Mule Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	The Real Deal	Tom Wright	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, heart, life, pain,
	Soon Be Done	Christine Phillips	Narrative	Narrative	mule, appreciation, celebration, confidence, courage,
	Memories For Sale Not Cheap	Tom Wright	Lyric	Lyric	mule, age, death, family,
	Wagon John's Campsite	Tom Wright	I do not know?	I do not know?	mule, character, friend,
	The Maine Moose	Maurice Rigoler	Light Verse	Light Verse	mule, animal, humor,
	Love destructive	Just Dylan	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, addiction, anger, corruption, how
	Let's Make A Deal	allen beilschmidt sr.	Prose	Prose	mule, humorous,
	A Mule Skinners Prayer	Tom Wright	Free verse	Free verse	mule, friend, prayer,
	And You Can Keep The Mule	Kurt Philip Behm	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, space, time,
	April's Torment - The Villanelle Of The April Fool	James Edward Lee Sr.	Villanelle	Villanelle	mule, analogy, anxiety, character, confusion,
	Today,	Tom Wright	Free verse	Free verse	mule, funny, writing,
	Defeated by Time	Tom Wright	Free verse	Free verse	mule, age, life,
	ploughing	jan oskar hansen	Blank verse	Blank verse	mule, anger, beach, cinderella, color,
	Summer on the Farm As Related By Britches	Tom Wright	Lyric	Lyric	mule, childhood, funny,
	Between Sinner and Savior	James Horn	Limerick	Limerick	mule, allegory, analogy,
	not what you see	jan oskar hansen	Blank verse	Blank verse	mule, best friend, blessing, dream,
	Stephanus Marcus 29	Alfred Berggren	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, england,
	The Block	Terry Flood	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, nonsense, writing,
	Scales of Injustice	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Rondeau	Rondeau	mule, allusion, slavery, truth, visionary,
	Priest Never Planned	James Horn	Limerick	Limerick	mule, allegory, analogy,
	Rice Paper Summit	Anthony Slausin	Free verse	Free verse	mule, art, thank you,
	Untroubled Heaven - Above the Sea of Fog	Eve Roper	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, nature,
	THE POWER TO LIVE	Vicki Acquah	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	mule, appreciation, death, deep, forgiveness,
	The Christmas Mule	DM Babbit	Narrative	Narrative	mule, animal, god, mother son,
	Psychological Gridlock	matthew harris	Bio	Bio	mule, death, dream, fire, leaving,
	Making America GreatAtWar Again	Gerald Dillenbeck	Political Verse	Political Verse	mule, anti bullying, bullying, health,
	Perpetual Queasy Student Days recess 1	matthew harris	Bio	Bio	mule, confusion, feelings, growing up,
	Curtis Gray	jon gutmacher	Verse	Verse	mule, adventure, brother, courage, history,
	the apartment	jan hansen	Blank verse	Blank verse	mule, absence, evil, fantasy,
	Cowboy Cookee	Rico Leffanta	Limerick	Limerick	mule, animal, culture, drink, funny,
	The Nerd	Gershon Wolf	Monorhyme	Monorhyme	mule, cool, irony, satire,
	A Teacher Is Missing	Caren Krutsinger	Free verse	Free verse	mule, funny, teacher,
	Dawn takes wing	Gershon Wolf	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, animal, morning, sound,
	Liberty Bow Face	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
	Dancing Mule	Timothy McGuire	Limerick	Limerick	mule, animal,
	Stephanus Marcus 25	Alfred Berggren	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, england,
	quiet despair	jan hansen	Chastushka	Chastushka	mule, betrayal, birthday, bullying,
	A World of Fools	Daniel Garza	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, encouraging, how i feel,
	Hee Haw TRUMPetting	Rico Leffanta	Limerick	Limerick	mule, animal, culture, endurance, international,
	Off-Key	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Narrative	Narrative	mule, perspective, slavery, truth, wisdom,
	overcome by sorrow	jan hansen	Blank verse	Blank verse	mule, angst, blessing, books,
	For My Children	Sam Kauffman	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, baby, birth, family, love,
	Here we go a-palindroming	Gershon Wolf	I do not know?	I do not know?	mule, humorous, word play,
	From Plantation to Implantation	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Dramatic Verse	Dramatic Verse	mule, imagery, slavery, visionary, wisdom,
	the village of dreams	jan hansen	Blank verse	Blank verse	mule, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
	Knowing When to Stop	Roof Missing	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, depression, love,
	Teacher Teacher	Patricia Garcia Howard Bramble	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, anti bullying, anxiety, bereavement,
	Syncopated Soul	Winged Warrior	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, analogy, conflict, destiny,
	the past is not far from here	jan hansen	Blank verse	Blank verse	mule, betrayal, birthday, confidence,
	The Way Things Used To Be	DrJim Martin	Rhyme	Rhyme	mule, america, culture,

Mule Poem Example

Do the Math

Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s dignity
I got 59 stripes to show 
	what was done to me ...
every year on this earth,
	I’ve seen my people mistreated wickedly
Promises, promises
was the number 40
plus 1
Forty acres and a mule
Reparation was a cheap trade-off
	for my ancestors’s suffering and misery
But, that promissory note
still ain’t never been given to me
Subtraction ends with a negative number obviously
Minus zero
is deeper than a 6 feet hole
It’s so cold inside the modern slave quarters,
the project pipes are froze
Go bury the bones, now there’s less to feed — 
politicians playing oppression dominoes
Moving over to the addition side 
of the patriotic math equation
I got a lot of woe heaped on my poor poverty:
more income inequality,
	more housing discrimination illegality
More police brutality,
and much, much more drugs pouring into
every ghetto community
Add it all up, this is what I see:
red, white and blue platitudes is suffocating me
Red is our labor paid with blood
White is our cotton weary purity
Blue is our ocean of perpetual grief
But there’s more to the patriotic math problem,
	come take a look-see
We got multiplication and division
to intellectually wrestle with morally
Stripping away health care and welfare
has multiplied the cries of the poor
Mob rule, and his thug buddy, crime does too ... 
gun violence got bodies piling up at the morgue
Multiply the pain of parents
whose kids go milk carton missing
Spreading fear cancer in the affected area,
		killing hope
The disease of apathy is multiplying faster 
than campaign corruption smoke
Do the math you dope ...
Depression numbers are climbing astronomically,
		higher than you can see
in a Hubble space telescope
Yet, it’s division that takes away
most of the social gains garnered over the years
Factor in the algorithms of hate,
separating forces of social valency
Divide the bond of racial harmony,
cancel out certain colors in the voting crayon box
Do the math ... and understand,
	       division is a common denominator pox
And last on the patriotic math problem list
is fractions and percentages
That’s how the Revolutionary colonies’ tax returns
were itemized in the beginning
Three fifths ...
Sixty percent human
Slaves were never counted to be worth much,
tax write-off humans who were sub
Back to the future with another tax cut
And after all this time, they still be 
doing the same math with a king George touch,
	using Orwellian integers
Strange, arcane math symbols and figures
Do the math ...
Some stars are more equal than others,
some stripes are brighter than another
Math numbers don’t lie,
only Cain people who hate their brother

Poem Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr.