Fury tells me what to do, not the other way around
As I decide whether to speak, its quiet fingers twist me
My oral wound bleeds for my profit, and "justified" is bait.
Written: May 14, 2023
Categories:
subdue, analogy, anger, confusion,
Form: Sijo
A Lesson in History: How to Subdue a People
Be brazen in thievery and sweet-tongued deceit
To, of their lands and people, take receipt.
Merchandise their inhumane objectification,
And keep them checked with generous flagellation.
With threats of nooses around their necks, or mutilation,
Deny them education for continued Blaxploitation,
To engrave ignorance and inferiority in their genes,
And achieve their eternal subjugation by any means.
Pretend yours are the magic words to open doors,
Seize their diverse tongues and give them yours,
Forbid songs of their motherland in your fields of cotton,
So their origins, after few generations might be forgotten.
Confiscate their identities and give them your name
And refuse them every chance at some historical fame.
Rewrite as idiots and cowards their dead heroes and braves
To kill their ancestors again, even in their graves
But beware, for they’ll pull your cobwebs off their eyes
And in time, in bits and droves, see, hear, and begin to rise.
Their voices will grow deafening and their impacts more felt;
None can eternally hold a people with a whip and its welt!
Categories:
subdue, black african american, hate,
Form: Quatrain
It all makes sense
The Visions she sees
The Pain they inflict
The Insults hurled like stones
They all think she’s mad
A Crazy girl
An Imbecile Teenager
A Weird goth
She is the queen of an empire of beauty
An empire of Pain
An empire of Genius
An empire of Oddness
They need to subdue her
With Drugs
With Force
With Abuse
Alinina lies still on the hospital bed
Her visions, true
But those who were unable
To accept them had to subdue
The Mad Girl
Categories:
subdue, 10th grade, abuse, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
He tainted her love for me
She allowed him to be her
Confidant a position where
He could hear expressions
And than be kind to her
So he would be needed
Than she would see future
In her need for him
Then he would be person with her
Kind, sweet, and caring
I have allowed the smutey filth. Of hell
To dirty my the once lavish gardens of love
Might I find sanity in worship
To restore .my faith in the human creature
Categories:
subdue, break up, business, extended
Form: Alliteration
LOST FACES SUBDUE SPACES
Undo faces lost
Revelations spoken
Subdue spaced, places
12/19/17
By James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
subdue, anxiety, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Haiku
I CHOOSE SUBDUE PLACES
by James Edward Lee Sr.
Undo faces you
Revelations too!
Subdue places I choose yours
12/18/17
Categories:
subdue, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, engagement,
Form: Haiku
Who will shirk me of this load
The garment so heavy I'm weak
Heaven in cry, world in bleak
Like wet rag, cloth I wear
The sorrow, the pains I bear
Heavy it is to carry, these tears
In fear I saw them cold
Cold, cold, in tons and folds
Glum the faces of elderlies
In cold, in tears, it's over
Subdued is me, Manchester
But strong these kids hola
To terror face they sang
In smiles, in cries, in smiles
Above cowardly acts we are
Thank you kids, thank you, Ariana
Categories:
subdue, depression, farewell, memorial day,
Form: Elegy