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Mute, No More

...Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day. After centuries of relentless struggle, are women happier today…? Can’t say! Despite all claims to equality and progress, women are still at the back se...

NIGHTERRORS I MY SHADOWS

...Stone and steel is my embrace, 
A petrified dance in the grey expanse. 
A cold monolithic grace…

I am jagged edges…
My soul claws at the barren sky.
I lie, a silent scream against the fading n...

Idyllic reverie during break of day

...Idyllic reverie during break of day

May today bring unbridled bliss 
delivered courtesy sunshine kissed
giving Midas a run for his money.

When the last trace of night 
evaporates analogous t...

My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

...My 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 ...

Gildas Translations

...GILDAS TRANSLATIONS

These are modern English translations of Latin poems by the English monk  Gildas Sapiens (“Gildas the Wise”).

“Alas! The nature of my complaint is the widespread destruction...

Avoiding Kryptonite

..."He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens."
                                                                  Carl Gustave Jung

Be not manacled, bound or tightly tethered
to a ...

My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...My 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 enhancemen...

The Silent Heart

...the silent heart
has no song to be heard
only the loneliness within
that echoes across empty rooms
where no ear listens
where the heavy drapes still the sun
so the shadows may proceed
unencumb...

Independence

...To Ukraine
 ~Arise in arms from ‘neath oppression’s boot,
confront the face of arbitrary whim.
Resist as one to quell the scarlet brute
and neutralize the threat of florid prim.
   Let tyran...

Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...Nascent 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 Caucas...

A Poem For the Raging

...The dead they are burned not by heat or cold.
Their spears did not grow heavy,
blooms do not sprout from their ribbed barrels.
They chew now on spent bullets;
they have captured themselves.

In...

My Own Country

...
"My Own Country"



I am my own country
these firm battlements
have delivered milk
like honey to a baby’s lips

traversing the landscape
these...

A Poem For the Raging Dead Men

...Their spears did not get heavy,
flower blooms did not sprout from barrels.
Some chew on ancient bullets, many captured themselves.
In dark allies a switchblade blindness entered their hear...

Chains That Bind

...hate is a prison

  where I'm manacled in chains

     restraining my wings...

Magna Veritas

...Mightier than fibs and sharp swords, 
Manacled truth will with time prevail
Against high peak and gigantic vale, 
And glossed lips' deodorized words. 

Sharper than lucre's nectared studs
Stabs...

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