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Haymarket Poems - Poems about Haymarket


Premium MemberThe Struggle for America's Soul

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    The struggle for America’s soul
        now almost 250 years old

    Shoulder-to-shoulder at her border
        freedom contends with law’n’order

    From ‘Give me liberty or give me de...
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Categories: haymarket, america, change, conflict, freedom,
Form: Couplet

Zealous untiring repentance

...Zealous untiring repentance

Fleshed out as poetic confessional.

Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.

I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, your...
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Categories: haymarket, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886

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It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eig...
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Categories: haymarket, history, death, men, work,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things