Long Shackles Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
shackles, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
shackles, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
shackles, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
shackles, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ moreDeliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...
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Categories:
shackles, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
TranmutationWritten 12 December 2023
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
...
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Categories:
shackles, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute PoemNelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.
As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”
I had...
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Categories:
shackles, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Energy Democracy V FascismI suppose
cannibalism
is the logical conclusion
of rabidly overpopulated fascism.
Some cannibals,
perhaps all,
ate their human prey
not for typical nutritional reasons
like other forms of digested nature,
but more specifically
because those dining
hoped their prey's sacred powers
would thereby become their own,
conjoining for...
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Categories:
shackles, bullying, earth, hate, health, integrity, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political 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:
shackles, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
shackles, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 12His words stung me, as the cries from the maelstrom seem to retort
Their scattered, foreign words and wails retching their say
I listened, almost mesmerized,
Pulverized
“Come,” Said he,
With threatening authority
Upwards, higher than the balcony from which we...
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Categories:
shackles, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, conflict, hope, muse,
Form:
Free verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history monthMy jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
shackles, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
The Lament of a Black ManWho am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift...
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Categories:
shackles, black african american, death, discrimination, hate, power,
Form:
Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthNascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
shackles, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Drummer1
The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.
Well he beats of the rape and the killing of war
and the mind mangling sorrow we blithely ignore
and...
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Categories:
shackles, freedom, history, humanity, peace, society, strength, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 15When I woke the next day,
He was lying beside me, breathing steadily
I was no longer on the hard, monstrous back of the leviathan
My hands were burned from its horns,
I was laid upon his wings,
Burdened by...
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Categories:
shackles, adventure, conflict, freedom, identity, life, power, truth,
Form:
Epic
Phantom MechanismsMechanism 1
Part #1
The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when I speak. The stars are all just God’s germs. Lately...
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Categories:
shackles, mystery, me, night, people, me, moon, night,
Form:
Free verse
A JourneymanA Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...
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Categories:
shackles, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Freed From My Shackles - Translation From TagoreThis is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer, playwright, composer, social reformer and painter. He was a man...
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Categories:
shackles, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthMy nascent poetic tribute to black history month
more apropos and alternately titled:
praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...
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Categories:
shackles, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
John and Jody Play JoyfullyScience is Fiction
Sir Popper popped the answer to the question of and whether science
holds truth and where and when for how long facts remain value’s
...
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Categories:
shackles, kids,
Form:
Free verse
The Truth Is Here Somewhere:1: Echo PoemAn Echo Poem
Original: This Much I Know – Poem by Lora Colon of PoemHunter
Reprinted here with permission.
Soon the sun will set in this valley
Where I’ve roamed for many a year,
So many questions left unanswered,...
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Categories:
shackles, betrayal, loneliness, love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Joy In the MorningLove shouldn’t hurt, I’ve heard it many times before.
If they truly love you, your feelings they won’t ignore.
When you find someone you think really loves you,
you’re not seeing the red flags; you have no clue.
He...
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Categories:
shackles, betrayal, break up, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
This Day Is Bright Thoughts Take FlightThis day is Bright !
Thoughts take Flight .
Music – the companion of my soul !
Books – the confidants to my mind !
Daughters – the reasons for life to know
more than experience has allowed me...
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Categories:
shackles, daughter,
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Rhyme
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
shackles, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse