What becomes of a world that lacks a black future
...Sterilisation.
The ending of a bloodline
The tree has now stopped growing
Overshadowed by the other flourishing trees
Almost as if it had never existed
But that's what they wanted
To elimi...
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Categories:
exterminate, children, discrimination, future, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
nature fascists
...Nature Fascists
Those who believe in the sanctity of nature, the survival of
the fittest, and so on, tend to be on the political spectrum
right-wing living off inherited money and believing
it is...
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Categories:
exterminate, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC
Ideology
...Everyone believes the news
Until it's all disproved
In some dramatic fashion
When the headlines cash in
Everyone tells their family
Their family tells their friends
It doesn't matter what dir...
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Categories:
exterminate, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme
What Would You Do?
...Picture yourself in a room
Full of everything you love
Everything you need
Everything you desire
Now imagine the room filling with snakes
Or spiders or slime or fog
Whatever makes you choke
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Categories:
exterminate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Marionetta
...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...
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Categories:
exterminate, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Our World Is Under Relentless Attack
...Our world is under relentless attack
We all need to be careful about the impact
Of this virus on us. Be strong, healthy and positive
About defeating “Hate”. Be active. Be proactive
Wash our hands...
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Categories:
exterminate, freedom, hate, imagination, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
On Racial Discrimination In 2024
...Racial discrimination is claimed by many white americans to be slight and not as much a problem for this country as the state of the economy and other popular issues. They strongly believe that black...
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Categories:
exterminate, america,
Form: Prose
OPPRESSION OF FURNITURE PROPERTY
...Their philosophers dehumanized our ancestors.
Their missionaries demonized their humanity.
Their merchants made them chattel.
Whippings, rapes, amputations,
For the training of wild ******* w...
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Categories:
exterminate, 12th grade, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
hinterlands of thee netherlands
...alternately titles: I got noose for you,
Yours truly doth garrotte tee
another itsy bitsy,
betsy wetsy easy breezy read.
oft times ('specially
these latter unsainted days and nights)
in wh...
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Categories:
exterminate, analogy, birth, death, environment,
Form: Free verse
Healing Systemic Trauma
...Can you make any sense of
systemic racism?
No more common sensory sense than
too much patriarchalism--
all leftbrain-rightwing dominance
oppressing sacred Earth's
polyamorous win/win systems
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Categories:
exterminate, addiction, beauty, bullying, culture,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Power To Name
...The power to name is a trait of God.
After making man, He named him Adam.
The power to name, God shared it with man.
God made the woman; Adam named her Eve.
God made the creatures; Adam gave th...
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Categories:
exterminate, cheer up, christian, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Scourges
...Jessy James the scourge
Of the west
Not many out laws
would pass this test
A name like Dillon and Billy the Kid
Became legends for what they did
Nero an emperor the scourge of Rome
Though c...
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Categories:
exterminate, baptism, christian, history,
Form: Rhyme
Once Again Besieged By Fruit Flies
...Once again besieged by fruit flies
Pestiferous infestation quite
argh apartment unit b44
plagued with plight
analogously linkedin to phenomena
experienced within outer limits
of the twili...
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Categories:
exterminate, anger, animal, august, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Imitate What Is Evil
...Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil
but what is good. Anyone who does
what is good is from God.
Anyone does what is evil
has not seen God.
3 John 1:11
Most religions claim to be peac...
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Categories:
exterminate, encouraging, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
New Hope
...Title: New Hope
Author: John King Ayanfe ©
Date: 29/05/2023
From the fist of democracy we seek joyous feast
Our feast of independence has been thwarted by greed's fist
To speak in hope became ...
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Categories:
exterminate, africa, change, future, leadership,
Form: Free verse
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