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Premium Member Treasonous Acts Identified

Look at the face of a traitor within facts 
through this fraud he pushed his own personal opinion and agenda 
every vote cast from there on in 
should be null and void as this is proof of rigging and tampering 
Treason against the state body as a whole and an insult to civil rights 
shameful politics that makes a mockery of democracy 
Why do judges not press charges on these admissions of guilt 
pleased to defend criminals breaking the law seems to act out as a cartel 
In the political system unchallenged
where is the justice in this circus of ruling class 
the referendum in this case has been tampered with and fixed one way
This is how my soul sees it 
what says you the people of justice to speak 
one just couldn't make this up if they tried
Form: Narrative


Premium Member March 1969 my first grade class was the only class honored to attend Abraham Lincoln Home

No fear of threats from vicious 
Peter Gargano knights of kkk 
Threatening my life for attending 
that 1969 Civil rights field trip
my father Civil rights advocates 
political leaders gather 
as we awaited the trial 
way buses to board 
my first grade class 
was the only class 
honoured to attend 
because excellent 
grades and we were 
the entertainment 
choir members thirty 
one 1st graders my 
mom and dad was 
so proud of me no
cousins or sisters or 
brothers no  identity 
thieves Jamaican 
immigrants from tampa 
definitely no mexican 
 violent offenders from 
delicia chichihau mexico 
born in 1980 committing 
home invasions for corrupt 
junk sick cops very sad place 
in America truly sad these 
violent offenders and corrupt 
cops threatening my life 
obsessed with my poetry 
my life 1969 Abraham Lincolns 
home my first grade class was 
the only class selected throughout 
Chicago i will never fear intimidations 
threats from domestic terrorists 
with badges discrimination 
hatred of me fir being the child 
of a civil rights advocates being 
a child of a the black panther party 
1969 fred hampton breakfast 
program I wore wires pregnant 
buying weapons and drugs from 
corrupt junk sick cops today 
these corrupt officers crave 
my death attempting to extort 
my poetry for Peter gargano 
criminal group breaking in my 
home reading my diary about 
my 1969 field trip sorry your 
Mexican imposter wasn't 
even born your Jamaican 
imposter wasn't even born 
this was peters game to 
murder me and impersonate 
me with immigrants because 
he hates blacks he burns blacks 
alive he frames blacjs extort 
blacks he hires blacks to 
unearth blacks he hires corrupt 
junk sick cops to terrorise 
threatening fbi informants 
confidential human sources 
he ignited a car bomb in my face 
i am truly blessed that my first 
grade class was the only class 
chosen to attend only because 
I sang in the chior I got to sing Marian 
Anderson’s hymn were the only class 
we felt so special liberty and justice for all 
lift every voice and sing very very exciting 
such an honor to be chosen to sing
           let freedom ring
Form: Kyrielle

Premium Member CIVIL RIGHTS EYES

The march and Chant
We Shall Overcome and we can
We must be on the mission shall
On Dr. King’s Birthday, we must do more than just reflect on his accomplishment and establishment
A call for action
Civil Rights call
Dr. King’s vision is still among us
His Legacy reigns 
Stand Up with Head Up
It’s dignity and Reality
We have abilities and assurance
We are the strength in endurance
Dr. King’s influence
There is a cause and we are the effect
It matters when and how
We are the now
A need for change and rearrange
No time to blame
Civil Rights aim
Bulls eye right on target
Dr. King wants us to wake up and not pause on his dream
Waters are flowing and we can’t just let go dry
We are America
Be ever proud
This is all Races time
Dr. King wants us to all to come together and converse
His message is clear in how we will preserver
Dr. King is looking down on us from Heaven and wondering
Did his cause die in vain?
The mission he couldn’t finish must be continued
There is work to be done if we intend to be among
Dr. King was the purpose and we are the supporters yet to walk in Dr. King’s footsteps
Step by step ever Civil Rights closer
The Lord says, “I am the world’s firm foundation”
The creation being Mighty
Don’t settle, but speak out
Don’t be still, but have a determined will
Civil Rights is still needed to fulfill
Dr. King’s birthday I couldn’t let go by
Let us all fight for Civil Rights and have courage in the movement to try
Dr. King wants us to stand with him and in honor of him
I still hear the echoes of “WE SHALL OVERCOME”.

Premium Member Try and Know and Realize What Is Important

 Do you realize that your "LIFE IS IMPORTANT": SO BE IT AND SO IT IS!Will you in your understanding realize and try to have some "Happiness" and have "GOOD INTENTIONS" for your fellow human beings? Bad intentions for your fellow human beings ,no matter what their "Religious Faith" sends "The One With Bad "Intentions to "Hell for "Eternity"!!!!!!! Your "SOUL and SPIRIT "is "IMPORTANT",so strive and keep that thing in.........tact.......run and tell that!!You ought to run and "TELL THAT"! Jesus Christ came "OUT" from "GOD"!The "HOLY SPIRIT"came out from "THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY": THERE IS "ONE SPIRIT"and that is "THE SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT THAT CREATED THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE LIVING GOD WHO IS JESUS CHRIST!THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME OUT FROM GOD JUST LIKE JESUS CHRIST!"The "ONE HOLY SPIRIT"is going to "TAKE OVER""EVERYTHING" FOR  "THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY"WHOES "HOLY NAME IS "JEHOVAH" WHO "ALLAH" PRAYS TO!ALLAH PRAYS TO  JEHOVAH WHO IS "SOVEREIGN",as "LORD GOD ALMIGHTY OVER ALLAH OR ANY WHO CALLS THEMSELVES "GOD"!ALLAH OR ANY GOD GETS ON THEIR KNEES ,AND "PRAYS TO "THE HOLY NAME OF THE OF GOD "JEHOVAH" !LOOK up the names of god and you will find that ALLAH is "NOT" a name of "GOD"! ALLAH is a GOD that must pray to"THE HOLY NANE OF THE LIVING GOD"WHO IS "JEHOVAH"!LOOK up the names of god,and allah "IS NOT A NAME OF GOD"!Your "BODY is "Important",and you may drink so you must think,and be concerned about that body,aqnd keep it healthy,and not let it stink from too much drink!!!!!It is "IMPORTANT" to be ,,"LOVING",SINCERE,COMPASSIONATE,and "HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS"or you will  "DIE"!!!!! BAD INTENTIONS LETS YOU DIE EARLY FOR THOSE WHO TREAT YOU"GOOD"!!!!!!!IT IS "IMPORTANT TO HAVE "GOOD INTENTIONS FOR THOSE  WHO YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH OR "THE BAD "INTENTIONS THAT YOU HAVE FOR THOSE YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH WILL COME TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY  WITHOUT FAIL FOR SURE!"ACHIEVE SOMETHING GOOD" SO THAT "YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL BE A PART OF THAT WHICH IS "BEAUTIFUL"!!!BAD INTENTIONS  FOR A PERSON WHO IS ACHIEVING SOMETHING GOOD WILL SEND THAT PERSON TO "HELL"FOR SURE :NO MATTER WHAT THEIR WORK OR PROFESSION! THAT IS GOOD!TAKING AWAY "WOMENS RIGHTS" BY "REPUBLICANS" WHO TRY TO MAKE "THE U.S.A" LIKE AFGANISTAN IS REALLY  WHY REPUBLICANS WILL BE VOTED OUT OF "POLITICAL OFFICE FOREVER!

The Civil Rights Era 1960s


In the light of the South where the sun burns bright,
We march for freedom, we march for right.
With each step forward, we push through pain,
Dreaming of a world where love will reign.

The streets are filled with glimmer of hope,
As we gather strength to help us cope.
In the face of hatred, we stand tall,
United we rise, divided we fall.

My children ask me, "Why must we fight?"
I tell them, "For justice, for what is right."
For the dream of equality, we strive each day,
In the land of the free, we pave our way.

Though the road is long and fraught with fear,
Our voices echo, loud and clear.
From Selma to Montgomery, we march on,
In the name of freedom, until dawn.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Twentynet 60's

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                                                cultural revolution 
                                              psychedelic evolution
                                        sporting polyester mini skirts
                                             spouting love, not war

                                                 rebellion sprouts 
                                                   flower children

                                                    wonder years
                                                   rendered drugs
                                    Beatles blew in,  humming about yesterday
                                   evening news, Cronkite summing war today
                                                     distant shores
                                                      scores dying

                                     small, heroic Rosa sat in front 
                               civil rights,  King’s light, confronted klan
                                    bullets break the heart of man                                                   
                                   good die young, a president’s child... 
                                    salutes goodbye   --   nations cry

                                                one step on the moon
                                                      for mankind
                                                        into hope
                                                        ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


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For Nette's Contest "Magic Of Decade's Mood"
By Carrie Richards
Form: Verse

Premium Member I Dont Want to Remember



Written to my Cousin Madelyn McKay six years ago. She was a poetess here as cancer consumed her body. May my magical and kind cousin ….rest in peace!
Maggie . She had sent me an article on how great the 1960’s were! I am glad she is not here to see  our civil rights being taken away, the murder of children, and our Congress having people in it, whose allegiances are not to
America. God is dead to many, our currecy is marked with these words, “ In God we trust. But He is being repaced by a new religion, “Wokeism”.Dear 
It was painful to read, for me,anyway. I don't even want to remember fun things anymore!


Dearest Cousin Maggie….
We exist in a hellish world,
Surrounded by invisible bars.
Slapped down at every corner.

We are riddled with technology, 
which many drool over. Not me!

Where are the people? Where is such a 
thing called a voice?
Where is love?
Where is humanity?

The sound of my fingers, tapping on the 
iPad, smileys, LOL's will never replace being 
with another..
I am glad I am old, and welcome death.
I see no point in living in a world that is 
ice cold and growing to be a repressive.
Communist state.

And I do believe at death you see the face of 
God! How can I not want that.Maggie?

An empty on life is a device is bad enough.
While my fellow beings do not want to hear
their right to live is ending…Far worse.

The past! Terribly painful to recall. The punishment 
for those who speak out now is vast and wide.

Love, Cousin Pangie

Postscript. 
Violence is at an all time high.
Mass murder goes unpunished and people do
not realize, they could be next.They put their 
fingers in their ears and will swim in pools of 
positivity to drown out the screams of reality 
and lies by repressive governments.

They forgot who Hitler was. We have many of
his evil ilk, in all countries and citizens who think
they are adults, hiding and pretending evil does
not exist?
Good people are jailed in their countries while
anarchists, subsidized by our governments…
Rule your world and mine. And our precious
children’s blood runs in the streets.  P.R.


Note, This is an opinion piece. Thank you
for reading.

Poem 1    8/7/2024
Form: Narrative

Premium Member WE SHALL NOT BE STOPPED

Echoing voices can be heard from Former President Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar Wiley Evers and numerous other Afro American pioneers 
It’s time to preserver
Mobilize in no fear
Stand America
Be Strong and Courageous
Pinnacle circumstance
Ironic situation
Battle cry
Civll Rights Armor on
Lift your voices in the rallying call
“We can’t stop and won’t be stopped”
 Brothers and Sisters in the cause
Fist of power raised up determined.

Liberty and Freedom desired
Mission focus
We can’t turn back, but only reflect back
We kneel in asking God for our guidance
Forward being strong in onward
Turning for years struggle into victory
America’s continuation story
Faith moves mountains
Our climb full of endurance
Heaven’s guidance our assurance.

Our Forefathers before us gave a good fight
We must continue the action for today and way into the future
We can’t sit back and wonder
We must make change happen
Our lives came from before, and we are anecdote in the after
We are the multitudes
There cannot not be any Civil Rights conclude
Together we can bring America to soothe
No win or lose principle
Our forefathers want us to be determined to fulfill
Changing Hatred, Killings and non-acceptance of Race
Step out and continue the movement
All Races need to come together as one
One day our rise
Today to energize
The uplifted outcome
Together we must stand.

What Conscience Is To Shame

Joplin was to Southern Comfort,
  what Hendrix was to smack
Morrison was to masquerade,
  what Dylan never lacks

Woodstock was to 69,’
  what music was to time
Saigon was to those who stayed,
  what Auschwitz now reminds

Kennedy was to hopes and dreams,
  what nightmares were to some
Castro was to leftist thugs,
  what cymbals are to drums

Kissinger was to Nixon
  what Canada was to home
Dr. King to civil rights,
  what kings are to their thrones

Walter Cronkite was to news,
  what intention was to fact
Altar boys were to Priests,
  what pretzels are to snacks

58,000 were to die,
 what a wall was to proclaim
58,000 were to all,
 what conscience is to shame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member American Beach

We decided to visit the largest sand dune in Florida 
it was well within our reach
just a few miles drive from where we were camping
at a place called American Beach.

And we saw the largest sand dune in Florida 
which of course is what we went there for
but in visiting American Beach
we got the sand dune…and so much more.

There was a time, a sad time in our history
one part of some of our darkest days and nights
When African Americans were allowed to swim in the ocean…
just not allowed to swim there with the whites.

Abraham Lincoln Lewis wanted his employees to have a beach 
so American Beach was created
giving African Americans a place to swim
all-be-it to swim segregated.

For many years American Beach thrived
until segregated beaches were needed no more
when the Civil rights act was finally passed…back n 1964.

The sand dune is all that’s left of American Beach
that and a few trees and grasses swaying in the breeze
but also posted at the site are some photos
of children, of churches and families.

When you see these pictures…when you look at the dune
and think of where all these African Americans sat
you think to yourself…children and churches and families
it doesn’t get any more American than that!

And you wonder as you see these segregated African American families
In frame after frame after frame
If there will come a time in this country
where all people see all people the same.

So as we stood near the largest sand dune in Florida
and were reminded of the wickedness of Jim Crow..
we prayed we never make the same mistakes again
that we made only a short time ago.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

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