Long Double jeopardy Poems

"The Recalcitrant Romantico Sends a Love Note to the World"



There was a loophole in the contract
in fine print, when the final page was rolled back,
a sharp paper cut bled a firebrand’s life and a swollen...

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Emmett Till Emmett Till
Why was it you they had to kill
Why did they drag you from your bed
Why did they pistol whip your head

What exactly did you do
To make them do this thing to you
Just...

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If you value your freedoms, please stop President Joe Biden's
reelection campaign for 2024 for the following reasons:

i) Nine members of his immediate family have business
interests in Red China including his prodigal son,
Hunter Biden.

1A) President Joe...

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Does the USA want a authoritative form of government? That is solely administrated via governmental edicts? Of course not but that is the very direction  our nation in rapidly headed in. And if it...

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No illegal search and seizure
Says amendment Number Four
Probable cause necessary
Before we break down your door.
The warrant spells out what they search,
Describing things they will seize.
So hide them where you know they won’t
Go to the judge,...

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"You have to be taught to learn how to hate before you are five, six, seven or 
Eight.  To hate all the people your relatives hate, you have to be carefully taught in your...

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Fields of golden grains stretch towards the horizon
The sun in all its glory has risen
Either in river children will play
Or by jumping into mounts of hay

The air is dense but has pleasant smell
The ancient oaks...

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Oh! Heavenly angels watch over me twenty-four hours by hours by night and by day.  Watching over me, by keeping me safe from harm. Holding me in their  strong and secure arms. ...

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(the overhead railway in Berlin with a stop either side the Wall, one in the East, one the West, to be ridden with caution.)

I never took the S Bahn
you could end up on the other...

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Chicago native Emmett Till would no longer be alive
after he was lynched in the state of Mississippi in 1955.
Till was on summer vacation in a village called Money.
It's located in the delta region of the...

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At a poker table in a Deadwood saloon,
Wild Bill Hickok popped his last balloon.
He suffered the most ignominious of fates
while holding black pairs of aces and eights.
Bill was unexpectedly shot in the back of the...

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Just when you think memories die
They say your life flashes before your eyes 
Silent nights 
Scripts of peace in a new born life
Hunger in days 
Taken back less for what poverty weighs 
A couple visits...

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Just when you think memories die
They say your life flashes before your eyes 
Silent nights 
Scripts of peace in a new born life
Hunger in days
Taken back less for what poverty weighs
A couple visits to I-C-U...

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It's possible to watch mom and pop split and comeback together again. Possible to roll the sixties in today's movement. Honor a white man during  Black History month so that that white man acknowledges...

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Look at you now, nursing cavities
You're losing gravity, feeding your proclivities
Trying to maintain a high by creating new lows
You're up there but are you holding up?
You don't see it, but you are suspended...
Rag doll, held...

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"Mesmerized"



I am 
all of the 
colours

in your mind

we dance our 
fresh canvas
flirtatiously 

brushstrokes
caressing 
inquisitively

flowing 
we blend together
effortlessly

Mesmerized

You are 
all of the
colours

reflecting 
in my eyes

Double Jeopardy
a cool seduction
hypnotized


(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)





Ryuichi Sakamoto - Amore (Playing The Orchestra...

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Risk
Falling
Into him,
Mysterious
Insight embracing
Feelings, exciting hearts
Flames in bold scarlet, rising
Like the morning startling the night
Freeing the soul from its darkness, love
Erasing all worries, the tears destroyed
By winds of yesterday’s grace, subsiding
Providing the nerve and strength needed
The...

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