Short Reparations Poems

'Reparations From You and Me's'
    proud sponsors are ~
      'Looting and Thuggery'...

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Egypt, please pay off the Jewish people...in pyramids

                          chirr...….chirr.....chirr...

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love
a 
vulnerable
and
fragile
relationship
of
reparations
towards
a
quiet revolution
inside of
the
temple of peace...

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Those of you who still go to work
  Your own kids think you're a first-class jerk

     Why struggle so? Bankrupt your nation!
       ~ by applying for reparations...

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Young Stan, the 'People's Man,' led a protest
'Gainst all the 'rape and pillage' by the West --
   Demanded reparations
   For indigenous nations -- 
His 'White Privilege' left Stan dispossessed...

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Remind me how easy
Regret can steal peace. I
Resolve to right the wrongs,
Return items borrowed,
Restore what was ruined
Reclaiming what was lost.
Reparations saved me.

     Written for Kim Merryman's Poetry Soup
     "R" Pleiades Contest  4/16/21
     WON THIRD PLACE...

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Love is the answer to all questions
Ignorance causes Confusion
Veterans envy rookies
Evil Eliminates

Your vision and Father made the map
Obviously Oppression
Underestimated the Individual
Reparations and Reform

Land is for all
Intelligent Motions
Focus towards Perfection
Enter to Exit...

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Typhoid Harry
Scandemic Pandemic
Truthsaying Soothsayers
Interaction, satisfaction
Living Bill

Mood for thought
Reparations, separations
I’m not you, Babe
Heeler’s Moist
Swirl Cool

Tool’s Cold
Mail Mouse Mock
Sweaty Boat Junction
Bibbity Jibbity
Kalamazoo Donahoo Bibbity Bobbity Boo...

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A gentleman of Polish ancestry
  who came to the USA recently
Took an interest in America's direction
  leading up the 2020 election

He eyed a bill demanding reparations
  an unusual piece of legislation
Requiring all white folks, even Polish princes
  to pay a tax on what transpired long since...

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broken strings 
on your guitar 
no longer get repaired
and rough songs 
lay scattered
'cross your room

you're not here 
where lattes
where cappuccinos  
meshed with your tales
of soul, of sex
and reparations

your dream 
came by today
a thirst for those stories
that brought us joy
that brought us tears
clinging to their faces...

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MESSENGER

Blue circles 
white lightning
my days vivify
ease pain
mollify
fright nights
and sleep
fighting

red numbered spheres
three bouncing dots
forgive and forget
me not’s 

conversations
reparations
private jokes
and 
innuendoes

soul breaking
life saving
love in
dialogue



© Kim van Breda—1 January 2016...

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aka
   ~ 'Where's my $1.2 million, Gov?! ~


  Governor Newsom won't back reparations
  Says they are so much more than
    'mere' financial machinations ... 

  A 'committee' made a fool of La-La-Landers
  with $$$$ proposals backed by buckets of sand ~
    Governor Newsom, their phony front-man



  _______________________________________  
  Note: 'DOA' (in the title) = Dead on Arrival...

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Reparations still to come,
because damage was still inflicted.
Lessons have been learned
that it takes more than two to remove confliction. 
But the blame is ours.
Neither yours, 
nor mine.
And now,
I can find peace in the fact that I never made you choose.
Solemn in what dignity left I kept intact.
Serenity in the little I left undamaged.
And wholeness in the love of these things for so long as we both observe....

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After a brief illness,
some dry toast.

This is how we create the world;
with electrochemical reparations,
enzymes to melt monsters.
We chew moccasins supple enough
to travel on to evening,

One thought must be 
hammered to another
until a scaffold is erected,
a bone ribbed archway
for onward journeys.

After the toast, a part of me
goes for a walk,
another part stays home
repairing a straw life, in case
the big bad wolf returns....

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A broken heart cannot be mended
   Neither can romance, once ended
Send me not your reparations
   Your maudlin, miserable placations

You played me for a fool, you did
   Let me down so cruel, you did
Then you sent me gifts and notes
       Perchance you gloat at
       the catch in my throat  

You ran off with a shiny doll
   Who tells you now that you're her all
When she finds out what she's seized
       She'll dump you just like
               you did me...

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