The Sinking Ship of Negativity
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It's disappearing like buffalo across the vast plains...
familiarity has become distorted, both sour and rank.
There's an abandoning of the ship of negativity,
bringing grief far worse than nin...
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Categories:
usurpers, community, conflict,
Form: Elegy
Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool
...Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool...
because you watch
and see that democracy will unspool
military (intelligent)
industrial complex tool
at Trump's beck and ca...
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Categories:
usurpers, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Message To The Blackman
...If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our p...
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Categories:
usurpers, africa, black love, history,
Form: Free verse
Truth to Power Historically
...Truth to Power…Historically
leaders
gifted, circumspect
guiding, serving, protecting
goals, negotiations, regulations, movements
con...
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Categories:
usurpers, culture, history, humanity, leadership,
Form: Diamante
The Weathered Blade
...Now bring forth the sword of justice
Forged in fire and tempered in blood
Kneel before the hand that wields it
And bear witness the coming flood
For those usurpers of the realm
Suffer ...
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Categories:
usurpers, war,
Form: Rhyme
More n nine months on
...More'n nine months on...
and still I feel infuriated at myself
concerning squandered funds
passively, senselessly, and willingly
surrendered nest egg
to computer hackers
(imposters, jackknifi...
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Categories:
usurpers, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarian
...One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, in...
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Categories:
usurpers, 12th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Rhyme
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
...The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink of symphonic symphonies yearning to break free, d...
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Categories:
usurpers, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
Scourges
...Jessy James the scourge
Of the west
Not many out laws
would pass this test
A name like Dillon and Billy the Kid
Became legends for what they did
Nero an emperor the scourge of Rome
Though c...
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Categories:
usurpers, baptism, christian, history,
Form: Rhyme
Coups, Elections, and Africa
...In the heart of vibrant Africa, where democracy should reign,
Two shadows lurk, two specters haunt, two faces of the same pain.
One a soldier, gun in hand, the other clothed in suit,
Both rob the ...
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Categories:
usurpers, deep, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Other
Universal Cost of Your Stupidity
...To the Western Statesmen
How long on earth do you ever wish to close your eyes to truth,
To waste your precious resources, to embitter your dear lives,
To take sinless souls of b...
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Categories:
usurpers, america, peace, war,
Form: Terza Rima
Uhhh
...Umbilical underlings undulate under unified,
universal undercurrent understandings, utilizing
unequivocally ugly, unwise, unwanted, unaware,
utilitarian usurpers....
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Categories:
usurpers, fun, funny, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy
...*Image of Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy
AUDIO version for the vision impaired.
Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy
Go, young man,
and conciliate cravings,
menacing palls the cherished
realm. Shelves ar...
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Categories:
usurpers, character, education, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Mark My Word
...Mark my word...
Das führer Donald Trump will return with a vengeance
Trump wracked up an impressive
$122.00 million war chest
accumulating $82.00 million
merely proffering impish grin
betwee...
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Categories:
usurpers, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme
Royalty
...Kings had fine feasts with rare foods from afar.
I can drive to restaurants serving cuisines of all kinds.
Kings prided themselves on fast and strong horses.
My truck is much faster and is hundr...
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Categories:
usurpers, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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