Long Squatters Poems
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On Naming Plants and AnimalsA Commentary on
"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS
I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are...
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Categories:
squatters, earth day, health, humanity, integrity, nature, planet,
Form:
Political Verse
The Proof Is In the Pudding 2I crossed into Vienna, VIA courthouse road still trying to figure want it was all about
Then I see where courthouse road ends right at church street den
The road continue from court house road and...
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Categories:
squatters, america, angel, betrayal, break up, conflict, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
InflictionsThe greatest physical pain ever inflicted upon me was the constant spasmodic pains of the constipation I experienced after a 'pace maker insertion'. My body was not use to all the pain medications provided...
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Categories:
squatters, christian, god, jesus,
Form:
Verse
Our Mate Charlie the DroverOur Mate Charlie Brummell
Yes mate we went a droving back in nineteen fifty eight,
The drovers cook was pretty rough, he couldn`t wash a plate.
Hector he was fifty two, when he burnt our damper...
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Categories:
squatters, adventureold, home, day, home, old,
Form:
Rhyme
The Complaint Part 5To glimpse the camel-litter, Qais no longer with his madness strains
The yearnings of the heart are dead, the heart itself is cold; so we;
And desolation fills our house for shines not there the Light of...
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Categories:
squatters, allah, faith,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Liberty Bow Face
Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo
My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
needed between the ailing ballot box,
sho’ ain’t Louisiana Purchase forthcoming
Lady Liberty is bowing...
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Categories:
squatters, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
The ArsonistFrom day one he was trouble
His parents knew on sight
Their bundle of pure joy and bliss
Was somehow, just not right
It wasn't in his nature
To be part of a gang
He like to be off by himself
He...
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Categories:
squatters, age, conflict, prison,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Mover Coming Down for Love
Written: January 25, 2024
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Amidst this idiocy of guess and hear,
a dulcet note I caught is quite clear.
An epiphany is...
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Categories:
squatters, analogy, appreciation, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Derelict"She will reign on the cliff above the quay, this derelict house restored to her former beauty. No beast of the field, nor bird in the air shall wander her halls. Now she belongs to...
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Categories:
squatters, home,
Form:
Rhyme
NormanNORMAN
Norman was a character a funny man its true,
He was a country copper, till the force said bugger off blue,
He was there in Mungindi when two Squatters piddled on plants,
Grabbed onto ole Carruthers and booted...
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Categories:
squatters, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
A Hot Time In Auckland City“METROPOLIS BLUES”
The elemental wind
curls in from the north east,
sublime salon creations in
disarray, in grimy profusion
inventiveness subsides.
The town clock strikes out,
within ear shot, a bench seat plays
host to a cast of thousands.
Soon! succulent rotting form...
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Categories:
squatters, angst, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
The House At the End of the StreetThere was a house at the end of my street
No-one lived there for very long
During the war, an entire family wiped out
When an aeroplane dropped a bomb
The family living there at the time
Amounted to unlucky...
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Categories:
squatters, family, nostalgia, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Marx on the Hudson
They used to call it the Empire State.
But the empire isn't doing too great.
Democrats in power, big ideas they plan.
Too bad for the middle class and the forgotten man.
Low-income high rise in your village
Middle class...
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Categories:
squatters, new york, political,
Form:
Lyric
Refurbished Children's Stories: Goldilocks, But Just BarelyNot much about Goldilocks is really well known,
Except she liked to hang out in the woods all alone.
Of other customs and habits we have just a splintering:
She was whiney, persnickety,
And obviously skillful at breaking and...
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Categories:
squatters, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Christmas CastawaysChristmas Castaways
My good friend Jerry’s unemployment had run out
I feared print journalism’s future was in doubt
But while we commiserated on Christmas Eve
A disheartening report was broadcast on TV
Local law enforcement had been busy that day
People...
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Categories:
squatters, christmas, friend, holiday,
Form:
Couplet
Shin En37th Floor
Shiodome City Center
The Japanese Secretaries
Stand in unison
Upon my arrival
All for me
You shouldn’t have
But thank you
180 degree view of Tokyo
900 square miles
10 Million people
All walking in unison
To a tune I don’t understand
I will never...
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Categories:
squatters, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Need To Be Somewhere ElseI’m the one who needs to be somewhere else,
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown my face.
When I look back on every track
where there’s nothing...
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Categories:
squatters, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
No Place Left To RoamWhen I was a small child
I would always be outside,
Must have blazed a hundred paths
Just to see what I could find.
Then they put me in a suit,
And I cried out “I won’t go!”
Left my home...
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Categories:
squatters, conflict, freedom, heartbreak, loss, nature, sad, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Artistic Freedom In the WildThere are no shape walls
to bridle one's emotions
creativity is properly ventilated
unbound by meter or syllable count
embracing nakedness
yanked naked in its virginity
The binding belt of chastity
given over to lyrical lovers
Sleeping quietly in the meadows
a pristine area...
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Categories:
squatters, analogy, appreciation, birth, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Of Kings and Queens
Every shogun nation wanna be
in war visor control
Commandeer the missile steering wheel,
be the king of the road
Likewise, imperial power lust eyes
wanna be the top wing of the hive
Taste all the money honey they see...
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Categories:
squatters, corruption, evil, metaphor, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Born and Bred
Goshen ghettofied,
born and bred
Yeah, I’m the teen darkie
with the big nose
and the nappy head
Rolling with my homies
on an asphalt bounce,
with the music on blast
Yeah, we’re the young darkies
with the big lips ...
American society outcasts
As ministers...
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Categories:
squatters, identity, perspective, racism, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Aub Aub
Aubrey Gordon Joseph Mc'Govern
by Don Johnson...
he was born in 1895 to a land so different then,
one of three boys born at Brenda station,
near to Hebel up the river near the...
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Categories:
squatters, adventure, old, old,
Form:
Ballade
The Grand CanyonFrom the Painted Desert, head west
Past sagebrush, brittle bush, desert scrub
And The Petrified Forest at rest
To the Rocky Mountains above
Go past the Continental Divide
Below Douglas firs and pinyon pines
Head down the sunset side
Where the Colorado...
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Categories:
squatters, adventure, america, animal, history, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
A Phosphorus AttackA phosphorus attack
...
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Categories:
squatters, adventurefire, fire,
Form:
Rhyme
Might These BeMight this be a wonder,
Might this be a sunder,
Might this be the blocker,
Might this be the warder,
Might there be a plunder,
Might it pass the border,
Might there be a dweller,
Might they be lodgers,
Should they be squatters,
Should...
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Categories:
squatters, art, confusion, life, mystery, nature, pain, sad,
Form:
Rhyme