History People Poems

I stand with a treasure map,
no X to mark the spot.
A scattering of clues,
roadmaps of endless dots.

Your name is on an envelope,
surely that’s proof enough?
But...

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Noodles is China
Their life's main staple food
Centuries old, Brah!...

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Sweet moment recall
Laughter behind porticos
During Pompeii's fall....

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Snail soup cook raw
An Asian delicacy
Exotic menu....

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I may not be everyone's cup of tea
That I never invited anyone around to try
If you ever had the chance to meet me

You may not...

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As I arose from sleep this Thursday morning,
The theme of TIME is what my mind was embracing.
TIME is neither anti-social or evasive nor a mystery,
But...

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In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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I know that you are hurt
Please make your voice heard
Get-up, remove the dirt
On your hips. Stand up like a bird
Who is not afraid to fly,...

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Know your roots 
Sometime when you hear 
about the big population of Wayao 
in Eastern and Southern Africa 
with many kind chiefs 
and one king.
You...

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Power over power   
Is a demon, 
who has    
silky, 
smooth, 
skin.   
With a diamond on his tongue, 
he...

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People 
By 
J. A. Long

People are people regardless of 
Ethnicity and history 
Even in feeble steeples 
During the Christmas season
Which is the coldest time In...

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By the river of no return
Where we sat
There we wait 
Remembering our homeland 

We were taken into captivity 
Requiring from us total submission 
How shall...

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we stood
were well

you pushed 
I fell

they came
I hid

she ran
I did

they chased
I stopped

she turned
I dropped

they shot
I died

she fled
I sighed

they went
her too

I died 
for you

.. I died
.....

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No other people has endured the constant persecution
     3,330 years of constant suffering
   From the Egyptian Pharaohs' enslavement and...

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the archaeologist stood 
on the original floor
above her was laughter
loving and war

the archaeologist stood
at the foot of a pit
beside broken lepers
and gentlemen sit

the archaeologist stood
in...

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