better juice
...stewing in my own juices
in this
dystopia
of a nation
masked thugs
tearing
brown babies
from their mothers' arms
raking the brown
off the streets
disappearing the
inheritors of the k...
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Categories:
inheritors, evil,
Form: Free verse
Sea Trash Begone
...
Sea trash begone, as youth shall surge
with their passion and devotion
Debris where land and wat...
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Categories:
inheritors, ocean, pollution,
Form: Roundel
Every Man
...I live in every man's struggles.
I lose myself in the crowd;
Everyone has a story of loss,
Of a childhood that ended abruptly,
Transmogrified into juvenile gods,
Worshipping, genuflecting, react...
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Categories:
inheritors, farewell, fate,
Form: Free verse
Art As Activism I
...One of the great things about being an artist is that even if I can’t change the world I still have an unfettered opportunity to express my opinions. To keep from exploding, I made these pieces i...
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Categories:
inheritors, earth, ocean, planet, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Art As Activism II
...*Henry Ford developed plastic from soybeans for cars. It degrades!
Art As Activism II
Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking
or splashing through...
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Categories:
inheritors, earth, environment, pollution, youth,
Form: Free verse
Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 3 of 6'
...III. Ecological Awareness
In this fragile eggshell
I will call life
for security's a mirage
I chase.
Existence is a gamble I take
a wild and
desperate gamble...
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Categories:
inheritors, earth, environment, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Rambunctious And Wild
...Nothing is more precious than a child's love;
innocent, they implicitly trust you.
And they're as pure as the Angels above:
every expectant mother's wish come true.
Nothing feels as hon...
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Categories:
inheritors, age, beautiful, child, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Legacy
...Legacy
Inheritors we are of depravity,
yet blame do we the ignorance of
those whom graves stolidly invoke,
or pity do we the oblivion of
the unborn, who, in our dirty shoes
shall...
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Categories:
inheritors, evil, future,
Form: Free verse
Search For Mysticpowers
...My inside mystic still searches
for my strongest and best
omnipotently higher all-embracing Power
of unchanging monotheistic Truth
and Beauty.
My outside voices
still long for deeper Power
t...
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Categories:
inheritors, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Gobbledygook About Thanks Taking Formerly Known As Thanksgiving
...Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête
worst day of year turkeys do hate
though vegan lifestyle
sweeping culinary tables of late
though me and the missus
still omnivorous foods sate
palates...
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Categories:
inheritors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unprepared
...Even when our fathers were not there
They penned the edicts on their behalf
And decreed how the people should live
So, like sheep we followed their lead
Hoping for fields of lush pasture
Full of...
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Categories:
inheritors, africa, leadership, people, political,
Form: Free verse
Doing God's Will
...
Doing the will of God* is His desire for believers
Obeying Him as the Master while overcoming selfishness
Increasing faith, having been imparted with divine nature
Nurtured with Scriptures' t...
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Categories:
inheritors, christian, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Greenbody of Christ
...When I was a child
my evangelical family
went to People's CoOperative Bible Church,
to rapturously pray and praise our privileged preachy partialness,
political and economic and social and envir...
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Categories:
inheritors, bible, caregiving, faith, health,
Form: Political Verse
Nigerian Tree
...(Your Flowers Are Thorns too)
O! Nigeria
Your flowers are thorns,
And thorns are your attire,
When light comes,
They laugh and smell.
In the scorching noon,
You wear the colour of sanes;
And ...
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Categories:
inheritors, africa,
Form: Prose
Australia Day 2018
...Australia is for freedom
And a chance to live in peace
We stand shoulder to shoulder together
And not for giving grief
For we are daughters and sons
Under the Southern Cross
Inheritors of ANZ...
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Categories:
inheritors, celebration,
Form: Ballad
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