The Great Reset
...("Bye Bye Safe Journey", 2014, original pen and ink and oil)
The Great Reset
As the modern world hurls towards tomorrow
more and more of us are swept up,
languages, dress, myths and be...
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Categories:
patrick henry, future, perspective, slavery, society,
Form: Narrative
Clerihew Brace
...Patrick Henry Brace US modernist
at painting did not persist
His semi abtracts did not sell
and suicide was his death knell...
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Categories:
patrick henry, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
The Wordsmith
...I am a Wordsmith
I love the words I play with
I respect the fith
I am a poet
Sometimes I hardly know it
I try to show it
Five, seven and five
How I make a Haiku jive
It keeps me alive
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Categories:
patrick henry, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy,
Form: Haiku
Chains:Five Haikus
...CHAINS:FIVE HAiKUS
Cold government chains
Deciding who I can see
Worse what I can do
So silvery bright
On my wr...
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Categories:
patrick henry, america, freedom,
Form: Haiku
Just a Citizen
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Crank around forward and history repeats
Comprehending every moment is mental feat
Once black chains performed at white man’s feet
While whitey conspired to tear Lincoln from his se...
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Categories:
patrick henry, america, history, irony, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Independence
...It was Patrick Henry who said, "Give me liberty or give me death". Neutrality of a nation has little or no meaning for a world in decline
Death is...
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Categories:
patrick henry, america,
Form: Acrostic
Commentary Notes On Peaceful Protest
...Commentary Notes on Peaceful Protest…
In the spirit of peace,
Patrick Henry once cried:
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
In the spirit of peace,
he was eventually granted his request.
how tr...
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Categories:
patrick henry, america, destiny, freedom, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Patrick Henry, the Call To Arms
...To shield ourselves from the painful truth;
Illusions of hope we often see.
But, this is not for wise men's eyes,
Engaged in a struggle for liberty.
And as for me, I wish to know,
Though anguish...
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Categories:
patrick henry, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
American Freedom
...Give me Liberty or give me death
Patrick Henry said once out of breath
He is my ancestor on the family tree
I live in America, land of the free.
I taste his words on my lips
Love to have saile...
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Categories:
patrick henry, politicalme,
Form: Kyrielle
Jumping Hoops
...Sir Patrick Henry
Saw America in a quandary
Shook the house by its boots
After ten years of jumping hoops
~*~...
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Categories:
patrick henry, history
Form: Clerihew