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Gaddafi Poems - Poems about Gaddafi

The Crime of a Dollar

...The wealth of nations was once rooted
In toil, in grain, in honest trade.
But now—behold the phantom coin,
A paper god by empire made.

No longer tethered to gold or grace,
It floats on faith, ...
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Categories: gaddafi, abuse, allusion, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

shipwreck

...Shipwrecked 


He was Japanese, smiled politely 
and took his shoes off
I smiled also, it was the right thing
for us to do,  shipwrecked sat
in a rubber raft of the type leaving
Tripoli 
Lib...
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Categories: gaddafi, 8th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Blank verse



Eff Turn 10

...#The_10_years_of_EFF_existence
For weariness of being, a baton fell so hard on African soil, the barking of dogs so loud, defeaning one man conscience, the heaven asked who is worthy to lead the hop...
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Categories: gaddafi, africa,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Usa Is Not Perfect

...The USA is not perfect
  never has been
    never will be 

Unlike Russia, which has
  ‘no alcohol problem’ 
     ‘no civil disobedience’
        ‘no LGBTQ populace’
Not to mention no truth i...
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Categories: gaddafi, america, history, international, leadership,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhite Supremacy

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Ah, Marcus Garvey, you were a trier, but never destined a King
Easily made a fool of, if only you had half a brain you could win

Famed by your own notoriety, ideology based on incompetence
But...
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Categories: gaddafi, allegory,
Form: Couplet



My Proud Palestinian Wife: Talk To Us About Suffering - Empathy

...I
She was not unduly unkind, maybe a tad smart
Not ever imagining I am close to Israel and Palestine
My wife comes from Jeneen, a hot spot
But I quickly think of Jacob - NABLUS - old Neapolis
Th...
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Categories: gaddafi, america, analogy, discrimination, forgiveness,
Form: Prose Poetry

A Question To Africa

...A QUESTION TO AFRICA


Africa will you thrive eternally at the dinner table of those whose appetite of greed burns unquenchable like the fires of hell?

Is your rich nature of minerals not gover...
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Categories: gaddafi, africa, analogy, black african
Form: Free verse

Accusers Mostly Losers

...(Mary Custis was the wife of Robert E. Lee.
Union forces captured her ante-bellum
mansion in what is now Arlington Cemetery
and defiled it, because it was the only thing
of Lee's they could get t...
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Categories: gaddafi, judgement,
Form: Sonnet

Gaddaffi

...Gaddafi

I see America dancing in oil sodden nights, nostrils stinking the scent of death 
Your ghost exorcising demons of colonialist clout, walking along banks of the lost river 
River that los...
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Categories: gaddafi, africa, allegory, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Good Night Fidel Castro

...Adieu Fidel Castrol! Adieu Castro!
What a life, What an adventure!
The west with its sophisticated propaganda
could not kill you. In your prime they sought to 
assassinate you, yet the world coun...
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Categories: gaddafi, death,
Form: Elegy

A Letter To My Mugabe

...Uncle Roo
I forgot to celebrate your 89TH 
Birthday but as you turn 90 
May be i will 
Some how for the some reasons

You know it
Gaddafi Is dead
'king of kings'
who died like a mole in a hole
Was he...
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Categories: gaddafi, africa,
Form: Elegy

New Year

...Year 2011 dead, its body lying in state
With all its achievements, faults, flaws
Failures, ailments and deprivation's floodgate
Stock market collapsing, euro in Dollar’s claws
Italy, Greece and Portu...
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Categories: gaddafi, hope, people, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

The Transitory

...The Transitory 

A feline has  
Moved into the shed 
Gave birth
Two six kittens 
I’m looking for a hammer
To hit a nail 
Into the wall and hang
Up a painting of Jesus with 
His eyes closed
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Categories: gaddafi, satire,
Form: Blank verse

Palestine Will Be Free

...as you watch the puppet ms. nuland try & babble her way out of
a media war zone,
explaining to reporters who do not believe a word coming from her mouth,
we, the people watching,
the people who care ...
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Categories: gaddafi, life, world, people, people,
Form: Free verse

Looky

...looky!

the puppet that everyone is said to 
throw their frustrations at like animals
flinging their excrement without a 
second thought, smiles out at us on our
glowing screen to instruct those that...
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Categories: gaddafi, life,
Form: Free verse

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