Long Whitewashing Poems

Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on hell-bent backs
just trying to reach Spanish-shores’-east 
from Moroccan beach with a...

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There has been talk of having the famous black abolitionist Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill. And I think though it does not completely address the problems our country has still...

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In Chicago, Mayor RICHARD J ruled the roost DALEY for 21 years,
  Til he breathed his last, giving way to the 'next sir:'  
  A pol named MICHAEL, who was dull and...

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A gloomy song unfolds
Amid the chants for rights
Yet freedom wasn’t handed
Like centuries before .

Generations has emerged
And slavery has long been abolished
Left behind the scenes ?
Is it now a Modernised suppression ?

Same old routine that circles...

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I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of me I keep concealed, and don't talk about so much
I...

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An alluring art of vivacious symbols and meanings,
Fig leaf has many religious political leanings;  
Though apple was the fruit Adam and Eve had once eaten,
It's fig leaf that had hidden them when they felt...

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Why at our age are we still protesting?
Why do we feel the need?
Because the fire of hope for a better world still burns inside us…
and because it’s never too late to plant a seed.

If we...

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Implosion of democracy 
Explosion by hypocrisy 
Not what God meant to be
Twisted by man’s hands of deceit 

Whitewashing history
Distorting views
Blatant blasphemy 
Stringing together fools

Ignoring facts 
With liquid laughs
Dismissing science
Utterly madd 

Doing favors 
For the rich
While...

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Popping out of pictures, pulling swords from stone,
Hunting with your coon dogs, shipwrecked all alone,
Rafting down the river, whitewashing a fence,
Balloons on Krakatoa, leagues under suspense,

Milo and his watchdog, Charlie’s ticket’s gold,
Meg and Charles go...

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The Brick Sayer

Tim is painting outside since it’s raining inside
Stroke upon cuddle one step at unfolding time
One inch brush gently on 10 squares of façade

The wannabee Buddhist thing when life is no race
Brightening enlightening mud...

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The Past
Written: by Miracle man
11-29-2019

Each day finds some group whitewashing history,
The revenge crowd hide facts, to create a mystery.
But history not remembered we’re subject to repeat,
Those demanding eradication have their own drumbeat.

We change names on...

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I gazed toward the sky
In early morning, spreading
Out the window, light gathering
Seeing a tempest unfurl 
Amazed by whirlwinds 
The arrival of the snow
A snow fall so lovely

Dancing through galaxies
Freezing water, drifting, falling
In dizzying bliss 
Whitewashing...

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In the secret place of thunder
Before the rain
You speak my name
At the crack of lightening
My soul, set ablaze with restlessness
Awaits the awakening.
What is this thunder rumbling
Down valleys of distant memory?
What is this agitation
Leading to contemplation
Of...

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Oops, they pushed their captain off his own ship,
    made sure the deck was slick, black-boot polished,
       waited ‘til great white sharks surrounded it,
until sharp sword...

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Winter arrives on a snowflake
tumbling down from the skies above.
For Earth is set for a remake;
that calls for a labor of love.

Whitewashing a littered landscape,
Autumn's dead get shrouded in white.
For streaming down like ticker tape;
snow...

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