Long On the basis Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe 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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Categories:
on the basis, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
on the basis, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
on the basis, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style~ SEEK THE LORD ~
( Star Of David )
~O~
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves us...
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Categories:
on the basis, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With CommentaryK375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary
(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...
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Categories:
on the basis, fate, life, nature, people,
Form:
Couplet
The Goal of LifeThe Goal of Life:
"Finally, my fellow believers, continue to rejoice and delight in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble for me, and it is a safeguard for you. Look out...
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Categories:
on the basis, bible, blessing, christian, encouraging, endurance, faith, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Jungle DrumsJungle Drums
Well known was Molly by gossips
Words fell so easy from her lips
They always found ready ears
Revered was she amongst her peers
A casual meeting Molly made
Good conversation she displayed
Invited then to mothers meeting
Where received a...
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Categories:
on the basis, life,
Form:
Couplet
There Is No Beauty In DeathThere is no beauty in death
Not a lack of, but none at all
Death is a hunter, a fierce one at that
You and I are mere prey
From the moment of birth
When you take your first breath
It...
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Categories:
on the basis, death,
Form:
Lyric
Holy Quran Miracles3Phi matrix program is an American program used for displaying golden ratio of pictures and drawings. If we assume the longitude and latitude map of the World as an everlasting painting which has an endless...
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Categories:
on the basis, dedication, faith, world, city,
Form:
Rhyme
My Love Has Tired Me of My LifeMahammad Fuzuli (1494-1556)
Mahammad Fuzuli, the poet-philosopher, is one of the founders of the divan genre in the history of Azerbaijani and Turkish literature. He wrote his works in three languages (Turkish, Arabic, Persian) in the...
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Categories:
on the basis, art, destiny, dream, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Ghazal
Satan's StrategiesSatan shows no
Signs of intelligence
When he’s allowed
To take over our lives
We self-destruct.
He is simply
Out here to kill
Still and destroy
Every man woman
Little girl and boy
Satan will use
Those who are
Closest to you
To make you...
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Categories:
on the basis, faith, religiongirl,
Form:
Rhyme
My Encounters With Racism and Accusations of Racial PriviledgeIt was 2019 when someone accused me of being in denial of the privileges I had as a white man. At the time I felt uncomfortable with this. I didn't understand how I had...
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Categories:
on the basis, america, race, racism,
Form:
Prose
Slaves To PerceptionSlaves to Perception….
Perception is influenced by probability judgments formed on the basis of earlier actions performed in similar situations
And I think I know
As much as I know of a triangle and breathed in the number...
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Categories:
on the basis, introspection, love, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Blockhead Buzzdid you know that the first food & drink ever consumed on the moon was
the “communal wafer” & the prospective wine that goes with it?
did you know that buzz aldrin actually asked
NASA
control
if he could have...
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Categories:
on the basis, lifemay, time,
Form:
Free verse
Life Is Not a Box of Chocs When Trying To Step Up20 so plus teacher educator's
Primed ready
Standing like naughty school children
in line
Patiently awaiting castigation
From the board , proud parent's and overlord's
Who firmly believe they can do what
they do only 20 time's better
Never actually having done...
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Categories:
on the basis, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Pimping For the Puppet MastersHey, I've always been queer for the Men at the Top,
It is something to which I can cheerfully cop.
They're my Pharaohs and Saviors all rolled into One;
I, like, pee in my pants when I see...
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Categories:
on the basis, america, anger, betrayal, corruption, evil, freedom, political,
Form:
Quatrain
A Soldier S TaleTrust on the basis of truth: endless war,
it’s a tragedy, a great destruction of humanity;
It’s suffused with blood, pain and mortality,
a case for the rest of the whole entire history.
While many who go...
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Categories:
on the basis, death, war, war, war,
Form:
Narrative
A Little Child
A Little Child
" 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage,...
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Categories:
on the basis, faith, inspirational, god, desire, god,
Form:
Rhyme
ChurchCHURCH
Going to church has always been;
That act I was taught helps expunge
some pain-some sin.
To alleviate all burden and leave the pain;
On the churches alter,
Going to Church was just that plain.
Jesus’ divine intellect does not recognize...
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Categories:
on the basis, encouraging, hope, inspiration,
Form:
ABC
Wishes(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)
Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas”
all in the world forget the truth.
Remember that all have their rights...
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Categories:
on the basis,
Form:
Rhyme
Theres No One AroundIn my numbness I allowed
the boundaries to fall down
let people push me around
My weakness does astound
When you’ve turned to no one
handled your life on your own
then when you need...
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Categories:
on the basis, angst, cry, depression, discrimination, loneliness, lonely, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Wait a Minute Mr Postman - Actually Just Walk OnI want to write about this sad feeling in my chest, but I won't
Before that swamped me, I'd noticed a new spiderweb
But it's a spiderweb that engenders an apology
Allow your mind to drift back...
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Categories:
on the basis, sad,
Form:
Haibun
Pursuit of God
The day a man identifies himself "finds the god",
but god has still not reached me,
So who am i, really don't know,
but i believe i'll find him,coz i'm searching. . . .
Well not on the google...
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Categories:
on the basis, god,
Form:
I do not know?
Pie In the SkyPie in the Sky
If the pie grew in proportion to the number waiting for a piece could there ever be enough?
If everyone who got a piece of the pie shared it would either be...
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Categories:
on the basis, confusion, humor, political, satire,
Form:
Prose
Intraspecific Competition
Racists beat some other racists, bigots hate some other bigots
Gunman kill some other gunman, thieves deceive some other thieves
Politicians of both parties share the views that must divide them
But they hate each other madly, cause...
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Categories:
on the basis, lost, philosophy, world,
Form:
Free verse