Grandfather Truth Poems

No one is hated more
than he who speaks the truth
- Pluto

as Belgian officers
cut off legs and hands
Of innocent Congolese
from 1885, king Leopold II smiled,
the victims...

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New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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The Truth Is
David J Walker

The two-story houses 
aligned on Main Street
host ghosts that are
free to come and go 

because they know
where their bodies are buried...

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He doesn’t remember 
his great grandfather
who passed away when he was five
He can’t recall the wooden heart 
he painted in a kaleidoscope of colors
that his...

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Lessons From Life When Simple
(From my Grandfather)
By: Miracle Man
1/9/2021

My grandparents lived on the farm and had ten children.
This was a time when large families we’re...

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Head in the Heavens
  Feet planted on Earth
Jacob, renamed Israel
  Mocked for his birth

Mislabeled 'The Supplanter'
  Though Esau tricked him
Pushed his twin...

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Truth Or Fake
Written: by Miracle Man
October 4, 2020

a young man stops by often, thinking he’s grooving,
But I can tell when he’s lying “cause his lips...

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As I was told so do I tell it, my only son.
	
 “They rotate and keep changing their faces.
Their sole aim is to mislead you...

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You see all of these protesters out
chanting and screeching on the TV,
convinced that we’ll solve all our problems
Ii we just get rid of the police.
They...

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My Grandfather was a Poet,
my Father was a thief

Their spirits fight to own my soul
—my Son in cradle sleeps

My Grandfather spoke of beauty,
my Father spoke...

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The told us to hate all people
who were born with real pale skin,
as if lacking pigmentation
was like an original sin.
Though these people had done nothing,
they...

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I was told I was liberated 
by the children
of the people who enslaved me

I was told I was emancipated 
by the graven image
on the penny

The...

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HEBREW ,
Who are you
I am the truth
The man, the woman, the child you hid
The story you change
The lie you told
The Queen you raped
The King you...

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...They sent a copy of an old tin-type,
a picture of Milton and his bride,
one look at it and I knew the whole truth,
Small Doe in...

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This house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did...

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