Long Mistreatment Poems

He walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profound....

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In America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.

"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...

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My brother said in the car with my oblivious father…
That all gay’s and bisexual’s should go to jail
I’m so lucky I had got this far, offended like no other…
Without losing self-control and earning a fail

Knocked...

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There's no one on this earth that's perfect
Not even me 
I make mistakes daily
Yes I do
Trying to be impressive
To this world
In my heart a lost little girl
Trying to be a people pleaser 
Instead of a...

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dogs that left faux paw prints extant within me life 

lids black out and allow me to write
about a petty issue ye aye in vite
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many...

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America, I'm on the outside looking in,
so a fresh perspective I can offer, shall I begin?

Firstly this is for each & every one of you,
there is no hierachy, no person of more or less value.

You're...

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This small island civilization,
its empire was the largest creation,
with the widest trade connection,
there are mixed views of our colonization.

Many modern countries exist because of the British,
many justifiably say our actions were most brutish.
Some have hate...

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The economic injustice, the social injustice has made the workers upset
when the corporations and their CEOs treat them with little or no respect
the CEOs make more in one day than in a year of what...

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I recently went to see my doctor. I suffer with a degenerative disease in my spine, only after 
a car accident did the disease wake up and its been down hill all the way for...

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There was a man who survived through 
everything against his will while he was alive.

One day this man’s ghost arose, walked out of his grave and followed his footmarks on a rugged trail, hard and...

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I had deep thoughts on man.

Is he God’s masterpiece or a fiasco?
I determined, man is God’s failed handiwork.

The reason being, although God gave man a specially designed brain 
that is way superior from all other...

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America... 
is tired of going to sleep
with both eyes closed; 
one eye is now open. 
She sees everything in the dark.
She's always watching, day and night.

The time of reckoning
is here. It is happening.
It is being...

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lids black out and allow me to write
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many years passed quite

I can remember those precious creatures 
   who barked at night
howling at inaudible...

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Gross misconduct bullets falling like rain drops
Mosquitoes kissing marinated children 
While in the hood homeless and thugs
Suck on those the things unruly plugs
Crack-cocaine, meth, mary-jane
Elusive while simultaneously being inclusive
Only check me N marching boys to...

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Every friggin day
mother hen runs amuck,
while all chicken's
beady eyes appear awestruck
drawing particular
agitation, irritation, perturbation...

of Punxsutawney (Doctor) Phil
(well grounded) woodchuck,
the latter glaring at henpecked
yours truly rifled
tail feathered rooster,
whether communicating 

nonverbal sympathy
towards me, a garden variety
Gallus gallus...

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Strike not the queen 
Powerless is not how a woman Felt 
When a man places his hands on her
Touch not negatively= hit/ strike her not
She's the weakest vessel and yet 
Can any man give birth...

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UNFINISHED

These streets mistreat
one hundred degrees in the heat
rode past said a prayer
lying on the pavement
was the new wretched
of the earth, so caste down
nothing left but death.

All them with nowhere to be.
Not allowed at bus-stops
or on...

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Who told you to love me
and all my flaws?
Who asked you to
penetrate the thick skin
that confined my cries and
who informed you to
let me know it was okay to breathe?
I’ve been scuff-marked
and drenched in a 
dystopia...

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Women Inventors/Creators Of History

        In Honor of the following great women inventors and creators:

(*Vera Rubin, Cecilia Payne,  Chien Shiung Wu, Nette Stevens, Ida Tacke, Esther Lederberg, Lise...

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Lamenting appalling heartbreaking mistreatment...
nonagenarian father experiences at Normandy Farms

Though dead, I gauge
these past one hundred and four plus months
linkedin with Gregorian calendar page
mine mother would be aghast

at deplorable inhumane outrage
played out upon Normandy Farms -
Bluebell,...

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I am lifeless and nothing yet I am treasured and prized.
I travel all over the nation, 
slipping between one pair of hands to the next. 
I make no noise other than the faint rustle of...

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Chicken Little ( by Myself and Shukura Porter)

A crackhead stands out on the corner holding a torn Bible...claiming he has found religion...still very much in the midst of his own addiction ...a "wino" sleeps in...

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“Imagine a lovely garden, tea for two, and this story...”


GRAVE MISTREATMENT

Yeah, Doc, it really was a long time ago
But the emotional scars are still there, you know
He came into my room while I was away
And...

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Looking around our country and the world as I’ve watched hatred and misogyny soar
I have to wonder why more people aren’t ashamed of these feelings anymore?

Then again, I’m too old for you to ban the...

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-I thought the Lord maybe meant to be mistreated-

I thought it has nothing to do with me 
when I saw the Lord rolling in the dust agonizing 
flogged by a Roman soldier; I was witnessing...

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