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Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T Wignesan

Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)

January 2,...

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Categories: activating, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse


Move on over ole Joe

Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: activating, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse

MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS

  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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Categories: activating, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Epic

THE PRISMATIC SELF

Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25

—————- 

“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite 
architectural design ~ endless
quests to become best versions of Self,
sharpen mind, mould...

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Categories: activating, age, character, courage, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Bio
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Rudolf the Ginger Reigndeer

Rudolf is mysteriously born in a manger
with a flaming red nose,
and eyes,
and ears,
and hair,
everywhere.

Gingers are rare
among his DeerTribe
as is his empathic capacity to know he is going where,
how to get there,
and about how long it...

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Categories: activating, allegory, christmas, health, humor, peace, seasons,
Form: Political Verse


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Colonisation

Bombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence  merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment  an aspirational diction,
reverberation or innuendo pending aftermath augur,
the world...

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Categories: activating, august, courage, deep, freedom, future, mystery, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Dripping

The Chinese store has everything 
so be observant when you walk in. 
The Chinese store has everything, 
Matchbox, paper bag and red watch
The Chinese store has everything
Wall clock old keys and old lock
The Chinese store...

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Categories: activating, anxiety, business, community, culture, emotions, people, technology,
Form: Narrative

I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025

I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.

How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit b44 felt and damn the torpedoes
(originated from a quote
attributed to...

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Categories: activating, cool, environment, humorous, june, summer,
Form: Free verse

Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945

Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945

Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleashing atomic warfare
synonymous with the ways and means
to annihilate, decimate,...

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Categories: activating, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august, dark, death, earth,
Form: Free verse

Dear Eden Eldest Daughter

(Garden yourself and Emmanuel 
against risking life and limb,
especially as dark shadows edge - 
of night bring dim
mention onset of when shifting shapes swim
all around reducing slice 
of daylight slim).

I write thee today
September 13th, 2019...

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Categories: activating, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, birthday,
Form: Free verse

Roast of An Unnamed Poet

He's packin' magic Viagra
Muse infused grooves set the mood
grab ya' and stab ya' 
we're opposites 
still we speak the same language 
teach and preach truth
every time I stop to see what he's droppin' 
my dang...

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Categories: activating, allegory, history, rap, slam, word play, words,
Form: Ode
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Facing Racing Eyes

So, I guess a 12 year old
American brown male playing by himself
with a toy gun
is outside your boundary
for normal early-adolescent activity.

Well, I can see why you would need
to draw your boundary
for healthy rationality
outside his grassy...

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Categories: activating, emotions, judgement, peace, power, race, racism, violence,
Form: Narrative

Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part Deux

Countdown to Homo sapiens extinction
predicted millenniums in past
ordained but never occurred December 21
two thousand and twelve after common era
whereby catastrophic spark
detonating inferno incinerating blast
eradicating extant flora and fauna 
activating bereft hegira
with no means to interrupt...

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Categories: activating, allah, america, anxiety, environment, fate, howl, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

I Asked Myself a Rhetorical Question

I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
    ...

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Categories: activating, 11th grade, 12th grade, creation, faith, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
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Picking Up Lunch

The elevator opened on the 46th floor, to a small foyer and one plain, grey door

The door opened and a young girl, 10ish, in a blue, polo, tennis dress, said, “Hi! I’m Karen, you must...

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Categories: activating, art, girl, humanity, humor, pets, sister, teen,
Form: Free verse

The Executioner As Scrambled Humorist

within the under belly of
this hob bull ling Leviathan beast
induced roaring hungry soundcloud issued
within abdominal folds
finding they in creased

never diminishing, matter
whether I turn north, south, west or east
this adult desired,
soon after he envisioned
buttered crispy dish...

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Categories: activating, appreciation, baptism, dark, farewell, grave, mystery, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Severely Withdrawn As a Doggone Lad

Severely withdrawn as a doggone lad...

I wanted someone to hear me shout for help
as recently recalled
when yours truly a little barking whelp.

After conversing with Amélie Beth
(yesterday February 26th, 2021)
yes, the same sibling diagnosed
with nodule on...

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Categories: activating, age, brother, devotion, feelings, grief, i love
Form: Rhyme

Navigating Outward Bounds of Relationships

Volition, orientation familiarization aahing
and oohing within restrictive paradigm molding
inviolable honorable gentility -
flagrantly, desirously, clearly boyz abandoning
willfully skirting, panting (heavily)
forfeiting abominably, (no Joe King) abiding

chomping at bit, damning delineated, or obscure
parameters, between one acceding
Earthlinked selfish living
psychosexual...

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Categories: activating, friendship, hyperbole, joy, love, may, sensual, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

I Experience Languor Getting Auld

As a bouncing baby boy
syne of tragic travails in the offing tolled
courtesy analogous bell think Pavlov's employ;
yours truly me mama's apron strings rolled
secure around stubby fingers brought joy
created and garnered webbed wold
between she who helped...

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Categories: activating, 12th grade, absence, analogy, angst, baby, birth,
Form: Free verse

Big Man, Is You God Calling

Listen, big man! Listen big man! Listen, it is you God calling;
So, stop, stop procrastinating! Just stop procrastinating!
Have you not been out - of - place and purpose, for too long?
Christ is waiting; willing and...

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Categories: activating, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Hiroshima Seventy Six Years Since August 6th 1945

Hiroshima – seventy six years since August 6th, 1945

Once again, I take momentary pause
to contemplate horrific event
regarding unleashing atomic warfare
activating nuclear brinkmanship,
hence time to trot out a poem
written initially some years ago
courtesy yours truly.

Robert Oppenheimer...

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Categories: activating, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict, cry, death, fate,
Form: Free verse

Paltry Credit Karma

Earned to date,
nee absolute zero
academic bankable bragging rites
explained arduous, horrendous, onerous
agonizing, heartbreaking,
nerve wracking travails

hamstringing, hijacking, hobbling...
maximization of potential
e'er since yours truly
begat when ma dada
fired off his johnny rotten sex pistol
handy dandy blues clues unsheathed

ejaculated gun...

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Categories: activating, allusion, anger, dark, father, history, horror, howl,
Form: Free verse

Addictive Ampoules Annihilate After Alluring

amphetamines acquaintanceship assuages 
agonizing aches also advocates amorousness
assiduously activating admiration
aggressive attacks assault afoul 

affable affinity and affectionadumbration
anatomical accidental addiction attested as academic,
although afterward abnegation absolutely arduous,
affianced attired apparently as an anomaly 

Ares and Abyssinian Astarte...

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Categories: activating, 10th grade, 12th grade, addiction, community, dark,
Form: Alliteration

Paternal Grandfather Aaron Harris

Paternal Grandfather Aaron Harris...

Lovely bones long since disintegrated
into dustbin of genealogical history,
if still alive would rank as oldest person
clocking another one incremental increase
asper in chronological number
anniversary of his birth occurring within July

year unknown, but within
latter...

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Categories: activating, 8th grade, birth, family, grandfather, july, kid,
Form: Prose Poetry

Oracle of Valiance

Being with you; I am soaring high grounded in adoration…
Upon your departure creeps my secret resistance…
Suppressing, squashing my heart desires is voracious outside influence…
Telling me “Mocked will be your soul’s dowry” lacking acceptance…
So I love...

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Categories: activating, love, spiritual, heart, heart, love, i love
Form: Free verse
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