Confederacy Poems - Poems about Confederacy

Stuck Being Shemp

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      At one time tobacco was king
        Today it’s cannabis and hemp
      Seems they are Moe, Curly and Larry
        While tobacco is stuck being Shemp  

      And so too is it true of t...

Shape Shifting Soul

...You might say that I'm just an atom,
But the universe, I extoll.
I view everything in creation
As one big shape shifting soul.

Even individual beings' bodies
Are really something more.
Microb...

A Somewhat Plain English Quatrain, non encrypted for now

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                    Where's this years "Turkey_Pardon"?
Pardon me, where's the pardon on the Family?
Was the CCP funding too lucrative, Universities? 
Any press briefing, explanations, 
the...

There Was No Noble Savage

...I sometimes hear a stubborn myth,
that before Europeans came
the locals of America
all lived lives quite peaceful, and tame.

The old trope of the Noble Savage,
that somehow manages to persist,...

Civil War II

...Civil War II

Perhaps if civil war comes, it will be broken into scores of guerilla wars.  
This prolonged agony is a reason General Lee surrendered!

The division in America—2024<...

Abolition Day

...It's the most significant day in Black American history
December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery
It was 157 years ago
When they finally let God's people go
 
In the year 1619 was when...

Representation Is Crap, Part Ii

......Even when I look to the past
the implications echo strong,
I used to like Frederick Douglas,
now I realize that I was wrong.
Old Fred was much darker than me,
so I cannot empathize with him,
...

April Fools For Bobby Lee

...“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106

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Is Falling In Love Real-

...Most loves lies embedded in harsh realities;
All love is fallacy
Bring on the chairs relentless confederacy 
Fears golden parmalee relation be that they made me
 Joy is history amore ...

Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep

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"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"




The silent heart is found 
embedded in the 
Cathedral of 
The Forest Deep

The lost jewel
...

Nietzsche, Hitler, the Holocaust, Slavery and Racism

...The will to power is a prominent concept in Nietzschean philosophy,
And exerted a strong influence on some major movements in history.
Its effect can be traced to the fields of politics, evolution,...

En Masque

...smiles and snarls
a confederacy of lies
the stoicy of masks


John G. Lawless
7/18/2020...

Hate

...Expressionless eyes look into the camera,
eager to be on tomorrow's front page,
hoping her cause will gain support.

Her firm lips reveal resolve,
ripened by years of anger,
prepared for confro...

Rise From Your Knee

...Old friend Democracy
There you are again
Finally
We thought you might have left us
Forever

Breathe
God Almighty
Breathe from your knee

And rise for every one
Like a black statue of liber...

Reconstruction

...Lincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists, 
their clenched jaws and fists.

Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks ...

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