***** REPUBLIC
...They captured and tortured my humanity.
They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness.
Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration,
To become yet...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
REMAINS AND DECREES
...I crossed the archives as one walks through a field of ruins.
Decrees were bones, dogmas were nails.
Kings signed treaties in ink darker than darkness, a pact forged in daggers.
Papal bulls oozed ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, africa,
Form: Free verse
Samson and Delilah
...'Twas a tawdry affair that trifles pittance fare,
A Qualified Judge.
~0~
Allied With Grudge.
~0~
Pride Did Smudge.
~0~
Backslide By Nudge.
~0~
Denied To Rejudge.
~0~
Teary-Ey...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Vaasokht
Cathexis
...Psychic energy that is misspent on an idea,
perhaps an object, and often on a person,
is referred to as a cathexis, an action
to satisfy an urge or need that can worsen.
In his explored psych...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
There's No Time
...Our world has been stuck
in cloudy mind mist.
Einstein mused that
time does not exist.
For made up concepts
it's top of the list.
Fooled by its tick
we all get the gist.
All those lost second...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, irony, science, time, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Tolerating Intolerance
...I cannot tolerate
those who are intolerant,
I cannot stand
those who take a stand
against unknown others
unlike themselves,
much less than we are truly
health and safety seekers
multicultu...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, bullying, caregiving, change, growth,
Form: Political Verse
In Land of Cockaigne
...I once thought I could never be like them,
the privileged and rich whose every whim
is catered to by underlings like me--
but then last year I won the lottery!
The family I’d worked for soon we...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, work,
Form: Rhyme
Tyranny Counts the Ballots
...“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, political,
Form: Rhyme
That Living Does
..."You can be a bookmark of a book, never to be reread," I said.
"Why is that?" You asked me.
"If you want to be meaningful, there should be a balance. "
Teachers teach,
They don't trick.
Or do th...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, life,
Form: Free verse
When I Take My Glasses Off
...The last thing I do before I get into bed…is remove my glasses from my head.
When young my thinking was innocent…my emotions raw…I assumed everyone saw the world I saw.
I was never annoyed…I di...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Through the Eye of God
...Through the Eye of God
The universe has exposed
It's complexities upon complexities
Inflexibly infinite
Natural laws
Copernicus theorized it
Newton wrote it's laws of motion
Einstein proved it...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, earth, heaven, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
The Palaeontologist
...THE PALAEONTOLOGIST
There was once a palaeontologist
Hammering rocks hard he couldn’t resist
He found mosquito fossils large
In strange rocks of Jurassic age
Theorized...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, animal, funny,
Form: Limerick
Cakes Got a Beef
...
When a student is on the verge
of surpassing the teacher,
there always comes a flashpoint of conflict
Giving way to superior intellect
is a difficult thing to concede
The elder acquies...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, growth, leadership, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
SoulFood Recipes for Peace
...Rob Brezsny reports
In 2004, San Rafael hosted a World Conference of Soul-Making
resulting in three schools for best PeaceMaking practices,
to which I will add one
more democratically inclusive,...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, culture, deep, growth, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Dreamscape
...Your dreams are so goddamn vivid.
You've been to the farthest corners of the forever expanding space,
And you've been parts to the Earth not even yet theorized of.
You've saved lives...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
theorized, adventure, dream, happiness, hope,
Form: Blank verse
Related Poems