...
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Categories:
colonize, abuse,
Form: Free verse
THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
...They sowed chaos to claim their peace.
A few wars to realize their dreams.
They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise,
Spitting laws applied only to the weak.
They paint bombs in the colors of...
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Categories:
colonize, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fog and Water
...Fog over the inlet
until water and air waltz together.
colds ears muffled by the dank air.
Grebes and Coots colonize this tributary.
The ocean is close
you can feel the tidal pull of it
the imm...
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Categories:
colonize, poetry,
Form: Free verse
They Named Me Zeus
...From East to West
let my servant's trumpet
announce this victory
over those who defied me;
no Greek dares to fight me:
I am their uttermost deity!
They named me Zeus
and look to me for guid...
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Categories:
colonize, character, dedication, endurance, history,
Form: Rhyme
the rich and my English brother
...My English Brother and the Rich
I find it impossible to be envious of the wealthy, buying superyachts one bigger than the other, when they get seasick at the thought of sailing out to sea
Marrying ...
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Categories:
colonize, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: ABC
Asian '-ation'
...Men are like "asians" (-ation) not the ones from the far east, but the ones who fall weak.
The ones who seek validation through manipulation for their gratification somehow thinking they should get ...
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Categories:
colonize, 12th grade, appreciation, community,
Form: Rhyme
Colonization
...In the nineteen sixties, growing up,
ideas filled my overflowing cup.
The future then was hopeful and bright.
It took eight minutes for golden light
to shine to the earth down from the sun,
trav...
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Categories:
colonize, childhood, imagination, space,
Form: Rhyme
GNRT THOUGHTS INDIGENOUSNESS
...
You may have noticed throughout our trip across this country
over every mountain, river and stream
as we’ve marveled at all her beauty
there’s been an underlying theme.
With every mile we dro...
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Categories:
colonize, native american, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Messiahs and Bodhisattvas
...What do top and bottom
transcendent and immanent
above and below
lead and follow
high and low
Day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
autocracy and democracy
pole and hole
Convex ...
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Categories:
colonize, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Quest
...The first exploration was to the moon
Where we saw how its craters are hewn
We have orbited Jupiter to unveil the shroud
and unlocked the mystery beneath its dense cloud,
Man's curiousity has...
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Categories:
colonize, moon, planet, space, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Year of the Rabbit
...The world is China's playground
building artificial islands
in the heart chamber of the ocean
a brash attempt to colonize everything
and the greenies never let out a peep.
Lebron collects his...
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Categories:
colonize, celebrity, corruption, death, psychological,
Form: Free verse
When
...When those we send back to the moons surface,
those we dispatch to those lifeless planets
that hang dead-boned and airless
in our small corner of space;
when they who reach and explore,
...
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Categories:
colonize, poetry,
Form: Free verse
By the Waters of the Bay
...We were not there
to welcome them home
but came later in the long
evenings when nightmares
ravaged their sleep. Peace
had walled in the horrors
hiding in the heads of good men.
Big blocks g...
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Categories:
colonize, history, memory, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Peaceful Stolen World
...As I sit and watch
Watch you denounce the obligatory violence
Announcing and pronouncing the fabricated freedom
Joyfully commemorating and celebrating your assassinated true leaders
The enemy kil...
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Categories:
colonize, africa, freedom, leadership, peace,
Form: Free verse
Inlet
...Fog slow-dances over the inlet
until water and air waltz together.
My ears are muffled
in the dawn mizzle.
Grebes and Coots colonize this tributary,
gulls just visit, as I do.
A person cou...
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Categories:
colonize, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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