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Premium Member THE GHOST OF MEDGAR WILEY EVERS

Soul Full Medgar Evers
Justice fiery
The need to rise
Walk the unthinkable Earth
No Justice No Peace to emphasize
Voting Rights Act taken away
Jim Crow laws come back won’t be a give away
Civil Rights stance
The Supreme Court didn’t get it right
The country is now in a plight uptight
My Soul cannot rest
My Spirit will contest
It’s time for all minorities to wake up and come together
The nation was built on principles for “We the People”
Forefathers laid it out plain and simple
Voice of America, we can’t sit back and let our voting rights be taken
away
It is not ok
We can’t take it light
We need to fight
Mobilize in numbers
Together strong
Break the barriers that bind
Loud voices intertwine
Voting Rights Act made history
Turned into a diminished light into darkness
More than fact
Democracy track
All it’s worth that should be
I am the Ghost of Medgar Wiley Evers
My voice in fight
We will not continue to be uptight
Enough is enough
Fight, Fight and Fight
We shall overcome
Victory in our grasp.


Premium Member Brother, I can't do this


Brother, I can't do this, the twists and turns of betrayal
I hoped to see you again, as you reached out after 20 years
                                   - I still want to -
I remember our sledding, our rubix cube fun, our playing in the sun
I remember the peacock feather, your stuffed tiger with green eyes
I remember the Malibu you let me use, the court incident later
The first time I saw you cry and.thankful I was alive, then
But, as the truth was spoken later and you changed growing up,
it turned into a spectrum of ongoing sly actions hurting me
You were always standing by the people who did harm
Falling into brainwashing that it was me, the blacksheep,
that disrupted the family and caused all the problems
How? From speaking the truth! Yes, speaking the truth!
I did not harm any of you, in fact I had empathy for all you endured
Then came the betrayal, the loss, the sneaky games for years
The conniving people destroyed our special  relationship 
                             -  Now, how is it to be re-built? -
When there are no apologies, no discussion of these things
Only expectations for me to be fine, as if nothing happened
I am haunted by when I had cancer and you didn't care if I died
When I survived, your reply was, " you just keep on going don't you" ?
That annoyed response you had burned inside me wondering how it can be?
My truth was your worst enemy and I seemed to be so too!
I am sorry the truth hurts so much and I chose to heal
Now, I can't snap my fingers, see you, especially when it's not one on one
And pretend as if none of this happened, the very root of all  the problems!
Yet, here I sit, still missing our good old times, wanting to see you

Heidi Sands

5/8/25

(C)opyright

Don't tease more cheese please



Any foodie on the brink

Of getting moody thinks

Of the dear dairy panacea 

The culinary kinks

The cultural links

Gourmet high jinx

Of no.. not Cullen skink

CHEESE


As drinks clink then sink

Where the nods & the winks

Go to the food of the Gods

The stuff that really really stinks

CHEESE
 

A noble global endeavour

Arty farty dolcelatte party

Comte & cheddar

Smutty nutty double header

CHEESE


Palette caged by a rare

Cave aged Gruyere

Who can forget..appetite whet

Heat light stand manned..expands..

Milky glue or is it silky Moo Goo 

Fanned..hands pulling strands

Eat not..planned fondue

Best damned bet 

Always get a Raclette

CHEESE


Prouder of Gouda

Or louder Parmesan fan 

Even when its powder?

Tilting to the built in love

For Stilton.. never wilting

Hard the calling card


Or more a Roquefort sort

Taught soft held aloft

French can’t bench moulds 

Aristocratic blue vein

Dramatic wench holds court

Emphatic stench & stain

CHEESE


Whatever floats your boat

Maybe Goat gets your vote 

Or those in the know

Gloat..chose sheep & Manchego

CHEESE


Young or well hung

Given time in the cellar

But won’t sneer at Paneer

Mozzarella can be stellar

Even give a damn

About dear Madame Edam

CHEESE


If you're of that whining ilk

Got that dining disease

Opining it’s just mouldy milk

Having a dig..you big tease…

Well won’t try to appease

CHEESE


Wary of the not rated

Scary squirting lube 

You squeeze with ease

Flirting fairy out of a tube

Ill fated.. pre grated or

Diced into a nice cube

CHEESE?


Or drastic vices 

Plastic elastic slices

Could go for Dairy Lea 

Fell under the Babybel spell

Or pray tell maybe

Its Le Vache qui Rit

CHEESE?


Always a winning wheeze

Ideal at the beginning 

Or end of a meal

No ratty ways of thinning


Natty diets lose to fatty riots

Choose ways of sinning

A ruse to amuse..

MORE CHEESE PLEASE 

He says grinning


P.S If eating cheese before bed 

Gives you a crappy nightmare


So what if you have fed 

On cheese in these dreams


No scrappy schemes in your head

Led to days with rays of sunbeams


Teams of happy memes instead

Well it seems only fair
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bamboo Veil 7

Curl of light
Dawn sparks;
Birdsong

~~~~~~~~~


Mall crowd
Feisty spree;
Window shopping

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Food court
Hungry agendas;
Appetites dash

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Morning papers
Bad news again;
Apocalyptic surge

~~~~~~~~~


Another typhoon
Wet dreams intrude;
Flooding moments

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Broken hearts
Sadness glimpses;
Mail order tonics

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If you must know
Time does not heal;
Grace inspires

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Neighbour's kids
Noisy birdsong glee;
Sing-song savvy

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Ancient evenings
Here at the gate;
Loneliness lingers

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Dementia declares
Nondescript moves;
Forgetful forget-me-nots

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Laughter echoes
Happy voices tint;
Foreign contradiction

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Savvy somnolence
Easy escapades;
Sleepy limbo

~~~~~~~~~


She says
He sways;
Touch tentative

~~~~~~~~~


Words fail
Thoughts strangled;
Empty excursion

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Leon Enriquez
20 October 2016
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Premium Member IN THE WARM WOMB OF NIGHT

In the womb of night, we contemplate
the dawn of the day when we shall all be free
of the mind games played to put the liberty
of countless generations of us on hold:-

The chrysalis moments of the shades of night
strike nerves playing blues-jazz-gospels
awakening dormant minds of the untelevised
revolution, seeded and nourished many rivers ago:-

Each pregnant night, in its season, gestates new
revelations, revealing the I am of those who are
the steady black bridges spanning over the ways
that were, with blood, had been watered:
steady bridges over which we have crossed over:-

Now, we have a long owed blood debt to be collected
for the toiling of the bent black backs of our ancestors,
and refuse to accept the bank of justice being bankrupt;
its vault having earned over 400 years of bloody interest:-

Now is the time for us…the new torch bearers…to pick up
the ancestral mantle and light the way to the dream’s reality;
for we are the heirs of the Jubilee Journey begun long ago:-

The ball is now in our court and we must lay up new legacies
for those in the darkness of new wombs of night…that they
may see the light of the new day dawning over the horizon.

Now is the time:  yesterday is gone and tomorrow is too late!
Now is the time:  the night time…the right time to get ready!
Now is the time:  no time outs for those not ready for the new day!
Now is the time:  the disenfranchised night is beginning to wane!
Now is the time:  the day’s dawning of that great morning is waxing!


Listen Men-No Means No

(5/29/13) 

“NO “means “NO”- is what she said 
As he tried to pull her to the bed. 
He thought that he had the right 
After taking her to dinner that night. 

Why is it that when a man spends money 
He thinks that he’s entitled to a little honey. 
Would you accept it if it was your sister or mother 
That this was happening to! 

Or someone was trying to do this to you if you was in jail 
And all you’re screaming and fighting 
Happened to fail. 
And if you were taken by force- and you had no other recourse. 
Your dignity, your pride, your self esteem 
All taken away like in a dream. 

You have been violated mind and soul 
With no one to turn to, not leaving you whole. 
When the word “NO” is used and it’s done anyway 
Then there’s a price that you must pay. 
One is a victim, the other a raper 
As it will come out in the court papers. 

Is that short pleasure worth the time? 
20 or more years behind the line. 
So heed that word “NO” and heed it well 
Living behind bars is really hell. 

© L. RAMS
© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Viking All In Black

He was grizzled, intimidating, the original Viking all in black.
We were fearful, tearful, he was frightened us. We felt lack.
Is he a Viking? A Trojan? A Greek? A devil not clearly seen?
We did not know, so we reported this stranger to our darling queen.

Our queen was not afraid of anything, we had seen this before.
She summoned him to court, but he disappeared, gone forevermore.
We pondered this stranger with blue eyes the rest of our life. 
He was a battle of one, scaring us soundly. We all felt the strife.

He was Celtic, a pagan, a man with battle and death on his mind.
He was horrible, a meanie, nothing like our loving sweet kind.
Some said his name was unmentionable, so they would never tell.
One thing for sure, this curious stranger was straight out of hell.

The story of him grew until it could not be contained, alive in the air.
He killed with his bare hands. His ebony coats were made of a bear.
He was a hermit, a rounder, a sounder, a man to be avoided and feared.
We love the stories of him. They are camp fire songs too, many endeared.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Pause of Polarity Interchange

Between two worlds, there can be found
A place of beauty, few do seek
An intermittent middle ground
Where life is neither mild nor meek
We easily forget that Unity
Will always be the grandest place to be
It's compromise reflecting humble self
The modesty of love that strengthens health
That brings us to a place of gratitude
That signifies abundant inner wealth
And under threat, the Ego is subdued

The majesty of life between two powers
From edge to edge, we back and forth in Thought
From standing still, the Ego blindly cowers
Afraid of being outed in Selfs court
For as we know, Thought brings to us illusion
Which rarely ends in being our best solution
A lesson which the Ego still is learning
So battered torn and bruised from toss and turning
Why can't you see the damage you suffer?
Extreme to extreme always churning 
Whilst Self so modestly does rediscover

The interchange that we can all embrace
Betwixt the outer echelons of life
The challenges of Thought we all must face
And through each one, our Self will surely strife
We will not fall for Ego's plastic ploys
The Shadow smiles and with that Truth destroys
The silhouettes the mind does cast revealed
The Truth of Unity no more concealed
The Ego now exposed does hide its tail
For shame and fear reformed and now repealed
Courage stands where ignorance will fail

The Truth is found within the Interchange
The pause of silence loudly now explained
Polarity, she bows as told her tale
The moral in plain sight, our hopes regained
Courage stands where ignorance did fail

Premium Member The Lifeboat Man

It was two in the morning when I heard the beep
And jumped out of bed because I couldn't sleep
I got dressed In two minutes then got into my car 
Then drove to the harbour which wasn't very far. 

Because of my speed the camera flashed me
The court would be lenient, it was an emergency
I parked up at the station, Bill was there too
Only three more to come to complete the crew.

We got the boat ready and opened the door
John, Pete and Jane arrived we needed no more
We all got on aboard and slid down the ramp
Conditions were misty, cold wet and damp.

The local coastguard had received an S.O.S
From a sinking fishing boat ,'The Queenie Bess'
We searched for an hour but we couldn't see
Their radio was down, there could be tragedy.

About three nautical miles out a flare I did see
We headed full speed for the location rapidly
Bill called control "this is call sign nine blue
We're at the boat now and have saved the crew".

Thankfully this night there is no one dead
We're heading for home now; ready for bed
A satisfying nights work, we're all happy
We're the unsung heroes of the perilous sea.

But the R.N.L.I is a registered charity
It relies on donations from you and me
Be generous and support the work that they do
Who knows one day that 'work' could be you.


Written 12th November 2017
sea
Form: Rhyme

Justice

The wild wind plays its part.
Orchids on my Lord's yard
Blown and thrown apart.
They were meant to fall?
Before coming of age?
The suspects were to be summoned at  once.

"No such intentions I carry, oh Lord...."
Wild wind presents, an alibi persuading.
"I was hurled by these towering trees."
The court, bewildered.
Yet, advocated his statement.

"It was not just me, a whole bunch of us.
I? Merely a pawn swayed by an arrogant king, Sire?
I take no part in this massacre...."
Not even a warlord made my king sweat.
Apprehension of injustice it is.

Suppressing the murmurs, my King speaks.
"Oh mighty wind, brutal nature force,
Why assist destruction of the old man's blossom?
Tell me, oh lofty tree.
You bear children of your own, 
Why kill mine? "

"Why flowers bloom?
When destined to wither only.
We relish and embrace them,
Refer- beauty, innocence and sanctity.
Why gather them here?
A corpse lying on a pyre...."
© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.

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