Hate Pride Poems

One of the easiest mistakes to make is having too much pride.

It is the sneakiest of snakes as it makes its home inside.

It only needs...

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A corner has been turned
A chapter has been burned 
A stipend has been earned —
Was it by me?

You can’t unearth a friend 
If he’s stuck...

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Even the sparrow has a place to lay it's head,
So why should I lay worries on my breath?

All the world's colors laid with such ingeniousness...

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Old soldiers never die
Old soldiers never cry
Old soldiers live in our heart
In our guts
Forever
Old soldiers live in our pride
In our huts
Forever
Old soldiers live on
Old soldiers...

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Ambient sounds ravage the mind, drowning your voice-

Not your focus-to be compromised but not by choice;

Only surrendering to the calls of injustice from its victims,

Shouting...

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As I began my walk this morning…a walk every day I repeat
I thought: even in the darkness of the early hour…
It takes no courage for...

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Once feeling envy for your imposing life 
Lusted after your confidence and your possessions. 
The greed consumed me until the hunger 
overtook my natural sloth-like...

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No man nor beast can survive,
In a climate meant to deprive.
Barren of hope and loss of scope,
Where no one gets out alive.

Seeking a place to...

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Gazing into the water’s depth, I see not fish or stone,
I only have eyes for what is my own
My form and face, both grace the...

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Love is…
Love is like ….love is like, it’s like love is light, like how the moon loves the light I mean how the moon loves...

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Buying corporate profit tickets
to this June's PRIDE event
does not feel therapeutic,
where once lived public trauma.

Another annual rite
of well-bred socialization
political masturbation
with no flavor of resistance
to white-washed...

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If I’m proud of my country does it make me racist? 
Better than all those in separate places, 
a stigma attached in nationality cases 
a...

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I
Go placidly amid the guile, ingratitude, and hate, he said
Max Ehrmann, we believe, trumpeted the peace of silence
In that famous poem, urban legend says, found...

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Victory to the women who’ve survived
Desertion, divorce and all that jive
If your name is still Thompson, after fifty years.
Maybe longer through drought, doubt and tears
Do...

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come on, open that door to face
what did you leave in the antechamber of your happiness
(I'm talking about the sad, chained lions roaring their nightmares
of...

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