Big Sandy: Recollection in the Free State
...
The hollow remains unphotographed.
Memory, not landscape, frames it—
a road cleaving winter in two,
children laughing while gravity
negotiated its own terms.
Neighbors spoke without flou...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, childhood, community, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Council Culture
...An initiative unforeseen
Supported by the Countess Aberdeen
Motivated several politicians and were
Encouraged to convene
In the year of 1920
When issues were aplenty
Delegates backed the Cork...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmos
...free state
need resuscitate
can’t hesitate
to evaluate
then elaborate
specious debate
too late
dare dedicate
stilling hate
egos inflate
do perpetuate
inevi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, universe, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
...The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Political Stormy Waters
...Messages came thru coded
And the messengers appeared in disguise
Such was their fate as the group of 300
Made Stronghold their place of refuge
Twas all going according to book
But the twisted en...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, analogy, appreciation, conflict, devotion,
Form: Narrative
The Life of 'AE'
...On a mild Spring’s night
In the heartlands of Ulster
A prodigious child was born
For Ireland, to save her
A man of modest means
Yet formidable wit
The mystics he joined
A cause to commit...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Si Vis Pacem
...You see them loot on city streets,
attack people and leave them beat,
take what they want with no regard,
it’s ‘easier’ than working hard.
We see them take a human life,
with no regard for peopl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, evil, humanity, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Kwerekwere
...Kind people
With good respect
Educated from different universities and Schools
Responsible in their lives and knowing well to
Economize their small or big budgets.
Knowing to speak Kikwere...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, 12th grade, africa, encouraging,
Form: Acrostic
Deference To Rene'
...Do you believe consciousness
a free state
Choice empowering the moment
strong
Neurons firing at your
discretion
Time unencumbered
—reality won
(The New Room: August, 2022)...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Peace
...Peace is a stress-free state of security and calmness that comes when there's no fighting or war, everything coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom.
In other words, while war destroys and disrupt...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, patriotic, peace, poetess,
Form: ABC
2a
...The world cheered Ukraine;
They fought an aggressor.
David and Goliath,
An evil oppressor.
They took up their arms
In a right and just cause.
For us, this bears out
2A’s opening clause.
And n...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Guns
...The U.S. Constitution: Amendment 11
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not b...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, america, people, political, ,
Form: Couplet
Apologize For Slavery, Part Ii
......But the problem with apologies
is where exactly do we start?
The Aztecs took thousands of slaves,
and ‘praised their gods’ but cutting out hearts.
The Indians enslaved each other,
and settler...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, history, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Concussion Therapy
...the free state is actually not free
casting my line into the many manipulations
worked by dust devils and hierophants
gambling their grunt wages on my young ass
like cowboys on a cattle free vaca...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Obama Legacy
...The Obama presidency
He started out promising but fell at the first hurdle
When he tried to give America a health system
That covered the working classes, what’s left is
An insurance system th...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
free state, anger, blue, confidence,
Form: Blank verse
Related Poems