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
The 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
White Supremacy
...
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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