Long Shackle Poems
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The Epic of the Great King
There sits behind deep forests hidden,
A sight to behold, place of all sins ridden,
Where the great rivers give life and churn,
A thousand diamonds and the trees sing
Along with the wind, ruled by the great King.
Generous...
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Categories:
shackle, life, loss, love,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Nigerian Independence Celebration
As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...
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Categories:
shackle, celebration, freedom,
Form:
Alliteration
The Forgotten God
The forgotten god
Whose rage should burn hotter
than mine; melt the noon day sun,
dry up all thy rivers, scorch the earth, that
thy crops may burn to ashes before
thine eyes, and the heat from the
very earth...
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Categories:
shackle, africa, anger, change, culture, emotions, grief, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Artists At The Vanguard
Tie my hands so I may not touch others with potent realities
Bind me from what transpires about ...
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Categories:
shackle, future, poets,
Form:
Free verse
South Africa 2019
A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams
In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion
The constitution hallucinates as night settles scores of deceit
Bereavement takes its toll in anger...
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Categories:
shackle, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Now I Am a Poet
Letter to a novice poet:
(What modern poetry is for me)
Welcome to the family of budding poets, who pen passion and
meaning or anything life holds for them. Enjoy. Buds will sprout
and blossom over time. No buts...
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Categories:
shackle, adventure, courage, inspirational,
Form:
Prose
Warning of Krishna-A Translation
Wandering in the woods for years,
Trials and Tribulations without fears,
Scorching heat, thorns and flood flow,
Came the Pandavas with a divine glow.
For days not Fortune lay wrappen,
Wait and Watch the thing to happen.
To manifest the...
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Categories:
shackle, encouraging, inspirational love,
Form:
Epic
The Bomb II
To boil with all the energy of Hell
may set aflame untethered wherewithal,
for once expended nothing can foretell
the limits of demise that may befall.
A single match may flicker to a flame
or simply set the whole of...
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Categories:
shackle, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Essence of Me
Born in the Goshen ghetto,
bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain
Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor,
adored father was the Uncle Sam same
Third-generation slaves,
pauper freed allegedly
But royal blood their ancestors
sweaty tears did bleed
From...
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Categories:
shackle, identity, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Bio
Devil Go Home- -
DEVIL GO HOME- -
Git thee behind me, Satan;
Lucifer, Demon, Beelzebub;
Whatever your name is now, get up, get out go…
Oh, oh, oh no-
Devil this place is not your home;
Go on go away this I...
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Categories:
shackle, angel, appreciation, lost, pride,
Form:
Lyric
A Mentally Ill Memoir
My mind shorts out sometimes
And my judgment goes out the window
That's when I do stupid
& the aftermath makes me feel suicidal.
Sometimes it leads me right into
Temptation
& straight into evil.
Catching...
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Categories:
shackle, abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Vape To Be Free
A famed thinker , Voltaire, he observed and proclaimed,
Man is born free but everywhere he’s chains.
A simple enough statement but the truthfulness in it,
Is so profound and so relevant till to this modern day.
Early this...
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Categories:
shackle, addiction, anniversary, appreciation, character, community, devotion, meaningful,
Form:
Light Verse
Exclusion
I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.
Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the malaise of discontinuity,
the permanent otherness.
It's a mystery how it...
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Categories:
shackle, absence,
Form:
Ballad
Shackles
If the voice in Heaven did speak
His would be the last true voice
To speak and command me to be well
I was born with a broken heart
That formed an invisible shackle
Not fixed by the servant of...
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Categories:
shackle, beautiful, beauty, bereavement, death, desire,
Form:
Blank verse
Skinny Prayers
The sirens are gone now
...
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Categories:
shackle, addiction, anxiety, beauty, depression, faith, hope, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
Fear Part 2
WARNING Don't Read
Before we get down to your last sites,
I think I should, really, try to relate.
That theyre, now,
only one, very hateful look,
away from you-and I must say!
That it appears,
they're real sick of your face...
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Categories:
shackle, blue, boxing day , candy, car,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Keep a Low Profile I E Namely Remain Invisible
Why I keep a low profile i.e. namely remain invisible
Alternately titled -
dear readers ye each saddled as exegete
to make sense little known excerpt
referencing obscure passage printed
calligraphy style groovy and neat
found scrawled in book of Matthew
which...
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Categories:
shackle, 12th grade, adventure, crazy, hair, humorous, identity,
Form:
Free verse
In Life- Advice In 101 Lines
To my beloved
Close to my heart
Daughter & Niece
Advice for better
In world it matter
Live each day fuller
And always remember
What goes around
Comes around
So be always kind
Not at cost of blind
Will always have a choice
If you feel...
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Categories:
shackle, blessing, character, children, dad, daughter, encouraging, i
Form:
Rhyme
Teal Bricks, Indigo Wall
Let me hear that applause though I've done little to warrant it
Time is a poor curative for what's fundamentally broken
Brain's full pal, sorry, you've gotta go home
Even though I'm the one who paid for you...
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Categories:
shackle, death, future, introspection, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
I See You - Part 1
Dear Single Mother,
Who Works two jobs of 12 - 14 hour days to keep the lights on, & to feed little Johnny.
I See you!
Single Father Who Works stocking shelves and driving Uber at nights to...
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Categories:
shackle, black african american, courage, encouraging, endurance, father
Form:
Free verse
Clashes of Religion and Culture
From the onset you become
The supernatural puppeteer behind power
The chieftain of the tycoons
The moral and immoral nous
The sheepherder of the multiverse
Why tenuring freudalism and captivity?
Thy sheep in topsided race
Like asymmetric scale
Yesterday celebrates your uniqueness
Before acculturation...
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Categories:
shackle, abuse,
Form:
Narrative
Freedom is the realization that freedom is just another drug to calm a pain, to continue the show
Freedom is the realization that freedom is just another drug to calm a pain, to continue the show,
And this drug comes in a variety of models, prices for the mass market or highly segregated niches.
In...
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Categories:
shackle, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Special 'You'
Eyes so lifeless, gone is the sparkle.
Limbs so frail, like living after a disaster.
The only remedy, you, lie so far on the other shore of the ocean.
In the depths of my heart, prevails the...
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Categories:
shackle, longing, loss, lost, love, love hurts, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Spectacle
I knew him before they shackled him to chair
I contend, none knew him better than I
He's tall, charming, quite an elegant air
An athlete lissom, a kite in the sky
What happened you asked, what so deformed...
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Categories:
shackle, life, old, life, love, old,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sons and Daughters of the First Born
Sons and daughters of the first born
From original source we were all shorn
Progeny of the brightest stars
All were unwitting avatars
Flung from the quiver
Each a message to deliver
Look out at the world
Into which we were hurled
We...
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Categories:
shackle, community, introspection, philosophy, poetess, society, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme