Long Shackle Poems

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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  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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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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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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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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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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The  sirens are gone now
                             ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from a different umbilical mother

Notice the bloom of time,
come rain ...

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A Cage Forged Bright: A Hymn Against Gold
They say gold is pure. They say gold is holy. They say gold crowns kings, anoints gods, carries prayers.
They do not say: gold is a shackle. They do...

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