Goethe and Me
...I find myself agreeing a lot with Goethe lately…
yes, I think it would be fair
to say I spend as much time on top of the world…
as I do floundering in the depths of despair.
On top of the worl...
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Categories:
unalienable, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Identity Crisis
...He says he saw "(this nation's)
Identity sold and robbed by immigration..."
And I remember
My first day teaching at the border school
First one there that August morning
Cows were grazing on the...
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Categories:
unalienable, america, immigration, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Choose Your Mob
...We need to organize, demand the right to be mindless.
Deserve we compensations,
restorations for the witless who riot.
Compassion and pardon for all moronic mobs.
The right to choose de...
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Categories:
unalienable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Scotus Pick
...Extraordinarily
sterling law pedigree
Jackson, Ketanji Brown's
confirmation went down:
no ugly fight.
Ology, Elegy
What's this fresh hell I see?
Lenient sentencing,
can't define womanhood,
...
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Categories:
unalienable, political,
Form: Double Dactyl
Make America Great
...When the colonists felt that with the king of Great Britain they could no longer reason,
Their leaders signed the Declaration of Independence, though they knew it was treason.
Because of their beli...
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Categories:
unalienable, discrimination, history, patriotic, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
In All Fairness
..."In all fairness, all votes must be counted." It is in order to guarantee the correct electoral college votes are as accurate as possible. And that each presidential candidate receives the proper num...
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Categories:
unalienable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Self-Published Book On Hate, Written In 3 Chapters
...Chapter 2, The 1492.
That’s where they like to begin. They skip over the terrorists activities of theft, plunder, and genocides. When we naively thought freedom was free, We paid our lives for it d...
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Categories:
unalienable, america, bereavement, black african
Form: Free verse
By You Know, You Know the Thing
..."All men and woman created by you know, you know the thing"
You know... the thing from which it actually states "all men are created equal."
You know... the thing from which "we hold these truths...
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Categories:
unalienable, america,
Form: Carpe Diem
Mount Rushmore: Carved in Stone
...Mount Rushmore: Carved in Stone
From deep within the Earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become “The Shrine of Democracy,”
Of weathered presidential faces
Chisele...
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Categories:
unalienable, america, history, patriotic, tribute,
Form: Verse
Happiness
...The Pursuit of Happiness
Ultimate Declaration
of Independence
an 'unalienable right
endowed us by the Creator'
Yet, how to pursue such an intangible thing
How do mere humans -- 'jo...
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Categories:
unalienable, friendship, happiness, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
One Knee
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: One Knee
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 2017
One Knee
Yes, I kneel down on one knee
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem
of a cou...
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Categories:
unalienable, africa, america, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fluid In the Wind Tattered Old Glory
...the cool breeze fondles
the old tattered flag as it
hangs on the flagpole
displaying it's frayed faded
colors of red, white, and blue
fluid in the wind
drawing your ears to the flags
flappi...
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Categories:
unalienable, color, freedom, war,
Form: Tanka
Civil Rights During the 1900's
...What is life like as someone who society despises?
It is living as a human,
with unalienable rights,
endowed by your creator,
but not recognized as equal.
The right to freedom,
but not to be re...
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Categories:
unalienable, america, anti bullying, black
Form: Free verse
The Shoes of Another
...What does one do, when they feel forgotten?
What good are tears unseen or sobs unheard
and when the tree of liberty seems to be rotten
because they’ve been dismissed and rejected at a word?
Wha...
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Categories:
unalienable, anxiety, betrayal, freedom, history,
Form: Free verse
Declaration of Interdependent Ideation
...When in the Course of Earth’s anthro-supremacist events,
it becomes necessary for polycultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the pow...
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Categories:
unalienable, freedom, health, independence day,
Form: Political Verse
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