WORSE THEN DOGS
...WORSE THAN DOGS
Mi step off di docks, salt burn in mi chest,
Suit sharp-press, hope pin to mi vest.
Windrush blood, calypso fire,
Dreams of gold — meet cold barbed wire.
“Welcome,” dem sneer w...
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Categories:
molotov, abuse, anger, black love,
Form: Spoken Word
The Killing Field
...Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in...
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Categories:
molotov, absence, abuse, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
molotov, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
molotov, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Two Patricks
...My father was born,
Late on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day,
Inspiring nurses to insist the babe’s name be Patrick,
To which, my grandparents laughed and chose to obey.
Decades later,
When my pa...
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Categories:
molotov, allegory, anniversary, birth, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Witcher County Road
...
There's a gonna be a crimson moon tomorrow night...
Me and Delroy, heading down Witcher at half past midnight. Our destination: Witcher Redemption Church of Christ. It's been pouring like crazy ...
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Categories:
molotov, child abuse, fear, religion,
Form: Haibun
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:
molotov, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
Strike Back At Terror
...His grandfather attacked mine
to remove him from land that grandpa had bought
Oozing hatred from deep in his gut
he'd force grandpa off of land that he sought
Then his father attack...
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Categories:
molotov, international, myth, political, war,
Form: Rhyme
His Life Mattered, Part I
...It was back in summer, 2020,
when activists ran ‘round, burning cities,
convinced that they had to destroy their lives
since a thug with similar skin color died.
Amidst the BLM and Antifa
was ...
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Categories:
molotov, change, conflict, growth, people,
Form: Narrative
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance Second Cell
...Artfully dodging explosive solutions
pretending shackles restrained prisoner
lobbed pseudo Molotov cocktails
kindly, loosely, and mutinously linkedin
liberal short (make believe) chain
leashe...
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Categories:
molotov, abuse, adventure, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse
Ukraine and the Wolf
...I grieve for those in Ukraine
Who woke up one day to find
The wolf at the door.
They do not fold,
They fight with everything in their arsenal.
Molotov cocktails, grandmothers with weapons,
Th...
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Categories:
molotov, war,
Form: Free verse
Awol In the Ixnayed Days
...
"AWOL in The Ixnayed Days"
Pieces of me
were stolen
long before
the war
cluster f****d
its way
into the
world today
The peace of me
swallowed
in the coma ...
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Categories:
molotov, betrayal, muse, war,
Form: Free verse
Warpath
...grandma makes
molotov cocktail
freedom fights
with action
profanity in Ukraine
warm heart on warpath
3/1/2022
Give Me A Shadorma
Sponsor: Sotto Poet...
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Categories:
molotov, war,
Form: Shadorma
Kombucha Trilogy With Chia Seeds Spells Molotov Cocktail
...(particularly when nursed at room temperature)
I learned that Kombucha
best be kept refrigerated lest
said probiotic drink
served at room temperature
(incorporating live bacteria) erupts
chia...
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Categories:
molotov, adventure, analogy, confusion, extended
Form: Free verse
The Bone Idol
...[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And lef...
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Categories:
molotov, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
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