Long Self evident Poems
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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
self evident, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
self evident, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a threadbare, fading strand,
A quest for wisdom, in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
self evident, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Declaration of InterdependenceWhen in the Course of Earth’s climatic events,
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the powers of Earth,
separate and equal...
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Categories:
self evident, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-ValluvarVillanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...
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Categories:
self evident, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
Being AmericanI live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
self evident, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
self evident, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Perspective of An Invisible People"Perspective of an Invisible People"
Struggling for over four hundred years
Drowning in rivers of tears
Throughout the country's history
Accepting black people, still a mystery
Since the country's discovery, we've been abused
Standing with strength, will prevent us from...
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Categories:
self evident, america, emotions, encouraging, endurance, faith, family, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick
regarding how yesterdays
prurient laced introductions
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.
Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous tidbit
just gimme moment to unload and reach
into psychological metaphorical knapsack
particularly...
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Categories:
self evident, absence, america, angel, anger, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form:
Free verse
One KneePoet: 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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Categories:
self evident, africa, america, betrayal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Huffing Paint In the Mini-VanBaby birds tweet as their long skinny necks stretch towards blind faith. Somewhat frantically; newly born; next to dead; fragile existence; protected with life. Regurgitation from the same embodied mouth that an egg came from....
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Categories:
self evident, imagery, innocence, metaphor,
Form:
Narrative
Public HistoryI sit here steeping in the History
of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense.
Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class
Red and White folds in deluge, licking the
framed portrait of our Thomas Jefferson,
our...
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Categories:
self evident, america, education, history, identity,
Form:
I do not know?
Sufi Monk CredentialingThis self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in...
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Categories:
self evident, community, courage, fairy, freedom, funny, islamic, political,
Form:
Pastoral
Grandmother Moon: Philosopher of LawI declare,
said Grandmother Moon,
in a distinct correlational dialect
of new to full moon recycling health,
You have the right to remain free
of annoying monotheistic waste-stream Authorities.
Waste-stream Authorities...
And who would be responsible
in that LoseLose way?
I was asking about...
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Categories:
self evident, culture, games, health, humanity, humor, integrity, judgement,
Form:
Political Verse
A Few Words To the American MogulI don’t have the financial muscle
To wrestle the American State President intellectually
If the truth be told ;
I don’t have half enough in my savings account
To ridicule the financial dry seasons I went through to this...
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Categories:
self evident, racism,
Form:
Epic
Hunting HealthNature hunts health
to heal those and that hunted.
Spirit healths those and that haunted
by haunting those and that unhealed.
Human nature reincarnates this universal search
of why and why not health, healing, nutritionally confluent intimacy,
lover as content of...
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Categories:
self evident, health, nature, philosophy, power, psychological, stress, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Destiny Doth Accompany, Deliver, Inveigle AmericaDestiny doth accompany, deliver, inveigle America...
Smartly, squarely, summarily into
pall bearing sized hands Helena Handbasket
adorned with Aconite (Monkshood) atop casket
signaling demise, née sealing freedom
(of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness) fate
with eternal bondage super glued gasket.
I...
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Categories:
self evident, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Political Verse
Mount Rushmore, Carved In StoneMount Rushmore; Carved In Stone
From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in South Dakota;
Representing 150 years of history
(From birth of a nation
To...
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Categories:
self evident, america, education, history, inspiration, patriotic, tribute, usa,
Form:
Verse
Please Do Not Weep For MePlease do not weep for me!
(alternately titled: dost newt expend
precious tears toward pitiful poet!)
Intense passion to read
doth foster divine enlightenment...
Also simultaneously, albeit instantaneously
triggering brutal mind-numbing self awareness
starkly underscoring how existence (mine)
devoid scant trace
positive life enhancing...
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Categories:
self evident, 12th grade, betrayal, grief, irony, perspective, self,
Form:
Free verse
Twenty first century civilization gone I askewTwenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.
Ah... what luxury to wax poetic
as freedom to trumpet thoughts,
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty five
courtesy wealth and/or stealth
dons the mantle as de...
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Categories:
self evident, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement, crush, hate, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone AskewTwenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?
Methinks perchance man
kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
from human being:
uncivil, unethical, unsocial, et cetera
...
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Categories:
self evident, america, death, destiny, heaven, literature, slavery, war,
Form:
Free verse
My Self-Published Book On Hate, Written In 3 ChaptersChapter 2, The 1492.
That’s where they like to begin. They skip over the terrorists activities of theft, plunder, and genocides. When we naively thought freedom was free, We paid our lives for it during...
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Categories:
self evident, america, bereavement, black african american, history, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
United We Stand But Divided We FallUnited we stand, one nation under God. But divided we fall into the hands of domestic and foreign enemies of our beloved homeland. Communists sponsored tactics lead to chaos on the streets of...
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Categories:
self evident, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Reading As An Oasis Amidst Turbulent Emotional TravailsMetaphorical troubled waters deluge
pitched me to and fro,
analogous to ghosts
that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge,
yours truly violently tossed
impossible mission to experience refuge
except when deeply engrossed
between bound pages
thick and juicy tome one garden variety
generic bookworm doth ravish
escape courtesy...
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Categories:
self evident, adventure, allusion, destiny, drink, metaphor, mythology, september,
Form:
Free verse
The Shoes of AnotherWhat does one do, when they feel forgotten?
What good are tears unseen or sobs unheard
and when the tree of liberty seems to be rotten
because they’ve been dismissed and rejected at a word?
What does one do,...
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Categories:
self evident, anxiety, betrayal, freedom, history, political, racism, usa,
Form:
Free verse