Long Black flag Poems

Raid versus woe

Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.

Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...

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The gentle buzzing sound echoed memories of a fading childhood

When she and her cousin had whispered secrets at the mosque

About undying love and first kisses before being stung by a bee

‘Honey, don’t worry they make...

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“I have seen what cannot be unseen.”

Confessed the little boy
To a uniformed interrogator
From a small chair
In Iraq,
The boy’s lips dried and crumbled
Around his mouth
Like chalk
Outlining the final place and time
Of his terrible crime.

Dust is glued...

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there goes a lonely man on a one horse carriage

the horse though pulls the carriage he is always hungry 
because he has nothing to eat but to feed on fallen leaves 
and to quench his...

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Wynken Blynken and Nod???
(ah...oh methinks this pissant pooch woof lee 
barked up the wrong tree – 
reed don my mongrel friend)

This poetic endeavor doth not boast nor brag
to take digs on front page
  ...

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Back in '63,
I remember vividly,
only 6 years old,
and watching our
black and white tv,
showing Lee Harvey Oswald
being escorted down the hall,
handcuffed and under arrest,
when out of the blue
Jack Ruby walks up and
shoots him in the chest,
I...

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I curl up
In the cradle of our cabin
This Friday night in January

The deck out back
Glows
Bright as its own light
With new snow
From my evening muted TV

Cliff an abyss two feet beyond

Lake
A coffin draped in black flag

There...

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Whorls of smoke mock the void of the heavens; in a wiggling ascent 
With lusting waists of a samba decent.
Turmoil combs the fragile mane of the soil
The scalp is torn and leathery fingers of dust...

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Freddy the Fly
Meandering on
the ceiling one day,
Suddenly got a "heads up!"

He glimpsed from 
three hundred or so,
Of his left side eyes,
A sight guaranteed
To make a fly's fear
rise.

For there was Sidney
The Spider...
Just "Hanging Around"
On his "Web...

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"Life denies everything to some. Though they live and die with no dignity, they'll be crowned thereafter"
.......by the poet


I lived poor and died poor.
No obituary written
Nowhere a black flag fluttered
No one grieved
No bells tolled
No prayers...

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The mountain falls into a blur
A swirling vortex of nothing
A carpet lapped up into green
A tiny globe of jungle asphyxiated.

There lurks a mirage cloaked in cellophane
Where they speak with their achtung
And flammen. The innards glow...

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much can be said about
Black Flag and Raid
the devious poisons
that for bugs are made
in obvious places
the concoctions are sprayed
leaving the residue
that i think bugs crave

they creep around
tasting the ground
dust laced with poison
they lick their claws
unaware...

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Their raising that black flag as everyone looks in horror 
As the Iraqi defenses sag they burst on through the door
And the ghastly sights we see and how shocked we are
Saying this shouldn't be, no...

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We ride across the desert sands
Like pirates out at sea. 

Two Humvees accompany me 
 12 gypsies all we be

We fly the Jolly Roger, a symbol 
Big and bold, 

We sail a cross the desert...

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On that hilltop a flag flutters in the wind,
not of the victor’s arrogant purple that shines from behind that sky,
not of the blood-soaked red that lies on the battlefield of the defeated,
but of the black...

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Joe the janitor,
was working at area 51,
as usual till
there was no more sun, 
when suddenly the power went out,
got a flashlight from his janitor cart,
and quickly finished mopping the floor...
Noticing the now unlocked
highly classified door,
knew...

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a mass migration  
heading west to farm the land ~
inexperienced 

in the arid soil
ordinary crops planted  ~
dry farming ignored

drought and poor farming
topsoil blowing in the wind ~
dust bowl created  
 
deep rooted...

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From life to life

We walk with hands raised to the sky.
Our steps become stronger with our voices.
We exceed the limits of our mission.
Our love was waving our black flag.


Victory that begins with people's results.
My victory...

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Unleashed upon the enemy
We tear through their lines
Showing no mercy
In the midst of battle

Feeding the Flesh Grinder
Severed off limbs
We resupply our food stocks
The more we kill
The more we eat
Human flesh
Sustenance of our society

Blood washed fields
Littered...

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It was the land of our fathers
Life was hard, a daily grind
Though we had food in our bellies
And the sun it still did shine

Foreign soldiers came with promises
But their leaders were so blind
Our land became...

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I'm trap in the streets so I let my black flag hang.

As I put my sign in the air damn right I bang.

But right now I'm in different struggle.

Cause I'm using my mind now I...

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Young hands gripped the red raw rope,
For a fight to the ultimate death,
Each team to march, to a tantric tune,
Stabbing a stomp of feet with each breathe.

Ready, set, go! and the “Heave!” was heard,
The rope:...

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