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"barbaric" poems
I look online at this virtual world we all live in today. And I find a hidden war that never seems to end. Cruel words hidden as bombs. Barbaric comments hidden as guns. As I walk through this torn battlefield, with blood spilled everywhere, I find not a single page with peace instead of war. People seem to become so mean just because it isn't face to face. People turn into monsters, monsters that bite and **** It's like people seem to think their words have no impact, their message is just a joke. But this war on the Internet is more real than before. There are crying people, bullied people, who catch these bullets that people have sent, and decide that maybe life isn't worth living anymore. There are wounded people, wanting for just some love, only to find hate and anger written wherever they go in this Internet war today. This war may be virtual, but it's real and alive even as we speak. Some people wonder why suicides are so often. Some people wonder why teens are becoming so depressed. All they have to do is open their computer and their minds to this Internet war we have today.
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Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 11:24 AM UTC
Internet War
There are no right answers. The sky rejects the birds, turns them over to gravity, embedding them in the concrete and dirt. The grit refuses to become a pearl, just as the wound refuses to heal and the flesh eats itself. The market sees a sudden spike in sales of Champagne and cyanide. Coordinated efforts seek and fail to curtail the rising tide of violence in the nation's dreaming. You realise that this crude, barbaric language that you can't understand is your own. Beauty glitches and pixelates. Frightened, furtive confessions of love are unheard over proud, visceral proclamations of hate. Tongues divorce mouths. Every now and then, a voice inside your head says, 'Thud.' The measures of sanity become more quantifiable and totally arbitrary. The horizon tightens like a noose. It doesn't matter if this is wrong. There are no right answers.
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Jan 19, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 at 4:40 AM UTC
There Are No Right Answers
it seems we live in times when helping hands extend only reluctantly to those in dire need who had to leave      the ruins of their devastated homes      not waiting for more bombs to fall to those who had to save their lives      from the barbaric rule of self-styled prophets and those whose simple love of education      was met with inane terror and oppression why is it that so many people      are afraid of them and think      these desperate refugees are perpetrators           not the victims why is it that the nations most responsible       for chaos and destruction in these countries            far from their own safe shores       are the least willing to accommodate       those they have driven from their homes good Samaritans have become scarce only a few today share their possessions      with those who are in greater need our humanity has been outsourced to NGOs and sundry other institutions to whom we donate so they feed the hungry   poor   and the displaced it makes one wonder whether shameless greed has indeed       and without any saving grace become the only goal of our race
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 6:13 PM UTC
cold world
A head, gnashing and screaming Forgiving my unknown hospitality Pretty is weakening I'm a fatality deemed Obnoxious is my scene The mocking and mimicking comes easy for me No secret, I envy the earth's energy Depressed, sitting in my fancy dress Shoving and tugging with desirable credibility I ravish my personality Amused? As I show my tender meat bleeding Kissing, authentic generosity A bit suggestive Confidence in deranged descriptions making others nervous Excuse me, I must leave my head is blistering, Popping, Gushing and oozing profanities Dented durability, consume me I love the fact I'm lacking Becoming one with the barbaric queen
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May 28, 2016
May 28, 2016 at 1:06 AM UTC
Broken isn't cute
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the black bird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird
You loop the rope around my wrists, so delicately I almost forget this is supposed to thrill me. Your eyes glow barbaric but mine can't unlock from the braided cord just barely rubbing my skin. I never liked ropes in these kinds of situations, I never felt they were right kind of tempting. You see when you become part of the other you have to embrace it, Like a flaw, Only this one comes with a body count. The rough texture of the rope feels like hay, Like beard stubble pressed against your cheek in a high school classroom, Like broken strands of your now fried hair lying at the bottom of your shower drain. My wrists have a noose around them, But this is a suicide not a lynching. When his wife crawls into her bed at the end of the night, she won't smell my perfume, We never go to his room. I don't want to know what a marriage bed looks like. But you have to understand, This is my choice. I don't want him to love me, Nor do I think he ever will. He loves what I do to him, What I'll let him do to me, And that's as much of a connection as the both of us need. It always ends with me being called his ***** by a woman who doesn't know he's turned on by that word, But I never break them up. Either she doesn't leave, And if she does, We all 3 know this wasn't my doing. The rope snapped And its my skin that is left raw. Their tension will only make me bleed. Love will hurt you. Women like me are a catalyst, Not a damnation
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Jan 10, 2017
Jan 10, 2017 at 8:12 PM UTC
Others
A fierce growl shattered the vampire's coffin The wood cracks and the monster is awake Hurry! Dig a pit for the creature to hide Burn it before the sunrise Oh do not let the world encounter this chaos No one should see the vile mien of a ferocious blood ******* entity That thrusts its teeth deep into the delicate skin and schemes for barbaric damages. Look! The naive creature stands with utter dainty A revolting smirk sleeps on its face Pale skin and a bloodshot gaze An evil snicker revealed the fangs See how the eyes move with hostility Like a venom injected in the name of brutality Sharp nails and clenched fists Searching for a throat to slit. The air now breathes a vengeful sigh Like a wild beast craves to die Dark shadows lurk behind the curtains Silent whispers yodel about a burden The creature stone eyed, stares back I breathe quietly under the horrid impact There! It is coming my way I can feel the intruding fear of a feeble prey in my veins Finally, as if the monster made its mind It opened the mouth in a solemn cry A shrill voice so piercing, it shattered my facade I fell on the ground like a broken glass It was no monster or a Dracula that howled Ah yes, my own reflection scared my soul Years of self hate and agony prevailed And I have been ******* on my veins in despair My corrupt heart no longer beats Darkness dwells in its core; so deep Now watch the results of constant infight I am nothing more than a mere parasite A ray of sun touching me toes, The toxic  memories fading with the tick tock Once again, I repair my coffin And slither into a sound slumber on the symphony Of a robin.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 1:31 PM UTC
A Dracula Attack
A fierce growl shattered the vampire's coffin The wood cracks and the monster is awake Hurry! Dig a pit for the creature to hide Burn it before the sunrise Oh do not let the world encounter this chaos No one should see the vile mien of a ferocious blood ******* entity That thrusts its teeth deep into the delicate skin and schemes for barbaric damages. Look! The naive creature stands with utter dainty A revolting smirk sleeps on its face Pale skin and a bloodshot gaze An evil snicker revealed the fangs See how the eyes move with hostility Like a venom injected in the name of brutality Sharp nails and clenched fists Searching for a throat to slit. The air now breathes a vengeful sigh Like a wild beast craves to die Dark shadows lurk behind the curtains Silent whispers yodel about a burden The creature stone eyed, stares back I breathe quietly under the horrid impact There! It is coming my way I can feel the intruding fear of a feeble prey in my veins Finally, as if the monster made its mind It opened the mouth in a solemn cry A shrill voice so piercing, it shattered my facade I fell on the ground like a broken glass It was no monster or a Dracula that howled Ah yes, my own reflection scared my soul Years of self hate and agony prevailed And I have been ******* on my veins in despair My corrupt heart no longer beats Darkness dwells in its core; so deep Now watch the results of constant infight I am nothing more than a mere parasite A ray of sun touching me toes, The toxic  memories fading with the tick tock Once again, I repair my coffin And slither into a sound slumber on the symphony Of a robin.
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Her eyes were pale, a blue crystallized moment frozen like an arctic ocean, frozen in a moment in time, and a beautiful one at that. Her hair, a smooth red, long strands of vanilla scented silk. Whether put up in a bun or let down, there was something about the way it framed her face. When let down, her hair complimented her smile in a way that can only be explained as upper class charm though being an every day country girl, but while also being somewhat natural in an animalistic way. Not in a barbaric sense, but a natural set of waves and curls that when combined with her fierce locking blue eyes seemed to grip my heart and aggressively pull it into her grasp. A sort of fierce sexuality hidden beneath her pale complexion. A fire like body, hair, and personality in equal measure. I, of course, found her beyond the definition of irresistible.
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Mar 28, 2018
Mar 28, 2018 at 10:17 PM UTC
When The Eyes Meet
This poem is dedicated to the fallen of the First World War, and also, to all those we have lost in the years since. - Somme Harvest - In the early morning Dawn of the fiery horizon, The sea of green caresses the land And gave it gentle kisses Of tender sadness. On this day many an unlived life would find Life in Death, but first must come Death in Life, Indeed, a bouquet of barbs grace the Dark, dank, ***** Halls of Morningstar, Servants go to and fro preparing the sordid feast Of unsung heroes. Babes in arms are they, who shall Ever sleep till the break of the final day. Fields of Flanders infertile, But for the harvest to ripen The fertilizer of life is Scattered, battered, tattered, Sown, Human manure, nutrient of vitality, It seeps into earthly soil. In the year of our Lord, One thousand, nine hundred and sixteen Did the farmers collect their greatest bounty, Not all farmers reaped massive yields, Farmers Kultur, Sickle and Hammer Fed their maniacal hunger with rotting corpses, While famers Lion, Bulldog and Bald Eagle Wept their hunger with mechanical eyes, Farmer Scythe, steward of Morningstar, Laughed dry, dead tears of hungry joy And sang the golden harvest song As his blade swam through the harvest thirstily, For indeed, the harvest was an endless Smoky sea of blood green And thousands were sailing. Twilight gleaming through the sky, The raging war god vomit’s dry thunderous wrath And wreaks barbaric, savage, ferocious, ****** carnage below, As sleeping Babes in arms fly through the red twilight. Vultures dressed in human feathers Gather and crowd around their congealing cold feast, With hatred sewn on their Lifeless, lidless Blind eyes, They shriek their throaty, ****** Thankless prayers to idle gods. A multitude of thousands upon thousands Of souls sour to the heights of Mount Olympus, Unshed tears, My child, I saw you in that dusky evening half-light, Flying, soaring and rising higher with your Brothers-in-arms. As I looked up at the darkening sky My heart wept warm tears of ebbing love, While my eyes forever dimmed the light, And my baby, My body became the Earth, The phoenix has nested.
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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 11, 2011 at 6:04 AM UTC
Somme Harvest
This poem is dedicated to the fallen of the First World War, and also, to all those we have lost in the years since. - Somme Harvest - In the early morning Dawn of the fiery horizon, The sea of green caresses the land And gave it gentle kisses Of tender sadness. On this day many an unlived life would find Life in Death, but first must come Death in Life, Indeed, a bouquet of barbs grace the Dark, dank, ***** Halls of Morningstar, Servants go to and fro preparing the sordid feast Of unsung heroes. Babes in arms are they, who shall Ever sleep till the break of the final day. Fields of Flanders infertile, But for the harvest to ripen The fertilizer of life is Scattered, battered, tattered, Sown, Human manure, nutrient of vitality, It seeps into earthly soil. In the year of our Lord, One thousand, nine hundred and sixteen Did the farmers collect their greatest bounty, Not all farmers reaped massive yields, Farmers Kultur, Sickle and Hammer Fed their maniacal hunger with rotting corpses, While famers Lion, Bulldog and Bald Eagle Wept their hunger with mechanical eyes, Farmer Scythe, steward of Morningstar, Laughed dry, dead tears of hungry joy And sang the golden harvest song As his blade swam through the harvest thirstily, For indeed, the harvest was an endless Smoky sea of blood green And thousands were sailing. Twilight gleaming through the sky, The raging war god vomit’s dry thunderous wrath And wreaks barbaric, savage, ferocious, ****** carnage below, As sleeping Babes in arms fly through the red twilight. Vultures dressed in human feathers Gather and crowd around their congealing cold feast, With hatred sewn on their Lifeless, lidless Blind eyes, They shriek their throaty, ****** Thankless prayers to idle gods. A multitude of thousands upon thousands Of souls sour to the heights of Mount Olympus, Unshed tears, My child, I saw you in that dusky evening half-light, Flying, soaring and rising higher with your Brothers-in-arms. As I looked up at the darkening sky My heart wept warm tears of ebbing love, While my eyes forever dimmed the light, And my baby, My body became the Earth, The phoenix has nested.
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I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs. - Wallace Stevens (not me)
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 11:04 PM UTC
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - by Wallace Stevens
And now a little something for the ladies: Stop telling men how to be men. You are never satisfied with the results of your interference in the natural order. Ladies want a man who is sensitive and attentive to their kaleidoscope of emotions, who enjoys heart- warming moments, baby showers, and shopping malls. They want this same man to not be attracted to men. Ladies want a man who will do all of the above, plus be strong and handsome, a provider, a nurturer, a protector. Just as long as he never gets angry with her. And doesn't cheat. Rapunzel, this man does not exist. In caveman times, if you had a man grab your hair, it was because he was about to club you unconscious and drag you back to his real man-cave. How barbaric...and Freudian **** eh? You see, ladies, we don't run the male N.F.L. locker rooms the way you run yours. Men are brutish, vile, roid-raged, and coarse in competition. Just the way you like them. But when you find one that likes you, you can have a smattering of those nice things as well. Because he likes you. If you were lucky enough to find a sensitive devil like that, i know you wouldn't do anything stupid to change his opinion of you. That would just be foolish and self-defeating, wouldn't it? After all, Women's Lib didn't teach you to stop being women, did it? If you want it all, you have to take it all, good and bad. Just sayin'...
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM UTC
Rapunzel
In the square circle your reality is sudden you see what is your intent ? I mean when one has to face the inner , not winner or loser. But brutal. no negotiation. No verbal Panzy assery. How do you assign pain. In the square circle that is. That is blood for blood. Blow for blow. Most people tip toe. Dont wanna know. We should all be made to go. toe to toe In the square circle.. How barbaric say ye. Talk is cheap. ink on paper a mere vapor. Gladiatorial. All we are saying .. is give peace a chance. There are greater tests. how does one best Cancer or say living on a stoop. after days in paradise.No time to think twice. Go take a dance in the circle. Pillar to post. A brutal analogy. How would you be. Why would one bother? Next time you see a dumb pug with cauliflower ears and a rearranged mug. Think it through. How would you do in a moment of truth facing the brute He wont listen to reason He wont negotiate. Next stop. Normandy. Pork chop hill.The Mekong.Baghdad...... The square circle takes many forms just wont conform to the norms. Havoc will be imposed. on the open mind or the closed. Real men die for reasons why ? Fodder. Step through the ropes for a thrice Feel if you have the fire or ice. Then take a warm shower and slide behind the wheel to a warm meal and Dancing with the stars.
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 4:43 AM UTC
Punchline
Humans Are More Barbaric Than Any Animal, Ever Could Be, We Lie, We Cheat, We Harass, We Play Little Mind Games, We **** Practically Every Form Of Intelligent Life, Including Our Own, Nothing Is Ever Good Enough, Nothing Is Ever Clean Enough, Nobody Is Ever Talented Enough, Nobody Is Acknowledged, For Their Gifts, Only Brought Down By Others Saying We Aren't, Good Enough, I Envy Animals Because, Animals Are Straight To Eachother, If They Dont Like One Another, They Fight, They Bite Eachother's Throats Out, They Tell The Other To Leave, And Never Come Back, And They Listen, But In Human Society, You Have To Be Nice, And People Put On That Fake Smile, Tell You How Beautiful You Are, Turn Around, And Talk About What A Mess You Are, You Have To Share With Them, Invite Them Into Your Homes, Pretend You Think They're The Most Amazing, Person In The World, Sometimes You Have To Be Nicer To The People, You Despise, Then The People You Love, I'm Not Saying I Wish To ****** Anyone, I'm Just Venting, Because I Am Sick And Tired, Of People Lying To Me, Just Shut Your Mouth Already, If You Don't Like Me Tell Me! I Couldnt Care Less, About Your Opinion, Human Society, Is A Mess, Human Society, Has Many Jewels, But They Are Dusted Over, From The Dirt Of The Morons, Human Society, Has No Natural Selection, To Pluck Out The Idiots, If You Ask Me, I'm Tired Of These People Dimming My Sparkle, And I'm Sure, Many Of You, Feel The Same Exact Way
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Sep 30, 2012
Sep 30, 2012 at 11:31 AM UTC
Human Society
The barbaric queen, her abilities stiffened His presence strickened by her directed speech Could it be her brick fence weakend Love had made it's way into the leaks Thoughts become lies, diminishing her kingdom ****** passion, a caused lusting Touching her breast Carressing her hips Legs shake, she is a disgrace The guards ushering him from her towering mattress Empathy made her a mockery A hatchet to the soul, he is nonexistent and undesirable Her long webbed veil, disguises her weeping Her eyes blackened, she is a demon bleeding Halo misplaced, in dismay She is a woman rigid and prevailing
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May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 at 4:01 PM UTC
Fixing her posture
Figures Dance Across My Memory, In An Erie Ballroom, Lit Only By The Light Of Vanilla Scented Candles, The Light Of The Moon And Stars, Glaring Through Transparent Windows, Congregate In Creamy Daffodil Colored Flames, Every Women I've Cried Over, In Extravagant Ball Gowns, Stitched With The Misery They Brought Upon Me, With Them, Every Man Which I Have Bawled Over, Wears A Tuxedo, With A Withered Rose In Their Pocket, To Symbolize My Pain, And A Tie Laced With My Own Tears, The Ballroom Of Horror Caters, The Party On The Top Floor Too, Everyone Who Has Made Me Smile, Dances Erratically, Singing Along And Laughing, Though The Demons Beneath Their Feet Houses, Barbaric--Criminals--Found Guilty Of Heartbreak, And As They Slow Dance To Rhythmic Beating, Of A Broken Heart--That May Never Mend, Something That Rips The Gauze Wrap, From My Wounds, They Smile, As They Masquerade In My Ballroom Of Horror
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Nov 21, 2012
Nov 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM UTC
Ballroom Of Horror
On the strings Binding mortals together, you lay your dagger And set apart, The centre that holds us together… You set Our household in despair And unending Tears and sorrows, you fill our souls and hearts with... You are... Yes, a silent murderer, surely, you are: You invade the joy that fills The household of mortality and leave endless mourning songs on our tongues... In your presence, Where is the refuge of mortality? In your eyes, What is the value of mortality’s breath on this earth? From nowhere You have stepped your feet in our territory Draining breaths And raiding souls...alas, you plant the seed of fear in our hearts... You fill Our thoughts with forts of weary And crush Our hearts with dagger of fatality… You set Deafening quake and pains in our souls And wane the survival Of mankind on this shore with your arrival… Ebola— You, innocent faced murderer Who has found A niche in the home of strong-but-weak mortals... Ebola, Many you have set on that Voyage Of No Return¬¬— Their wails, alas, We hear in the silent night as their bloods smell on your arms… You are A scare to our existence For life is death And death is life with the arrival of your presence… Ebola, You’re but, a thief of souls... Murderer! Ebola, O’ yes, you are a silent ****** You are The silent murderer reaping our souls and setting down our household— You are the murderer Yet, feared to be approached by even the 'mighties'… You are An unseen beast; you’re a barbaric stranger... You are but, A silent murderer in our home... We wholly Hate you from the depth of our souls— Dark or white, Ebola, yes, we truly all hate you! Oswald Okaitei (World Poetry Theatre Ambassador from Ghana Project) From WHISPERS OF A HEART (C) 2014
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Oct 30, 2014
Oct 30, 2014 at 10:23 AM UTC
EBOLA; THE SILENT MURDERER
On the strings Binding mortals together, you lay your dagger And set apart, The centre that holds us together… You set Our household in despair And unending Tears and sorrows, you fill our souls and hearts with... You are... Yes, a silent murderer, surely, you are: You invade the joy that fills The household of mortality and leave endless mourning songs on our tongues... In your presence, Where is the refuge of mortality? In your eyes, What is the value of mortality’s breath on this earth? From nowhere You have stepped your feet in our territory Draining breaths And raiding souls...alas, you plant the seed of fear in our hearts... You fill Our thoughts with forts of weary And crush Our hearts with dagger of fatality… You set Deafening quake and pains in our souls And wane the survival Of mankind on this shore with your arrival… Ebola— You, innocent faced murderer Who has found A niche in the home of strong-but-weak mortals... Ebola, Many you have set on that Voyage Of No Return¬¬— Their wails, alas, We hear in the silent night as their bloods smell on your arms… You are A scare to our existence For life is death And death is life with the arrival of your presence… Ebola, You’re but, a thief of souls... Murderer! Ebola, O’ yes, you are a silent ****** You are The silent murderer reaping our souls and setting down our household— You are the murderer Yet, feared to be approached by even the 'mighties'… You are An unseen beast; you’re a barbaric stranger... You are but, A silent murderer in our home... We wholly Hate you from the depth of our souls— Dark or white, Ebola, yes, we truly all hate you! Oswald Okaitei (World Poetry Theatre Ambassador from Ghana Project) From WHISPERS OF A HEART (C) 2014
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*I love standing at the top largest hill of Camp Half-Blood. Watching the greens as the nymph wood dance in the hum of nature. Satyrs seasoning the forest with their magic recipe. I should spend more time, admiring the beauty of the wilds. For ere long, the border won't last long. Barbaric creatures will start to crawl. Demigods will fight, and I'll be there, holding a papyrus like a playwright.*    (a.k)
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 12:36 AM UTC
Camp Half-Blood
I am an African, Just like you are, Here I am in Africa, From Africa, I may speak, Not your African language, But a cataclysmic African, Who speaks my African language, I am. An inferior African, You may as you do, Regard me, But still, African I am, African I cry, African I laugh, African I sing, African I live. You have made me feel ashamed, To be in this part of Africa, But never, Will you make me feel ashamed, To be African, Whatever derogatory labels, You may stick on me, No matter how unAfrican, Kwerekwere, Grigamba or whatever, But still, I will be an African, Even a much better one. African, Like my father, His fore fathers, And their forefathers, African, Just like I was yesterday, African, Just like I am now, African, That is what I will always be, And African, Forever. According to the author, we are all foreigners in any country on this earth, more like tenants. No one has any claim to any portion of this earth for it belongs to God. The barbaric, self-centered and intolerant demeanor we have recently witnessed in South Africa tells the story of mindless teaks on a dog that are claiming to own the dog and solidifies the myth that Africa is a dark continent and Africans are still stuck in the animal kingdom. How do we dispute what is becoming more of a fact that “you can take Africans from the bush but you can never take the bush out of Africans”. Fellow South Africans (the perpetrators), you have proved to be more disgusting than ***** and the most befitting place for you is the sewage dump that is far away from Africa. If there was another Africa that is not this Africa, I would have done the obvious and most logical thing – to completely disassociate my dignified African self from the brainless, destructive, inhuman thugs that you are. Today, I am an African who is dead ashamed to be African!
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 4:48 AM UTC
I am an African
I am an African, Just like you are, Here I am in Africa, From Africa, I may speak, Not your African language, But a cataclysmic African, Who speaks my African language, I am. An inferior African, You may as you do, Regard me, But still, African I am, African I cry, African I laugh, African I sing, African I live. You have made me feel ashamed, To be in this part of Africa, But never, Will you make me feel ashamed, To be African, Whatever derogatory labels, You may stick on me, No matter how unAfrican, Kwerekwere, Grigamba or whatever, But still, I will be an African, Even a much better one. African, Like my father, His fore fathers, And their forefathers, African, Just like I was yesterday, African, Just like I am now, African, That is what I will always be, And African, Forever. According to the author, we are all foreigners in any country on this earth, more like tenants. No one has any claim to any portion of this earth for it belongs to God. The barbaric, self-centered and intolerant demeanor we have recently witnessed in South Africa tells the story of mindless teaks on a dog that are claiming to own the dog and solidifies the myth that Africa is a dark continent and Africans are still stuck in the animal kingdom. How do we dispute what is becoming more of a fact that “you can take Africans from the bush but you can never take the bush out of Africans”. Fellow South Africans (the perpetrators), you have proved to be more disgusting than ***** and the most befitting place for you is the sewage dump that is far away from Africa. If there was another Africa that is not this Africa, I would have done the obvious and most logical thing – to completely disassociate my dignified African self from the brainless, destructive, inhuman thugs that you are. Today, I am an African who is dead ashamed to be African!
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*Too many barbaric people; Not enough hippies.*
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Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:50 PM UTC
Untitled
did you, even now, hope to shut your eyes to so huge a crime, my treacherous one, to think you could stilly withdraw from my kingdom? did our love not once hold you? our ardent vows? or even I, Dido, preparing to succumb barbaric death? how could you, callous you!, take wing to prepare your fleet in winter —i’m sure to run aground— when Boreas thrashes against the heavens? but, if you weren’t pursuing unfamiliar soil or incited to father a distant nation, if ancient Ilium sturdily grimed through the war, would you keep piercing the wave-washed oceans in your armada? why do you elude me; is it because i have acceded irreality? am i worthless, now?—i implore you! by these tears, and your troth, by our wedding vows, and this oath before ***** we began: if i deserve anything good from you, or if you think, i was good enough for you; pity this household decaying before us! it was once yours, too. and if my prayers are still yours, gut them from my mind! for now the Libyans and Numidians hate me! dear Tyre is virulent! as my honour and once-righteous stature has vanished, just as i was about to touch my constellated infamy. for what destiny, my foreign one, do you set me aside; ever-knowing my imminent death? seeing that only your name endures from this union, why do i bother to keep living? am i waiting for my brother, Pygmalion, to destroy my Carthage’s walls, or a Gætulian Iarbus to make me his concubine? if only you gave me a son, a little Æneas to play in my courts, a boy to remind me of you; only then, perhaps, would i not be so utterly violated, and consumed.
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Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 1:06 PM UTC
quis fallere possit amantem?
did you, even now, hope to shut your eyes to so huge a crime, my treacherous one, to think you could stilly withdraw from my kingdom? did our love not once hold you? our ardent vows? or even I, Dido, preparing to succumb barbaric death? how could you, callous you!, take wing to prepare your fleet in winter —i’m sure to run aground— when Boreas thrashes against the heavens? but, if you weren’t pursuing unfamiliar soil or incited to father a distant nation, if ancient Ilium sturdily grimed through the war, would you keep piercing the wave-washed oceans in your armada? why do you elude me; is it because i have acceded irreality? am i worthless, now?—i implore you! by these tears, and your troth, by our wedding vows, and this oath before ***** we began: if i deserve anything good from you, or if you think, i was good enough for you; pity this household decaying before us! it was once yours, too. and if my prayers are still yours, gut them from my mind! for now the Libyans and Numidians hate me! dear Tyre is virulent! as my honour and once-righteous stature has vanished, just as i was about to touch my constellated infamy. for what destiny, my foreign one, do you set me aside; ever-knowing my imminent death? seeing that only your name endures from this union, why do i bother to keep living? am i waiting for my brother, Pygmalion, to destroy my Carthage’s walls, or a Gætulian Iarbus to make me his concubine? if only you gave me a son, a little Æneas to play in my courts, a boy to remind me of you; only then, perhaps, would i not be so utterly violated, and consumed.
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Perspiration accumulates into salty beads, Falling into her eyes, eyes that have lost their gleam. We’ve been trapped like savaged animals for three agonizing nights. Diminutive apertures in this death box supply minimal light. The screech of the rails are a bittersweet melody to our ears. For we only know what these horrific monsters have taught. Fear. As the door slams open, I’m pried from my wife. I wonder if this will be the last moment I see her smile. My people are marked with terror and pain. I realized were barricaded in with barbed wire chains. My subverted clothes reek of secretion. This camp is untrustworthy, raising apprehension. They claim we are not human. But I ask, do we not bleed, when we are injured? Do we not dream blissful thoughts? Do we not pray to the same God? The same God that punishes the innocent; Bringing blithe to those sinners that shed blood. When we lose our cherished, our loved ones, Do we not shed tears? Do we not mourn? No! We must not, for we are not human, According to what the Nazis see. We are the innocent, robbed of life. They are the monsters who roam free. At least, that’s what I see. I see men, women, and children stripped of clothing, Stripped of dignity, stripped of all things humane. While these barbaric monstrosities make allegations. Claiming they are purifying society, when they are to blame. Men lose wives; children lose mothers. Families are torn apart; sisters lose brothers. Those of us who survive, work until brittle. Still we carry on, if our minds are able. Backs of men are scarred from arduous lashes. While the sick are trapped in rooms imbued with gases. My hands are enveloped with calicoes and cuts. My mind grows weary, I dream an ending abrupt. I’m crippled with anger, and tears that still drip sore. My heart crescendos with pain, about to implode. It’s difficult to refuse the tears when I hear the desolate screams. I’m trapped in a perpetual nightmare, a ceaseless dream. Still I carry on in life, for that is the greatest revenge. The day we feel the kiss of freedom, will be the day we have avenged.
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Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
Forgotten Horrors of the 19th Century
Perspiration accumulates into salty beads, Falling into her eyes, eyes that have lost their gleam. We’ve been trapped like savaged animals for three agonizing nights. Diminutive apertures in this death box supply minimal light. The screech of the rails are a bittersweet melody to our ears. For we only know what these horrific monsters have taught. Fear. As the door slams open, I’m pried from my wife. I wonder if this will be the last moment I see her smile. My people are marked with terror and pain. I realized were barricaded in with barbed wire chains. My subverted clothes reek of secretion. This camp is untrustworthy, raising apprehension. They claim we are not human. But I ask, do we not bleed, when we are injured? Do we not dream blissful thoughts? Do we not pray to the same God? The same God that punishes the innocent; Bringing blithe to those sinners that shed blood. When we lose our cherished, our loved ones, Do we not shed tears? Do we not mourn? No! We must not, for we are not human, According to what the Nazis see. We are the innocent, robbed of life. They are the monsters who roam free. At least, that’s what I see. I see men, women, and children stripped of clothing, Stripped of dignity, stripped of all things humane. While these barbaric monstrosities make allegations. Claiming they are purifying society, when they are to blame. Men lose wives; children lose mothers. Families are torn apart; sisters lose brothers. Those of us who survive, work until brittle. Still we carry on, if our minds are able. Backs of men are scarred from arduous lashes. While the sick are trapped in rooms imbued with gases. My hands are enveloped with calicoes and cuts. My mind grows weary, I dream an ending abrupt. I’m crippled with anger, and tears that still drip sore. My heart crescendos with pain, about to implode. It’s difficult to refuse the tears when I hear the desolate screams. I’m trapped in a perpetual nightmare, a ceaseless dream. Still I carry on in life, for that is the greatest revenge. The day we feel the kiss of freedom, will be the day we have avenged.
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**** that **** This is poetry now. Can you say it isn’t real? Can you say my lowbrow barbaric mind doesn’t express itself? Can you tell me these words aren’t art? **** that. This outcry is whats comin next. Them burnt cars and bullet scars, ***** boots and tittie bars, forget to bathe, **** the shave, my pillow case is made of pave-ment, twenty years late on that first pay-ment. I asked the question but got delay-ment, on what the **** has this all meant? My colours just distract, them smiles just an act- you think I’m tokin and ******* and happy go-lucking, ***** im drowning in the bills I haven’t even seen yet, throwin off the debts as the horse that rolls the best bet, and don’t forget, every second you lay down to lie them eyes and theorize, youre just getten burglarized, want a burger and fries? Twenty years off your life- oh and the change too. Twenty seven ninety-five, thirteen plus the years I’ll spend, locked up with nothing to tend, no garden, no fruit, no love to loot, no wide eyes to fill and no breeze to shoot, just a chain gain filling my ***** with soot, stabbing by the next poor guy, jabbing by that suit and tie, the key is not to fit it right- so that every turn reminds who you belong to. And this is what I wanna do? Hold up- I pay for that **** Now I understand suicide you nihilistic gits, taking hits while the rest picks up the bits and the red runs the slits but no one sees the slip. Topsy turvy sliding down the grassy knoll, the heads tumble but the dough will never roll. No. Its busy ******* me in, me and my ilk, like me too much an *** to be thankful for robes of silk, mommy’s milk, eleventh hours and the stockpiles of the dowry. Soft as a baby, never ****** on the sour but the sweet, pink feet, earned on thin green sheet and the red as the man is beat, beaten and burned, turned spurned despite his age and whats learned. What is learned? If only I could tell you. We’s on the same track , don’t ask me whats gon spell true.
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM UTC
Unspoken Rant in a Library
**** that **** This is poetry now. Can you say it isn’t real? Can you say my lowbrow barbaric mind doesn’t express itself? Can you tell me these words aren’t art? **** that. This outcry is whats comin next. Them burnt cars and bullet scars, ***** boots and tittie bars, forget to bathe, **** the shave, my pillow case is made of pave-ment, twenty years late on that first pay-ment. I asked the question but got delay-ment, on what the **** has this all meant? My colours just distract, them smiles just an act- you think I’m tokin and ******* and happy go-lucking, ***** im drowning in the bills I haven’t even seen yet, throwin off the debts as the horse that rolls the best bet, and don’t forget, every second you lay down to lie them eyes and theorize, youre just getten burglarized, want a burger and fries? Twenty years off your life- oh and the change too. Twenty seven ninety-five, thirteen plus the years I’ll spend, locked up with nothing to tend, no garden, no fruit, no love to loot, no wide eyes to fill and no breeze to shoot, just a chain gain filling my ***** with soot, stabbing by the next poor guy, jabbing by that suit and tie, the key is not to fit it right- so that every turn reminds who you belong to. And this is what I wanna do? Hold up- I pay for that **** Now I understand suicide you nihilistic gits, taking hits while the rest picks up the bits and the red runs the slits but no one sees the slip. Topsy turvy sliding down the grassy knoll, the heads tumble but the dough will never roll. No. Its busy ******* me in, me and my ilk, like me too much an *** to be thankful for robes of silk, mommy’s milk, eleventh hours and the stockpiles of the dowry. Soft as a baby, never ****** on the sour but the sweet, pink feet, earned on thin green sheet and the red as the man is beat, beaten and burned, turned spurned despite his age and whats learned. What is learned? If only I could tell you. We’s on the same track , don’t ask me whats gon spell true.
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Antsy aardvarks all accept ants accordingly as an addiction Bamboo bayonets bought by barbaric, beastly barons bite beatniks Cloistered cobblers can color candy-cane conches concealing crooners Daffodils doodle daydreams down, debauchery demons deafening Every eon each electric elephant eats eleven elk eggs For fun fantasies file films filosophic'ly filling filaments Go get greens Get grass grayer gal goonie ghoul Hello high hammock how hooligans heave haddocks heathenly hecklers Igloos ixist in icy islands interning internationally Jello jam jizzy Jacks jostling jewels juney jump jump joop jail
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Dec 27, 2009
Dec 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM UTC
Alphabetic Haiku Fun