THE PEACEMAKER SLEPT
...The sun is up, the sun is yellow, shining bright.
Reflection of chrome, pointed nowhere in particular.
Where there should be peace, it’s high noon.
A breakdown in communication, shrieking bars.
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Categories:
uncuffed, conflict,
Form: Pantoum
A Tale of Two Cities
...An impetus purposed writes of two conceptual me; cuffed and uncuffed.
FIRST: The absolute is "London," a story riddled with facts; "Kingdom of Sweden ...," characters of notoriety and the usual dr...
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Categories:
uncuffed, addiction, allusion, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and the Incandescent Must Win -Part 2
...“Deep, deep, deep. Listen and hear our faint gait.
Sanitation, fluorescent lights, and a PC pillow for smother.
Agree! Agree! Atone! Suck it in and suff-o-cate.
White-ness. Black. Ev’ry creed, fai...
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Categories:
uncuffed, america, farm, political, race,
Form: Rhyme
It's All Political
...Here they come,
not one by one
but the majority out of reach
doubting reasons to impeach.
It's okay to have a bully president
tweeting nonsense, bias, wordings without precedent,
stroke ...
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Categories:
uncuffed, america, angst, political,
Form: Quatrain
Behind the Cold Bars
...Poverty stricken,
Defrauding them was unintentional,
But the magistrate's judgement and sentence was constitutional.
We have been on the street,
Hustling, surviving but making money remains stric...
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Categories:
uncuffed, poverty, prison,
Form: Free verse
Guitar Love
...I have no name or reason, gone are bone and flesh.
My uncuffed spirit beats a raw passionate crest.
As guitar riffs stroke my soul's divine ache afresh,
my core becomes high and healin...
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Categories:
uncuffed, endurance, feelings, guitar, how
Form: Rhyme