Prison Wallpaper
...Encage us we are of collective souls
Display us in prisoned wallpaper as ghouls
Send us into these sepsis tanks, in tin cans
in torture dungeons, in faraway lands
Mista...
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Categories:
jackboots, judgement,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
jackboots, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
jackboots, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
...Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride
to juicy jukebox jabber...
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Categories:
jackboots, 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
Forever Free
...
May America and Israel forever be free
from sea to shining sea
~ of Nazis
And should either country find itself drowning
in an ocean of jackboots and hate
May there be a...
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Categories:
jackboots, america, freedom, international,
Form: Rhyme
The Tea Leaves
...Part 1
Genecia, was an angry girl. Actually, Genecia was always angry, 24/7, 365 days a year. This was even reinforced by her own mother, who told her often enough
Genecia, you were born angr...
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Categories:
jackboots, emotions, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Take a Stand For Freedom
...
Take heed, poet friends, you too, may be taken from your house.
Your money, your children, your lives maybe by our current
government be sought.
Oh, those chilling words, “Your children ...
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Categories:
jackboots, abortion, america, freedom, integrity,
Form: Couplet
Bird Black
...Blackbirds singing in jackboots
Women freshening and powdering
in the Men's room
A child is born without square eye's
and cell phone permanently attached
to it's inner ear
Traversing foo...
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Categories:
jackboots, slam,
Form: Free verse
Not the Final Solution
...And so the soup’s, coming to a boil
Very difficult, not to get embroiled
Rumour has it, Hitler’s on the rise
Goose stepping, in poetic disguise
Jackboots kick open, doors of rhyme
Acrostics...
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Categories:
jackboots, abuse, allusion, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
You Can Go Anywhere From Here
...But you might not go
in exactly the way you might expect.
All you have to do
is think outside the box.
Step around obstacles
and open up your eyes.
The mind-police are everywhere now,
tappin...
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Categories:
jackboots, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Before They Silence My Voice
...Before they silence my voice
Under jackboots and bone crushing dogs
I must set fort before dusk
As I am shielded
By his gore
And crafted like Daniel
In the lions den
And Jonah in the whales g...
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Categories:
jackboots, black african american, bullying,
Form: Prose Poetry
Splashing Paint On a Canvas
...Splashing paint on a canvas
Is that visual art?
Does it constitute anything resembling design?
A huge swastika as a backdrop
for an Israeli Jew crushing a
Palestinian Arab baby under
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Categories:
jackboots, art, creation, film,
Form: Free verse
Where Is America Going
...Where do the naysayers and wall-builders come from
Do they imagine their ancestors were spontaneously
Dropped here one day, white of skin, superior of being
Did no one’s father or grandfather hav...
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Categories:
jackboots, writing,
Form: Blank verse
Dead Men Tale
...We're hit, we're hit!! serge!
The thing goes skrrrahh pap pap ka-ka-ka
Skibiki-pap-pap and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom
Skya, du-du-ku-ku-dun-dun
Poom, poom
The whole platoon has been cut off
The ent...
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Categories:
jackboots, anger, world war ii,
Form: Epitaph
Not a Gumboot In Sight
...If you wander into your local school or preschool,
What are the odds of spotting even a single pair of gumboots,
And does it matter if you find none.
If you think it no,
Then fast forward to th...
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Categories:
jackboots, appreciation, baptism, blessing, character,
Form: Light Verse
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