Long Cargo hold Poems
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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 hold, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
The Deep Roots of RacismWhen God created this world, everything was nice and dandy and perfect,
But the disobedience of Adam and Eve introduced sin and sowed defect,
Soon thereafter sin manifested itself as envy, hatred, and murder,
As their first son...
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Categories:
cargo hold, america, black african american, discrimination, hate, murder,
Form:
Rhyme
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Here’s the thing ...
needful truth of an urgent matter
Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem:
Dark Age Crusaders of Hate
say the right color is on the genetic wrong side
of the racial debate Holy Grail...
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Categories:
cargo hold, conflict, hate, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Three-Fifth Soul
It’s a terrible thing to be treated
as less than human ... all should abhor
Considered only as beast of burden —
that’s the lying end of it, nothing more
Iron yoke was our neck collar,
leash was a...
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Categories:
cargo hold, angst, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form:
Quatrain
Neuer the AchillesNEUER THE ACHILLES
Horse power?
Let the horses keep their power
Neuer power is now the toast of all
The day all cats chose their king
It was Tiger that first wore the crown
But Lion roared, bore his fangs
And bristled...
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Categories:
cargo hold, celebrity, football,
Form:
Epic
Tangata Manu (The Birdmen)Somewhere between Easter Island and
Santiago skims an ocean skiff loaded with
slumped islanders bound within the teetering
cargo hold. In the distance can be seen the
eyes of seven monolithic faces defending
islanders from the fury of volcanoes.
One...
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Categories:
cargo hold, history, peopleeaster,
Form:
Free verse
David CherryHis dad was a Commercial Traveller
Who went to work in a suit and tie
Didn’t have that weathered complexion
From daily working under open sky.
They lived last house in Mill Row
The village school not very far.
Unlike most...
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Categories:
cargo hold, childhood, friend, in memoriam,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Encapsulated Pain
My melanin bar code pain
feels like a time encapsulated link chain
The future and the past
are excruciatingly one and the same
And this bleak present
is probable cause tense —
Just being black in America
is a police cruiser...
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Categories:
cargo hold, discrimination, sorrow, truth, violence,
Form:
Narrative
The Root CauseTHE ROOT CAUSE
"Rhosus; O' how you wished you never sailed into the port of Beirut"
"There was no need for the ship Rhosus to be in the port of Beirut with its already loaded cargo of...
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Categories:
cargo hold, allegory, truth,
Form:
Couplet
The Poet Is the Ship's Captainthe poet is the ship's Captain
the story is about the sea sailed upon
a tale beneath in the cargo hold
at times the most tranquil of waters
filled with benign waves
become walks along Elysian paths
or a tempest, red...
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Categories:
cargo hold, analogy, appreciation, celebration, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Ankle Bracelets
Clink-clink
Black panther eyes peering
thru the concrete canopy
What do they see in the blood-smoke midnight air ...
safari sound waves shocking,
moving the ghetto leaves
What do the tree leopard tar-pitch, onyx ears hear ...
a white...
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Categories:
cargo hold, culture, metaphor, slavery, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Rubbed the Wrong Way
We always gotta give America
her ego massage
Put cucumber visions in her eyes,
gentle finger her a comforting mirage
Lady Liberty likes you to give her
a righteous back rub
Tell her how beautiful she looks,
and how much
she's adored and...
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Categories:
cargo hold, abuse, perspective, prejudice, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Alone At the SeasideAlone at the Seaside.
Sunday, October sunlight, I´m at the marina admiring
a boat made of wood, hull, deck and the bridge; I was
dreaming of mystical islands in the Pacific. An elderly
man near...
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Categories:
cargo hold, adventure, confusion, mystery, me, home, home, me,
Form:
Blank verse
Napalm Rain
Deadly chemicals
parked in the cargo hold
of an American military plane
Destination: the jungles of Vietnam
Guerillas in the mist ...
communism with an Asian face
is on the uptick
It's the 60's, man
Free love don't like none of that
paid...
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Categories:
cargo hold, death, pain, truth, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Buy Product Crash
Auto Pilate
is carrion klaxon blaring
a false viral alert
The warning signal says cadavers don’t vote:
“Let not your lying eyes
believe this smear currency contagious hoax”
With pandemic fear spreading,
speculator pockets get fatally hurt
False profits on a spit...
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Categories:
cargo hold, death, sick, trust, world,
Form:
Tristich
A Grave In IstanbulA grave in Istanbul
He fell down the cargo hold, a long fall
the hold’s floor was made of wood and lessened
the brutal slam when he hit bottom.
He got up, waved to us and climbed the...
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Categories:
cargo hold, blue, devotion, september,
Form:
Ballade
Once Upon the Green SeaOnce upon a time
I was, it seems like 100 years ago,
on an old fashion cargo ship, the carried all sorts
from potatoes, flour, machine parts, plastic flowers,
and tinned fruit, meat, and hats for the wife...
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Categories:
cargo hold, blue, boxing day , bridal shower, butterfly,
Form:
Blank verse
The Transferable TouristThe transferable tourist
The old ship striped like a rusty zebra
one, that has survived the big storms and attacked
by sea monsters how she still floated was a mystery.
From one obscure port to another, her captain had...
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Categories:
cargo hold, best friend, confidence, heartbroken,
Form:
Sonnet