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Guantanamo Poems - Poems about Guantanamo

Premium MemberOne Hundred Percent Loser

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This guy looks (and smells) like a loser in every way.
Why does he have to hang around my table today?
Right now, I wish he would turn around and go away.
For the last few days, he has b...
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Categories: guantanamo, poverty,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAND THEN HE WAS GONE FBI KISH ISLAND

...AND THEN HE WAS GONE OFF THE COAST OF KISH ISLAND IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE A ROUND ABOUT OF DETAILS MOSTLY THE STARTLING FIVE PHOTOS OF BOB LEVINSON HOLD UP NOTES WHILE WEARING ATTIRE FROM GITMO REACHING...
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Categories: guantanamo, allah,
Form: Naat



Premium MemberTaking Some Time Off

...Dear friends, If you have noticed I haven't been commenting lately. My brother volunteered to go to Guantanamo Bay being part of Homeland Security. He several days before leaving purchased a house. W...
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Categories: guantanamo, absence,
Form: Free verse

Sometimes

...1/16/21


Pure silence or the sound of wind chimes
Willing to do anything to save their own hides
People still committing horrific crimes
During low and high tide
It's been one hell of a rolle...
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Categories: guantanamo, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThree Days of Curfew

...On the first day of curfew, I defiantly walked the streets,
but was soon escorted back home by my local police.
On the second day of curfew I walked the streets again as well,
but spent the rest o...
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Categories: guantanamo, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberJustified Suicide

...There is a Guantanamo Bay like facility,
that has a bed with my name on it guaranteed,
along with 1 million natural born americans in and outside my country.
We are all on the government watch lis...
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Categories: guantanamo, suicide,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPig Bladders

...We played on all weather turf which was mud and a few sods of grass

Dribbled like Pele and Eusebio in old boot for that one killer pass

From straight after school until there was not one single...
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Categories: guantanamo, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBall and Chain

...Hassan harbours hard-worn hardship in his heavy homeless heart

Drones dereliction devastation and dire disintegration of daring dreams

Dear daughter dead at dawn Delisiha demised dismembered de...
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Categories: guantanamo, war,
Form: Alliteration

Americanisation

...Manipulations, misrepresentations and government violations,
America has been terrorising for many generations.
Spying allegations, secret conversations,
US imperialism continues to destroy nation...
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Categories: guantanamo, conflict, corruption, evil, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEn-Trumped

...En-trumped

There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling 
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell 
our tale as we see it, at the...
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Categories: guantanamo, horror,
Form: Narrative

Three Worlds, Three Prisons

...I think about human freedom
I search for human liberty
I get none in human life
Humans have never carried 
Freedom and liberty in bags

In mother’s womb
Surely I see no freedom, no liberty!
I...
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Categories: guantanamo, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberGuy In Guantanamo

...Guy in Guantanamo 

Catherine’s wheel spins round the revolution ever since that day her lover died 
when both lost the plot and their passion and she cried her grief into Bedlam
	
Guy jumped to...
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Categories: guantanamo, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Saving the World

...Saving the world
I drifted out too far, turquoise water, tried to swim on my back, 
water in my mouth, agonizing panic. 
That’s how they torture prisoners in Guantanamo, only it isn’t called 
it ...
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Categories: guantanamo, art, assonance, bridal shower,
Form: Didactic

Saving the World

...Saving the world
I drifted out too far, turquoise water, tried to swim on my back, 
water in my mouth, agonizing panic. 
That’s how they torture prisoners in Guantanamo, only it isn’t called 
it ...
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Categories: guantanamo, abuse, addiction, allegory, anger,
Form: Blank verse

I, Icon

...They spied me in the sky, dropping bombs of love
on Ferguson, and bitchy women's  rooms; and rednecks' 
shooting range was next, the blooded boxing glove.

They spotted me in Tel-aviv and also in...
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Categories: guantanamo, humor, peace,
Form: Free verse

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