Long Colonies Poems
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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:
colonies, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
colonies, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day
Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
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Categories:
colonies, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
The Scorpion's Touch
“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are magnified
in our tight enclosures
internally observed
the external turns away
two heart...
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Categories:
colonies, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Energy Democracy V Fascism
I suppose
cannibalism
is the logical conclusion
of rabidly overpopulated fascism.
Some cannibals,
perhaps all,
ate their human prey
not for typical nutritional reasons
like other forms of digested nature,
but more specifically
because those dining
hoped their prey's sacred powers
would thereby become their own,
conjoining for...
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Categories:
colonies, bullying, earth, hate, health, integrity, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Children Are Why We Need Higher Taxes
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for improvements.
Some of...
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Categories:
colonies, child, education, school, , 9th grade,
Form:
Prose
Psychotic Trip
PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Feeling really beat, I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...
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Categories:
colonies, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Joseph Robinette Biden Junior
Joseph Robinette Biden Junior
The last prescient perspicacious politician,
who presided at the White House
ran out of office despite victorious landslide win
most Democrats gave their signed,
sealed, and delivered grudging approval,
but could not stem the...
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Categories:
colonies, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 4 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...
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Categories:
colonies, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form:
Free verse
Why Multicultural Education Matters
The Twelfth Principle
Cooperatively adopt
and responsively adapt
for creolizing acclimation,
best climate and landscape health practices.
The U.S. today
reweaves two points of national nurturing departure,
both taught in schools
and history books
and multicultural sciences
and scents
and sounds.
LeftBrain dominance,
here in post-millennial enculturing lands,
remembers...
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Categories:
colonies, caregiving, forgiveness, health, history, native american, patriotic,
Form:
Political Verse
A Journeyman
A Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...
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Categories:
colonies, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
One Knee
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: One Knee
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 2017
One Knee
Yes, I kneel down on one knee
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem
of...
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Categories:
colonies, africa, america, betrayal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers Mothers
A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially written)
about three hundred and ninety seven years,
and nine months after February third 1621,
yet...
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Categories:
colonies, adventure, africa, age, america, animal, autumn, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Upon a dark and stormy night
Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thunder crackled
testing the threshold of tolerance
zombies of Sugar...
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Categories:
colonies, absence, america, animal, character, earth, january, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Cannibal Prophets
Prophecy is risky
and peculiar.
Prophets so seldom unveil opportunities
to win resilient integrity
without concomitant risks
of unhealthy failure.
Prophets of booming doom
and gloom
far outweigh voices for Golden Rules
and healthy tipping points
toward organic wealthy Ratios
to thrive opportunity rich
and risk free...
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Categories:
colonies, caregiving, culture, earth, environment, health, history, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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Categories:
colonies, adventure, america, betrayal, birth, endurance, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action...
when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully
execute...
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Categories:
colonies, 12th grade, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, autumn,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action...
when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully
execute...
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Categories:
colonies, 12th grade, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, autumn,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action
Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action...
when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will faithfully
execute...
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Categories:
colonies, 12th grade, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, autumn,
Form:
Rhyme
New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison yard,
...
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Categories:
colonies, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Retirement Planning
Retirement planning
may feel like civilian re-entry planning
as from-above ballistics continue heavy incoming
so persuasively my objective is not to win outside
but to get home safe again inside,
although I sadly know
home will never be that home of...
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Categories:
colonies, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, love, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding
I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.
How did the human species manage to survive
with many means
of self destruction at their disposal?
Atomic...
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Categories:
colonies, africa, america, anger, april, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
How the East Was Lost
The title,
How the West Came to Rule,
disturbs me enough to continue reading,
like wanting to escape a nightmare
but too fear frozen with why it could never truly end well
to stop dreaming.
In this case,
is to stop reading.
I'm...
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Categories:
colonies, creation, culture, earth, history, humor, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Made In Neonazia
Made in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attraction
warm sand...
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Categories:
colonies, evil,
Form:
Free verse
After the doomsday clock struck midnight
After the doomsday clock struck midnight...
a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees
(analogous to a bajillion barenaked ladies
raging against the machine)
barreled across the brutalized landscape
affixing fiendish scorched earth signature
whereby survivors felt like foreigners,
or strangers in...
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Categories:
colonies, absence, abuse, africa, america, bereavement, conflict, earth,
Form:
Free verse