Grandfather Political Poems

His grandfather attacked mine
    to remove him from land that grandpa had bought
  Oozing hatred from deep in his gut
 ...

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My grandfather
seemed wise with years
walking his rural spiritual path
in a relentlessly white
Christian dualistic church
dividing sinful nature
from sacred spirit.

He counseled:
Do not mix
religion and politics.

I wonder
how he...

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I don’t start off thinking it’s a priority to insult 
so if you end up offended it’s probably your fault 

opinions can be devisive 
one...

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New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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We were not a nation, but just a continent 
Africa with kingdoms 
then, we violently got segmented and detached by people who never understood us...

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Cousins too cool to do what we used to do.
Uncles kiss the asses of their forebearers.
Aunts timidly stand aside as kids fight
Over who is wrong...

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“Souls and Bodies We’ll Lay Down”

Ominous clouds have 
Invaded my soul;
Thrust swords into my heart.

Darker than the midnight air.
Stars gone forever more.
Bloodied hands in my...

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The days are long and painful
The nights are long and bare
Those alleys, hard and brutal
Between buildings built with care

Springtime held a promise
Its lilac on the...

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You see all of these protesters out
chanting and screeching on the TV,
convinced that we’ll solve all our problems
Ii we just get rid of the police.
They...

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He was too old
to speak of active hope
for ancient creamy dreams
not yet boldly told

Inviting curious homeless nomads
to imagine what we could become
if we were not...

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Brilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant...

Writing prompts burst asunder
deafening soundcloud roared
with apocalyptic thunder
'course only audible to yours truly,
I did dumbfoundedly wonder...

At o'clock tick tocking wee hours brisk
December...

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The told us to hate all people
who were born with real pale skin,
as if lacking pigmentation
was like an original sin.
Though these people had done nothing,
they...

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Immigration history
Reveals a USA flaw:
Trump's grandfather and mother
Were 1-step ahead of the law.

Lacking moral character
They plundered all they could
Baby Donny quickly learned
Bilking government is good

Trump's...

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Your grandfather wants to apologize
not just for voting for Donald Trump,
but also for praying he would continue in Presidential Office
with YHWH's fertile blessings
of sacred ChristCentered...

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My African-American
young adolescent daughter,
since she was age five
needing a therapeutic home and family,
with Oppositional Disorder
and deviantly diverse neural-cognitive communication patterns,
would have voted for Donald Trump...

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