Trilogy - Part 2
...CROWNED IN FIRE: THE LION OF THE SAHYADRI
A boy was born where dust ran deep,
Where silence taught the land to weep.
The throne was foreign, gold unclean,
And tyrants ruled the hills unseen.
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Categories:
sultans, encouraging, freedom, hinduism, history,
Form: Rhyme
Legend of BIG MAMA
...From way down in "Bama"
Stirring echoes of Big Mama
A thunderous storm that brewed from the Deep South
Each word could be felt when it left her mouth
With her immense presence, showmanship, a...
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Categories:
sultans, america, art, black african
Form: Epic
Sound Bites: June, 2024
...Mariah’s Return
Mistral wishes
blow hope
to tomorrow
Intention
most sacred
— ushering wind
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)
Cupid’s Bow
Indifference
and hatred
are blind
— but not lov...
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Categories:
sultans, fate, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Saxumpet
...Charlie and Louis
John and Miles
Bebop to Modal
Two different styles
Soul passions blowing
Harmonically through horns
Notes and chords flowing
One world and two forms
Two different times
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Categories:
sultans, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Kingdom of One
...Opulent solitude,
how rich it becomes
alone in one’s shadow,
times riches in sum
To revel monastic
o’er sultans and earls,
whose joyous reflection
—your diamonds and pearls
(Dreamsleep: N...
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Categories:
sultans, self,
Form: Rhyme
God and Satan
...I have not seen God
But my mother
I have not seen Satan
But Sultans!...
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Categories:
sultans, blessing, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Trumpian Nightmares
...April 2 Walls
April 9 Pane e circus 2017 Redux
By order of his excellency
Emperor Donald the First
The merciful,
the Christian King of Kings
The Sultan of Sultans
The Emperor of North Ame...
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Categories:
sultans, political,
Form: Free verse
If I Were An Elephant
...If I Were An Elephant
I am a part of a faceless nation.
I am the poachers' whore.
Because of this genocide for trinkets...
I soon will be no more.
Then...
I was a warrior in many battle...
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Categories:
sultans, animal, environment,
Form: Personification
Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxv Part Two
...Unquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen – XXV (Part Two)
Which Asian “King” would crown himself “Emperor” during an elaborate theatrical ceremony while facing and exhorting the ruin...
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Categories:
sultans, allegory, bullying, child abuse,
Form: Epigram
Word Play
...Pherica Schmerica
Bank of America,
sultans of currency,
captains of greed.
Scourge of the ne'er-do-well,
denominational,
you mortgage your lifestyle
and they hold the deed.
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Categories:
sultans, humorous,
Form: Verse
Fallen Heroes the Finale
...Cry me a river cry me a river
The change has arrived
Where are all the heroes
Heroes like jolting Joe D
Hit the ball to outer space
Running from first to Homeplate
Kids cheering ki...
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Categories:
sultans, culture, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Old Captain Dream
...Night and day night n day now eating his bread and slops
a quiet demented dreaming dreams of sea and soft skies
But how big the seas of thought run still in the captain's sleep
Pacific now ship ...
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Categories:
sultans, old, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Omens Outlived
...With a voice ornamented in ogled tension
you ask me,
like vulnerable flesh queries warm obsession,
Do you mean to love me this way...
on your mouth, a hold of hope I see
to you I say...
Does th...
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Categories:
sultans, courage, desire, devotion, emotions,
Form: Epic
History-A Bundle of Lies
...What is Today
Shall be History tomorrow
All that comes
Shall ultimately Go.
Who was born
When was born
Where was born
What he did
How he did
When did he do
Where did he do
All shall be r...
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Categories:
sultans, allegory, analogy, imagery, repetition,
Form: Free verse
One Syllable
...Is there anyone who knows me?
I am the secret that cannot be solved without living in it,
Even if there aren't many people who are unaware of me,
It is still hard to identify me.
Nightingles sung th...
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Categories:
sultans, love, , literature,
Form: ABC
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