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"overseers" poems
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 11:14 AM UTC
The fire this time
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Algeria a rich land poor people, Angola seems to have kings, Benin is blessed with voodoo, Botswana blood bulls diamonds, Burkina Faso can't cope coups, Burundi twelve years a slave, Cape Verde has half a million, Cameroon got cocoa, Chad's lake is shrinking, Comoros has under a million, DRC is third largest, Congo is it's neighbour with capitals facing, Côte d'Ivoire has few elephants, Djibouti's on the horn, Egypt has mummy's, Equatorial guinea struck oil in 95 but didn't loose change, Eritrea has 5000 running annually, Ethiopia's great rift is pretty ****** Gabon is subject to black gold, Gambia got a peace of it after 65, Great Ghana oasis of peace, Guinea is diverse, Bissau too, Kenyans have beautiful smiles, Lesotho is SA's baby, Liberia oldest republic, Libya needs liberty, Madagascar where are the penguins! Malawi has warm hearts, Mali is 8th, Mauritania is 11th, Mauritius marvel, Morocco fine leather, Mozambique keeps the dugongs, Namibia Windhoek ah, Niger after a river, Nigeria makes zuma rock, Rwanda listen, Sao tome and principe 2nd smallest, Senegoals, She sells Seychelles, Sierra Leone free? Somalia loose, S. Africa reign, South Sudan independent? Sudan - black, Swaziland more than solo men, Tanzania trade, Togo up down, Two knees yeah, Uganda teacher come simeon, Zambia's peace? Zimbabwe got rid of Mugabe. Always thought zed was co.za but we're actually co.zm, so what's zim? One way we'll loose change is when the overseers begin to acknowledge the under looked. -nyanta
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
AFRICA
Algeria a rich land poor people, Angola seems to have kings, Benin is blessed with voodoo, Botswana blood bulls diamonds, Burkina Faso can't cope coups, Burundi twelve years a slave, Cape Verde has half a million, Cameroon got cocoa, Chad's lake is shrinking, Comoros has under a million, DRC is third largest, Congo is it's neighbour with capitals facing, Côte d'Ivoire has few elephants, Djibouti's on the horn, Egypt has mummy's, Equatorial guinea struck oil in 95 but didn't loose change, Eritrea has 5000 running annually, Ethiopia's great rift is pretty ****** Gabon is subject to black gold, Gambia got a peace of it after 65, Great Ghana oasis of peace, Guinea is diverse, Bissau too, Kenyans have beautiful smiles, Lesotho is SA's baby, Liberia oldest republic, Libya needs liberty, Madagascar where are the penguins! Malawi has warm hearts, Mali is 8th, Mauritania is 11th, Mauritius marvel, Morocco fine leather, Mozambique keeps the dugongs, Namibia Windhoek ah, Niger after a river, Nigeria makes zuma rock, Rwanda listen, Sao tome and principe 2nd smallest, Senegoals, She sells Seychelles, Sierra Leone free? Somalia loose, S. Africa reign, South Sudan independent? Sudan - black, Swaziland more than solo men, Tanzania trade, Togo up down, Two knees yeah, Uganda teacher come simeon, Zambia's peace? Zimbabwe got rid of Mugabe. Always thought zed was co.za but we're actually co.zm, so what's zim? One way we'll loose change is when the overseers begin to acknowledge the under looked. -nyanta
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We create our own stories, our own gods and reshape our own peoples We also create our own demons and enemies. An old retired fighter once said to a traveler, "we learn not run from the enemy, but go towards them." In learning, his new pupil destroyed his heart and his lovers. And them, destroyed their own in turn. The traveler sits with piles of stories of all kinds now, from all over the world, in a library shelf like a white elephant of impotent rage in his room. For decades the populations of the world have been subject of mass experimentation by its overseers. In other stories, a people's Creator has gone mad working for his human creations which required using toxic chemicals to turn their raw materials into life, while working to reveal our own gift of growth from attachments and into self-knowledge, compassion. For decades also, populations of the world are kept apart from their own full living potential not because of some evil or mad Creator or some insanely depicted required competition towards reproduction or respect. Rather, because we continue to face our tasks through our mistakes and failures, knowing our deadly blows from through those we reject, shame and escape from, as our teachers of compassion if not more than those that we gravitate to or already belong and accept as our own. Thus continues perhaps the stories of people's potentials outside of their fear's many perverted versions. #
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 2:42 AM UTC
Friendly Deadly Until We Get It Right
A certain spectrum of whiteness still is delusional it thinks it is still torturing black people in private It functions as if it is out in the barren ocean on a slave ship choosing captives to **** degrade and throw to the sharks and the patterns of society are used to it like the sharks that changed their feeding patterns based on this **** and killing by slave overseers The white slave overseers enjoyed **** so much and the money from it that a whole social structure was designed around it the Ivy league institutions made this possible the government made this possible communities made this possible you make it impossible please and thank you
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Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 3:16 PM UTC
feeding patterns
Restless hungry, found a tiny scrap of a brownie in the back of the refrigerator, wrapped in plastic about the size of a large 35 cent quarter.   Gobbled up and gone. Eye had purchased it a week ago, maybe more.   Actually it was more like eye was held up at gunpoint by a sad young face for a large and green single dollar Bill. In return, was bequeathed said brownie eye dropper-ful. The  apartment I live in a big city, many apartments were recession empty for a long time.  But in the last few years, the empty apartments in the building were almost all sold to foreigners.   Now the bldg is an amulet melted of the lucky overseas fortunate, those overseers overseas seizers, who come to reside in the most fabulous site in these United States...and buy a piece of the dream away from the be-headers, secret police or governments that decide you are now an enemy of the state, as of this morning. No judgement. anyway, this doe eyed child of estimated six or eight years of age accosts me in our large lobby, proffers me the brownie scrap for a Bill. me a sucker of a salesman myself, and an eye affician-doe, well those doefuls, those eyes, no one could resist! so eye asked her name, but all she could say in Anglais was... "Brownie One Dollar?" laughing out loud for no apparent cause, the hanging about lobbyists looked at me staring... Why was eye laughing? laughing cause eye realized this elfin child had become fitfully but fully Americanized. and I loved her eyes in mine, and when I see her periodically, I say: "Hey! Brownie One Dollar, How are ya!" and everyone snicker smiles at the old man with the even stupider grin upon his eyes. That would be eye.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 7:02 PM UTC
the brownie salesman (the codes between us)
Restless hungry, found a tiny scrap of a brownie in the back of the refrigerator, wrapped in plastic about the size of a large 35 cent quarter.   Gobbled up and gone. Eye had purchased it a week ago, maybe more.   Actually it was more like eye was held up at gunpoint by a sad young face for a large and green single dollar Bill. In return, was bequeathed said brownie eye dropper-ful. The  apartment I live in a big city, many apartments were recession empty for a long time.  But in the last few years, the empty apartments in the building were almost all sold to foreigners.   Now the bldg is an amulet melted of the lucky overseas fortunate, those overseers overseas seizers, who come to reside in the most fabulous site in these United States...and buy a piece of the dream away from the be-headers, secret police or governments that decide you are now an enemy of the state, as of this morning. No judgement. anyway, this doe eyed child of estimated six or eight years of age accosts me in our large lobby, proffers me the brownie scrap for a Bill. me a sucker of a salesman myself, and an eye affician-doe, well those doefuls, those eyes, no one could resist! so eye asked her name, but all she could say in Anglais was... "Brownie One Dollar?" laughing out loud for no apparent cause, the hanging about lobbyists looked at me staring... Why was eye laughing? laughing cause eye realized this elfin child had become fitfully but fully Americanized. and I loved her eyes in mine, and when I see her periodically, I say: "Hey! Brownie One Dollar, How are ya!" and everyone snicker smiles at the old man with the even stupider grin upon his eyes. That would be eye.
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To the planet called Earth And its so called overseers: We are your distant neighbor From a far-flung star A thousand times greater than yours. We don't come in peace. Certainly, you may think That your intergalactic Space bound expeditions Got us all figured out. Your futile exploits Gave you but an idea That might turn out to be A million light years away From such a prized truth. But we know everything About your infant planet. Your warm-blooded race The silly thing you call Science And your many weakness. We have been here all along Since the ancient times. Your ancestors offered megaliths And long tried to build relations. But we were never pleased. Your intelligence, though much inferior Made us believe you are prepared enough To decode encrypted messages on crop circles. But even so with your best technology You have failed us once again. Humans! Take heed to the signs And the warnings of our coming. We have waited long enough And gave you time to hone your potential Only to find you stuck in your own maze. You call us aliens, those big headed monsters That you amuse yourself  in your movies. But you are the strangest kind of life That our probes have ever studied. Your saga shall be recorded well.
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Oct 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013 at 4:36 AM UTC
Extraterrestrial
pick your master under the cover of snow bends of darkness hemmed to the tops of conifers Soon I will visit to move you. Three appended signatures, Three thousand miles of telephone wire. This is the one letter I cannot send for there is no address for where you are, The one I wish to call upon has no receiver to respond. And now all my teeth begin to fall out Like excess light bleeding from your moons. I know the sound of Glass when I hear it. You have made weapons out of my junk and Then gone to war without me, I see you Against the whistling stars and overseers, Anxiety makes this heart grow fungus These fingertips weary, and I pull out my eyelashes As if trying to see you better through this impenetrable black nightness I lead myself into, until all that were corners and crests become the precipice. Insecurity turns to rooks, hatred turns to Jays Until the weeping have wept and I visit to stay.
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Dec 26, 2015
Dec 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM UTC
Oath of the Horatii
You think your children are being educated But they're actually being ego deflated They aren't being taught How to form a thought Because ... That's not good for the machine . You hear the fringe word meditation As if it's some kind of voodoo incantation Instead they want you to be fed A steady stream of entertainment As a way of keeping containment Off the Grid Off the  grid The inspector said We can't be having that Regulations regulations regulations Thats all he had to say Truth be known ... .....he was just a clone Latest model on display Notice how the men in blue Are becoming almost savage... ....In their  demeanor As they are primed to follow blind The Crooked Mind Of the Master overseer So totally convinced That they never even sensed They never were...   ..really A volunteer Primed and loaded Each one having been pre - coded By the educators in the classrooms That are The soul burning incinerators Burning away every trace Of any human emotions While swallowing down Steroid laced Psychotic mind bending potions As the rest of us are being fed... ... instead Of our daily bread Mind bending views Prepackaged news To keep us all shuffled up Off center So as to totally confuse That way we don't ever wonder Why we choose Once we find we're standing In the line to buy the latest toys   Keeping our  heads filled.. ..with noise That way We don't have any time to think As long as everyone behaves. They'll never know That they are slaves   No shackles , chains or wooden canes   To keep the masses in production We have the latest must-haves .. .... new introductions.    But time to sit and think...... That's not what the machine wants Us to do ! That's not In the latest matrix Silencing the external In search of those things That should be ETERNAL Will make you unfit for society As your number is etched Into The overseers recorder In this .... ...THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 12:41 PM UTC
Overseer is watching
You think your children are being educated But they're actually being ego deflated They aren't being taught How to form a thought Because ... That's not good for the machine . You hear the fringe word meditation As if it's some kind of voodoo incantation Instead they want you to be fed A steady stream of entertainment As a way of keeping containment Off the Grid Off the  grid The inspector said We can't be having that Regulations regulations regulations Thats all he had to say Truth be known ... .....he was just a clone Latest model on display Notice how the men in blue Are becoming almost savage... ....In their  demeanor As they are primed to follow blind The Crooked Mind Of the Master overseer So totally convinced That they never even sensed They never were...   ..really A volunteer Primed and loaded Each one having been pre - coded By the educators in the classrooms That are The soul burning incinerators Burning away every trace Of any human emotions While swallowing down Steroid laced Psychotic mind bending potions As the rest of us are being fed... ... instead Of our daily bread Mind bending views Prepackaged news To keep us all shuffled up Off center So as to totally confuse That way we don't ever wonder Why we choose Once we find we're standing In the line to buy the latest toys   Keeping our  heads filled.. ..with noise That way We don't have any time to think As long as everyone behaves. They'll never know That they are slaves   No shackles , chains or wooden canes   To keep the masses in production We have the latest must-haves .. .... new introductions.    But time to sit and think...... That's not what the machine wants Us to do ! That's not In the latest matrix Silencing the external In search of those things That should be ETERNAL Will make you unfit for society As your number is etched Into The overseers recorder In this .... ...THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
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A newborn father wears a path to heaven in polished holy marble 'neath the pedestal of stoney saints. Deific overseers cast artificial glory incandescently. A slice of dimly lit hospital heaven is framed with two candles and the incense of Betadine. Saint John's shadow shares confessions and supplications over a once-immortal man now unashamedly broken, bartering trade with God - his life for his son's. This shoebox chapel is starking cold. Cold enough to preserve meat, and doubts which mock peace against nun-hardened walls echoing Satan's laugh. Hope drowns in the ripples of a basin filled with water to wash our sins but not our fear. In the air hangs the promise of eternity (which is spiritual code for "death", but no one says "death" outloud. The more they don't say it, the more it sounds like "WE AREN'T GOING TO SAY "DEATH", WE CAN'T POSSIBLY SAY "DEATH", UNTIL IT IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE THAT WE MIGHT AS WELL BE SAYING "DEATH, DEAD, DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, DEATH AND TO TOP IT OFF...ON YOUR MOTHER'S GRAVE"). Yet piercing through the promise of eternity is the frail wail of his baby's voice. Legacy lingers in a plastic manger down the hall. Resurrection is more than a prayer, it is his spirit rising for one more miracle. Faith is summoned like a woozy fighter demanding his will to go on, beaten, half-concious on the mat refusing to lay down for the count. "God, I believe. Help my unbelief." The weeping man stares into a statue's eyes for salvation.
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 7:49 PM UTC
Newborn Father (companion poem to My Ever Faithful Father by AR Roberson)
who watches the watchmen or something to that effect its an important thought they keep an eye on us but who watches them are they their own check a very ab-usable system if they can't watch themselves we get more watchers to watch the watchmen but that same problem pops up their overseers get corrupt so we must watch them but you know you can't trust us.
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 10:37 PM UTC
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
This moment, I am God upon this town. I compass every window spread below: each pinprick point in total looking down a pattern only overseers know. I feel the human flow and ebb each minute perceiving both with every passing breath; each lighted room has home and hoping in it, each darkening a sleeping, or a death. And nothing, nothing makes it wait to darken; had I the power it should be shining still. Some other one you have to hope will hearken, some other on some yet more lofty hill-- whom priests and people plead to, not to be as powerless to hold these lights as me.
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May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM UTC
Pittsburgh
God had a green card But cannot get back in the gate. The Bricks are thick But not so tall, I think God may need to scale the wall. Are we safe in structures gated Must we stay in this prison Where women are hated. Our bones are hidden in tunnels. Where has my mother gone My sisters have disappeared, been Abducted into a cult; Suspicious Disinterest displays their guilt. There has been nothing to report. Maybe she has run away To find a new God, Someone has Touched her, she was not safe there In her own bed, in her own home. Some Blackman- Chanted hate lyrics At her; Encouraged by their overseers. Asian cultist cursed her in the womb. In India they ostracized and brutalized Her melanin, Queen of England, a ****** watches through syphilitic Eyes without concern. Beautiful cocoa,vanilla, and mustard Babies sold or married off to smelly suitors for *** before puberty; mere Children, march and are showcased For the wicked pleasures of men. But should I call them men? Remember we once ruled this planet Remember once we bore your beloved sons, Now we work and twerk our bodies As we answer to your perversions We no longer dance to bring rain. We slide down poles reluctantly Displaying our pain. My mother is crying for me My sister's are crying for me. God will ignite the lamp of justice God now has her green card and shall Return us "Back to our Spiritual selves. We dared not become too ripe, though We must remain agile or we be thrown away Like rotten fruit, never to be seen again God now has her green card and Will return us back to our Spiritual State. Once again - You shall call us "Heaven". Woman, who created man in her womb.. Became the enemy of man, and has been cast off. We cannot testify with ovaries or inverted testicles. Soon there was no natural preference No perspective of gender has man ! Procreation ceased,the ****** forever Banned to bear ovarian fruit. We who remain alive wait. Awaiting a Foreign God who's eager to Receive her green card, and save us from our fate. From the hands of a wicked system We are doused in the agony of acid Women perish, For the mercy of death we pray. My mother is crying for me My sisters are crying for me. God will again ignite the lamp of justice God now has her green card; And shall return us to our spiritual state. Remember we once ruled this planet, We bore your unloved seeds, who You've turned against us; We shall Return them unto our bosoms....And Once again, you shall call us " Heaven" ! © Vicki Acquah
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 4:22 PM UTC
GOD NEEDS A GREEN CARD
God had a green card But cannot get back in the gate. The Bricks are thick But not so tall, I think God may need to scale the wall. Are we safe in structures gated Must we stay in this prison Where women are hated. Our bones are hidden in tunnels. Where has my mother gone My sisters have disappeared, been Abducted into a cult; Suspicious Disinterest displays their guilt. There has been nothing to report. Maybe she has run away To find a new God, Someone has Touched her, she was not safe there In her own bed, in her own home. Some Blackman- Chanted hate lyrics At her; Encouraged by their overseers. Asian cultist cursed her in the womb. In India they ostracized and brutalized Her melanin, Queen of England, a ****** watches through syphilitic Eyes without concern. Beautiful cocoa,vanilla, and mustard Babies sold or married off to smelly suitors for *** before puberty; mere Children, march and are showcased For the wicked pleasures of men. But should I call them men? Remember we once ruled this planet Remember once we bore your beloved sons, Now we work and twerk our bodies As we answer to your perversions We no longer dance to bring rain. We slide down poles reluctantly Displaying our pain. My mother is crying for me My sister's are crying for me. God will ignite the lamp of justice God now has her green card and shall Return us "Back to our Spiritual selves. We dared not become too ripe, though We must remain agile or we be thrown away Like rotten fruit, never to be seen again God now has her green card and Will return us back to our Spiritual State. Once again - You shall call us "Heaven". Woman, who created man in her womb.. Became the enemy of man, and has been cast off. We cannot testify with ovaries or inverted testicles. Soon there was no natural preference No perspective of gender has man ! Procreation ceased,the ****** forever Banned to bear ovarian fruit. We who remain alive wait. Awaiting a Foreign God who's eager to Receive her green card, and save us from our fate. From the hands of a wicked system We are doused in the agony of acid Women perish, For the mercy of death we pray. My mother is crying for me My sisters are crying for me. God will again ignite the lamp of justice God now has her green card; And shall return us to our spiritual state. Remember we once ruled this planet, We bore your unloved seeds, who You've turned against us; We shall Return them unto our bosoms....And Once again, you shall call us " Heaven" ! © Vicki Acquah
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I saw... a huge, open space, arrayed with pink and yellow roses and zinnias...there were benches under trees that stretched towards a lagoon, for those gone weary, from their walks... I saw... a family...children were playing on the green, lush carpet grass, dressed in their bright-colored clothes of red and yellow, and blue jeans... confidently hopping, and tumbling wearing expensive rubber shoes...while having bites of sandwiches, and sips of juices... from a safe distance, seated on a bench, were the overseers...the parents...as two nannies kept close watch over the children....... I saw... a group of noisy children come in from the streets running barefooted, feeling the cool, moist grass... some refused to remove their rubber slippers, their clothes were old and tattered...too excited, they jumped.....lay on the grass without a care, they shrieked, as they climbed and fell from slides, obviously enjoying their visit....their shouts, their laughter seemed contagious, the well-endowed children, stopped their games and observed... I saw... how the parents summoned the nannies, they gathered the children, and all their stuff then marched towards a less peopled area, and there, they let their children play....while they sat on a nearby bench, pulled long sighs, one after the other...i wondered...were they exhausted? or, pricked by their conscience? were they sighs of relief.......because their children were now distanced......."safe," ......from the less fortunate ones? ::::::::: whatever happened to noblesse oblige? are these just two foreign words, with obsolete meanings? :::::::::::::: Sally Copyright March 9, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Mar 9, 2017
Mar 9, 2017 at 8:01 AM UTC
PEOPLE'S PARK
I saw... a huge, open space, arrayed with pink and yellow roses and zinnias...there were benches under trees that stretched towards a lagoon, for those gone weary, from their walks... I saw... a family...children were playing on the green, lush carpet grass, dressed in their bright-colored clothes of red and yellow, and blue jeans... confidently hopping, and tumbling wearing expensive rubber shoes...while having bites of sandwiches, and sips of juices... from a safe distance, seated on a bench, were the overseers...the parents...as two nannies kept close watch over the children....... I saw... a group of noisy children come in from the streets running barefooted, feeling the cool, moist grass... some refused to remove their rubber slippers, their clothes were old and tattered...too excited, they jumped.....lay on the grass without a care, they shrieked, as they climbed and fell from slides, obviously enjoying their visit....their shouts, their laughter seemed contagious, the well-endowed children, stopped their games and observed... I saw... how the parents summoned the nannies, they gathered the children, and all their stuff then marched towards a less peopled area, and there, they let their children play....while they sat on a nearby bench, pulled long sighs, one after the other...i wondered...were they exhausted? or, pricked by their conscience? were they sighs of relief.......because their children were now distanced......."safe," ......from the less fortunate ones? ::::::::: whatever happened to noblesse oblige? are these just two foreign words, with obsolete meanings? :::::::::::::: Sally Copyright March 9, 2017 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Who are we to say we’re better? Who are we to say we’re more declare ourselves the overseers and rulers of the world we know? Why can’t we see that each life is precious? Why don’t we understand the truth that no matter where it comes from each life deserves to live? We **** the earth. We **** her creatures. We even **** our own. Humanity has become a cancer draining life out of the world. Some of us try to stop the damage, to cure the earth of her disease but the only way to fix this problem would be to cure her of ourselves. Other creatures live together a perfect balance with their world but humans can never understand that each life affects us all. We feel so disconnected. We think we’re each in this alone. If we could realize we’re part of nature all our problems would be solved. We will have to learn compassion and respect for all the world. We will have to be more selfless than we ever thought we could. For if we don’t abandon our old ways if we can’t move beyond our past we ensure our own destruction. The earth will cure herself of us.
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Feb 3, 2010
Feb 3, 2010 at 5:45 AM UTC
Cancer
He had been sitting there by the riverside-- That was, by far, his favorite place to sit, you know-- And he was dreaming of Ella. He always dreamed of Ella when he sat beside the river. But he knew that he and Ella were never to be. He was black, as you recall. As black as midnight in December. And she was as pale as a snowflake that might fall in the same cold month. She was Miss Ella, daughter of the master. But, how he loved her. How he ached when he saw her repeatedly being called upon by men. Silly men they were. White men who didn't know how to hold a door open properly. Oh, they were so foolish. He knew how to open a door the right way; how to bow and let the mistress enter first. He knew. But he also knew that he was black as midnight in December. And she was as pale as a snowflake that might fall in the same cold month. And yet, sitting by the riverside, it did not matter that his skin was ebony and hers ivory. All that mattered was they were both young. And she was beautiful. He had watched her all morning while he picked cotton in the field behind her house. She had been on the back porch drinking lemonade. Sipping the lucky drink slowly, sensuously. How he had wished he were the glass in her delicate hands, brushing her lips with his touch. They had told him to keep his eyes on his work. Told him to stop watching Miss Ella. He would pay. But, regardless of what the overseers and other slaves said, He could not tear his eyes from her beauty. So he paid. They had dragged him from the field, his eyes still caressing her body. And the white, burly men had attacked him with all their hatred. And blood streaked, he was released, Given leave to go down to the river to clean up. As he sat beside the river, he did not care about his scars Or notice the pain. He was relieved. He had been given a few moments of respite. A few moments of leave to dream about Ella.
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 9:09 AM UTC
Ella
He had been sitting there by the riverside-- That was, by far, his favorite place to sit, you know-- And he was dreaming of Ella. He always dreamed of Ella when he sat beside the river. But he knew that he and Ella were never to be. He was black, as you recall. As black as midnight in December. And she was as pale as a snowflake that might fall in the same cold month. She was Miss Ella, daughter of the master. But, how he loved her. How he ached when he saw her repeatedly being called upon by men. Silly men they were. White men who didn't know how to hold a door open properly. Oh, they were so foolish. He knew how to open a door the right way; how to bow and let the mistress enter first. He knew. But he also knew that he was black as midnight in December. And she was as pale as a snowflake that might fall in the same cold month. And yet, sitting by the riverside, it did not matter that his skin was ebony and hers ivory. All that mattered was they were both young. And she was beautiful. He had watched her all morning while he picked cotton in the field behind her house. She had been on the back porch drinking lemonade. Sipping the lucky drink slowly, sensuously. How he had wished he were the glass in her delicate hands, brushing her lips with his touch. They had told him to keep his eyes on his work. Told him to stop watching Miss Ella. He would pay. But, regardless of what the overseers and other slaves said, He could not tear his eyes from her beauty. So he paid. They had dragged him from the field, his eyes still caressing her body. And the white, burly men had attacked him with all their hatred. And blood streaked, he was released, Given leave to go down to the river to clean up. As he sat beside the river, he did not care about his scars Or notice the pain. He was relieved. He had been given a few moments of respite. A few moments of leave to dream about Ella.
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~1~ INFAMOUS In the world's eyes rising to fame falling in SAME ~2~ OVERSEERS Government under the careful auspices of the Major Corporations ~3~ SOUL SIFTER The wheels of fate grind us fine bad fortune sifts 10W Soul Survivor
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Mar 20, 2014
Mar 20, 2014 at 1:11 PM UTC
three thoughts 10W
Why can’t you look at me as normal? Why do you see me a freak? Why don’t you think that my heart can’t break? Why can’t you understand that I own my own pain? That I drive myself insane trying to become something new. But when I say that I hurt, its, “who knew?” So put me in a cage, Condemn me for wishing for normality That wish led to my fatality. So I am here With the ones they call odd The ones you laugh at The ones you question Because if I can’t be normal, than no one can Spend my life wishing to be larger than life Wishing that people would see me, and not for my appearance. Because as this is written, I am in pain At this time I have no hope. So go and tell me “No need to mope” But hell, not even the pope Could pray the things I need prayer about. That’s why I fell so far behind Because I thought there was another path to find And music was the only way I felt right The notes where my eyes to see the light. But you still laugh at me Because my music is not sung at church Because I scream I am labeled a freak. But if I don’t have talent Why am I still writing on? Because one day You will remember the remraf name When I claim my fame, You will burn in the flame of my darkness Of my shadow So welcome to the carnival, Where the lowest of the low find the highest of the high Because today Is the day We rise, Every “freak” in the world Rise. Because a freak is the new normal And if you don’t agree, Than you can stand before me And tell me all my faults, Tell me my insecurities. And when you’re all said and done It’ll be my turn to pay my respects Because when you looked down at us You forgot that even you had overseers. Because what you do What you say Is downright ***** I am angry at your actions Treating me as a carney boy I am no freak I am no freak I am no freak Leave me be! Oh! Leave this alone Let me live my life So what if you don’t like my music So what that you don’t like my style So what that you are to ***** to make your own So what? So what?
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Apr 24, 2017
Apr 24, 2017 at 5:23 PM UTC
The Carnival
Why can’t you look at me as normal? Why do you see me a freak? Why don’t you think that my heart can’t break? Why can’t you understand that I own my own pain? That I drive myself insane trying to become something new. But when I say that I hurt, its, “who knew?” So put me in a cage, Condemn me for wishing for normality That wish led to my fatality. So I am here With the ones they call odd The ones you laugh at The ones you question Because if I can’t be normal, than no one can Spend my life wishing to be larger than life Wishing that people would see me, and not for my appearance. Because as this is written, I am in pain At this time I have no hope. So go and tell me “No need to mope” But hell, not even the pope Could pray the things I need prayer about. That’s why I fell so far behind Because I thought there was another path to find And music was the only way I felt right The notes where my eyes to see the light. But you still laugh at me Because my music is not sung at church Because I scream I am labeled a freak. But if I don’t have talent Why am I still writing on? Because one day You will remember the remraf name When I claim my fame, You will burn in the flame of my darkness Of my shadow So welcome to the carnival, Where the lowest of the low find the highest of the high Because today Is the day We rise, Every “freak” in the world Rise. Because a freak is the new normal And if you don’t agree, Than you can stand before me And tell me all my faults, Tell me my insecurities. And when you’re all said and done It’ll be my turn to pay my respects Because when you looked down at us You forgot that even you had overseers. Because what you do What you say Is downright ***** I am angry at your actions Treating me as a carney boy I am no freak I am no freak I am no freak Leave me be! Oh! Leave this alone Let me live my life So what if you don’t like my music So what that you don’t like my style So what that you are to ***** to make your own So what? So what?
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i lose so many people on this sick journey to nowhere honestly its so **** draining hush little moon, don't say a word freezing is not your demise autumn will come and go but guilt lasts until you weep over a strangers grave hold on little duckling, your time will come stationary living isn't for people like us winters will fill you, **** will weigh down your bones but hurt will taint the living sleep little seashell, just close your eyes homely overseers spitting "thrivethrivethrIVETHRIVETHRIVE" summer makes us tear out sinew from our muscles and pray to the great spirit we are washed away by the tide but salt water doesn't cure distance die little raincloud, just drift away owl eyes aren't without a price spring takes its toll, but love cant kiss away history and prozac cant stop decay
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Oct 3, 2016
Oct 3, 2016 at 2:22 AM UTC
Isolation and Dreary Idealism
The barren, windswept world of the unforgiving landscape of bare, white cliffs like fists raging and pounding against the fragile crust of the old earth. An abandoned kingdom amidst the rubble of ancient towers and fallen cities built by fossils, striding across our bleak soil. A sea of glass, giving occasional diamond glints as if offspring of the clouds and the stars. A swift uplifting rush of wind is all you need and you are awakened to the wisdom of many layers encased into the rock. But not all great things are so revealing as the mountains. Forts lining the edge of the black and white icebergs put up by humans desperately trying to defend themselves against one another, ignorant of the fact that the very stone they construct their safe havens from will outlast them, for snow and stone covers all, even war himself. There is no limit in the eyes of the mountains. Brothers with time, dancing around to the very same blunt tune, overseers of all occasions. They recognise and understand all, for they have seen all. The eyes of the mountains will not be veiled. People flock in their hundreds to admire the glinting white daughter of the mountains, using her, feeling her speed under their feet. She gives them joy and happiness, laughing amidst her hair. The mountains are imperceptible to them but He doesn't waver, only forgives, for the eyes of the mountains are Father to all. Timeless legends are woven in with eternal beauty. His greatness would shame the children's empires, ever learning from the teacher of all. He never needs to move from his rocking chair as he sits atop the secluded throne. For he has eyes, his children do not. They pollute his hands and slaughter their brothers but they are illiterate and oblivious to true benevolence. But these tired, aged eyes can guide his children, and so they do, the eyes of the mountains, Yes, these eyes will do.
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 11:19 AM UTC
The Eyes of the Mountains
The barren, windswept world of the unforgiving landscape of bare, white cliffs like fists raging and pounding against the fragile crust of the old earth. An abandoned kingdom amidst the rubble of ancient towers and fallen cities built by fossils, striding across our bleak soil. A sea of glass, giving occasional diamond glints as if offspring of the clouds and the stars. A swift uplifting rush of wind is all you need and you are awakened to the wisdom of many layers encased into the rock. But not all great things are so revealing as the mountains. Forts lining the edge of the black and white icebergs put up by humans desperately trying to defend themselves against one another, ignorant of the fact that the very stone they construct their safe havens from will outlast them, for snow and stone covers all, even war himself. There is no limit in the eyes of the mountains. Brothers with time, dancing around to the very same blunt tune, overseers of all occasions. They recognise and understand all, for they have seen all. The eyes of the mountains will not be veiled. People flock in their hundreds to admire the glinting white daughter of the mountains, using her, feeling her speed under their feet. She gives them joy and happiness, laughing amidst her hair. The mountains are imperceptible to them but He doesn't waver, only forgives, for the eyes of the mountains are Father to all. Timeless legends are woven in with eternal beauty. His greatness would shame the children's empires, ever learning from the teacher of all. He never needs to move from his rocking chair as he sits atop the secluded throne. For he has eyes, his children do not. They pollute his hands and slaughter their brothers but they are illiterate and oblivious to true benevolence. But these tired, aged eyes can guide his children, and so they do, the eyes of the mountains, Yes, these eyes will do.
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crows shed the most finely tailored leather coats in an infrequent flap. so their eyes may overturn.
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Nov 16, 2023
Nov 16, 2023 at 3:55 AM UTC
Overseers of Twigs
The brightest lights tend to consume Put in the spotlight so my character is assumed Yet you won’t learn me til I’m exhumed Cause my legacy is more important than a therapy room Endorsed as I’m source for what stops your scroll So my role is funded if I never break the code Interact, react, or enact either way dollars rolling in Not to the masses but to certified evil overseers who entrust it to their next of kin Thinking your pen game going to help others with their pain But to maintain you have to insert the product name Keep telling yourself that’s it only one more album, only one more line Don’t worry your Grammy’s gone pile up over time Refine your story, tell your side but it’s hard to accept like a late Valentine It started with good intentions even some honorable mentions about your conscience decisions But what's an activist without comma sense? Homeless begging for cents or at least that’s what they present So I only get to wear the suit if play Superman but never Clark Kent
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May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM UTC
Public figure
There is something about a library That gets me thinking, All those volumes make me fiery. The mind travels far and wide, linking Me to places I can hide. Lives lost In dusty old books, New lives imagined where there is no cost But farcical flying carpets high above chinooks. I cook delicious and dainty treats, And watch other readers’ faces post euphoria. I learn how to write a cinematic screenplay that’ll get bums on seats, Ideas generated a plethora. A quiet and soulful space, Libraries help you positively grow. In here, I can understand the myriad of lace, And how to safely stitch a satin dress to flow. In here, I've also fallen asleep, So tired from overstimulation. The overseers struggled to rouse from deep, As these books hastened satisfied adulation. This is a base That deserves your attention, We’ll benefit from reading your next case Transported to lofty lands by the prose you mention.
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May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM UTC
The Library
having descried a day's bathing image-- loosely christened by running transparencies. lambently blind as a stone's stone throw-- prepossessed of distance. exhortations of: retain thy image! wholly bisected-- thus intersected by what beholds as the consequence of retain. oblations continually raised up with dull squints-- to please the heights of overseers. oblations continually lowered down with torches-- to please the depths of under-seers. our juxtapositional brilliance's harvested, by a static field of meditation. salient points of etheric half turns, suggest a circle already completed. retain thy image--as time compositely sketched. fugitive thy reality.
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 1:48 PM UTC
Phanopoeia