Long Shackled Poems
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Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
shackled, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The World Is a Small PlaneI have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
shackled, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Escape"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
shackled, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Today In Billy the Kid History - April 28, 1881"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
shackled, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part SevenRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
The Final Days: Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and depravity what can be said now in the case of...
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Categories:
shackled, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
No UmbrellaThere is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...
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Categories:
shackled, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form:
Narrative
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
shackled, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Billy the Kid's Great Escape*
Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away.
*
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
shackled, history, horse, humorous, love, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
shackled, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
shackled, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren WhiteSynopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to run afoul of him. The evil-bishop places them under a...
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Categories:
shackled, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil, love, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceRecluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
shackled, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
In America June 14th Equals Flag DayIn 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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Categories:
shackled, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
shackled, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First DateSpouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date
While yours truly sat here
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...
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Categories:
shackled, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Trump Against ConservativesWhat are some differences
between post-millennial Trumpism
and pre-millennial Republicanism?
I know...I know!
Republicans used to be fiscal conservatives
but now support a one trillion dollar deficit
per unaffordable health and safety care year,
Expanded deficit spending
despite taking more from not...
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Categories:
shackled, abuse, bullying, caregiving, corruption, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
shackled, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is My Name My Name Is Child of GodTest many people are unaware this
relishing the thought
Many things have been purchased and bought
what is a human a thing
Unless my color is my being
Been birth and born
Shackled dragged and torn
Been a...
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Categories:
shackled, america, analogy, anxiety, assonance, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Darken RoomA DARKEN TALE
ONCE UPONE A TIME IN A LAND FAR BEYOND THE REACH OF GOD’S
GOLDEN SKY
THE DEMONS OF MY SOUL ARE CLUTTERING AROUND THIS
COLD AND DARK ROOM PATIENTLY...
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Categories:
shackled, abuse, angst,
Form:
Bio
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 30A whirl, a gust, and a thunderous boom commenced,
Heartened by the latter soreness of silent night,
Shackled through the chill blows above,
A tempest, a storm,
Threshing the world,
Shaking the Prison of Plot,
The waters of the Holy Spirit...
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Categories:
shackled, art, destiny, endurance, gospel, inspiration, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Pressurepressure to the roneom[
pressures of the norm,
going beyond the storm.
branded by the stigma;
persecuted by other's feedback,
false insecurities,
lacking humility.
judged by the trauma,
hindered by all the drama.
toying with the hurt,
random ego sanity complex.
confusion with reality;
fantasy fanatics,
backsliding with...
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Categories:
shackled, growing up, inspirational, life, people, stress, ,
Form:
Rhyme
SamaraSamara...
Brilliant sunshine, silvery cloud;
looked down and found me lost in a crowd.
Some nights, I flew and followed the breeze.
Some nights, my world turned into a freeze.
Sometimes, I was lost, going my way;
it didn't matter night...
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Categories:
shackled, allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
Form:
Masnavi
Rampant and Endemic Police BrutalityRampant and endemic police brutality...
flourishes against United States citizens of color
going on three years
post George Floyd
short lived heightened awareness
when #blacklivesmatter
in conjunction with 1619 project
wrought upwelling of progressive surge
hinting at positive...
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Categories:
shackled, absence, abuse, africa, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Free verse
My Lovely Sunshine -Chapter 2-Purging sin out of my life or attempting to rather,
We had many fun times together…
There are plenty of grapes, strawberries and flowers to gather…
In this garden of We’ll-Get-Better…
My lovely sunshine,
Will you ever be mine?
Someday…on a...
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Categories:
shackled, change, deep, words,
Form:
Free verse
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison yard,
...
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Categories:
shackled, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme