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Premium Member Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member FBI FRAUD
As i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11 medal information this resulted in her arriving with a gunman...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, allah, family, poetry,
Form: Epyllion
Juvenilia: Early Poems Viii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student. 

Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch

Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Ali's Song
Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Watching Isms
There is a world of difference
between schism and jism,
but they both end up the same.

Just as patriarchal Roman Catholicism
overpowers living and breathing Christianity,
so too does Capitalism
overpower cooperative capital co-investment,
so too does autocratic rationalism
overpower syncretic enculturing...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, culture, earth day, health, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Teachers Conference the FBI and me
There was no easy day going under cover 
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor 
I was just a young mother of four actually expecting 
again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, art, beautiful, caregiving, chicago, feelings, journey, school,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Poetic Litany of Poems Celebrating Mlk Day
The Man…The Spirit

His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.

HIM

Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:- 
Martin Luther King.


THE HUMAN DOVE

He came bearing a dream for humanity
Teaching nonviolence, peace,...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, black african american, high school, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Violence, the Norm
Why is ANYone surprised by this violence?!?
Our icons, and heroes, and mentors, and 
Example-setters, many of them with visibility
And fame given to them ONLY by the money

WE give them to perform, play, or ply their
Craft,...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, anger, hate, philosophy, violence, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Shelter In the Night
The blue sky with its bright light is moving over my head and the
wind is dancing in the poppy bed, the deers are scampering on the
shores and here you are holding up the process and...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, community, confidence, courage, leadership,
Form: Narrative
Tyranny Counts the Ballots
“Never forget 
everything Hitler did 
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious 
verboten spins askew 

“We can and we must 
write in the...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, political,
Form: Rhyme
One Knee
Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  One Knee 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  September 2017


One Knee

Yes, I kneel down on one knee 
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem 
of...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: martin luther king jr, africa, america, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The People From Those Xxxx-Hole Countries
The People from Those ****-Hole Countries

The people from “those” ****-Hole countries, eh??
Really?? Really?? You don’t say?? I didn’t know that!!
 
This is a recent stream of consciousness comment, which
constitutes a new low in the American...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, political, racism,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Under the Bridge In Del Rio, Texas Usa
Under the bridge in Del Rio are stopped, stuck, stationed
Thousands of migrant Haitians, not Ukrainians
Frankly, if they were the latter, they wouldn’t be sanctioned
Detained, abased, mistreated and deported like Haitians
Like herds of cattle to detention...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, africa, america, anti bullying, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom Please
Repent and change your ways
Wait fervently till you see brighter days
Repent and change your ways
Martin Luther King Jr. just wanted us to feel liberty and we still haven’t achieved it...yet we give praise...in happy-go-lucky days

Face...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, deep, emotions, hope, passion, peace, thanks, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Integrity's Confusion
It is confusing:
to politically powerful feelings,
to enlightened economic thoughts,
to systemically resilient integrity,
to RightBrain healthwealth uniting values,

When a confederated government
values home owner residents
for their economic future capital 
gaining value

More LeftBrain dominantly
than indigenous wisdom
that Earth Cooperative Ownership
is...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, beautiful, community, earth, health, identity, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
A Drum Major Martin Luther King Jr
" A Drum Major - Martin Luther King, Jr. ... "

( Rom. 13: 7 / Joel 2: 28 )


A Man Stood Up For Courage
In A Time, Others Condoned Evil
A Man Stood Up For Honor
In A...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, society, tribute, prejudice,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poetry and Death by yolanda nicholsen
She'd entered my dwelling, my stalker a complete fatal attraction, mimicking my every move, simply distraught I was ,who could this intruder be, ripping pages on my Elliot Ness desk, pages I'd written I in...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, allah,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Love Awaits
Gently,
        the breeze

as the tempest awaits
                      ...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, philosophygod, people, god, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Is There No Place For Us
Is there no place for us ? 
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye tear streams 
We are prisoners of a dark dank cell...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, race, racism,
Form: I do not know?
Our Father Chapter Four
When all Zechariah's members were gone he and his daughters
piled back into their family car and drove to Neptune a seafood restaurant.  
Zechariah asked Mary the church's treasury how much did the church raise.
"$400"...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, abuse, bible, corruption, religion, , atheist,
Form: Narrative
Our Father Chapter Four
When all Zechariah's members were gone he and his daughters piled back into their family car
and drove to Neptune a seafood restaurant.  Zechariah asked Mary the church's treasury how much
did the church raise. ...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, abuse, bible, religion, , atheist,
Form: Narrative
A Letter To Dear Mr President Abraham Lincoln
When you proclaimed all slaves in the U.S.A. to be freed, it meant the total abolishment of the slavery system, I suppose.  When you issued the Emancipation Proclamation, I think what you had in...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: martin luther king jr, america, black african american, freedom, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Musings On Faith
Written: October 07, 2023 
Musings on Faith Contest               Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: martin luther king jr, analogy, appreciation, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said “I have a dream,” we all nodded and shouted sharing our feelings because his dream was the same as all those who lived under oppression. When...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: martin luther king jr, america, together, truth, usa, , memorial,
Form: Verse
Where Are You?
They look at me, they say who him?
He’s just like the rest of them,
Doesn't know where he is.
A victim of circumstance, born into a world that slowly, but surely woos you down 
a path to...

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Categories: martin luther king jr, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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