Long Shackled Poems
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Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna 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 Plane
I 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
Gangster Disciples gang threats from Mexican Violent Offender behind bars Ciro Gargano Scum
I will not apologize for wearing
wires pregnant for the Fbi buying
weapons and drugs from corruption
and taking down gang leaders who
migrated to Wisconsin under queen
pin cocaine heroin hard drugs
manufacturer Mexican...
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Categories:
shackled, allah,
Form:
Kyrielle
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
NO FEAR OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT SALE LEFT OVER FROM MY NEIGHBORS JAN 6TH PENN COVEN WISCONSIN KKK
AFTER GARGANO CRIME FAMILY OF MADISON WISCONSIN BLEW UP MY FACE WITH A CAR BOMB MY LIFE WAS THREATENED THEY BEGAN TO EXTORT MY LIVELY HOOD IMPERSONATE ME PAYING WISCONSIN CITY OFFICIALS TO FRAME DISABLED...
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Categories:
shackled, allah,
Form:
Naat
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 Seven
Rosalia - 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 Umbrella
There 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
CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY
{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...
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Categories:
shackled, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
February 29th, 2024
February 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 Sparta
Our 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 Again
1
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 White
Synopsis
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
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
President...
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Categories:
shackled, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse 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 Day
In 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 Date
Spouse 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 Conservatives
What 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 1865
Ford'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 God
Test 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
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House,...
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Categories:
shackled, america, anxiety, crush, evil, humanity, november, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee
Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee...
honored at freedom fête
of course in my dreams
where Tony the Tiger
roars Matthew Scott Harris
ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat
showcasing adroitness
with ability to turn a phrase
evident if we could arrange a tête-à-tête
where...
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Categories:
shackled, adventure, america, animal, appreciation, hero, humanity, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Schools are Changing
Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mathematics,
wheels spinning stories across threshold stones.
Breakfast...
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Categories:
shackled, appreciation, books, care, change, children, education, school,
Form:
Free verse