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"forebears" poems
Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! My Motherland, Why not take pride in who you are? When you converse, You use the language of the West. The offspring of the same parents, And still use the language of the West. Your own children try to distance themselves and dress and talk like Those from the West. Your airwaves are filled with music, Fast beats, foul language and heavy metal from the West. Even the food you eat All processed and purchased From the West. Your fields are dry. You laugh at traditional foods and ceremonies. You have forgotten who you are. Your heritage cries out From the depths of the tombs you're filling up with immorality and your self-destructive ways. You despise who are, You ridicule who you are, You try so hard to change Who you are Your heroes and comrades In entertainment and politics In the community, the society Have been overshadowed By those from the West. Remember them, Revere them, More so alive than after death. Resurrect Ubuntu, Show a little compassion For a fellow who needs it. Stop the hate, tribalism And racism. This path of destruction Will get you nowhere. Let peace rule in the Motherland. Respect your elders, Salute the teachers Who try to lead your youth In the right direction. Teach your children well Violence is not the way The pen is still mightier Than the sword Eradicate illiteracy End child labour and Marriages. Honour, love and protect Your women and children. They will give you respect and happiness in return. Follow the footprints Of your forebears. Live in harmony with Yourself. Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! Take note Before it's too late!
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Jun 19, 2017
Jun 19, 2017 at 6:41 AM UTC
Africa, oh Africa
Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! My Motherland, Why not take pride in who you are? When you converse, You use the language of the West. The offspring of the same parents, And still use the language of the West. Your own children try to distance themselves and dress and talk like Those from the West. Your airwaves are filled with music, Fast beats, foul language and heavy metal from the West. Even the food you eat All processed and purchased From the West. Your fields are dry. You laugh at traditional foods and ceremonies. You have forgotten who you are. Your heritage cries out From the depths of the tombs you're filling up with immorality and your self-destructive ways. You despise who are, You ridicule who you are, You try so hard to change Who you are Your heroes and comrades In entertainment and politics In the community, the society Have been overshadowed By those from the West. Remember them, Revere them, More so alive than after death. Resurrect Ubuntu, Show a little compassion For a fellow who needs it. Stop the hate, tribalism And racism. This path of destruction Will get you nowhere. Let peace rule in the Motherland. Respect your elders, Salute the teachers Who try to lead your youth In the right direction. Teach your children well Violence is not the way The pen is still mightier Than the sword Eradicate illiteracy End child labour and Marriages. Honour, love and protect Your women and children. They will give you respect and happiness in return. Follow the footprints Of your forebears. Live in harmony with Yourself. Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! Take note Before it's too late!
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ponces! nancies! veritable egrets of men! people pleasing anti-charismatic animals philistines, every one of them, everyone else a curse upon their forebears and a curse upon their goings-on terrible business, that the world should be filled with boundary pushing eccentrics, that is progress! a plague upon normalcy, a plague upon stagnancy uninteresting, dying off, done ugh! greatness can not be expected of all but at least an attempt should be made how else will we overcome, will we build our utopia? what use is MY struggle when others are defeated in making a move past the remote television is for swine rots your brain and morals I've swell morals, just look at them my morals reach to the moon my morals are so swell I should run the country my morals aren't two millenia old scriptures written by the seers of goat-tenders my morals are modern, they are sleek and well dictated, they represent the future my morals defy the past, my morals create new paradigms why, you could say my morals defy all of traditionalism and a curse upon tradition! who ever learned from the past history is rife with naught but sufferance forwards is the only direction forwards is revealed only to me my ideals aglow with the lumine of the future they are entrenched in idealism me and mine, we are ideal
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 1:30 AM UTC
XIII
Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river --he's the son of the absconded hot rod angel-- and he imagines cars and rides them in his dreams, so lonely growing up among the imaginary automobiles and dead souls of Tarrytown to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears--a mythology he cannot inherit. Will he later hallucinate his gods? Waking among mysteries with an insane gleam of recollection? The recognition-- something so rare in his soul, met only in dreams --nostalgias of another life. A question of the soul. And the injured losing their injury in their innocence --a **** a cross, an excellence of love. And the father grieves in flophouse complexities of memory a thousand miles away, unknowing of the unexpected youthful stranger bumming toward his door. New York, April 13, 1952
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Wild Orphan
It happened, once only, on an African plain. A subtle mutation and everything changed. On Chromosome Seven A new protein emerged. A peripatic primate Spoke her first word. There were apes that were stronger or had larger brains. But it was **** sapiens who gave all things names. The mutation of speech, an advantage unknown,. soon reduced competition to a mere pile of bones. Our forebears surged forth From the African plains Some wandered to China, others summered in Spain. As elders died off, Their knowledge survived Through oral transmission til the advent of scribes. Now each human mother awaits baby’s first word It’s the price of admission to the tribe of the verb.
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Jan 27, 2012
Jan 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM UTC
The Tribe of the Verb
we did not Dye in vain! by michael r. burch (from “songs of the sea snails”) though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud: my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the trumps blare loud!) so purple-mantled Royals might stand out in a crowd. i salute you, fellow loyals, who labor without scruple as your incomes fall while deficits quadruple to swaddle unjust Lords in bright imperial purple! Originally published by The American Dissident Notes: In ancient times the purple dye produced from the secretions of purpura mollusks (sea snails) was known as “Tyrian purple,” “royal purple” and “imperial purple.” It was greatly prized in antiquity, and was very expensive according to the historian Theopompus: “Purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon.” Thus, purple-dyed fabrics became status symbols, and laws often prevented commoners from possessing them. The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in Byzantium, where the imperial court restricted its use to the coloring of imperial silks. A child born to the reigning emperor was literally porphyrogenitos ("born to the purple") because the imperial birthing apartment was walled in porphyry, a purple-hued rock, and draped with purple silks. Royal babies were swaddled in purple; we know this because the iconodules, who disagreed with the emperor Constantine about the veneration of images, accused him of defecating on his imperial purple swaddling clothes! Keywords/Tags: royal, purple, imperial, Tyrian, Byzantium, porphyry, swaddling, clothes, porphyrogenitos, mollusks, sea snails, royalty, kings, lords, emperors, popes
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Mar 28, 2020
Mar 28, 2020 at 4:35 AM UTC
we did not Dye in vain!
we did not Dye in vain! by michael r. burch (from “songs of the sea snails”) though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud: my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the trumps blare loud!) so purple-mantled Royals might stand out in a crowd. i salute you, fellow loyals, who labor without scruple as your incomes fall while deficits quadruple to swaddle unjust Lords in bright imperial purple! Originally published by The American Dissident Notes: In ancient times the purple dye produced from the secretions of purpura mollusks (sea snails) was known as “Tyrian purple,” “royal purple” and “imperial purple.” It was greatly prized in antiquity, and was very expensive according to the historian Theopompus: “Purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon.” Thus, purple-dyed fabrics became status symbols, and laws often prevented commoners from possessing them. The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in Byzantium, where the imperial court restricted its use to the coloring of imperial silks. A child born to the reigning emperor was literally porphyrogenitos ("born to the purple") because the imperial birthing apartment was walled in porphyry, a purple-hued rock, and draped with purple silks. Royal babies were swaddled in purple; we know this because the iconodules, who disagreed with the emperor Constantine about the veneration of images, accused him of defecating on his imperial purple swaddling clothes! Keywords/Tags: royal, purple, imperial, Tyrian, Byzantium, porphyry, swaddling, clothes, porphyrogenitos, mollusks, sea snails, royalty, kings, lords, emperors, popes
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settlers came to the frontier lands holding guns in their seizing hands the tribal people's tears and blood fell on the earth in a torrential flood they'd been dispossessed of terrain so lasting was the anguishing pain their ancient grounds ceded away to the occupier's colonizing sway the Indians of the vast Dakota plains had a culture under great strains the foot-print put down by forebears was nearly lost like the brown bears yet the spirit of the tribes still survive in their ancestral territory it's alive they've a heritage enduring of flow which is seen in the sun's risen glow
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Mar 12, 2017
Mar 12, 2017 at 12:09 AM UTC
Dakota Indians
Is it where you come from that matters? Is it your history, your line of descent? Do they really know you, they chatter Would they sit down with your friends Where do you come from they ask What is your story they say Will you do away with your mask Let them know you if they may What went before doesn’t matter Only the present counts It’s a fresh start you barter For your past in the ground But when it comes down to it They still want to know Where did you come from Where will you go You choose your own fate Your life is in your hands Your future’s for you to make You’re not bound to the land Let them know you by your deeds By your words and by your song Do they need to trace your feet To know where you belong? What is a reputation - But a binding rope No leeway to stumble For it’s a slippery slope If the days gone by are to colour Every speech and action Where is the scope to discover? Aren’t our lives but a fraction - Of what they could be If we believed we were free To set forth and make waves Or float along with the sea But then again you may say - Do people really change? Can they let go of the hate - Washed clean by the rain? And can we trust someone who lays No claim to yesterday - For whom nothing can vouch But the words of their mouth? If one is constantly changing - Then where does one stand? How can the others trust you - How can they shake your hand? Is trust merely an illusion We conjure up for ourselves - To alleviate the confusion To put reason on the shelf? One day we all must choose When there is much to lose Whether to cling to the family tree Or take flight and be free Those you grow up with are forever They’re the ones you never leave Where you came from is your start The first page of your story But it can’t tie you down It can’t hold you back You mustn’t be afraid For in the attack They may have the armour of the known And the weapons of their forebears But you will have freedom And an army of others Your brothers in thought And ideals and humanity Sisters with whom you fought The winds of disparity So I suppose what I’m saying is The only story worth telling Is the one that unfolds In the final reckoning
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Sep 16, 2021
Sep 16, 2021 at 7:06 AM UTC
Judgment Day (Repost)
Is it where you come from that matters? Is it your history, your line of descent? Do they really know you, they chatter Would they sit down with your friends Where do you come from they ask What is your story they say Will you do away with your mask Let them know you if they may What went before doesn’t matter Only the present counts It’s a fresh start you barter For your past in the ground But when it comes down to it They still want to know Where did you come from Where will you go You choose your own fate Your life is in your hands Your future’s for you to make You’re not bound to the land Let them know you by your deeds By your words and by your song Do they need to trace your feet To know where you belong? What is a reputation - But a binding rope No leeway to stumble For it’s a slippery slope If the days gone by are to colour Every speech and action Where is the scope to discover? Aren’t our lives but a fraction - Of what they could be If we believed we were free To set forth and make waves Or float along with the sea But then again you may say - Do people really change? Can they let go of the hate - Washed clean by the rain? And can we trust someone who lays No claim to yesterday - For whom nothing can vouch But the words of their mouth? If one is constantly changing - Then where does one stand? How can the others trust you - How can they shake your hand? Is trust merely an illusion We conjure up for ourselves - To alleviate the confusion To put reason on the shelf? One day we all must choose When there is much to lose Whether to cling to the family tree Or take flight and be free Those you grow up with are forever They’re the ones you never leave Where you came from is your start The first page of your story But it can’t tie you down It can’t hold you back You mustn’t be afraid For in the attack They may have the armour of the known And the weapons of their forebears But you will have freedom And an army of others Your brothers in thought And ideals and humanity Sisters with whom you fought The winds of disparity So I suppose what I’m saying is The only story worth telling Is the one that unfolds In the final reckoning
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Inspired by the dream of the founders of city Collated by planning of leaders and mayor, Built by the muscle and sweat of believers A Masterpiece fashioned for pride and for care. Magnificent structures of bridges and tunnel Faultlessly conjoined by highways of God, Dreamt by the forebears of knowledge and passion Crafted in concrete and sculpted in rod. Towering edifices scything through city Asphaltic motorways curving with grace Estuaries bridged by elegant girders Created by vision with tears on it’s face. Fashioned by strength and belief in the promise Fashioned by fortitude's strong hand as guide, Crafted by people's belief in tomorrow A Vision for Auckland and nation with pride. Marshalg With the Wellconnected Alliance. AUCKLAND N.Z. (Inspired by the animation on a good Mayor’s face) 6pm,14 February 2013 © 2013 Marshal Gebbie
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 12:45 AM UTC
The Vision
I wonder how they dug the graves and shoveled in their young. When grass was your last supper your reserves are clearly done. My forebears wouldn't" take the soup", they wouldn't sell their souls. So perhaps determination, then, gave them strength to dig those holes. To starve in the midst of plenty was the saddest sight on earth, but to their London Landlords Irish serfs held little worth. It's known that a potato blight was the famines primal cause, but I still blame beef eating men and the cold uncaring laws.
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Feb 8, 2013
Feb 8, 2013 at 7:53 AM UTC
In Famine Times (an Drochshaol )
Palestinian Liberty I hear your cries, I harken to your call, Beautiful children, loving mothers I see you all, Weeping orphans, bereaved parents I share your tears, The bombs fall, panic, chaos I feel your fears. Stay strong children of Palestine, Stay strong oh family of mine, For the day shall surely come, When we will rise up as one. Mutilated corpses, Rivers of blood, Severed limbs lay on your sanctified mud, Upon which prophets and martyrs stood, Pillars of faith, your forebears, upholding all that is good. You gave refuge to your captives in their hour of need, You roots of usurpation, you planted that seed, Graciously breaking bread with the holocaust survivors, It is you who carry the standard of the emancipators, Now it is you who call out for the liberators. Will we laugh or cry at the irony, That only the men of Palestine carry the bravery, That only the women of Palestine bear the humanity, That only the children of Palestine possess the capacity, To sacrifice, to provide liberty.
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 5:19 AM UTC
Palestinian Liberty
My work site is climate controlled, No Pigeons threaten my peace. Of all of my gigs, this one is the best, no acid rain scours my cheeks. Yes, it is boring at times; stuck in the Louvre, night and day, but, as I’m a creature of Marble, I cannot run outside and play. Instead I’ve become an observer of the tourists who whisper and gawk. That girl with nice ***** is from Paris, that fat little guys’ from New Yawk. I pose for their pictures for free as they snap up some memories for home. My maker, long dead, was the master who painted those frescoes in Rome. Its hard to believe that the heirs of the Renaissance men of my time have gotten so fat and complacent, gorging on fast food and cheap wine. pig like are their fat chubby faces. They prate like some fatuous child. They are, compared to their forebears, like butterball turkeys to wild.
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Mar 30, 2012
Mar 30, 2012 at 7:54 AM UTC
My Day Job
A holy day it was When the dark skinned gathered there Under open skies unowned On the land of their forebears They met to offer forth their prayers They entered the walled space Through gated entrances five Mixed mass of gender, age and creed Unarmed they gathered, unarmed strived Ruled by white Lords, to keep culture alive From a raised bank, he watched Fair general and his native troop When the time was right, dropped his arm Unleashing bullets on endless loop Laying waste to unwary group Swarming mass in open tomb Clamour to protect all life and love Mother crouched encasing child so soft A man holding his wife, a flapping dove None spared from cold end reigned from above Hot metal darts indiscriminate Sliced through humid burdened air Muting wails of the sentenced helpless Piercing flesh of the souls stripped bear Earth wept with weight of blood spilled there Thus ebbed the day of the massacre Beaded sweat trickles down Generals brow Blood and meat lay heaped at exits five Shrouded in questions of the why and how That such slaughter could one man and his arm allow.
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 6:38 AM UTC
Massacre
let’s pretend that our ancestors danced in forests and ate flowers so that we can do the same, without feeling embarrassed, because, really, we’re just honouring our forebears, their tradition.
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Feb 11, 2021
Feb 11, 2021 at 10:02 AM UTC
their tradition
On the banks of the Delaware where memories of Valley Forge's dire winter encampments still linger where sons and daughters of liberty shook off a mid-winter rigor mortis risking the slow death of complacency to seize the prized celestial article of freedom America's Labor Movement amassed in the streets of Trenton a vigilant battalion of General Washington's invading brigands speaking in tongues of radical insistence armed with the might of truth demanding respect and equitable treatment from the lordships of state doing the bidding of 527 llc's Unionists stand firmly on the shoulders, walking in the tracks rowing the boats of militant forebears pledging to fight on in a battle that never ends to liberate the ****** river of justice hijacked by the privilege of plenty diverted into culverts of greed a gluttonous few siphoning off the spoils of liberty engorging themselves leaving workers wanting democracies require the cup of liberty to be shared by all The Spirit of General Washington has mustered new legions to turn back the entitlistas the pelting rain of lies, the flinging arrows of ridicule will not deter the workers trooping for justice the fight to roll back the ugly tide of greed coursing through the veins of America despoiling the blood of our democracy is on the explosive dynamite of struggle will blast the dam of inequity to bits unleashing the river of justice to roll again Music Selection: Pete Seeger: Solidarity Forever Trenton 2/25/11 jbm
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM UTC
Trenton
TASMANIA, The Apple Isle, rooted in conquest, convicts and cannibalism. Into this desolate paradise, suffering, starving Englishmen, dreaming of home, planted row upon row of small neat cottages, graciously adorned by native English roses. Convicted felons, shunned from polite English society, became her upstanding citizens, and like her fuel-laden forests, she smouldered, a daughter of mother England, steeped in her heritage like a lauded *** of Earl Grey. For two centuries, England grew, a wild sunflower, with London's sprawling population sprouting from 1m seedlings, to over 8m at the peak of her growth. And somehow, somewhere, something broke inside. Today, proud Englishmen mourn a loss of the spirit and freedom of their forebears, still proud, yet yearning for the simple, honest existence of a yesteryear long lost, and not forgotten. In Tasmania, time drifted lazily, as outposts sprawled into small towns, small towns into small cities, like miniatures mimicking the motherland her pioneers had left behind. But unlike her proud parent, Tasmania remained true to the spirit that raised her from the ashes of convict settlements, and a fledgling society intent on defending the spirit that put England at the heart of an empire flourished. I am an Englishman, proud to be born and raised in her heartlands, and prouder still, to have found that most distant corner of our once great empire that embodies still the spirit of hard work, fair play and decency that is found within the beating heart of every true Englishman.
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Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 at 9:50 AM UTC
The Apple Isle
TASMANIA, The Apple Isle, rooted in conquest, convicts and cannibalism. Into this desolate paradise, suffering, starving Englishmen, dreaming of home, planted row upon row of small neat cottages, graciously adorned by native English roses. Convicted felons, shunned from polite English society, became her upstanding citizens, and like her fuel-laden forests, she smouldered, a daughter of mother England, steeped in her heritage like a lauded *** of Earl Grey. For two centuries, England grew, a wild sunflower, with London's sprawling population sprouting from 1m seedlings, to over 8m at the peak of her growth. And somehow, somewhere, something broke inside. Today, proud Englishmen mourn a loss of the spirit and freedom of their forebears, still proud, yet yearning for the simple, honest existence of a yesteryear long lost, and not forgotten. In Tasmania, time drifted lazily, as outposts sprawled into small towns, small towns into small cities, like miniatures mimicking the motherland her pioneers had left behind. But unlike her proud parent, Tasmania remained true to the spirit that raised her from the ashes of convict settlements, and a fledgling society intent on defending the spirit that put England at the heart of an empire flourished. I am an Englishman, proud to be born and raised in her heartlands, and prouder still, to have found that most distant corner of our once great empire that embodies still the spirit of hard work, fair play and decency that is found within the beating heart of every true Englishman.
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I'm told foie gras will change my life. That it's savory, exemplary to die for. Ironic. Someone already did that. A gavage in his throat... plumped, fed, suffocated by his own fat like an inflating noose on an unwitting neck. Ironic also that his flesh inflates my girth and feeds my gluttony. "Stupid things... don't even know they're dying." Dying indeed. A slow and painful death. And how deserving of it, yes. Stupid things. Too stupid to recognize their plight. After all, don't the stupid deserve their fate? Ironic how - to this day - we still think we're so much more evolved than our forebears. Evolution aside, The Divine Rights of the Food Chain still stand. *I do not understand it, therefore it is less intelligent than I, therefore I have the right to torture it. I made it, therefore it cannot live without me, therefore I have the right to ruin it. I own it, therefore it is mine, therefore I have the right to **** it.* Our strength grants us Divine Right, indeed. May the kingdom prosper under our boots and be grateful, for history has proven us such gracious and kind masters, after all. Are we not?
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 7:02 PM UTC
Foie Gras
why don't we all do the primal thing take off our clothes and reveal everything not a stitch of clothing did Neanderthal folk ware they allowed their naked bodies to breath the air nudist colonies are the last bastion of bare skin the people at these places never fail to grin without dresses and pants they are a happy crew all of them putting their kit out on view it is a norm for us to take in the sunshine whilst bare and a law should be passed to permit this fair we've been overly wrapped in fabric for years no wonder we've been without any cheer the straight laced may not be too keen on ****** but may I remind them it is such a liberty shedding the coats and petticoats wont do any harm and showing a little of our bodies isn't cause for alarm our forebears of a by gone era were not glad they ran around in the buff and never did anything bad those who wish to be in a state of undress take off your attire and don't feel any stress
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 8:05 PM UTC
Nakedness (Humorous Poem)
why don't we all do the primal thing take off our clothes and reveal everything not a stitch of clothing did Neanderthal folks wear they allowed their naked bodies to breath the air nudist colonies are the last bastion of bare skin the people at these places never fail to grin without dresses and pants they are a happy crew all of them putting their kit out on view it is a norm for us to take in the sunshine whilst bare and a law should be passed to allow this fair we've been overly wrapped in fabric for years no wonder we've been without any cheers the straight laced may not be too keen on ****** but may I remind them that it is such a liberty shedding the coats and petticoats wont do any harm and showing a little of our bodies isn't cause for alarm our forebears of a by gone era were not clad they ran around in the buff and never did anything bad those who wish to be in a state of undress take off your attire and don't feel any stress
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM UTC
Nakedness (Humorous Poem)
As a child I never knew the colour of my skin made a difference to the person within I never looked at myself wishing I was someone else I never had to stand in line or in a place sat behind I never had to take a seat, at the back that was there only for me No one ever refused to serve me because my hair was black and curly No one ever made a joke because my eyes had a slope I never had to appologise for the colour I was inside but judged on the outside That's because my skin is white and hides all of me that's inside It hides the struggles my forebears had for being foriegn and blended black A mix that was made from love alone when someone said enoughs enough! So the colour of a loving heart that joins another to give a child is all in all who we are No white no black just what's inside and no more from fear should we hide Look inside we are so much more than a label another put on us Close your eyes we are all the same Is it so hard for you to love that way?
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Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 at 2:45 PM UTC
Labeled with love
** why do the white gulls call? (everyday must have its poem)** <> the cries are intelligible, each a separate story of: patient waiting, of seas unending waving, unchanging, cycling, waiting, prophesying, propelling history, retaining a staining past, future similar... why do the white gulls call? for evening tide rapid approaching, we may even have a decent sunset, first worthy of being drunk toasted, all reminders that this ordinary Monday, has nearly escaped without an extraordinary composition, you prone position negates inspiration, so rouse yourself, rise taller tribute due, tribute demanded, tribute needed, that is why the gulls screech, fearful of lapse, that poet will suppress what is compelled, no, compulsed! the senescent days offer no excuse, indeed, the time of limitation is nigh, is here, the gulls know their history human, its lore, needs foretelling, retelling, and keeping humans come and go, but gull generations require the prescient precision of their words, to define, to record each day’s unique way of living/dying, so they can become forebears of the future, the passers down, of that they cannot exclaim well, we humans are their heroes, living close by, we carry the gulls thanks given, for skilled appreciation so they cry out, is our poem be readied, for the day’s end comes closer and* every day must have its poem!
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Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020 at 6:56 PM UTC
why do the white gulls call? (everyday must have its poem)
I The arcadian past is dead. Perhaps it never was. On one hand a golden vision Of gallant and splendid men. Cobblestone dreams, A rustic thirst, Renaissance, invention, A proper bow and curtsy. The Paradise Garden and The hedgerows of old- Glint in the eye of the nostalgist. Our forebears And the open heath. Idyllic. Would that it still were. On the other a practical frivolity. Spoiled milk and discarded scraps, Leftovers thrown out. A forsaken time Of blood roar and cannon, Disease and fetid stink, Myth and choking smoke. Avaricious heads Atop pauper bodies. Ancient tombs Built of Hebrew tears. ****** sacrifice To hideous and foreign gods. Barbaric. Finally, it is no longer. II We, being young, The ungrateful and resentful, The unabashedly alien- We are the new now. We turned away from the trappings of The teachings of the wise. We sneered when those dotards Taught us their language, Their rules, Their type. We laughed when They corrected us, Told us not to say that. We detached from the decrepit womb, Formed as their inverse, Reflecting their faces While defying their antique sensibilities. We grew of our own volition, Created our own language, Etched our own runes, And, Ultimately, Shared with them Their very graves. III I, being young, And of the here, And now, Have been elected Into something So much more Than contemporary, Than modern, Something so inherently Now. I have been gloriously birthed Into this open present, This wonder of Internet And knowledge. The exertions of our fathers and Our mothers' cyclical toils Have built such a steadfast bridge Upon which the constant contrivances Of our Now Race around in dynamism. Aware of my place In this successive age, I fervently embrace Our Now, Not to reject the past, Never, But to nurture its nascent chapter. -c. c. Condry
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Mar 12, 2011
Mar 12, 2011 at 8:23 PM UTC
The Arcadian Past
I The arcadian past is dead. Perhaps it never was. On one hand a golden vision Of gallant and splendid men. Cobblestone dreams, A rustic thirst, Renaissance, invention, A proper bow and curtsy. The Paradise Garden and The hedgerows of old- Glint in the eye of the nostalgist. Our forebears And the open heath. Idyllic. Would that it still were. On the other a practical frivolity. Spoiled milk and discarded scraps, Leftovers thrown out. A forsaken time Of blood roar and cannon, Disease and fetid stink, Myth and choking smoke. Avaricious heads Atop pauper bodies. Ancient tombs Built of Hebrew tears. ****** sacrifice To hideous and foreign gods. Barbaric. Finally, it is no longer. II We, being young, The ungrateful and resentful, The unabashedly alien- We are the new now. We turned away from the trappings of The teachings of the wise. We sneered when those dotards Taught us their language, Their rules, Their type. We laughed when They corrected us, Told us not to say that. We detached from the decrepit womb, Formed as their inverse, Reflecting their faces While defying their antique sensibilities. We grew of our own volition, Created our own language, Etched our own runes, And, Ultimately, Shared with them Their very graves. III I, being young, And of the here, And now, Have been elected Into something So much more Than contemporary, Than modern, Something so inherently Now. I have been gloriously birthed Into this open present, This wonder of Internet And knowledge. The exertions of our fathers and Our mothers' cyclical toils Have built such a steadfast bridge Upon which the constant contrivances Of our Now Race around in dynamism. Aware of my place In this successive age, I fervently embrace Our Now, Not to reject the past, Never, But to nurture its nascent chapter. -c. c. Condry
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smooth son/sun, you're a holy roller no fighting hedonism with a cold shoulder smolder, ignite into a ****** baptism of divine alarm because fervor is louder than alms so you could be a rolling ball of burning fingers kissing and singeing sinners who hinder what you want to tear asunder so blunder, reckless in abandon or you could be no man's son and everyone's sun and the one's son father, the world weighs a ton. our forebears split him with dynamite nile magic, scattered like stones, own the afterlife and he's got a son, so bright, light got a silver dollar and a star studded collar and the ring of fire, burns more than the rest stuff them all down inside a god's chest now the son's got a cold dish aching for one last wish, match, set, game vengeance on chaos, and sand in his throat, in his father's name **** some brother of cain and able way back when, when seth was still an animal obsessive compulsive, no demons in the cosmic sieve demons are angels, in his last breath the son wants to live but he's got to be some kind of doom cosmic boom, keep people straight in a narrow room pretty tunes, ancient runes, weave the world on an almighty loom while the sun's high, and the son's high, and it's high noon.
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May 12, 2011
May 12, 2011 at 8:53 PM UTC
son/sun
As we got older, it became clear that we wouldn’t have the luxuries of drink without worry, of sleep without restlessness, of raising children without fear for their survival. It became clear that we would never garner the respect of our elders no matter how dearly we pined for it, and that the world itself would smolder while those responsible rested comfortably in their graves, and those of us to whom our forebears’ sins were bequeathed would be left to choke on the smoke and ashes of a promise to posterity allowed to burn instead.
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Jan 3, 2021
Jan 3, 2021 at 2:33 PM UTC
Posterity
At Warehouse I wander As light seeps from the sky Among the cold, grey tombs Of the ancient dead In this timeless landscape So remote and lonely Forgotten tongues whisper With the wind through the heather A harvest moon Not yet quite full Is the only witness To the truth of these stones My spine tingles The mind races I smell the smoke Of my forebears cremations And as I leave The moon a guardian Over these distant graves I sense communion Written after visiting the Warehouse Chambered Cairns on 26th August 2015.
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 1:11 PM UTC
At Warehouse Cairns
Little ant, who art thou that you run helterskelter all day long, day after day, forty-five feet for one small piece of leaf, three miles if I were to walk it. Why? Is it to assure the community that you belong? Is it to know you had a part in building the pyramid of stones you call home that took generations of your forebears to construct? Or are you just a part of a great machine, a mindless functionary on an assembly line? As I wonder who you are I wonder who am I.
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 4:42 PM UTC
Little Ant-- after Blake