Complicity Poems - Poems about Complicity

Echo and Narcissus retelling Ovid's the Greek poets account

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    Oh Echo why, did she beguile.
    Queen Hera with loquacity.
    Thou mountain nymph whose winsome smile
    Did mask Zeus from complicity
    With sylvan nymphs, his sole desire.
    Thos...

Eluding My Ressurection

...Eluding My Ressurection

Eluding the proposition of more work to be done 
Prelude to the inquisition that is blocking out the sun 
I can only conclude that the ammunition was hard fought and won ...

Dead Babies

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Dead Babies

You know where
silence is complicity
insidious war crimes
dance in this vile air
Holocaust encore
...

Decry Injustice to Palestinians

...My friends, you are indispensable to the completion of their suffering.
Neither the sheep nor the crow,
or the heirs of official sin, cousins of the murderers,
trapped by their incandescent un-vir...

I am the mirror

...I am the mirror of truth
I am the reflection of accountability
That will show the shards of what is, not what's not

I will reflect their own darkness back at them 
So they can feel an ounce of ...

Under the vast sky of illusions, we are actors wearing masks of stars and ephemeral shadows

...Under the vast sky of illusions, we are actors wearing masks of stars and ephemeral shadows,
Our gazes meet through mirrors of mist, seeking reflections of hidden desires,
We are magicians of an il...

TO YOU, THE TRAITORS

...To all those house *******, alienated by the darkness of the Republic,
You have forgotten the horrors of slavery and colonization,
To believe in the delusions of assimilation and integration.
Know...

Liar! Liar!

...This is the woman who repeatedly told us for over two years Joe was as sharp and active as ever, there is no crisis at the border, Joe’s record inflation was caused by Trump, the bungled Afghanis...

How Can We Not Have This Conversation

...How can we not have this conversation
where footprints of the poor vanish
beneath the boots of investors, 
and the river sings only
to those who can afford its luxury? 

In Chobe, the elephants...

There will be days when no one will grasp the depth of your hidden feelings

...There will be days when no one will grasp the depth of your hidden feelings,
and that's okay, a silent complicity that embraces your soul like a cloak of mystery,
days when your words will get lost...

If only this could last forever

...
feels so close I could walk up and
with my finger touch the moon 

seems like nothing else
exists and i’m alone
swaddled in a tranquility
that’s magnificent and surreal

i can feel it pulsa...

Liturgy for the Damned of Progress

...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...

Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation

...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch

Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games w...

Why We Speak

...To triumph, all the wicked need is our silence as they pursue their tyranny.
For in that silence, we will sadly find that our path lies beside complicity.


True courage stands and speaks its min...

Leather Piecemeal

...As mortal veils dissolved, our bodies merged in the ossuary's somber symphonies, two mistress awakened by the velvet-wrapped cadavers, our disinvested hands tracing syllabic patterns across the olive...

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