Freedom Holiday Poems

Dear Enemy, 
I will wish you well and set you free. 
Your words and knife, 
will no longer hurt me. 
Too bad it all had...

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free  
brings one  
peaceful life  
sleep good tonight  
dream  

...

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Largely overlooked
Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day 
Emancipation Day – commemorates the end of slavery 
In the United States
Most States that is
There are 20 states still...

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Your blood cries out to us
        beneath a benign grassy grave

     Yours was the...

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Passover's end is nigh upon us
    two more days to celebrate
          and contemplate
...

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~ A Poem for Passover ~

  Four questions
    Four cups of wine
  Four kinds of sons
    Four...

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Loving Day

When Richard and Mildred fell in love,
their fate was decided by a judge.
For he was white and she was black,
their marriage broke Virginia's Integrity...

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Peace~oh peace where do you hide,                                    where...

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In twenty twenty- three,                     ...

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I looked out my window and what did I see,               ...

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She walked in the natural belle of Yule 
lit up like the glitter upon the trees; 
Holding a dove waiting for it’s release 
in her...

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Christmas only comes once a year
But Jesus died – for every breath inhaled
Exhaling only the brief, silent tear
His love alive, shimmering like stars in the...

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Magic silver key,
fits into my silver shoes.
I was now set free,
I now owned many sidewalks.
My new skates were a big thrill.

 

Date Written: 8/4/2022

2 Place

Childhood...

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I truly wish everyday life was a holiday
So I could experience that holiday feeling always
That inner emotion of real freedom
Mellow and anticipating each day

Life’s realities...

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Fisherman's Luck 

The rocks brushed by the waves, 
caressed and embraced by the ocean, 
slowly wearing down the land, 
to be carried away in pieces
back...

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