EMPOWERMENT FOR THE GRASSROOT
...From grass to grace the hope of a beginner
From nothing to something they all began
From something to everything is worthwhile
Empowering those capable not admirable looks
Establishing creating a...
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Categories:
grassroot, africa, community, creation, desire,
Form: List
GrassRoot UpRising
...Asked the crowning Trees
of their Grass rooting neighbors
When you feel like singing
while dancing
are you more likely to invoke devotion
to capitalism's competitions
or compassion's cooperat...
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Categories:
grassroot, devotion, earth day, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Powers of Enlightenment
...I've noticed our Republic's
IrReligious RightWing Tree of Life v Death
reacts to root-systemic problems
as if oak strong branches
lifted to majestic worshiping heights
of crowning supremacy
nee...
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Categories:
grassroot, earth, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Demagogues and Pedagogues
...Proclaimed the trunk to His roots:
A demagogue teaches
and preaches
as my head trunk talks down
to my frontline branches
Lesser beings who had best listen
and learn
my stern
and often pun...
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Categories:
grassroot, earth, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
Ghetto Specific
...
Homegrown deprivation weeds of poverty
taste like grassroot famine
Detroit dark amber alert operatic style ...
Ms. Sing Hope
is an Ursa skydive dirt bier
Purchasing uninsured ash faul...
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Categories:
grassroot, metaphor, poverty, society, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Give Trump a Chance
...They follow Trump's tweets with disdain
Ridicule, lie and constantly blame
Marchers deny Trump as President
Arm-guarded stars arrogantly vent
To millions of 'racist' 'deplorable' citizens
Who di...
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Categories:
grassroot, encouraging, hope, political, proposal,
Form: Political Verse
Turn And
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The future looks so frightening
fifteen minutes after your flower birth at dawn
From heart to soul,
your anxieties let you see
a sky halo of a red sun glow
Arterial uncertainty flow...
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Categories:
grassroot, allusion, change, metaphor, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
God's Utopian Church
...I was listening to a Christian theologian friend of mine
speaking about the Messiah's,
and St. Paul's,
original intention when singing praises of God's here/not-here Kingdom,
and potential as a m...
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Categories:
grassroot, christian, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Les Protecteurs - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Protectors By T Wignesan
...Les Protecteurs – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Protectors” by T. Wignesan
(Note: Oodgeroo never claimed to write poetry à la manière des poètes occidentaux; she said - without minci...
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Categories:
grassroot, bullying, character, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
Let the Toothless Dog Bark
...Let the toothless dog bark
it wouldn't harm the shark
Because they continue to embezzle the fund
And crabbing public land
Dollar meant for developing the shanties
into reputable cities
Stol...
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Categories:
grassroot, africa,
Form: Free verse
Summer Dreams
...Silent thrills
dream love novels
fit for Oprah
and yet fit for
prison;
serving a life sentence
for being unable
to comprehend
the world and its
dry smoke
grassroot
reality.
A hard-fou...
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Categories:
grassroot, angst
Form: Free verse