IN CELEBRATION OF 2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTH: A REPOST
...IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 2025
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Once again, it’s Black History Month; a time to celebrate
And commemorate Blacks and those many organizations
Which have, in s...
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Categories:
coops, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
IN CELEBRATION OF 2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTH
...IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 2025
1
Once again, it’s Black History Month; a time to celebrate
And commemorate Blacks and those many organizations
Which have, in s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
coops, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
Heaven
...Sky looks, at this eventide, like an ocean of rainbows.
Has the almighty sprinkled his bright-dark contract of his sum aggregation of the entirety of everything and caboodle of his wholeness thickly...
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Categories:
coops, heaven, life, nature,
Form: Haibun
Angelina
...In 1965, I was enlisted,
To serve in the battle at Vietnam
For ten senseless years, I fought
Until the fall of Saigon
A medic, my trade,
In battle- I'd nurse
All the wounded soldiers... ...
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Categories:
coops, love, war, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Mattson, a Place Unforgotten
...In these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil. No sweet crude runs...
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Categories:
coops, home,
Form: Narrative
To Plow and Seed
...A well-water pump cranks out its iron-water
crooked wire remains -- once, sturdy chicken coops
The brackish, muddy area over there, the cowshed
some withered trees dot the hills, bereft ...
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Categories:
coops, farm, history, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Hermetic Justice
...Chickens we consign to coops
Pigs we pack into pens
Horses we corral in a stable
Cows we stick in a shed
Our children play in spacious playpens
at night, like roses, they sleep...
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Categories:
coops, animal, children, fun, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Animal
...Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode.
Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renasce...
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Categories:
coops, america, analogy, animal, self,
Form: Rhyme
Insomniac Ceiling
...Why deep in the night do thoughts mimic the sky
Dark unknown sights fraught with cynical eye
Things seem burdened and heavy shut not to pry
Mourning for morning who levy stars 'fore they die
A ...
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Categories:
coops, life, night, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
Carol of the Coop
...And this is a sad carol,
Our voice of grief every yuletide,
And our song of plea and prayer,
Now and in every Nativity hereafter.
A partridge, two turtle doves,
Three French hens and four bir...
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Categories:
coops, celebration, christian, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Sun In Moods
...spending sleepless night
extends his soft dawning touch ~
wakes up the lotus
chill charm cloud maidens
sing dance hold beauty parades ~
his angry shades torch
scorches many buds
failing t...
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Categories:
coops, imagery, metaphor, nature, satire,
Form: Haiku
Titanic
...Global pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a dead...
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Categories:
coops, adventure, beauty, boat, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Of Duplicitous Love
...“Kerala Man Hides Lover For 11 Years, In His Home While Living With Parents”
How dare you, hypocrites, poeticizing true love,
And, damn, dare to hate me for choosing my love mate!
How sweetly ...
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Categories:
coops, abuse, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Jest Political Trues-
...Jest falseless truths, absolutes POLITICAL caucus coops ?
5/16/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...
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Categories:
coops, allegory, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Monoku
Tell Me Who Do You Say That I Am
...Earning our living we went lands near, far
Masters, slaves all alike life we enjoyed;
Then came pandemic - poison in nectar
Abandoned by masters, all joy destroyed.
Migrate! No commuters; we go...
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Categories:
coops, jesus, life,
Form: Sonnet
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