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My poor mother "La Daniela"
As they called her at the Casa de los Picos
In the capital of Segovia
Where mothers and children took refuge
In the fratricidal war in Spain
While their husbands we...
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Categories:
nationalists, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Flag March - Dangerous Game
...Teenage yeshiva students from America
'Big Heroes' - 'Land of Israel Nationalists'
All yell 'Death to the Arabs' as they smile for the cameras
A 'real good look' for 'Parents'-skins'-in...
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Categories:
nationalists, anger, celebration, color, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Maelstrom
...A situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil. (dictionary definition #2 of Maelstrom)
Today’s opinions are so contrasting and divisive that nobody seems to know up from down!
I be...
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Categories:
nationalists, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Stop the Propaganda Against the Queen
...The Queen has answered her ancestral call
England is in sad reflex to her nightfall
My condolences to the Royal House
For Her Majesty can no more live within the House
But her legacies which ma...
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Categories:
nationalists, death, england, farewell, fate,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballymurphy Massacre
...Martin Luther King junior was the inspiration
For the Northern Ireland, Civil Rights association
Protests were held and they marched peacefully
The unionist majority tried to stop them brutall...
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Categories:
nationalists, ireland, murder, soldier,
Form: Narrative
To the Darkened
...To the Darkened
What happened?
to that sweet voice,
those of the great States men;
I.K Musazi, Apollo M.O, Grace Imbingira
those that!
Engineered, ostracized, defiance and rejection.
Thr...
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Categories:
nationalists, africa,
Form: Free verse
Beach Bigots
...Sable palms stood like soldiers at parade rest
between dunes and cottage ghost white
against emerald waves rolling
on the white sand beach of Panama City.
Tribal bigots planted Old Glory at wat...
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Categories:
nationalists, perspective, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Michael Collins
...It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron fist
Taking brutal action against those, who tried to resi...
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Categories:
nationalists, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
A National Travesty
...How can they lament their injustice in a divided land
While seeking to undermine fundamental truths
Would mock the central tenets of our democracy
Would steal from common folk their right to ballo...
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Categories:
nationalists, america, bullying, conflict, political,
Form: Pantoum
Social Climbing
...For Trumpians
our multiculturally celebrated Golden Rule
applies first to Ego
then to immediate white privileged family,
then to wealthier gated community,
then to a more rabblous Republican Par...
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Categories:
nationalists, community, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Digital Persona
...Cave wall shadows.
Plato warned us.
Like Prince Prospero’s Abbey.
A cyber-dominion of masquerades.
Anonymity is a collective loneliness.
Electronic patches and flickers that we create.
The ...
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Categories:
nationalists, computer, evil, identity, power,
Form: Political Verse
2020 Sight and Sounds
...Speaking With NonBully VoiceBoxes
Dissociative injustice,
like racist slurs and disinvestments,
retributive oppression
for not being SWM enough,
has ecological roots
in LeftBrain anthro/ego-c...
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Categories:
nationalists, earth, health, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
The Leadership Convention
...When potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,
Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
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Categories:
nationalists, conflict, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
The Fuss of Us and Versus
...Year sixteen dawned with a lot of fuss—
Of Us and the rest all called Versus,
Apart like North-South poles,
No diamonds, both black coals,
Both missing: caught are they in same bus.
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Categories:
nationalists, new year, satire, world,
Form: Limerick
If Ever I Had a Country : Lxxii - Continued-
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXII
IF ever I had a country with or without nationality
And if ever I were elected or nominated Chief Patriot of this God-forsaken mis-carriaged country
And if eve...
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Categories:
nationalists, betrayal, patriotic, satire, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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