In Stars AboveSo far away but my heart you shine through.
Stronger, swifter, and wiser, I am better just because of you.
As the past reigned with the man kings your glow reign in me too.
I'm passionate to be directed by my compass, water, and shoes.
Your nose loud as tunes i can only offer a fife.
From a distance...
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Categories:
rights, 7th grade, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Fueling the Fires
Categories:
hate, irony, rights,
Form: Couplet
No Kings
Categories:
freedom, rights,
Form: Monoku
hey, check it outhey, check it out
(apropos of baited political hooks)
being schooled
can keep you
book hooked
but being learned
can hook
you up
to a free mind…
schools of fish
are fooled
by baited hooks
enticing and teasing
with exotic scents
on swaying lines…
retrospectively,
whether you agree
or not with me
old-schooled dogs
can be taught
and learn
new school tricks…
curiously
just check out
today’s streamed
teasing red-baited
political hooks…
...
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Categories:
rights, america, analogy, books, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Schools are ChangingGates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mathematics,
wheels spinning stories across threshold stones.
Breakfast arrives with sunrise and hope,
satellites whisper knowledge to mountaintops,
libraries gallop on horseback to forgotten villages.
Schools are changing.
Democracy breathes in corridors
where...
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Categories:
rights, appreciation, books, care, change,
Form: Free verse
Reflections while on my morning walk
You would pardon insurrection -freedom to mob, good people; while pouring ICE on immigration -Free rides National Guarded
Rebellion
Breached
Vigilante
Patriotism
Rebellion
Protest
Discontent
Nonviolent
Rebellion
While pouring ICE on immigration
Free rides -National Guarded, you would pardon insurrection -freedom to mob, good people
...
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Categories:
rights, america, anger, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
YesWhen they say not everything is about race
I say yes it is
You may not have experienced it
But I did
Your privilege is showing
Your ego suffocating
Your ignorance provoking
Your stupidity frustrating
Don't insult my intelligence
Racism is still prevalent
It's foundation American
I don't care if my voice makes me a villain
I will always speak up...
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Categories:
rights, america, discrimination, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Superstition by ChanceAs I run away from the chains, not a single one of my principles drifted
out of my mind, I know what's right and what's wrong for me
I can take actions by chance and leaps of faith
I escaped from the herd, I do not take revenge but I choose to stay calm
Resentment is control,...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, bible, rights,
Form: Rhyme
WHAT I WISH MY FATHER TOLD ME
My father leave me since child,
I was about seven years old,
Nothing I remember which he told,
Than mother ice cream to sold.
My father have not yet died,
But he has kept me aside,
Phoning him a lot I have tried,
My calls ended without being applied.
Sometimes I fill myself bad,
Like I am not his blood,
How he has keep himself...
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Categories:
rights, 1st grade, blessing, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Things Happen
Things are always happening
Sometimes, very few things
Other times, everything breaks loose
It is those times when you do what you have to
It may not always be the right thing to do
It may make everything worse than before
Then again, maybe it won't
It's impossible to tell until you do it
So, have a beer or two or maybe...
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Categories:
drink, rights,
Form: Free verse
White Man
Everywhere the white man put his foot
unerringly on unwary locals he stepped
'til they became downtrodden
unable their customs to accept
physically mentally financially
from top to toe stern to stem
to his own advantage
he used abused and exploited them
no matter their culture
what floats their boat but gets my goat
Government-approved
he pushed religion down their throat
lies were spoken treaties broken
but we...
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Categories:
rights, discrimination, engagement, men, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Stand Your Ground, Don’t Get Pushed AroundIf a cop stops you and says, "Show me your ID,"
Know your rights before you agree.
They can’t demand it just on suspicion,
There must be a crime, a law must be broken.
No crime? No reason? Then stand your ground,
Don't allow yourself to get pushed around.
If they threaten you with arrest, if you don’t...
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Categories:
rights,
Form: Rhyme
Heads Up!Roaring African Diamond, Rolling Thunder, Beloved Warrior—
Cotton’s Violent Cr-owner craving Tougher, Blacker Pickers
praying Brother, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers couldn’t recover
Delight, Comfort, Dignity, Respect, Fortune, Majesty… covered
Blinded Visions, Inhuman Vitriol flowing through Uncivil
Society. Grander Savages casting Shallow Shadows; Ignoble
Secrets. Darkest Templar, Limited Freedom belongs Nowhere....
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Categories:
rights, addiction, africa, america, black
Form: Kwansaba
RIGHTSWhy are you attacking me
Just because I am woman
Who are you, to make
Decisions for me
It's my rights and my body
You shouldn't have that right
To make any decisions for me
Even if I'm childless it's my rights...
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Categories:
rights, america, political,
Form: Free verse
Limited Freedom Of ExpressionFreedom is somewhat limited
In a so-called democratic society
At times, people cannot truly tell it like it is
People cannot vote freely
Without some restrictions or some stupidities
In order to weaken the disadvantaged
Even though the US first amendment guarantees
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression
To assemble peacefully, freedom of religion
Freedom is not what it is
It is not how it...
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Categories:
rights, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
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