Long Thralldom Poems

Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...

after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman has taken
campaigning to a whole new level of low.

Beyond...

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WALLS AND WAILS

I am confined within these four walls
For far too long and pray a wall falls
And the guns jam with wardens asleep
As I take a walk of freedom, a leap
To a new world without...

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Thralldom etched in Homo sapiens (mine) DNA

Though your true blue stated civilian
never enlisted nor impressed,
nonetheless I own an opinion
originally embarked on poetic quest
to express purposelessness,

when soldiers rest
at peace i.e. eternally,
many attired courtesy
smart uniform strong with...

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(alternatively titled eldest daughter despises us)

Eden (beloved eldest daughter) icy
flat tone of voice spoke volumes,
when she talked with the missus and me
courtesy cellular telecommunications key
December twenty seventh
two thousand nineteen
unwavering listless dull verbalization see
I subsequently told...

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He opens learners’ hearts with the key of kindness;
passionately plant in them the seeds of success
and watch them grow in the garden of greatness.
Talk about a terrific teacher.

He wields words from the wellspring of wisdom
to...

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fettered frightened multitude at our backyard, 
wailing in sombre sigh, waiting for beckett's “godots” 
multitude with talents begs their oppressor to survive, 
dying amidst plenty with multitudinous buried unfinished destinies, 
stunted by great grand fathers...

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You are a sustained landscape
one that changes only when you smile or frown,
        a fermata, an endless note
something akin to love strung-out,
pulled thin
until it vibrates at the same...

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As I wondered what I should write
And floundered in my own confusion
I thought – why not write about poems
That set me thinking what poems are

A poem could be anything, we know
At best it is distilled...

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Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,                       
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea...

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I was immersed in an impervious imagination
of these frail flowers feigning a feel of freedom
I watched their wings whirling in whoredom
Impious, they are implanted with impinged impetus

A dignified dust, decorated and dubbed a domineer
Yet they...

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Florid light from 
The heavens glistened down
Illuminating tranquility as such
Shadows veil, so not to be found

Angels would escort her
Along soft moss covered way
Warm breezes of summer
Stirred gentle winds
For a radiant maiden 
On a god's given...

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We are soldiers of light and love
With fresh fire we fight for freedom;
Freedom from the thrones of thralldom
We strive for salvation and not stardom.

This shall forever be our anthem;
We are soldiers of light and love,
strongly...

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IN   THE   3-D  MOVIE  THEATRE

In the thick warm darkness

Like rows of fishes moveless

Netted on the bottom of the black seas

Trapped in red velvet seats flipping down with ease

And fighting...

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He  has made his own reed gourd pipe
To play on and allure his captive -
The stray serpent, in his basket inactive , 
And   rendered  a fangless, servile type . 


Being a...

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How I recall my thralldom as a man!
Base troths with idols, rituals of lust,
Hellish haven, hot blood; too late thou learn'st
Drowning desire and pleasure-profaned ban.

But sin may lead where virtue never can:
I - burning, thirsting,...

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We are the legacy 
We are the prime time
We are the heroes’ of our time   
The continual legacy of our fore-fathers
We are the seeker of truth that unshackle the false 
We are the...

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