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Dave Robertson Jan 2021
Breathing cold vibrancy,
the earth and sun remind us
that whatever prattles on the surface
will be layered over,
fossilised,
and judged as advances
or fat, white dead ends
by the clever folk ahead
Graff1980 Jan 2021
America has been feasting
on that Billie Holiday strange fruit
for so long,
drinking that thick red wine
straight off the long thin vine
of mankind’s suffering,
profiting from people losing their sanity,
gaining from the loss of our humanity.

Black as that sweet star sparkling night,
mothers, and fathers denied the right
to stand up and fight,

bullets to the back
as they try to enter their own houses,

bullets to the side
right in front of their children and spouses,

bullets through the heart of a child
in the middle of his imagination,

bullets through her bedroom,
no space to escape
not even some safe head room:

All that agony and desolation
to be constantly facing
violence and degradation
from the so-called authority figures
who only see another dead ******.

Blue lives, white supremacist guys,
proud boys and Neo Nazis
have grown obese.
These foul ******* beasts
have eaten the heart and soul of us
right off our bones and thrown
the rest to the scavengers back home.
Danny Ballan Dec 2020
I belong to no country
you may war against
and tomorrow’s place
I find, for my head,
under your military boots,
and the roaring thunder
of your steel and fire
shaking my ground.

I belong to no race
when a color mistake
can take your reason away,
and all your eyes can see
is but a shade of who I am;
pull a trigger and ****
a hue of soul I share with you
You’ll never see through
you are color blind

I belong to no religion
whose choice of god
conflict with yours—
convince me
you think you must
and you might
with a bullet in my head
or a blade
tearing my neck apart—
what does it take to live in your world?
worship you or your god.

I belong to no man
no country
no race
no religion;
I belong to you
I will never **** you
but if you do
watch out for the rusty blade you ******
not too deep and I will always be
a thorn in your side but
deep enough will end up in your heart
you also do belong to me.
Big Virge Dec 2020
So The Song Is WELL KNOWN...
The One That Bob Wrote...

Where These Builders Refuse...
To Use Head Corner Stones...

They Now PREFER To Choose...
The Stones That They Can USE...
Like A Pair of Work Boots... !!!

But Bob’s Words Spoke TRUTH...
That Spoke of His YOUTH...
And How He Was REFUSED...
By His OWN FATHER... Who...

Was Quite Happy To Throw...
Away... His Corner Stone...!?!

But In This World That We Live...
There Are MANY Like Him... !!!

Who’ve Been QUICKLY DISMISSED... !!!
Because of Their SKIN...
By SADLY... Their Own Kin... ?

From... Michael Holding...
To These HATEFUL RACISTS... !!!

Corner Stones Have NOT Been...
What Have Been ACCEPTED... !!!

BELIEVE Me... This Is TRUE... !!!
From Those Who Make Tunes...
To Those Who Make Moves...
In BIG Business Boardrooms... !!!
To Those In Actors’ Shoes...

Corner Stones Are Refused...
If They WON’T Just ASSUME...
Positions For Missions...
That Lead To Submission...

Which Leads Me To Women...
And... Girls In This World...
Who Keep On Dismissing...
What They Should Be Licking... !!!

Because They’re NOT Thinking...
They’re Out There GOLD DIGGING... !!!

So CHOOSE To Be Linking...
With Heads Who Be Sinning...
When It Comes To *** Missions...  !!!

Cos’ They DON’T Seem To Know...
About... HEAD Corner Stones... ?!?

They Are Now QUICK To Throw...
Themselves Into Zones...
Where Dogs With Small Bones...
Can Slip Into Their Holes... !!!

That They Choose To Keep CLOSED... !!!
To BIG Head Corner Stones... ?!?
UNLESS They’ve Got DOUGH... !!!

You See The Point of This Piece...
Is To Show That It’s... MEANS...
Rather Than QUALITY...
As Well As SKIN TONES...
That PROVE How It Goes...
In This World That’s Now Broke... !!!

Because Head Corner Stones...
Who NOW Sit On THRONES...
... ALL OVER The Globe... !!!

Have Let... Corona Roll... ?!?
So Have Caused Deaths To Toll... !!!
That Have Imposed Controls...
And Tears To Now Flow...
In All Kinds of Timezones... !!!

That AGAIN Goes To Show...
That People Make CALLS...
But Are Still QUICK To VOTE...

For... Political DOPES... ?!?
And Dogs With NO Bones... !?!

And Todays Dumbed Down Clones...

Who KEEP SNIFFING That Coc’...
And Now... EVEN DRONES...

As Their... Head Corner Stones... ?

It’s Just CRAZY To See...
That In TWENTY TWENTY... !!!

That The Words of MARLEY...
Have Become PLAIN To See... !!!!

Because Now You CAN’T Tell... ?!?
Where Head Corner Stones Dwell... ?!?

Who Is... Woman Or Man... ?!?
Or If News Is Now FACT... !?!

And Whose Got The NEW HACK... !?!
But THESE HERE Words Are Fact... !!!

“ MANY Are CALLED...
But MOST Seem To Be BROKEN “...

And NO I’m NOT JOKING... !!!

The Quotient Is GROWING...
Who THINK They Are CHOSEN...
When They Are Just TOKENS...
With Potions Now BLOATING... !!!

How Worthy They Are...
To Be Where They Are... !!!
And Be Treated Like Stars...
Who’ve NEVER Seen MARS... ?!?

It’s All Become A FARCE...
This World That Imparts...

A Level of WOE... !!!
That Has Us In The Throes...

of A Game Filled With Thrones... !!!

Who Are TOO QUICK To THROW...

AWAY.....

... “Head Corner Stones”...
Inspired mainly, by the song, " Corner Stone ", by Bob Marley ......
Big Virge Dec 2020
So Who’s The HARDEST... ?!?
And Who’s The Smartest... ?!?

And Who HITS Those TARGETS...
Where... Profit Margins...
Get Careers STARTED... ?!?

WITHOUT Having To BARGAIN...
Like A WINGLESS Starling... !!!

I’m ONLY Really NOW Starting...
To See How DARKNESS...
... RULES The Markets... !!!

of Those Now CLAIMING...
To Be The... HARDEST... !!!

From Sport To ****...
To Who Runs FASTEST... ?!?

It Seems That What’s POOR...
Is What People... ADORE... ?!?

So As I Said It’s... ******...
Who Keep Getting Applause... !?!

From **** Now Born...
From The HARDEST Dark *****... !!!

Splitting MORE Than White Lips... !!!

To The Type of Shows...
Where The HARDEST Jokes...
Get To Be WELL KNOWN...
And Earn REAL HARD Dough... !!!

So YES... You’ve Guessed...
That What This Poem Suggests...

Is That The Word HARDEST...
In This Case Means The BEST... !!!

Or In The Case of ***... !!!
It Means The BIGGEST *****...
With The Length And Breadth...
That Girlies... CAN’T Resist...

Because of HOW WET...
Their ******* Get...
When They Let Them In... !!!

It’s A FUNNY Old Thing...
How A Word Can SWING...
And Link To Different Things...

Like The HARDEST Lyrics...
From A REAL LYRICIST... !!!

That’s RIGHT Like..... ME..... !!!

NOT Quite... “ LEGENDARY “...

But In The End Folks Will SEE...
That Big Virge Has Written...
Some TRULY HARD POETRY... !!!

That Deals In TRUTH And REALITY...

So Is FILLED With Visions...
That Are PRESCRIPTIONS...
To Which Folks Should Listen...
  
Because of The WISDOM...
That Is Shown Within Em’... !!!

Built From DEEP Thinking...
Like The HARDEST VILLAIN... !!!

Who Wants To See The SYSTEM...
Be What IS... “IMPRISONED”...
In The HARDEST Prison... !!!
That Is... UNFORGIVING...

of The HARDEST RACISM...
And Forms of DIVISION... !!!

That’s Been MORE Than SCRIPTED... !!!
Because It’s What’s DRIVEN...

What Is NOW In Vision...
... WEAKENED Markets...
Protests CHARGING... !!!!

And MUCH MORE DARKNESS... !!!

Than There Is Folks LAUGHING... !!!

Well Me I’m STILL MOVING...
Just Like Those TARGETS... !!!

With Wordplay PROVING...
That... What I Design...
In Words That I Rhyme...

Is......
... UNDOUBTABLY ARDENT...
Just Like A Bugs Varmint... !!!

They May NOT Be The SMARTEST... ?!?

But Are Those of An ARTIST...
Whose Art Is WAY PAST...

Those Who Are CLAIMING...

To Be The...

.... “ HARDEST “.... !!!
It seems that many are now making the claim !

However, who are just names being called, and who REALLY are, The CHOSEN ... ?
Big Virge Dec 2020
So Now It Seems FAIR To Say...
That People These Days...

... REALLY DO AMAZE... !!!

From Their VIOLENT Displays...
To The Things That Some Say...
To How They Then Behave... !?!

Some Are Acting INSANE... ?!?
And Being... INHUMANE... !?!

As If ABEL Is The Name...
of Their Brothers Today... !?!

The Lines That They Now Toe...
DEMAND Masks Being Shown
... Wherever They Now Go... ?!?

Cos’ It’s A CRAZY Time...
To Now Be... ALIVE... !?!

... Corona Vibes...
And Protests Designed...
To I Guess... AMAZE...

By... Causing AFFRAYS...
ALL Over The Place... !!!

As Fires... BLAZE...
Throughout Nights And Days... !!!

Where What We Now See...
Is People Acting CRAZILY... !!!

Like CONFRONTING Police...
Across WORLDWIDE Streets... !?!

Because They WON’T Stay...
A Few Feet...... AWAY...... ?!?

To PROTECT The WELL BEING...
of... People They're Seeing... !?!

And Of Course Now RACE...
Has Caused A Level of SHAME...
For These WESTERN States...

Well Actually Countries...
NOW MAKING Apologies... !!!

For The.....
Way That They’ve Indulged...
In Using... SLAVERY...
Throughout Their Histories...

To Make Themselves Wealthy...
And Leave Blacks In Poverty...

UNLESS They Were Willing...
To... COMPLY With SINNING...
For Them To Be GRINNING...

While Slaves Received WHIPPINGS...... !?!?!

... I MEAN...
The Claims That Some Make...
REALLY DO... AMAZE... !!!

About The Things That They Produce...
That Are... BETTER Than Good... !!!

That … NEVER EVER Get...
To The Places That They Should...
Where Their AMAZING CLAIMS...
Can Actually Be PROVED... ?!?

People... ALSO AMAZE... !?!
With The Plans That They COOK...
When They’re Shook Like Crooks...
With... CORRUPTED Books...

Where Money Is Found...
That Surrounds DARK CLOUDS... !!!

Cos’ In The World Right NOW...
People REALLY Act... FOUL... !!!

Walking Round With SCOWLS...
Throwing... ***** TOWELS...
At These Government Clowns...
Who... AMAZE With HOW... ?!?

They’re Now Treating Crowds...
Who Are Shouting OUT LOUD... !!!

They’ve Just Called The FEDS’ Out... !?!
To Now CONTROL TOWNS...
With... THOSE Gun Sounds... !!!

And Are REJECTING Calls...
For Some HONEST Talk... !!!

Which DOESN’T Amaze...
Because HONEST Folk KNOW... !!!
They’ve Got Tongues Like FORKS... !!!

So What DOES AMAZE... !!!
Is The Talk That They Court...
About... What IS FAKE...
In The News These Days... ?!?

It’s A... CRYING SHAME... !!!
To Now See The Type of Games...
That Are... Being PLAYED...
That DON’T Make The Grade...
of Just Being... HUMANE... !!!!!

Which May Be A Phrase... ?
That’s Seen It’s LAST DAYS... !!!

Because of The RAGE... !!!
That’s Become A New CRAZE...

Or... HAS IT... ???
Because When We REVISIT...
What... The PAST EXHIBITS...

... IS...
White SUPREMACISTS...
Perpetrating... SINS...

That Were WORSE Than Those...
That Are NOW ON SHOW... !!!

And On THAT NOTE...
It’s Time For Me To GO...
And Bring This Piece To It's CLOSE...

Because What’s Been SHOWN...
Is The... Type of Show...
Where EXPLETIVES Should Roam... !!!

Ya Know It Really Is A Shame...
To See The World Today...
And How People Now Behave...

Like... Modern Day CAINS... !?!

Whose Displays These Days...
Are TRULY... INHUMANE... !!!

Because In ALL HONESTY...
I Feel COMPELLED To Say...

That.....

“They Really Do AMAZE”... !!!
People these days, in my honest view, REALLY now do...
Xaria Dec 2020
The Police you fear.
You’ve feared them since you were five,
Mother always telling you as such.
You’re not breaking the law at five, right?
If you did, then you’d totally deserve whatever they’d do to you.
After all, they only go after people who disobey the law!

The Police you have nightmares about. Frequently.
Do you speed in your dream? Seriously?
How is it that you commit crimes in your dream?
If you don’t want to be ‘bothered’ (or as some intellectuals put it, murdered or killed), maybe just follow the law??

The Police give you pause every time you see them while driving.
The Police cause your heart to pound, your fists to clench the wheel,
And you to immediately slow down to 10 mph below the speed limit.
Really?? C’mon, now you’re just being dramatic.
If you’re so freaked out by them, maybe not speed so much?
Unless…you’re hiding something in your car?
You’ve got brown skin; you act all afraid of the cops…
You probably have drugs on you. You seriously deserve to be searched.
Just kidding! Although, I’m sure some of the white people you tell this too might actually believe it.

The Police you fear at the airport, with their K9 dogs on leashes.
It does not help that your stupid acne medication smells like ****.
Or…Maybe you just have **** on you?
You know that the dumb dog probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
But hey, at least it doesn’t smell like rotten eggs!

The Police you have to create a lot of strategies around,
Like a football game,
But instead of winning,
The main goal is not to get beaten or shot to death!

The Police have harassed your dad a lot.
You’re always told how you’re a shade or two lighter than him.
But hey! At least you’re not darker!

The Police harass your dad at work and off work.
But if he didn’t want to stop, maybe not wear a LG uniform and drive in a LG truck!
No wonder why they stopped him and asked what he’s doing!
He’s so suspicious.

The School/University Police has never once made you feel safe.
You freeze up like a deer in headlights and force yourself to move.
You keep your head down, not maintain eye contact,
But maybe in order to make it really clear
You should wear a gigantic “I AM NOT SUSPICIOUS SIGN”.
Do they sell those on Amazon?

Maybe you can take a look online?
Maybe that’ll help your whole…’ooh I’m so scared of cops thing?’
Whatever you do, get some help.
Kay-Ann Dec 2020
I’m living through a pandemic.
The sum of our daily lives has been reduced to monotony
that renders me insane some mornings and free the next.
I awake to news of just-discovered symptoms,
and incoherent ramblings of injecting Lysol from that man
and the susceptible deaths of the poor and the Black –
at least some things never change.
I have come to savor the simple pleasures
of food, fresh air and do-nothings.
Yet, my body finds a craving for chaos,
the feeling of running with your eyes wide shut.
I stay inside, my house and myself,
and feel, feel, feel.
A thing no one has time for in a world for profit.
A thing we have all the time in the world to do these days.
BLACK AND EVERY LIVES MATTER

Much more to humanity than being White or Black, no inferiority nor superiority.

No African No American and nothang like Asian. All I see on earth is humans.

No black no white or yellow complexion, but all were humans of same kind.
All Lives Matter. And if humans should be categorized, Black Lives Matter.

Why do we **** each other? It doesn't really matter who you're nor where you from, we were nothang but brother.(s)

He Who wishes the world peace would not alone dwell therein. Black lives matter as well as every other's.

We have got to change the way we live, change the way we think, we got to change the way we treat each other.

We need to change the way we perceive one another. What's love if what we only understands is to **** each other?

The black needs the white and what could the white do without the black? Even the world is made Black and White. So tell me why do white hate on black?

(I asked my little lad here of the type of color, all he could first mentioned was Black and White.)

So tell me
since we all realized both white and black were divine colors,
why do we have to fight one another?

Instead of us building humanity and making the world a better place for everyone.

Let us not spare any room for racism in our world. If we can't be together, why would God made us together? He would have set us on a separate world.

Why do we have to live under oppressive laws? How do lives survive where and when solidarity becomes history?

Much more to life than poverty. All lives matter no difference. No Peace for a wicked mind, If nobody tell you, who seen you ever made it higher by bringing others  down?

Let he who is without sin be the first to cast the stone. Mistakes are inevitable in our world.

Even the judges can be wrong too. Why do we judge each other, and yet telling people to be themselves and yet judge them?

All lives matter. Corona plaque has no place in our midst and social distancing doesn't separate us, hatred do ****** us.

We got to learn to be a  brother's keeper, no to racism because Black and every lives matter.
#c9_fm
Big Virge Dec 2020
Now They STRESS That In Chess....
It's ESSENTIAL For You...
To Make The Right Move... !!!

Well In The... “ Game of Life “...

…. That's ALSO TRUE....

But Life’s NOT A Game...
... It Can Bring PAIN... !!!!!!

So Let Me Make This...
... CLEAR To You... !!!

I Know The Coup'....

I Don't Believe In Preaching COOL... !!!
Dismiss My Speech If You Want To... !!!

I'm Merely Giving My Point of View...
About The Moves We Sometimes Choose...

So Far I've Chosen Pretty Well....
I Claim No Wealth...
Other Than My Health....
And Knowledge of Self... !!!

IMPORTANT Tools In Making Moves......
That Enable You To Stay Well Schooled...
And Move With A Groove...
That's Cool And Smooth... !!!

So Yeah That's Me...
So Far... BELIEVE... !!!

I've Travelled And Been...
To... BEAUTIFUL Scenes... !!!

From The West Indies To Hawaii...
Waikiki To Hong Kong's Streets...

Polynesian Views...
Wakatipu Hues And Mountains TOO... !!!
From Austrian Slopes To Fijian Homes...

Well I Mean... “ HUTS “...
That Left Me STUNNED... !!!!

Due To Artistry And Tapestries....
That Showed Me That...
Their Cultures... DEEP... !!!

Africa TOO But That's A Move...
That NEEDS To Be SHREWD... !!!

And NEEDS To Be RIGHT... !!!!
BELIEVE... That's TRUE... !!!!

See Moves I Make Do NOT Relate...
To Doing So Because of... RACE... !!!!

Because Racist Moves Are Living PROOF...
That People NEED To... TRULY CEASE...

HATRED Because of Skin They SEE...
That Doesn't FIT Their Colour Scheme... !!!

WRONG MOVE Dude... !!!
How About You Cool Like Joe And Tune...

Yourself... INTO...
A Frequency MORE Loving And Be...

MORE Accepting And Less Defensive...

A GOOD Defence... !!!!!
If You're In Court Or Playing Ball...

Is The RIGHT MOVE...
And That's For SURE... !!!!

I Wish Liverpool Would Defend Like THOR... !!!!!
When They Have Got Some Strikers Who...
Can Help Them WIN The Premiership... !!!

Cos' Moves They've Made...
Since The League Was Changed...

Have CLEARLY Been...
... ALL WRONG Okay... !?!

Which Goes To SHOW...
That From Corporate Folds...
To The... " Average Joe "...

Right Moves Can WIN...
While Others... LOSE... !!!

So My Advice...
Is... BE WISE Y’all... !!!!!
BEFORE You FALL... !!!!!!
For The WRONG Girl...
Or The WRONG Guy...

I've Been Quite Wise...
With Women I've Found... !!!
ENJOYED The Ride When it Was Time...
For The Lights To Go Down... !!!

So That I Could Make Moves...
In... Their BEDROOMS... !!!

It's All A Game...
of... “ Give And Take “...

NOT Making Waves... !!!
Unless They BREAK...
And... POINT You To...

A Place Where FATE...
Deals You Cards...
Where You CAN LAUGH...
Because You CRUISE Through...

While Others CONFUSE... ?!!!!!?
Themselves... Due To....

Making Moves..
That Just AREN’T COOL... !!!!!

So REMEMBER This Piece...
And THINK It Through...

The Way To ACHIEVE...
And NOT BE... “ Duped “...

Is By Taking Roads...
Where The Route Is SMOOTH........

Cos’ They Lead You To...

Make...

..... “ The Right Move “.....
We all try to make em' ...
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