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The Only Northern Northern StarAs winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
strangling, africa,
Form:
Ode
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
strangling, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monopolistic competing toward total self-consuming
reiteratively...
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Categories:
strangling, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Narrative
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
strangling, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
RecentlyI’ve recently been reading a book that reminded me of how little I am in this humongous world
It reminded me of how many boys with the same pigment as me, it reminded me of...
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Categories:
strangling, depression, emotions, feelings, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
What Might Be SeenNatural predication
greets sacred promise
to restore peaceful justice.
Omnipresent predication
greets polypathic promise
for restoring love as grace-filling justice.
Omnipotently disintegrative powers
of HellFire prediction
too quickly settle for monoculturing retribution,
punishment
due to FallenNature's past spiritual sins
in absence of paid-forward
gift economies
for notnot co-arising
Sacred...
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Categories:
strangling, culture, integrity, love, nature, peace, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Slave Trade Never EndedI woke up this morning at a quarter to three
and went outside to pray a prayer for thee
My heart was light and my Spirit felt free
as I walked optimistically down nostalgic...
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Categories:
strangling, angel, community, confidence, conflict, courage, endurance, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
The Chains That Bind Me: Letting Go of EdChains, so heavy. Binding every body part.
A cell: its cold metal bars blocking out light.
A wall, originally meant to protect, now a barricade nothing penetrates.
A net, once safety, now entangling,...
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Categories:
strangling, christian, freedom, hope, life, recovery from,
Form:
Blank verse
Wind From the Sea -- Re-PostInspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression, Loneliness, and Hopelessness
Greet me with strangling arms and leering grins
I...
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Categories:
strangling, depression, hope, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Wind From the SeaInspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression, Loneliness, and Hopelessness
Greet me with strangling arms and leering grins
I...
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Categories:
strangling, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope, love,
Form:
I do not know?
TwistedIllusion is Reality and reality is illusion.
What if everything you once knew was all a lie.
Every flower, every smile a simple spot in your vision.
The lies swim around in your brain like dead fish.
You accept...
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Categories:
strangling, art, sick, smile, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Visions of Me In HandcuffVISIONS OF ME IN HANDCUFF
12 heads near the left center room,
bystanders watching as the Man with the
book determine to make my life heaven or
hell As I stand with my head high in...
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Categories:
strangling, stress
Form:
Rhyme
Burning GraduationThe rage inside me is sickening, never thought I would be on this side. Everybody always saw me on this side and being stuck, no support for me. Go ahead rub your rolled up beige...
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Categories:
strangling, angst, me, me,
Form:
Epitaph
The Killing Tree Part 1This poem is too long for one submission so I have to split it up
THE KILLING TREE
Come gather children listen well
sit closer now to me
And hear the story I'm to tell
about the killing tree
'Twas...
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Categories:
strangling, adventure, courage, evil, life, magic, scary,
Form:
Epic
August StormIt started the 8th of June
moving away from too familiar
into too alien,
finding no sane oasis between.
Vibrant greens relentlessly fade
to wilting monoculturing drought.
Brown patches emerge with dulled loss of inspiration
of what might have been a family
an...
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Categories:
strangling, angst, dark, depression, hope, rainbow, storm, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Binary EntrapmentThere were bars that entrapped her
Binary codes that captured her
There were walls made of concrete
Phones and messages, questions needing answers
Paperwork, assignments, deadlines and digits
Hello in the morning and silence by day
Have a good night...
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Categories:
strangling, conflict, freedom, how i feel, perspective, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Why Did You Brought Me HereThe days passes swiftly like a croaking lizard
embarking upon a ceader tree whose branches
have fallen on the ground and carried away by
Marids of waves beating upon down the depleted
Shore
And the sun with all...
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Categories:
strangling, aubade, betrayal, city, corruption, courage, devotion, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Like Morning Doves, Together We Could Bei am still getting used to this writing thing
this poetry writing thing
the mystery of hiding my madness
concealing my mad love
oh i love him mad
forgive the poor grammar - madly
yes, i love him madly
like i...
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Categories:
strangling, love, writing,
Form:
Free verse
President Joe Biden's Liberal New World Order Part TwoAccording to John and Matt Haggee of Cornerstone church. "If you want to be a truck drive you can take the classes and become one. If you want to be an electrician, you can take...
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Categories:
strangling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
President Joe Biden's Liberal New World Order Part TwoAccording to John and Matt Haggee of Cornerstone church. "If you want to be a truck drive you can take the classes and become one. If you want to be an electrician, you can take...
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Categories:
strangling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
President Joe Biden's Liberal New World Order Part TwoAccording to John and Matt Haggee of Cornerstone church. "If you want to be a truck drive you can take the classes and become one. If you want to be an electrician, you can take...
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Categories:
strangling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
ThiefBlack garments fall to the floor
Boots off, cane leaned against the door
Top hat lifts, welcoming them all
A bottle of ketchup in hand. . .
“Hello there,” He says to no one in particular
Some eyes stare upward,...
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Categories:
strangling, confusion, dark, death, funeral, humorous, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Celestial Mask
So many times, have I cried your name, and you do not answer.
I know not your face nor your name, yet I only know you are a sir.
Perhaps now married, perhaps still single, nevertheless,
You are...
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Categories:
strangling, best friend, childhood, emotions, feelings, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Lamenting Life Lost Before Mine Untimely DeathLamenting life lost before mine untimely death
Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight
even to this present day
(October 4th, 2023)
lxiv anniversaries marking birth
emotions of ambivalence self directed at me,
and family of origin diatribes still career,
within psyche...
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Categories:
strangling, 11th grade, 12th grade, 4th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
The Magazine Bus -- New Orleans August 1963I stood and cried in The Magazine Bus,
Deep in New Orleans, in the city rush,
as it plowed and choked along
like a curved-back dinosaur
wheezing through the swampy ways,
rattling electric wires in a maze
of strangling...
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Categories:
strangling, lovecity, me,
Form:
Narrative