Long Illegally Poems

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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[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
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Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t...

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Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.

As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”

I had...

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	GREEN DAY – revisited
     Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted with barnacle clad body electric of...

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THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on the outside looking in 
Are the only ones feeling queasy...

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1.
This hunger artist cannot read 
volumes of printed material fast enough 
to satiate an immense appetite 
and unquenchable thirst 
to acquire learning from 
the millenniums gushing fount of 
cumulative chance revelations, 
(or deliberate intent to...

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It was both a complicated and simpler place and time.
Mostly a quiet place tucked away, but not far off the beaten path.
Occasionally, a noisy and sometimes uncivil place, but very little crime.
A place though legally...

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          Welcome to the land of 
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Granny Mae was a sweet old soul, but Granddad - not so much.  His all time favorite things were downin’ flies by spittin’ chew...
Droppin’ lines - illegally - from bridges...snaggin’ cats...an’ brewin’ Buckeye County’s...

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The dilemma of unfolded experience 
Thief of the universal peace
Thunder storm that terrifies the universe
You are the creature that lives invisibly within
The tremendous bug that bugs the planet earth
Uncomfortable but certainly portable to carry
Possibly replaceable...

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(This is all just my opinion,
what I glean from the internet,
Mainstream News, and my imagination – 
do your own research.  If there is any
truth in my observations, this write will
definitely not make me a...

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FRIEND ZONE

I know this relationship is new, 
Your character i only know a few, ?
I'm an introvert, how do i relate with you? ?
Truth is we barely meet, but in my dream all i see...

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"God will bless those who bless Israel. 
And he will curse those who curse Israel."***

The United States of America has been blessed
For two primary reasons.  Our founding fathers
And our founding mothers. Established the newly
Formed...

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I remember back to Michael Brown,
though it now seems so damn long ago,
He was just minding his own business,
ran afoul of a cop’s ego.
Murdered in cold blood for being black,
the man had even thrown up...

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Lupercalia
O! Yon Pagan festival Come on come all
Merry men named Valentine Two of which
One who was a priest in third century Rome
He whom defied Emperor Claudius II ban on marriage
His reasoning for banagement he thought...

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Q:  Why you should not endorse Nikki Haley as the Republican presidential
      candidate in 2024?

A:  President Joe Biden denies that there is a crisis existing at our southern
...

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It should come to you as no real surprise, that the selfsame pro-choice and 
infanticide of twenty eight days to murder their newborn children, who survived 
abortion.  Most likely even if they were never...

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Under the watchful eyes of the Democratic Party, Red China is buying up American
farm land in Oklahoma, by paying farmers large amounts of cash.  Oklahoman's
voted for medical marijuana  but wisely voted against recreational...

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it’s wonderful,
amazing the world dwellers are
civilized they’re as well as I’m really!

with them-

my language is English
I’m civilized!
my language is Arabic, Mandarin, French, Bengali etc
I’m civilized!
I’m fully literate on grammar
I’m civilized!
I’m highest educated on economics, politics,...

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Billie Joe Armstrong, 
   Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool
which trio known (the world wide web over) 
   as the band Green Day
   composed lyrics and melodies 
  ...

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Now young ladies arrive at the meeting,
Now wearing clothes that are quite
 exposing bodily parts,
Now the chairman before he can tell them the agenda,
Now he is looking at them astonishing and he makes them sit...

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Correction the ice cream giants Ben and  Jerry are not members of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel! But they are Jewish and  BDS supporters! The movement is reaching out towards...

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People need free societies, but I am not referring to the deadly monstrous global pandemic! They need freedom of expression on line and/or in person.
And they need the freedom of speech coupled by a free...

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Unnumbered human corpses
mutilated and spread
like illegally-shot elephants in Waza Park!
From ‘man know thyself’
to ‘man hates himself’-
humans mutilate humans!

Future-bound glorious infants,
feeble moms
and luck-abandoned dads
bombed, suffocated, shot and slain
by politico-economic drunks!
Yawning stomachs here,
blood-dripping arms there,
open-mouth frozen heads...

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Remember...Remain Calm, Collected, And Cool...
Matthew Scott Harris...ARG

This, a near imp
     possible mantra to apply
when this 2009
     Macbook Pro went awry
triggering this enduser
     to...

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