Long Isabelle Poems

"Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals      they won't go to yours

some think our cemetery is...

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The Cross-dressing of Joan d`Arc

Cross-dressing of Joan was perhaps heavily based,
On the bible’s principle in Deuteronomy 22:5 and viewed 
as a Rebellion against God. 
Tis not the putting on of a pair of pants or...

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I loved you
from the first moment I saw you
running on the playground grass
Michelle
I raced over and grabbed your hand,
when I saw you had tripped and fell
Then you looked up and smiled at me
And to this...

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I've been doin' time, sittin in this jail cell for too long.
Yea, I made mistakes because I was headstrong
when I killed Isabelle, but it's what she deserved.
She ran off with my coke and money. That...

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Joan was a girl who has the appearance of a boy.  She was born in Domrecy of France into the peasant family of Jacques
d' Arc and Isabelle. She lived her life as a saint...

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Christopher Colombus- Celebrating Genocide

You stepped foot on the birth canal of my ancestors,
pure, sacred, loved.
you smiled.. proceeded with greed.
your civilization like disease.
my people soon were infected
your protest to "civilize" a free nation took flight on...

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I zip swiftly along on my snow machine,
admist a white blanket with spots of green,
my trapline runs along this stretch,
Alaskan cold makes smoke of breath.

The snowpack has been good this year,
goes a little way to...

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“your trauma doesn’t define you”
my trauma does not define me
only if i allow it to 
if i allow the shadows to envelope me into their embrace
only if i allow myself to fall through their makeshift...

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A newborn infant has no choice.
My folks with others had consulted.
And this is the girl name that resulted.
They christened me with name of Joyce.

You won’t find my name on today’s lists,
But for those ladies of...

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A pair of hazel eyes
Meet his muddy brown
His arms strain to push His body up 
He breathes 
He stops
He stares
He can not do it
The teenage girl 
Sits beside him on his bed
The girl asks in...

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It’s the anniversary of her death
I am reminded of it every year
Not so much by the calendar
But by my internal clock of pain
You remember the place
You remember the time
Her look of final peace
Our mother
Our monster
We...

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Joan of Arc
 A fearless warrior who made her mark
 By defeating England, the victory clear cut
 She also inspired the "bob" haircut
-            ...

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Bad deal today, at times confusing but always harsh.
I may be lying in the mud, but I’m starring up at the stars.
Catching my flight to bliss, trying to ease the pain.
Watching from my semidetached state,...

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Castle on a Hill Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron


Chateau with elevation inclined on top of the knoll

Ascending into the citadel where the Prince reads his scroll

Sloping down toward the guards who need to patrol

Tower laying on...

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AFRICA’S PUBERTY
When puberty sets in,
The wind feels good on
A little leg and thigh,
Some belly button
And budding bottom.
Tattooed dames,
Sexily renamed
From Elizabeth 
And Isabelle,
To Lizzy 
And Bella,
Storm into the world;
Boobs growing as fast as hearts
To be squeezed...

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