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Mislabeled Poems

The Laysan Albatross

...We are mislabeled as sea birds and should be called
big birds, like that yellow one but we're not yellow.
We never land on land for a year or longer, and we
been told that we have known Go...

Categories: mislabeled, allusion, analogy, bird, education,
Form: Personification

It Is Not Happening By Chance

...Rip down the statues
Rename the streets
Police the language
Label it hate speech

Burn down the cities
In peaceful protest
Justice is racist
Thus, civil unrest

No longer about 
Seats on t...

Categories: mislabeled, political, society,
Form: Free verse

Turning the Table

...7/8/21
"Turning the Table"

Heads or tails
Success or failed
It's just what life entails
Overhead money and infinite power being dangled
People quick to tangle
Then strangle
And mangle
Unde...

Categories: mislabeled, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Correcting Unhealthy Inaccuracies

...EarthMother senses a difference
between Political Correctness
and everyday domestic political accuracy.

Political accuracy grows best
and sprouts up healthiest rooted
in directly observed Eart...

Categories: mislabeled, earth day, health, mother,
Form: Political Verse

In Defense of Jacob

...Head in the Heavens
  Feet planted on Earth
Jacob, renamed Israel
  Mocked for his birth

Mislabeled 'The Supplanter'
  Though Esau tricked him
Pushed his twin brother aside
  Emerging first-...

Categories: mislabeled, brother, jewish, mother son,
Form: Rhyme

On Calling It What It Is

...theft of innocence
             mislabeled ~

        gift of self loathing




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Categories: mislabeled, child abuse,
Form: Senryu

Accept

...A ball of emotions 
A twister of clotted ideologies
Break from the current
Cry to the creator
Carry his failure
Candid of reality
Drained of my demeanor
Equate my morality to failed ideology
...

Categories: mislabeled, allegory, destiny, growth, life,
Form: Free verse

Medicinal Criminal

...You hold my hand
Tears stream, a warm compress placed upon my pale face
Increasing pain, so much fear my heart begins to race
Curled in my own bed
Trying to wrap this absurdity around my aching h...

Categories: mislabeled, conflict, confusion, freedom, health,
Form: Rhyme