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The Amistad Mutiny

The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...

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Categories: cargo, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form: Verse

Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment

Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment

alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly 
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit; 
ofttimes imagined as time thief.

Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...

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Categories: cargo, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Poems V

Poems about Poems V

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.

She...

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Categories: cargo, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Cocoon


"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect 
strings of silk 
in the air

glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...

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Categories: cargo, muse,
Form: Narrative

Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky

Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...

Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955, 
not quite half...

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Categories: cargo, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form: Rhyme

Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over

It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...

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Categories: cargo, love,
Form: Free verse

How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris

How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.

An enchantress and a minor goddess
in ancient Greek mythology and religion
depicted...

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Categories: cargo, 12th grade, adventure, age, beautiful, literature, muse,
Form: Free verse

Trump verses and other mild curses

All for the price of a dozen eggs,
America stands on shaky legs.
Globally, the claim is heard ~
"The US ~ laughingstock of the world,"
as daily, we star in our very own theater of the absurd.
Said the...

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Categories: cargo, america, anger, angst, anxiety, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme

Escape of the Bluesman's Song

Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of...

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Categories: cargo, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two

Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...

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Categories: cargo, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Margins of Pandora

Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun

The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia

Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...

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Categories: cargo, farewell,
Form: Free verse

Chapter 1-- Damian Hakim: the Making of the Man- Damian's Early Days

Date 2008 these are Damian's 
Formative days. Damian Hakim 
Was born 2001 August 10th.
8lbs 7oz. Big baby boy! Damian 
Lived in west Virginia with his
Mother Lucinda, father Carter 
Hakim and his siblings. Now 2008
Young Damian...

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Categories: cargo, black love, color, confidence, mental health,
Form: Prose

Letter To Grandpa Ralph

As I thought upon the coming of February, the month designated as Black History Month, I began to think upon potential ancestors of long long ago. My imagination got the best of me, and this...

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Categories: cargo, christian, family, grandfather, history,
Form: Rhyme

Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One

Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One                     ...

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Categories: cargo, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the dashboard light
(the above line credited
to musician named Meatloaf)
upon...

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Categories: cargo, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing, drug, happy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

The Whips of History - 4

Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to...

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Categories: cargo, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Letter From a Son To His Late Mother

Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a land where ‘twenty is plenty’ for women? And hence, ignoring...

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Categories: cargo, emotions, family, loss, mother son,
Form: Prose

Of Unknown Origin

Nylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not...

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Categories: cargo, beach, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

A Ghetto Conversation





Hey bruh, 
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate 
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...

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Categories: cargo, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form: Verse

Utopia

Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity
As if I still talked
To an imaginary friend
At...

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Categories: cargo, political,
Form: Blank verse

A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To All

It is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December— 
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect 
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...

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Categories: cargo, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form: Narrative

The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'

In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
Launched from Penlee lifeboat station in...

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Categories: cargo, boat, death, people, rain, sad, sea, storm,
Form: Narrative

South Africa 2019

A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams

In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion

The constitution hallucinates as night settles scores of deceit

Bereavement takes its toll in anger...

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