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"disqualified" poems
A race between the Flash and the Man of Steel This would be a competition for real Who do you think would move fast? Who would you think would come in last? It’s a possibility in what could be Imagine two Super Marvel’s in a race too see who is truly great It would also show their sportsmanship in how they both relate It would be a run to the finish The winner being triumphed and distinguished This wouldn’t be a race against crime That story is another time Flash moving at the speed of light The Man of Steel feeling a bit uptight The Man of Steel would be disqualified if he were to fly in order to win But the Man of Steel coming from another planet, would that automatically disqualify from then A canny detail But the policy remains in order to preserver It was Flash in the lead The Man of Steel was maneuvering in proceed Just around the bend It was Flash being the champion at the very end Well the Marvel Hero’s shook hands and are off to fight crime This will be until the end of time.
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Jan 4, 2015
Jan 4, 2015 at 11:40 PM UTC
SUPERMAN VS THE FLASH IN A SPRINTING TEST STUNT
Let's play a new game. One we've been playing for years. Let's call it Hide, don't seek. Hide your feelings well brother, Don't let a girl find them. Hide your secrets well sister, Don't let that boy find them. Hide those thoughts of suicide kid, Don't let your mama find em'. Hide those insecurities pal, Don't let your father know them. Hide that, hide this. Don't let anyone successfully seek. Write a poem, write a book. Hide those words, don't bother to look. Don't you tell the world your worries child, You know very well this world is wild. Save that poem as a draft, you ****** Don't you dare open your eyes you sucker. Wipe those tears and fears away, Forget your worries, forget to pray. Hide the scars around your hands, Don't let your teachers find em'. Hide your lips, how dry they are, Don't let your girlfriend find them. Hide your dried up tears my love, Remember no one cares. Hide your hunger well my bro, You know that food is theirs. People that don't follow these rules Will be disqualified by morning. People that decide to break them, Will be followed by deep mourning. Starting now, you're one of us, This is the game we play. Starting now, you must hide, not seek It will all be good some day. But hide that little hope my friend, For you know it shall not come. And if you're scared at all my friend, Just chug it down with *** That's all we all can do now, We can no longer tell the truth. We all are now playing this game, I call it Hide, don't Seek.
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Dec 6, 2013
Dec 6, 2013 at 11:36 AM UTC
Hide, Don't Seek.
I'm being selfish. Nasty enough, To choose black over others I've ignored the VIBGYOR, Disqualified the barbie pink, Resisted the purples n greys Painted my dreams full of black. Its sickening enough, And charming too. I've splashed this evil, All over myself, Engulfed into its secret. Drowned in its depth-ness. I dream black. I think black. I dread black. I've discovered its power. Unleashed its vigour, Felt its character. Surprisingly enough; I've connected myself with the color black.
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 6:21 AM UTC
Dreaming All Black
I see the sad color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, all minutes of the day I see the serious mental and physical damages That this cancer has done throughout the ages And is still doing to our beloved human beings The others treat our People like they are leftover beans On a petty pet's plate. Our people deserve respect Fairness, justice, equality, acknowledgement Compassion, credit and better treatment Our sisters are tired of being left out on the deck Our siblings are often harassed senselessly, persecuted Falsely accused and relentlessly prosecuted At one time, they were hunted and hounded by the system At other time, hindered and haunted by an organized medium Created to attack, destroy, burn, ravage and annihilate To embarrass, marginalize, ridicule, punish and discriminate I see the color of racism, when the police for no apparent reasons Stopped, frisked and handcuffed our homeless, our elderlies Or our law abiding citizens, like it was open seasons To hunt for mule deer or bears, who behave like enemies Of the civilized society. I see the sick color of racism When our people are not hired not for being unqualified But because of their skin color; they're quickly disqualified Dismissed, fired or terminated. I see the monster of cynicism All golly minutes of the day. The arrogance is unparalleled Beyond belief. The racists forgot that God only created one race One human race, one human race, one **** human race. Their false pride, their fake supremacy, their ignorance is unleveled And their audacity is incomparable. I see the colors of racism Not that I want to search for them, not that I want to find them Most of the time, I simply cannot elude, evade or escape them It is not easy to ignore the litanies of bad or negative mannerisms The bigots easily function like virulent or venomous vipers That **** out the emotions, and that destroy all positive characters Our lives, Black lives, like other lives, are sacramental and important And our contributions to the world are significant I see the ugly and surly color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, every minute of the **** day. Copyright © February 24,2015, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
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Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM UTC
The Color Of Abject Racism
I see the sad color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, all minutes of the day I see the serious mental and physical damages That this cancer has done throughout the ages And is still doing to our beloved human beings The others treat our People like they are leftover beans On a petty pet's plate. Our people deserve respect Fairness, justice, equality, acknowledgement Compassion, credit and better treatment Our sisters are tired of being left out on the deck Our siblings are often harassed senselessly, persecuted Falsely accused and relentlessly prosecuted At one time, they were hunted and hounded by the system At other time, hindered and haunted by an organized medium Created to attack, destroy, burn, ravage and annihilate To embarrass, marginalize, ridicule, punish and discriminate I see the color of racism, when the police for no apparent reasons Stopped, frisked and handcuffed our homeless, our elderlies Or our law abiding citizens, like it was open seasons To hunt for mule deer or bears, who behave like enemies Of the civilized society. I see the sick color of racism When our people are not hired not for being unqualified But because of their skin color; they're quickly disqualified Dismissed, fired or terminated. I see the monster of cynicism All golly minutes of the day. The arrogance is unparalleled Beyond belief. The racists forgot that God only created one race One human race, one human race, one **** human race. Their false pride, their fake supremacy, their ignorance is unleveled And their audacity is incomparable. I see the colors of racism Not that I want to search for them, not that I want to find them Most of the time, I simply cannot elude, evade or escape them It is not easy to ignore the litanies of bad or negative mannerisms The bigots easily function like virulent or venomous vipers That **** out the emotions, and that destroy all positive characters Our lives, Black lives, like other lives, are sacramental and important And our contributions to the world are significant I see the ugly and surly color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, every minute of the **** day. Copyright © February 24,2015, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
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I’m not a higher caste-class-Hindu-male, I cannot be a mute spectator with a censored mouth and I don’t want to be a part of a ********* history that plucked eyes, chopped limbs and slashed throats. I want to tell my tomorrows that I believed in tolerance, patience And human rights. Now that makes me a rebel, An anti-national, a threat! That’s reason one- I’m disqualified. Tell me the meaning of life, justice and freedom my brother We were the promises of Independence, The revolution that taught the world- Ahimsa. I don’t like vegetables, orange-vegetables my land exported and we got back bananas from the celebrated republics. The meatless days left me hungry I decided to fast, I got jailed And I know someday these man-eaters Would hang me. I don’t speak Hindi, I have no money I dared to educate and I’m a girl Now that makes me disqualified. I need a moral certificate, approval and a stamp Just because I have men friends, I wore lipstick and jeans and I danced. I’ve to pay a fine, apologize and spill tears Because I proclaimed myself a feminist, A thinker, a dreamer. Dear society, let me add some more, I bunked all my moral education classes, I’m an atheist and a post-modern Daughter. I’ve friends- **** hetero and bisexuals And I eat beef, lamb and pork. I’ve a tan skin, a flat nose, tiny ******* and a beer belly I laugh loud, cry and yell at times And I know there are people out there Who wants to throw stones, cut my- body parts and exhibit my remains in a museum, They need to execute this handicapped Because she asked too many questions. Don’t offer me your chocolate-justice to be denied the next appropriate minute ‘Right’ can never be a synonym to ‘legal’. So that makes a wrong-carriage or abortion. I know I’m disqualified Now it’s time for the execution, Hang this heretic!
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Sep 3, 2015
Sep 3, 2015 at 10:53 AM UTC
Execute the handicapped
I’m not a higher caste-class-Hindu-male, I cannot be a mute spectator with a censored mouth and I don’t want to be a part of a ********* history that plucked eyes, chopped limbs and slashed throats. I want to tell my tomorrows that I believed in tolerance, patience And human rights. Now that makes me a rebel, An anti-national, a threat! That’s reason one- I’m disqualified. Tell me the meaning of life, justice and freedom my brother We were the promises of Independence, The revolution that taught the world- Ahimsa. I don’t like vegetables, orange-vegetables my land exported and we got back bananas from the celebrated republics. The meatless days left me hungry I decided to fast, I got jailed And I know someday these man-eaters Would hang me. I don’t speak Hindi, I have no money I dared to educate and I’m a girl Now that makes me disqualified. I need a moral certificate, approval and a stamp Just because I have men friends, I wore lipstick and jeans and I danced. I’ve to pay a fine, apologize and spill tears Because I proclaimed myself a feminist, A thinker, a dreamer. Dear society, let me add some more, I bunked all my moral education classes, I’m an atheist and a post-modern Daughter. I’ve friends- **** hetero and bisexuals And I eat beef, lamb and pork. I’ve a tan skin, a flat nose, tiny ******* and a beer belly I laugh loud, cry and yell at times And I know there are people out there Who wants to throw stones, cut my- body parts and exhibit my remains in a museum, They need to execute this handicapped Because she asked too many questions. Don’t offer me your chocolate-justice to be denied the next appropriate minute ‘Right’ can never be a synonym to ‘legal’. So that makes a wrong-carriage or abortion. I know I’m disqualified Now it’s time for the execution, Hang this heretic!
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I've seen people who claim not to suffer cry in hotel bathrooms. To be born without a heart is merely practical, not fulfilling. Those who suffer have an eye for suffering. As I've gotten older I've come to understand life is an exchange; you lose something, you get something. That's a simple deal, but no one tells you what to do when something gets back. Now you're stuck with an old friend while you're a new you. You love him, but you can't stand him. Guess I'm sorry for growing up. But **** it, give me my ghosts and let them haunt me. I'm sick and tired of numbing pain. A gun only stops shooting when you stop reloading it. Otherwise you've got generational trauma. **** people who use their pain as an excuse to hurt someone else. **** saying pain made you who you are. Those who glorify pain haven't healed from it. We're all in a rush to be disqualified from being human. I envy those who are comfortable with that position. At least they've found something to hold onto. Guess the rest of use just have to start over. Call it a Perestroika of the heart, call it tearing down the walls, or don't call it anything. Only thing that matters is to stop the bullet.
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Jun 4, 2022
Jun 4, 2022 at 3:57 PM UTC
Heart
I was obsequious towards you.... opening up to you, I was an impressively sedulous suitor, Didn't I constantly show my love; like a doting concubine, yet never was I supposed to. Did things I'd never wish to again do, You were always lethargic returning any affections. You're  constantly an exorbitantly  cruel lover, on too many occasions you've left me; feeling, clinging, wishing & praying that your bitter tortures -  would end. Morbidly I'd crave you like a killer craves the death of his victim's. Oh there's no end, no relapse or realse, my tormentor, my seemingly drug of choice--is you! I  sincerely felt a cordial love & dislike for how you've had me susceptible to this elegiac experience. Unmerciful you cast away my heart and dealt my soul a mighty blow. NEVER again  would I be your willing victim,  you're  antipathies & archaic behavior  leaves me wishing for a way out, since you've made me seem more like the enemy. This love's a beautiful beast & so oblivious to my demise... I'm still obligated.... I've vowed to stay, fight comes what may...   yet & still You make it clear I'm disqualified before a race could ever be won..... Why? My questions unanswered as if I've never vocalized a retort! IVE COME TO REALIZE THERE'S NO HOPE FOR ME ☆♡ Always Me Ayeshah ™ ®          K.A.C.L.N ©      All right reserved ® Copyright 1977 - Present
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Sep 8, 2015
Sep 8, 2015 at 8:03 AM UTC
♡☆THERE'S NO HOPE FOR ME☆♡
As I began to climb the campus stairs, All alone with a numb ache- A depression blocked those minute vessels, That carries my vital fluid that frequently thins. A kind of a genetic disorder that robs me off- All of my terrible hormones that loses competition, A competition so heroic called youth, That settles the score of my ****** life. A physical length that reduces me to a dwarf, Almost an intelligent ape that snubs too- And cannot have biology with another species, That adores a disqualified creature of its size. What can make me happy? What do I want then? Shall I need those beautiful preachers of opposite genes? Shall I claim their eminence in my life? Or leave them for those eligible bachelors? As I landed my nose in the campus pillars, And nobody cared but me- A stimulus recoiled and resurrected those minute vessels, That carries my vital fluid that became viscous again.
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Oct 29, 2010
Oct 29, 2010 at 2:28 AM UTC
Eligible Bachelors
When I was a kid, folding chairs were my kryptonite.
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Sep 10, 2013
Sep 10, 2013 at 11:22 AM UTC
Disqualified
A Spring Evening in Paris with the Thieves of Love They found each other in the good samaritan way you would try. If you are not alluring, if you can’t get a reverie, there are other ways. Ellen was drunk and left alone near St.Severin off the Rue de la Harpe Where you can smell butter and garlic and mussels and iodine From bistros open to the street. Anthony loved it that you could see that Those bistros were happy and good. He wanted to be in one with a girl. Ellen in mottled lamplight on the churchyard cobbles: Freckled, brown eyed, strong in clean denim overalls and white T-shirt. She knelt there sick and knelt also inside Anthony, in a lyric: Not many chances like this in life. He nursed her To her place in Billancourt. She was afraid on the Metro. A drunken kiss of thanks at her door tastes of sickness and anise. Of course he came back. A real man would come back for more thanks. If it was his first chance in months. She was brave, dramatically friendly, often in The light that passes for candles on stage. She had the fierce compassion that terrifies. He had been disqualified from girls by anxiety. They bought food, flowers and wine in the market And walked and bought books from bouquinistes And cooked in her room. He wrote at her table. The white iron bed by the sunny window... Who was this girl no older than Anthony, Showing him friendship, making him grateful, Showing him love, " I like to do this, Find one that I love, make something perfect." Sneaky good love of stealth and cunning... Paul Anthony Hutchinson www.paulanthonyhutchinson.com copyright Paul Anthony Hutchinson
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Nov 3, 2016
Nov 3, 2016 at 11:37 PM UTC
A Spring Evening in Paris with the Thieves of Love
A Spring Evening in Paris with the Thieves of Love They found each other in the good samaritan way you would try. If you are not alluring, if you can’t get a reverie, there are other ways. Ellen was drunk and left alone near St.Severin off the Rue de la Harpe Where you can smell butter and garlic and mussels and iodine From bistros open to the street. Anthony loved it that you could see that Those bistros were happy and good. He wanted to be in one with a girl. Ellen in mottled lamplight on the churchyard cobbles: Freckled, brown eyed, strong in clean denim overalls and white T-shirt. She knelt there sick and knelt also inside Anthony, in a lyric: Not many chances like this in life. He nursed her To her place in Billancourt. She was afraid on the Metro. A drunken kiss of thanks at her door tastes of sickness and anise. Of course he came back. A real man would come back for more thanks. If it was his first chance in months. She was brave, dramatically friendly, often in The light that passes for candles on stage. She had the fierce compassion that terrifies. He had been disqualified from girls by anxiety. They bought food, flowers and wine in the market And walked and bought books from bouquinistes And cooked in her room. He wrote at her table. The white iron bed by the sunny window... Who was this girl no older than Anthony, Showing him friendship, making him grateful, Showing him love, " I like to do this, Find one that I love, make something perfect." Sneaky good love of stealth and cunning... Paul Anthony Hutchinson www.paulanthonyhutchinson.com copyright Paul Anthony Hutchinson
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*These flakes that fall - ever so effortlessly, They bathe my mind with their peace and liberty - tranquility. They have no rule and yet no precedence found No law circumscribed - falling flawlessly upon the ground. They cover the wildest desires of the woods and caves, Turning these savages into bitterly cold slaves. Snowflakes times billions, to and fro they blow, Making fresh and clean of all they forego. Hidden within the silence - a gentle song they bring. Listen, listen can you not hear them sing? They recover every note and they give their best, Laughter, loving, so cold yet only the warmest expressed. Beckoning me to play along so they can be obeyed, I place one keyboard on the handrail I made, Turn it on and listen intently to what they create. Yearning to learn from my new classmate, Random bolts at first with no formal design, But somehow begging for me to join. With another keyboard I listen and strain, Allowing the snowflakes to quietly reign. I close my eyes and touch the keys with their wise delight, Saw searing sounds, honest and right. In contemplation I feel their deepest of scars, As they cover the memory of all the civil wars. They moderate the worst of men, now disqualified, Inclined in the balance taking them to the better side. With calmness my fingers manage it well, And my hands find no occasion to rebel. Listen, listen can you hear the love as it leans, Be careful Devil, the flakes will erase all your means. Softly covering all those ill desires, The good old cause revived, this their plot requires. Darkness turns to a powdery white erasing all of everything, Raising up the common-wealth, covering the evil kings.*
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Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 12:01 PM UTC
Song in the Snow
*These flakes that fall - ever so effortlessly, They bathe my mind with their peace and liberty - tranquility. They have no rule and yet no precedence found No law circumscribed - falling flawlessly upon the ground. They cover the wildest desires of the woods and caves, Turning these savages into bitterly cold slaves. Snowflakes times billions, to and fro they blow, Making fresh and clean of all they forego. Hidden within the silence - a gentle song they bring. Listen, listen can you not hear them sing? They recover every note and they give their best, Laughter, loving, so cold yet only the warmest expressed. Beckoning me to play along so they can be obeyed, I place one keyboard on the handrail I made, Turn it on and listen intently to what they create. Yearning to learn from my new classmate, Random bolts at first with no formal design, But somehow begging for me to join. With another keyboard I listen and strain, Allowing the snowflakes to quietly reign. I close my eyes and touch the keys with their wise delight, Saw searing sounds, honest and right. In contemplation I feel their deepest of scars, As they cover the memory of all the civil wars. They moderate the worst of men, now disqualified, Inclined in the balance taking them to the better side. With calmness my fingers manage it well, And my hands find no occasion to rebel. Listen, listen can you hear the love as it leans, Be careful Devil, the flakes will erase all your means. Softly covering all those ill desires, The good old cause revived, this their plot requires. Darkness turns to a powdery white erasing all of everything, Raising up the common-wealth, covering the evil kings.*
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I see the sad and awful color of racism not every other day But every minutes of the day I see the serious mental and physical damages That this cancer has done throughout the ages And is still doing to our beloved human beings Others treat our people like they are leftover beans On a pet's plate. Our people deserve respect Fairness, justice, acknowledgement Compassion and better treatment Our sisters are tired of being left out on the deck Our siblings are often harassed senselessly, persecuted Falsely accused and relentlessly prosecuted At one time, they were hunted by the system At other time, haunted by an organized medium Created to destroy, ravage and annihilate To ridicule, punish and discriminate I see the color of racism, when the police for no apparent reasons Stopped, frisked and handcuffed our homeless, elderlies Or our law abiding citizens, like it was open seasons To hunt for mule deer or bears, who behave like enemies Of the civilized society. I see the sick color of racism When our people are not hired not for being unqualified But because of their skin color; they're quickly disqualified Dismissed, fired or terminated. I see the monster of cynicism Every minutes of the day. The arrogance is unparalleled Beyond belief. The racists forgot that God only created one race One human race, one human race. Their false pride, their ignorance is unleveled And their audacity, incomparable. I see the colors of racism Not that I want to search for them, not that I want to find them Most of the time, I simply cannot evade or escape them It is not easy to ignore the litanies of bad or negative mannerisms The bigots easily function like lethal venomous vipers That **** out the emotions, and that destroy all positive characters I see the ugly color of racism not every other day But every minutes of the day. One human race, one human race. Copyright © February 24, 2015, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
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Mar 11, 2025
Mar 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM UTC
The Sad Color Of Racism
I see the sad and awful color of racism not every other day But every minutes of the day I see the serious mental and physical damages That this cancer has done throughout the ages And is still doing to our beloved human beings Others treat our people like they are leftover beans On a pet's plate. Our people deserve respect Fairness, justice, acknowledgement Compassion and better treatment Our sisters are tired of being left out on the deck Our siblings are often harassed senselessly, persecuted Falsely accused and relentlessly prosecuted At one time, they were hunted by the system At other time, haunted by an organized medium Created to destroy, ravage and annihilate To ridicule, punish and discriminate I see the color of racism, when the police for no apparent reasons Stopped, frisked and handcuffed our homeless, elderlies Or our law abiding citizens, like it was open seasons To hunt for mule deer or bears, who behave like enemies Of the civilized society. I see the sick color of racism When our people are not hired not for being unqualified But because of their skin color; they're quickly disqualified Dismissed, fired or terminated. I see the monster of cynicism Every minutes of the day. The arrogance is unparalleled Beyond belief. The racists forgot that God only created one race One human race, one human race. Their false pride, their ignorance is unleveled And their audacity, incomparable. I see the colors of racism Not that I want to search for them, not that I want to find them Most of the time, I simply cannot evade or escape them It is not easy to ignore the litanies of bad or negative mannerisms The bigots easily function like lethal venomous vipers That **** out the emotions, and that destroy all positive characters I see the ugly color of racism not every other day But every minutes of the day. One human race, one human race. Copyright © February 24, 2015, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
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Now, I’m no longer afraid to die. For I crave and greed for death. I want to reincarnate, Not be disqualified as a human again, Fare Well To be a cat A dog A bird Or even a mosquito. And hence, there is a courage to rebel all, to just  be alive!
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 8:17 PM UTC
I greed for Death, hence I’m ready to be alive!
Typical male banter of which you think you are exempt- but you are not. Like the chick on the couch who plays the dumb blond, you are part of the culture. Like an unnoticed concussion, you stain our brains with blackened thoughts of ideal bodies and insecurities. You reek of stale laughter and wasted physique as you try to preserve your **** strap membership card with failing qualifications. Since your hot wives have stretch marks and wrinkles around their forced smiles you play your fantasy league ; padding your stats with disingenuous gestures of matrimony. With a stiff spine, we humor your talents the way your mother did- her icy tailbone under Friday night lights and forgiving disposition for missed curfews. You draw from those years like a cactus in the rainforest. - soft soil - lacking roots and obviously out of place. From above- you are an anomaly among the vines, masking your Cialis induced shaft by standing among real wood. I hope you get cut down soon, all of you - turned into something better - like paper or a changing table for the sons we will raise to be disqualified from your clubs.
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Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 1:57 PM UTC
gridiron club
lauren elise Normally I wouldn't instigate like this, but NFL players aren't simply taking a knee for the fun of it. If you want to go as far back as Normandy, let's talk about the forced migration of slaves to the United States, the colonialist division of African nations, and the pillaging and ****** that accompanied that. Let's talk about the forced separation of black families as they were sold off like livestock, the rapes of slave women, the beatings of slave men. Let's talk about the implemented indentured servitude after slavery was abolished, that kept free black people enslaved and poor because they had no resources, no money and no dignity. The lynchings and the discrimination. Let's talk about the de jure segregation that divided school districts, neighborhoods, and deprived people of color of access to equal education and job opportunities. How about the exclusion of black women from women's rights movements? They did not receive the same rights at the same time as white women. When segregation was abolished, how about the de facto segregation, the redlining, the defunding of black neighborhoods that sentenced them to poverty and disqualified them this American notion of "equal opportunity?" What about when the poverty and lack of education increased the crime and drug activity that has led to the mass criminalization of black communities? The school to prison pipeline? Think about the fact that people of color have not been legally "equal" to white people for even 100 years. The police brutality today mirrors the police brutality of the Civil Rights era. Everything that black people face on this day is a result of the dehumanization and discrimination that white people imposed on them from the start. This is not coincidental protest. This is not ungrateful. Our soldiers have fought for our rights from the start, but not always for the rights of people of color. Peaceful protest is an American right. Plus, let's not talk about disrespect for American soldiers and veterans when our very own "President" is the first person to disrespect them.
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Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 10:30 PM UTC
Another comment to a Daily
lauren elise Normally I wouldn't instigate like this, but NFL players aren't simply taking a knee for the fun of it. If you want to go as far back as Normandy, let's talk about the forced migration of slaves to the United States, the colonialist division of African nations, and the pillaging and ****** that accompanied that. Let's talk about the forced separation of black families as they were sold off like livestock, the rapes of slave women, the beatings of slave men. Let's talk about the implemented indentured servitude after slavery was abolished, that kept free black people enslaved and poor because they had no resources, no money and no dignity. The lynchings and the discrimination. Let's talk about the de jure segregation that divided school districts, neighborhoods, and deprived people of color of access to equal education and job opportunities. How about the exclusion of black women from women's rights movements? They did not receive the same rights at the same time as white women. When segregation was abolished, how about the de facto segregation, the redlining, the defunding of black neighborhoods that sentenced them to poverty and disqualified them this American notion of "equal opportunity?" What about when the poverty and lack of education increased the crime and drug activity that has led to the mass criminalization of black communities? The school to prison pipeline? Think about the fact that people of color have not been legally "equal" to white people for even 100 years. The police brutality today mirrors the police brutality of the Civil Rights era. Everything that black people face on this day is a result of the dehumanization and discrimination that white people imposed on them from the start. This is not coincidental protest. This is not ungrateful. Our soldiers have fought for our rights from the start, but not always for the rights of people of color. Peaceful protest is an American right. Plus, let's not talk about disrespect for American soldiers and veterans when our very own "President" is the first person to disrespect them.
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I am still your kind of beautiful But not your kind of love. You are still my kind of love, But not my kind of "mine". "I still want to be friends," Is like running a race and placing first, But being told that something went wrong And you are disqualified. (I have been disqualified from your heart, I guess, If anything at all.) You were part of my world And I was part of yours. You're still part of mine, But I fell through the cracks When the ground shook and your world was redesigned. I wish I could see the stars from here. (I caught myself thinking that the stars were in your eyes, And that I would rather see your eyes than see the sky.) At least I am still part of your world, down here. I content myself with the thought that it is better to Have been forgotten here than to have been consciously eliminated. I run my fingers over the molten rock, knowing that at least here I can be (at) the centre of your world. (It is a selfish and rather stupid thought that I don't necessarily agree with But at least I am here And not nowhere.) I hate that I remember what day I (we) fell (apart), But I can't remember what day we first kissed. I can't remember what day you first said, "I love you". I can't remember what day I first said, "I love you". (I can't remember the sound of your voice, And I hate that I can't remember what it felt like To be yours.) How do you go from first place To "did not finish"? How do you go from "in love" To "just friends"? (I thought things were going great. How long had things been less than great on your end?) I suppose one day weeds will choke the flowers That were planted by your memory And fertilized by your love. And one day when those weeds die, New flowers will be planted by someone else. Perhaps the wind will stop whispering your name In favour of howling someone else's. The sky will take the stars back from your eyes And I guess fill someone else's someday. But for now it is all still yours and for you. (I still want it to be yours but you don't want it anymore.) Now I face storms alone. The clouds yell and fight the way we never did. (I never got to know what it was like to be with you When thunder rumbled and lightning struck.) Things are no longer the same. I am no longer the same. And neither are you. We gave each other the world Until you took yours back. You are my kind of love, But now you're not my kind of "mine".
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Dec 26, 2014
Dec 26, 2014 at 10:41 PM UTC
Worlds
I am still your kind of beautiful But not your kind of love. You are still my kind of love, But not my kind of "mine". "I still want to be friends," Is like running a race and placing first, But being told that something went wrong And you are disqualified. (I have been disqualified from your heart, I guess, If anything at all.) You were part of my world And I was part of yours. You're still part of mine, But I fell through the cracks When the ground shook and your world was redesigned. I wish I could see the stars from here. (I caught myself thinking that the stars were in your eyes, And that I would rather see your eyes than see the sky.) At least I am still part of your world, down here. I content myself with the thought that it is better to Have been forgotten here than to have been consciously eliminated. I run my fingers over the molten rock, knowing that at least here I can be (at) the centre of your world. (It is a selfish and rather stupid thought that I don't necessarily agree with But at least I am here And not nowhere.) I hate that I remember what day I (we) fell (apart), But I can't remember what day we first kissed. I can't remember what day you first said, "I love you". I can't remember what day I first said, "I love you". (I can't remember the sound of your voice, And I hate that I can't remember what it felt like To be yours.) How do you go from first place To "did not finish"? How do you go from "in love" To "just friends"? (I thought things were going great. How long had things been less than great on your end?) I suppose one day weeds will choke the flowers That were planted by your memory And fertilized by your love. And one day when those weeds die, New flowers will be planted by someone else. Perhaps the wind will stop whispering your name In favour of howling someone else's. The sky will take the stars back from your eyes And I guess fill someone else's someday. But for now it is all still yours and for you. (I still want it to be yours but you don't want it anymore.) Now I face storms alone. The clouds yell and fight the way we never did. (I never got to know what it was like to be with you When thunder rumbled and lightning struck.) Things are no longer the same. I am no longer the same. And neither are you. We gave each other the world Until you took yours back. You are my kind of love, But now you're not my kind of "mine".
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She didn't even have the chance to finish. It's winter, lady, less lady-like than before. For every day in my past, I still do wish, things hadn't changed, I loved you more when you were unreachable. I lost sense along the way, and now I'll never find it back. She is not who I thought she was, my glass could have shattered long ago. Afraid of commitment, afraid to commence, even though the chances are so small, fit for a hospital of simple minds. It still does make me reminisce the blow, although, the signs say different things, my mind can get to ease. After all that is my favourite plan.
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 8:13 PM UTC
disqualified
Atmospheric chaos erupts like wild volcanoes This bottled creativity sparked a supernatural Storm that has echoed just like ten tornados That leave behind a silent, colorless wake A spiritual crystal rainbow Of deep plateaus breaking down missing traits Dipping gently towards the lines of my dreams Causing me to believe in many truths unseen So I am left with one mysterious theme To express the need To be all that is found inbetween Reality, fantasy and the enticing extremes Within the confines of wires that were weaved In such a way that I was swayed to believe These schemes could ever reflect back to me That I am and was made unnaturally To be something otherworldy Despite these Mysterious glass trees that deliriously reflect back to me Disqualified memories buried so subconciously deep Now I believe in the dream So I let it all go Have faith I can hold Tightly to the fluttering lace that my own Wispy fingers have sewn Into this skin that is dry like the wind My consciousness now wearing thin So don't let it go Let it unravel to show I will soon be sweetened with rain Soon you will know This storm will not be defined or decayed Dismayed or maintained Let the truth come, invade False pain that will stay Unless I make One night of healing, so well handmade It will replace the decades of feeling afraid Of being awake Of going astray
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 12:30 AM UTC
In The Eye Of My Dreams
I was at school in a running race and was first across the line The feeling that came over me was one of so sublime I was at once up floating on the clouds so high and free When back to ground I soon came as it was stole from me Disqualified I know not why they didn't even mention The outcome was no medal instead a week in lone detention It was deemed that I had cheated and was a pure disgrace And a week of being on my own would wipe the smile from my face To say that I had been hard done was surely oh so true For what in fact occurred that day I sadly never knew Never was it in my mind to defeat my friends by cheating None of them objected, it was solely parents bleating My success was short and not so sweet and has left me feeling raw Which shows how deeply I was hurt as it occurred when I was four
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 6:38 AM UTC
Short Lived Success
I feel so tired Tired of trying to win Im fighting a battle against myself And i should just give up Im slipping through the cracks that i made with my force My anger broke down what was trying to protect me I cant breathe; it feels like im suffocating Im inside a box with no holes and i need to get air I blocked every escape i had that was open They closed up and locked me out I can never get out, even though i created the locks The keys are locked away somewhere inside my head Im so tired of searching Searching for all these answers My questions just cannot be answered I tried, and then i failed I failed a test that i was forced to cheat on; & then i disqualified myself from life I tried not to get hurt but my mind was the weapon I bled from the inside out without a shield for protection against myself In the darkness i was blind to fight There was no light for my freedom to hide It all came at me at once I wasnt ready to fail from my own soul Once it started, it just didnt stop I had no time to breathe I had no chance to speak Fighting the fears But i ran away Fighting the lies But i was naive Fighting the darkness But then i couldnt sleep Fighting the pain But then i bleed Fighting the emotions But then i cry Fighting the emotions But then i wanna hide Fighting the emotions But then i become angry Fighting the emotions But then its overwhelming Fighting the emotions But then i become anxious Fighting the emotions But then become hypertension Fighting the emotions But then i become lost Fighting the emotions But then i give up
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 2:33 PM UTC
War
I feel so tired Tired of trying to win Im fighting a battle against myself And i should just give up Im slipping through the cracks that i made with my force My anger broke down what was trying to protect me I cant breathe; it feels like im suffocating Im inside a box with no holes and i need to get air I blocked every escape i had that was open They closed up and locked me out I can never get out, even though i created the locks The keys are locked away somewhere inside my head Im so tired of searching Searching for all these answers My questions just cannot be answered I tried, and then i failed I failed a test that i was forced to cheat on; & then i disqualified myself from life I tried not to get hurt but my mind was the weapon I bled from the inside out without a shield for protection against myself In the darkness i was blind to fight There was no light for my freedom to hide It all came at me at once I wasnt ready to fail from my own soul Once it started, it just didnt stop I had no time to breathe I had no chance to speak Fighting the fears But i ran away Fighting the lies But i was naive Fighting the darkness But then i couldnt sleep Fighting the pain But then i bleed Fighting the emotions But then i cry Fighting the emotions But then i wanna hide Fighting the emotions But then i become angry Fighting the emotions But then its overwhelming Fighting the emotions But then i become anxious Fighting the emotions But then become hypertension Fighting the emotions But then i become lost Fighting the emotions But then i give up
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Runners Run. One stride at a time One push at a time One lap at a time And when the climb is steep when you feel like you're losing ground, then every stride, every push, every lap that leaves you in the race takes you to your prize And every time you stumble only to regain your feet that is a victory that is worthy of your team captain our captain, Jesus. Boxers Fight. One step at a time One blow at a time One round at a time And when life throws all it has at you, all at one time, then every step every blow, every round that leaves you in the fight takes you to your prize And every time you hit the canvas only to beat the count that is a victory that is worthy of your champion, our champion, Jesus. And we will not be disqualified from the prize.
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Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024 at 12:21 PM UTC
Run and Fight.
By: Cedric McClester Don’t make a negative decision On someone else’s religion Based on what you might find Inside the blogs posted online And then be quick to criticize Based on half-truths and lies Without first taking a look At that religion’s Holy Book I’m somewhat confused By what I’m hearing in the news Muslims should be disqualified Or have their access denied From the office of president And I know he said what he meant But why are we listenin’ to him When he doesn’t even know a Muslim Holding the Constitution over religion Suggests that we have the final decision But don’t we say that it’s in God we trust So what does that say about him or us If there’s no place for God at the table And the lack of faith is what makes us able To discern what’s wrong from right Whether to make peace or continue to fight If we believe in separation of church and state How did we enter into this debate When it doesn’t matter what we believe And that is the point that they misconceive While pretending to be holier than thou And determining who to forbid or allow Into the highest office of the land While the seeds of discord they continue to fan Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015.  All rights reserved.
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 5:16 PM UTC
SOMEONE ELSE'S RELIGION
ha ha, they actually thought they were qualified doctors before realising they were disqualified citizens; most were a bunch of immigrants in Port Calais attempting political correctness limited to only a vocabulary they wished to censor and still pursue educating people in a language.
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Apr 23, 2016
Apr 23, 2016 at 11:51 PM UTC
the left in England
Once I ran, ahead of the time They disqualified me Then, I ran, following the time They again disqualified me Now, I’m running with the time This time, they qualified me But, I disqualify myself For, self respect.
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 9:28 AM UTC
Qualification