Long Ladder of success Poems

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A social worker had...

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Trudging through thorny and rocky paths,
His feet often got cracked and torn.
Yet he persevered, for he had a lovely family.
His dear one stood by his side as a pillar of support,
Sharing the joys and hardships...

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“on an as is where is basis we choose
descent of consciousness into the gross
then we rise again following heart’s muse
higher than where stood, bearing love’s cross”

When I see others getting much ahead of me,
And ascending...

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Listen 

We cry out for peace, equal rights, and justice.

In hopes that the leaders we chose will choose to choose us as we have chosen them.
That the ones we trust will trust that we trusted...

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Though the future looks gloom
Don't you give up
When you're put all the way down
Get back up on your feet
Always know that there
Are hard times
But don't dwell on them
The pleasant times are yet to come

When you...

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I was just walking around and spotted a golden ladder.
People walking past it, a swarm of people are under it
Yelling up at people, cheering loud when anyone falls down
Some fall and are slightly bruised, some...

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Most people aren’t blessed with all the zest 
Of money, power and fame,
But live their lives in “quiet desperation,”
As Thoreau once famously claimed. 

As for me I once believed 
I was headed toward the stars,
But...

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(To Greg)

I have a friend who’s been in my life, for such a very long time.
As I remember, 1980 was the year. The ladder of success, I wanted to climb.

I was almost out of college....

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Nonsense. All of this interracial prejudice. All of the real wars of violence are in 
our homes and fenced in backyards.
Nonsense. interracial madness. Hating the sight of your own kind - forgetting it 
could easily...

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Married Life
Written: By Tom Wright
9/29/99

Too many marriages, are void of understanding and goals,
and often resemble recess on a playground.
Just one big tug of war,  between egos, and dispositions,
often leaving both spinning like a merry...

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Remember !  I will follow you like a shadow
Because I love you so much
I am a shadow because you don't want to see me otherwise
I am a shadow because I don't want to be...

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If I am holding on to nothing it is the forecast weather of her,

If the words come out a little slower just know every word is necessary,

Yawning of thoughts it is all between me and...

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At the fair, they’d beckon us in, tell us that we’d see a girl become a gorilla. They’d chant, “Girl, girl, girl, girlilla, gorilla…”

Monkeying Around

gorillas dressed in leopard suits, climbing
the so-called “ladder of success”

hopping onto
tiger-rings...

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The toxic masculinity 


The big gorilla, a silverback, found in the woods a tiny creature
it first had thought of killing, but in the tiny animal saw beautiful
eyes trusting him and the great ape falls in...

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While travelling, working,
While walking down the steps,
entering into the library 
or pushing myself into the study zone
or whatever I do
while thinking or simple writing down the notes,
Why is it that am thinking about you?
Why is...

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Standing on the springboard of idiocity, spitting out lies  shamelessly. Idiots of the nation in the corridors of power.

Preaching shadows of democracy but catalysts of  democratic backsliding committing heinous crimes  in the...

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(6/11/12)

I have been reborn for my life had been
Broken , shattered, and torn.
No future could I see
Till the day you came into me.

You opened my eyes to everything around
Including the people “ I had put...

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I am resilient. Infinitely stronger
than you think I am. You hear me, Devil?
With the Almighty God to my right
and my guardian angel to my left
you're never gonna drag me down

Yes, I'm aware of your devious...

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School on a hill
Citadel above the slum and squalor
Prepare me still
To meet the worst with my best endeavor
Teach me again
The way the soil may bind the rain
And sugarcane
To yield abundantly, a sweeter gain.
I recall now
With...

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LADDER OF SUCCESS
Free Verse


1001 steps to reach the apex
You need courage and strength 
Along the way there are trials and tests
Be careful, watch every step you make.

Ask the help and guidance of God
Courage and conviction...

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Muses are seen as a source of inspiration for writers of poetry. They guide the poet and form his or her words. Often seen as  mediators between the spiritual and sensual aspects of poetry.
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Place...

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Happiness cannot be visited, earned, worn, or possessed.
It is the spiritual experience of love and grace that leaves us rejuvenated and refreshed.
The rejuvenation of the spirit is crucial and a daily necessity.
Routine reading of good...

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Hands of America

Hand-over-hand: arduous climb
up the ladder of success.
Hand made: goods from a foreign land,
homeland in economic distress.

Hand-in-hand: dire collusion
with despots of detention
by the leaders of the state
that forged liberty's invention.
 
Underhanded: the undermining
of the...

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What we do today reflects on tomorrow
But today we should not worry about tomorrow
What we think and feel will depend on the happiness we acquire
Our pursuit of happiness can be the chase of a lifetime.

In...

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LORABELLE YASIS

Acrostic 

      Don't rest on your Laurels
                      ...

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