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Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

It was silent. His body sunk into the earth.
His soul long gone from there. He had died
A gun upon his arms.

When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid

He had died with a home that his dream would
live on.

Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Later they had told us he had died with courage
and valor.

Ains a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember me

The shots continue he fell by the
tenth.

Nair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gun

A ******* grasped in his stone
cold hand

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

He saw a line of faces, brown, black
and white. Some were smiling others,
crying

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

His body sunk into the cold, wet ground
As God opened his arms, for a boy
drenched in blood.

Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun*

A group waited in the wings. Soldiers
from many places. Who fought to keep
their shores safe.
Thank You
Yo
As the world turns
Enter into my mind
Travel through lights speed
With high tokes of weeds
No seeds all o have is a ***** seed
Breeded by slavery
Now lets retrace back before i was black
I was a ****** colored black now african
American
But i claim my identity stolen
Ya gotta call it what it is?
And these suburban kids
Dont know history of america
They the violents ones notorious for loading up the guns
Kkk went to the police force badge n guns
Every time a brother run
He gets shot in the face with a can of mase
Or a bullets hit the face
Closed casket them cold heartless *******
Get away with ******
I ask my homies to get together
But instead we ****** each other
Huh what about june teenth
When supposedly slavery was oppression free?
But im i still see us in slavery mentally
Ch ains still attached to our brains
Cells trapped in an invisible cell
I see hell risin' on earth
Look at the indians n mexicans they got no worth
Now they mad cuz they reclaimong whats theres
In the future seeds will be the heir
**** america im bringing the truth
salute to all my troops
Doing they time you only got one mind
But if you disconnect the main line
You'll open ypur soul to the real ****
And so what if you a revolutionary
You may end up in a casket
Battle the ups n down
Know what goes around comes around


Now that we know the land of the free
Is illegally acquired
My spirits too. Strong to retire
I got fire
In my soul listen to the story being told uh
We got the power to devour
And break the mold
Of the bacteria diseases all man made
And since i cant find the shade
I keep my body in the sunshine
To radiate my senses til my brain pinches
I know every thing is history is lie
Why so many blacks had to die
Blacks invented the elevator ice cream
Stop light stop sign?
But how we get so asinine and rely
On the goverment when Garvey was trying to multiply
Us as a nation three colors for our struggle
Red is blood green is land and black is for the man
Makin' for our hard times this the image
That youngin dont want
They rather listen to corny lyrics
Bang ***** pack guns but scared to pop one
At the enemies frenemies
Open yo eyes up so ypu can see what i see
I see the pain coming to a dead end
Sun wont shine much more
Darkness covered with clouds
Yes i think aloud apply the shroud
Cuz the worlds one big sarcophagus
Waitin for the guns to bust and trust
The day will come cuz we all hellbound
What goes around comes lets get it


Kendall Mallon May 2013
“But it is no a matter
of choice; I can live
here only [with you].
I am a part of this
scene; each and all
its properties are
a part of me…”

As it is a part of you
we are both children of
the red earth—grown
into adults—nourished
by its water and clear,
crisp mountain air.

I know now, having
left, that I cannot
truly call any place
home other than
our single rectangle
of red dirt and blue
white-tipped moun’ains.

I can live anywhere
with you, but I now
understand and feel
the connection you
spoke to me when I
proposed leaving
it for a while to you.

We are a part of this
land—it courses through
our veins; you can take
certain plants from their
native soil, and they may
survive, but they will never
thrive; we can only thrive,
flourish, in our Colorado.
First stanza is from Mary Shelly's 'The Last Man'
J'ay varié ma vie en devidant la trame
Que Clothon me filoit entre malade et sain,
Maintenant la santé se logeoit en mon sein,
Tantost la maladie extreme fleau de l'ame.


La goutte ja vieillard me bourrela les veines,
Les muscles et les nerfs, execrable douleur,
Montrant en cent façons par cent diverses peines
Que l'homme n'est sinon le subject de malheur.


L'un meurt en son printemps, l'autre attend la vieillesse,
Le trespas est tout un, les accidens divers :
Le vray tresor de l'homme est la verte jeunesse,
Le reste de nos ans ne sont que des hivers.


Pour long temps conserver telle richesse entiere
Ne force ta nature, ains ensuy la raison,
Fuy l'amour et le vin, des vices la matiere,
Grand loyer t'en demeure en la vieille saison.


La jeunesse des Dieux aux hommes n'est donnee
Pour gouspiller sa fleur, ainsi qu'on void fanir
La rose par le chauld, ainsi mal gouvernee
La jeunesse s'enfuit sans jamais revenir.
L'inimitié que je te porte,
Passe celle, tant elle est forte,
Des aigneaux et des loups,
Vieille sorcîere deshontée,
Que les bourreaux ont fouëttée
Te honnissant de coups.

Tirant apres toy une presse
D'hommes et de femmes espesse,
Tu monstrois nud le flanc,
Et monstrois nud parmy la rue
L'estomac, et l'espaule nue
Rougissante de sang.

Mais la peine fut bien petite,
Si Ion balance ton merite :
Le Ciel ne devoit pas
Pardonner à si lasche *****,
Ains il devoit de sa tempeste
L'acravanter à bas.

La Terre mere encor pleurante
Des Geans la mort violante
Bruslez du feu des cieux,
(Te laschant de son ventre à peine)
T'engendra, vieille, pour la haine
Qu'elle portait aux Dieux.

Tu sçais que vaut mixtionnée
La drogue qui nous est donnée
Des pays chaleureux,
Et en quel mois, en quelles heures
Les fleurs des femmes sont meilleures
Au breuvage amoureux.

Nulle herbe, soit elle aux montagnes,
Ou soit venimeuse aux campagnes,
Tes yeux sorciers ne fuit,
Que tu as mille fois coupée
D'une serpe d'airain courbée,
Beant contre la nuit.

Le soir, quand la Lune fouëtte
Ses chevaux par la nuict muette,
Pleine de rage, alors
Voilant ta furieuse *****
De la peau d'une estrange beste
Tu t'eslances dehors.

Au seul soufler de son haleine
Les chiens effroyez par la plaine
Aguisent leurs abois :
Les fleuves contremont reculent,
Les loups effroyablement hurlent
Apres toy par les bois.

Adonc par les lieux solitaires,
Et par l'horreur des cimetaires
Où tu hantes le plus,
Au son des vers que tu murmures
Les corps des morts tu des-emmures
De leurs tombeaux reclus.

Vestant de l'un l'image vaine
Tu viens effroyer d'une peine
(Rebarbotant un sort)
Quelque veufve qui se tourmente,
Ou quelque mere qui lamente
Son seul heritier mort.

Tu fais que la Lune enchantée
Marche par l'air toute argentée,
Luy dardant d'icy bas
Telle couleur aux jouës palles,
Que le son de mille cymbales
Ne divertirait pas.

Tu es la frayeur du village :
Chacun craignant ton sorcelage
Te ferme sa maison,
Tremblant de peur que tu ne taches
Ses boeufs, ses moutons et ses vaches
Du just de ta poison.

J'ay veu souvent ton oeil senestre,
Trois fois regardant de **** paistre
La guide du troupeau,
L'ensorceler de telle sorte,
Que tost apres je la vy morte
Et les vers sur la peau.

Comme toy, Medée exécrable
Fut bien quelquefois profitable :
Ses venins ont servy,
Reverdissant d'Eson l'escorce :
Au contraire, tu m'as par force
Mon beau printemps ravy.

Dieux ! si là-haut pitié demeure,
Pour récompense qu'elle meure,
Et ses os diffamez
Privez d'honneur de sépulture,
Soient des oiseaux goulus pasture,
Et des chiens affamez.
A great an' immense amount o' pressure
- combined with, just, enough intense heat
- causes gems ta' grow, slow, in Gaia's cellar;
- they're ta' be mined an' sold, cheap, on the street.

It seems, ta' me, that this act, nay - this feat,
- will, always, be ta' cycle and repeat :
- for - we humans love things that're shiny.

But - do we, all, take into full account
- the true beauty o' these seas and these mount-
-ains - that cause gemstones ta' form underground?


Aye - at least they bring, to the buyer's life, glee;
- course' that's only if, "Yes," *is said - whilst on a knee.
April Third, Two-Thousand an' Seventeen.
"Diamond" Poem Prompt, #NPMDiamond
Quand ces beaux yeux jugeront que je meure,
Avant mes jours me bannissant là bas,
Et que la Parque aura porté mes pas
A l'autre bord de la rive meilleure,

Antres et près, et vous forêts, à l'heure,
Pleurant mon mal, ne me dédaignez pas ;
Ains donnez-moi, sous l'ombre de vos bras,
Une éternelle et paisible demeure.

Puisse avenir qu'un poète amoureux,
Ayant pitié de mon sort malheureux,
Dans un cyprès note cet épigramme :

Ci-dessous gît un amant vandômois,
Que la douleur tua dedans ce bois
Pour aimer trop les beaux yeux de sa dame.
Batchelor Apr 2020
I'll draw the curtains as many times as I need to.

Your ghost is still here.
But while I'm still here,

I'll walk off into the dark side of the moon.

To reconcile with myself,
What I lost when you swept the floor with your ashes.
"While we can
Remember when
Always running
Even then
Stay with me
Hold me near
And I'm still here"

July 2017.

— The End —