Why Your Cities Burn, Part II
......Finally Gobayth came to
a devastated mountainside,
the trees and soil stripped away,
slaves cutting out blocks of great size.
They led him to a wooden hut
where several gold coins were exchan...
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Categories:
manacles, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Martyred for Freedom
...Masha Amini was an Iranian woman who was kept captive in jail for clamoring for Women’s Rights. Later she died in police custody under suspicious circumstances. Her death led to widespread civil ...
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Categories:
manacles, abuse, betrayal, leadership, woman,
Form: Free verse
Closer To The Heart
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Felicity balms in a vapor of gold,
where the dawn silverly unfolds,
as flagged standard- bearer showing,
pregnancy of colors bold, of heavenly hue.
Like dew on petals of
hope- retu...
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Categories:
manacles, art, color, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Eat Slow
...Free yourself from the manacles of food and drink
Accede with God for a holy covenant
Silence yourself away from the mundane to pray and unthink
Temperance is paramount in this divine mom...
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Categories:
manacles, allah, beautiful, blessing, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
...Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE), the daughter of the famous King Sargon the Great of Akkad, is the first ancient writer whose name remains known today.
Temple Hymn 15
to the Gishbanda Temple of ...
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Categories:
manacles, faith, father daughter, god,
Form: Free verse
Death by Clothing
...I worry that my coat will murder me.
Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark.
I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting,
hidden in the ridges of the living room radiator,
ready...
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Categories:
manacles, analogy,
Form: Personification
Favorite Mornings
...I am an early riser, usually between 4 and 5 a.m.
That's my quiet time for reading, and thinking,
And sometimes writing.
I especially enjoy it when,
After a pre-dawn shower,
I can look out my...
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Categories:
manacles, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse
Why did I Fall for You, O' Sun?
...O, why did I fall for you, O' sun,
When my soul is nestled in the deeps?
Agape and afraid, my eyne mosey deeper still; they run,
Yet on the colder current your warmth invitingly sleeps.
The dis...
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Categories:
manacles, crush, cry, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Get Out There
...Break away the manacles of fear
Get up and get away from here
Out into the great, great yonder
Scratch that incessant itch of wonder
Follow the steam of your heart
Chug, chug, chug on down the...
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Categories:
manacles, adventure, beautiful, change, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Love's Manacles
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You are the Angel of curiousity and poison,
in my little shop of errors.
You are my penance, a dungeon as I sentence myself in pre-judiced derision stoked,
with desire's f...
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Categories:
manacles, art,
Form: Rhyme
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 ...
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Categories:
manacles, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
...The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief
Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly ...
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Categories:
manacles, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
...Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (ma...
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Categories:
manacles, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
manacles, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Honestly I Wont Like It
...Could it your fancy tickle:
The fluid you need does trickle;
Legs once free like vehicles
On Stopped Feet of Manacles?
Won’t it up get one’s hackles
That one often tasks tackles
Others’ Wrist...
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Categories:
manacles, allusion, conflict, cry, work,
Form: Rhyme
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