Long Harlem Poems
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Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
harlem, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
harlem, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mary Ma Gargano Boys
Mary Gargano the key player in covering the drug monies and drugs that ran from Milwaukee pitstop in Chicago Antioch Danville Marietta Georgia straight to palm beach blvd. Ciro Gargano his business partner Hayes stopping...
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Categories:
harlem, allah,
Form:
Manqabat
A New Mythology
There is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
harlem, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.
One day he and seven...
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Categories:
harlem, america, immigration,
Form:
Prose
Chain of Fools
“ I Never Loved A Man” as much as I loved you.
My darling you continued to give me ” Respect” as well.
“Baby I Love You” so, I'm so glad we said I do.
In the past...
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Categories:
harlem, dedication, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
Motion Sickness
My people love marching!
Attending rain dancing parades,
doing a bunch of fire-breathing talking
Little drummer boys and girls
playing foot soldier pretend grown up
Just defending the truth,
those marionette walkers will yell at you
in designer protest fashion
Motion activate the...
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Categories:
harlem, allusion, culture, leadership, truth,
Form:
Elegy
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable
A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...
ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.
Whiling away his time playing solitaire...
initially prepped, honed, and crafted
November second two thousand and twenty
slightly tweaked February nineteenth
two...
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Categories:
harlem, anger, city, corruption, education, february, freedom, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Just because an impetus arose
Just because an impetus arose...
to repost poem
(I chanced to locate
amidst plethora of poems on hard drive
of Macbook Pro)
written more'n a half decade ago
before yours truly
blissfully oblivious to crypto-
currency shenanigans linked into
fiendish scammers after...
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Categories:
harlem, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, america, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Introspection
I I write because I’m aware of the fact
I’m losing time
I’m Struggling to gain insight
In a world that’s blind
Outlining the blueprint
that’s stuck in my mind
Acting with a reason
And intention to rhyme
An intention...
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Categories:
harlem, beauty, blessing, change, christian,
Form:
Free verse
Hopscotch In Harlem 1948
EXCERPT (Approximately 30% of Poem)
...
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Categories:
harlem, black african american, familywork, sick, work,
Form:
Ballad
Caught'Em In the Rye
Could I entertain your intellectual osseous matter ...
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Categories:
harlem, allegoryhumorous, words, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Harlem Blues
It's night now in harlem, time to explore
Snakes are diurnal, rats love their nocturnal
Life, the subway is a swinging door.
A cockroach crawls before it falls
Catalectic between the broken walls.
It's time to pay the rent and...
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Categories:
harlem, black-african amerchildren, fairy, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
Winds
Color me white like the color of the wall
Color me white to be seen by all
Color me white to stand tall
The patches of black all over me
The dark spots that all can see
Are my...
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Categories:
harlem, anger, discrimination, racism, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Death flirts, Yet You are The only One to Bring me Back to Life
{"My burial was about to commence, become a happening. My spirit was a necropolis already, everlasting. So what significance did it take for me to give it all up?
My soul to be extracted from...
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Categories:
harlem, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, childhood, dark, death,
Form:
Free verse
My Fire
When I go home damn
Its really quiet
Never thought I'd find this amount of white noise
In the pitch black face silence
As I flip scenarios of something like self inflicted violence
making, my room, look....just a...
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Categories:
harlem, absence, adventure, eve, jesus, september,
Form:
Crystalline
Duke Ellington Boulevard
i tried to notice without noticing.
i tried to fit in by not standing out,
but i knew i was different.
their walls much bigger.
their yards much nicer.
in elementary it seemed everyone
was in the same class: lower class,
but...
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Categories:
harlem, forgiveness, hope, introspection, life, clothes, me, time,
Form:
Free verse
Harlem Blues !
While writing about the History of Jazz Music in verse , I got the idea for composing this
fictitious poem ! I hope the readers will like it !
...
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Categories:
harlem, imagination, musicme, night, wife, music, me, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Amazing Grace a Sparrow Died Today An Angel Unfolded Their Wings Sings
Amazing Grace A Sparrow Died Today An Angel Unfolded Their Wings Sings Aretha Louise Franklin
A sparrow died today
An angel unfolded their wings
Break it to me gently young, gifted and black
She began her...
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Categories:
harlem, appreciation, bereavement, black african american, dedication, for
Form:
Free verse
Where the Wind Blows
Lying awake listening to the sounds of sirens, echoing through the night
Alone in the apartment with his younger siblings, hoping his mother comes home all right
Drug addicts pounding on the front door, wanting to buy...
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Categories:
harlem, life, sad, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Intergalactic Love Story
It was no cosmic coincidence that a persnickety intergalactic wise guy named Hub
with an arrogant swagger morphed into the center of a crowded fast-moving Harlem jazz club
on February 11th, 1933 at dusk, preplanned...
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Categories:
harlem, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Skool Love
Give me that old skool love, a groovy throw back
kind of love that is black and white like the first TVs.
A tapered leg acid washed jean trouser and a crop
top feeling sexy.
A striped miniskirt with...
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Categories:
harlem, love, nostalgia, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Who Wants Me
Trying to get in the game my whole life.
Don't know what team I'm on.
Which one wants me?
Who will accept me?
Been going to the field for 52 years and still trying...
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Categories:
harlem, community, confidence, confusion, culture, discrimination, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Triumphant Leaders Part 2
Marcus, as a child heard it all, the oral stories
Ancient in glories quickening his vein. Like blood
Rolling where the Roaring river runs, peonies
Calling up ancestral history in dream and flood
Unfold desires of in streams of...
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Categories:
harlem, historychild,
Form:
Acrostic
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey arose from a little town, yes my lord
A Leo lifting Harlem, kingdom bound, yes my lord
Resuscitated religion around the black man’s looks, yes my lord
Cuddling pickaxe, hoe, and cradling books, yes my...
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Categories:
harlem, dedication
Form:
Acrostic