Long Guantanamo Poems
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The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
guantanamo, society,
Form:
Quatrain
En-TrumpedEn-trumped
There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell
our tale as we see it, at the moment...
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Categories:
guantanamo, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Pig BladdersWe played on all weather turf which was mud and a few sods of grass
Dribbled like Pele and Eusebio in old boot for that one killer pass
From straight after school until there was not one...
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Categories:
guantanamo, political,
Form:
Free verse
Sometimes1/16/21
Pure silence or the sound of wind chimes
Willing to do anything to save their own hides
People still committing horrific crimes
During low and high tide
It's been one hell of a roller coaster ride
A whirlwind inside my...
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Categories:
guantanamo, dark, deep, poetry, rap, spiritual, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Worlds, Three PrisonsI think about human freedom
I search for human liberty
I get none in human life
Humans have never carried
Freedom and liberty in bags
In mother’s womb
Surely I see no freedom, no liberty!
In the womb- world humans;
have eyes...
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Categories:
guantanamo, humanity, philosophy,
Form:
Narrative
If Memory Is a Lie Then So Am IProust searched his brain for memories that
made the man, could finally understand
that this changed him just by looking;
so he called himself a sentimental realist!
many a prisoner, in walls cast of shadows,
have escaped their fate...
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Categories:
guantanamo, allegory, introspection, nostalgia, philosophy, science, visionaryme,
Form:
Free verse
Guy In GuantanamoGuy in Guantanamo
Catherine’s wheel spins round the revolution ever since that day her lover died
when both lost the plot and their passion and she cried her grief into Bedlam
Guy jumped to his death...
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Categories:
guantanamo, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Lotsa Limericks - It Couldn'T Be Verse1. Big Brother
Big Brother's protecting his mice
with a secret eavesdropping device.
If you hang up the phone
...
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Categories:
guantanamo, america, society,
Form:
Limerick
AmericanisationManipulations, misrepresentations and government violations,
America has been terrorising for many generations.
Spying allegations, secret conversations,
US imperialism continues to destroy nations.
Cheers and celebrations for leader’s assassinations,
Activists disliked for anti-war demonstrations.
Iraqi invasions, Strategic implications,
Lies and propaganda from bias...
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Categories:
guantanamo, conflict, corruption, evil, sad, sympathy, usa, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Ball and ChainHassan harbours hard-worn hardship in his heavy homeless heart
Drones dereliction devastation and dire disintegration of daring dreams
Dear daughter dead at dawn Delisiha demised dismembered decapitated
Harbingers of hell in heaven heaving with helter-skelter and hatred
Skinny...
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Categories:
guantanamo, war,
Form:
Alliteration
The Vanished of GuantanamoRestrained with bands of leather, bound and rigid in the chair,
the feeding tube thrust lower, every inch brings fresh despair,
gagging, coughing, choking on the burn from nose to chest
as they force...
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Categories:
guantanamo, political, rights,
Form:
Rhyme
Saving the WorldSaving the world
I drifted out too far, turquoise water, tried to swim on my back,
water in my mouth, agonizing panic.
That’s how they torture prisoners in Guantanamo, only it isn’t called
it tortures, but...
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Categories:
guantanamo, art, assonance, bridal shower, brother, bullying, business,
Form:
Didactic
Saving the WorldSaving the world
I drifted out too far, turquoise water, tried to swim on my back,
water in my mouth, agonizing panic.
That’s how they torture prisoners in Guantanamo, only it isn’t called
it torture but...
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Categories:
guantanamo, abuse, addiction, allegory, anger, anxiety, drug,
Form:
Blank verse
American Nightmare"... the land of the free"
well, not really ...
there is property tax, payroll tax,
federal tax, state tax, gas tax,
sales tax and you will go to jail for ...
loitering.
No standing idly around on
Your Free Land.
"......
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Categories:
guantanamo, history, parody, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Who's Mad (I'M Not Insane Pt2)What a bad experience in Guantanamo Bay
Being called Insane
Then guess what friends
It started again
I’m walking passed the bank
Stopped, lit my cigarette with my gun lighter and had a smoke
Decided I’d pop in to check my...
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Categories:
guantanamo, funnywrite, write,
Form:
Rhyme
I'M Not InsaneI keep getting mixed up with this man called Insane,
People mistake me for him which is a pain.
Like I went to a club dressed in my underpants and shoes
They told me “The Gothic” is down...
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Categories:
guantanamo, funnyme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
I, IconThey spied me in the sky, dropping bombs of love
on Ferguson, and bitchy women's rooms; and rednecks'
shooting range was next, the blooded boxing glove.
They spotted me in Tel-aviv and also in Tehran, collecting
Jewish...
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Categories:
guantanamo, humor, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Justified SuicideThere is a Guantanamo Bay like facility,
that has a bed with my name on it guaranteed,
along with 1 million natural born americans in and outside my country.
We are all on the government watch list and...
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Categories:
guantanamo, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
ConfessionsIf there comes a day
when the preacher's politicians
control the state
Phinehas will rise from his grave
round up the gays
and send them down
to Guantanamo Bay
to entertain the Muslims.
The Kingdom's minions
will hammer in the heads
of our...
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Categories:
guantanamo, devotion, education, faith, funny, history, people,
Form:
Free verse
Three Days of CurfewOn the first day of curfew, I defiantly walked the streets,
but was soon escorted back home by my local police.
On the second day of curfew I walked the streets again as well,
but spent the rest...
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Categories:
guantanamo, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Kartoon KnucklesDraped and locked like a curtain in Guantanamo
I use my words to peel scalps like Geronimo
Just like a teen girl my mouth has a heavy flow
If arousal luminesces then I'll make you glow
They're calling me...
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Categories:
guantanamo, beautiful, celebration, death, future, hip hop, words,
Form:
Alliteration