Ocean Rights Poems

By Cherbo Geeplay 

This, to the commanding officer 
who led his troops to war, on one 
knee and won in the trenches
on the battlefield littered...

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Do not know
Where it is I go
Just taking it slow
Sometimes words fail me
All that I see
Upon the ocean blue
No other solitude is so true
Following the...

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“Be fruitful and multiply" god said *
So they stripped women 
Of their reproductive rights

"Fill the earth and subdue it;" god said *
So they killed the...

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In Favor of the Storm 
	
The clouds are gathering in the distance.. 
They will be here soon. 

The colors are important. 
White, black, gray,
and mixtures...

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The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the...

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I can’t breathe! 
                      ...

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Silent Wisdom

Did you see?
Did you look?
What do think?
They are so…   …   ?

Words heard directly, 
indirectly or by accident, 
but never by...

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Puzzles in Pink

Yesterday is just a dream. 
I took you everywhere, 
but you... do not remember. 

My little one, 
you cried and cried. 

We went...

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Stop Killing My Country

Accused of political banter, 
to speak the words, God Bless, 
and America in the same sentence. 
Bespeaking the fear, 
of being proud,...

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The Ax

Sometimes death is easier. 
Wow, that is terrible. 
Divorce, rips families to shreds. 
This is mine-that is not.
Confusion and conflict. 
The kids… oh yeah,...

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Abandoned Lace

Evil knows your name. 
You did not even want them. 
You had them to please him, 
or to make him, 
do as you wanted.
When...

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The Mermaid Calls

You draw me close, 
and I can not swim. 
You lure me, 
tempt me, 
and tell me…
things.

Your beauty is beyond, 
all that I...

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Angels Touch the Earth

The soft color of red, 
turned ever so slowly to pink… carnations.
The grand color of blue, 
the sky, the ocean, 
the color...

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Judgment

Entrapment by design. 
Battles by the unseen, against the children of the Light. 
 
The witness(s) openly lied. 
The outcome already set. 
The frame perfect,...

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Freedom’s Color

America knows the truth. 
Their flag echoes their heart. 
Red, white and royal, chieftain-blue.
It fills some with hope, 
others feel fear. 
 
Red, for...

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