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"squatters" poems
I walk around my neighborhood with my sister We wear white mask and black coats with hoods There’s never anyone in the neighborhood She said "It's too quiet." Yet you could hear the sink left on From houses people forgot they had Maybe they lost their house keys "Did you know that before that house was bought, there were squatters ?" "How do you know?" "I know because they were teens like me, but they ran out of luck.” “They had no money, did they?” “No money for what? Oh, they had money, but not enough.” “Enough for what?” I said “Making dreams come true in reality.” I remember telling my mom what I wanted to do for others in life Once I got done she asked me “But what do you want for yourself?” I said “To be known.” She said “What if your not known like singers, dancers and actors?” See I hadn't thought that far. Maybe that's why they became squatters In a house with broken blinds There was not a place for them My sister said “Maybe their dreams slipped through a crack in the floor of their old house.” Of the house in which they prayed for things to get better. Paid light and water bills And barely made it She asked if they were lovers “If they were, I wouldn't know. I doubt it.” We wipe the condensation from the insides of our mask With the ends of our sleeves and adjust our hoods As they adjust their blinds to the outside world.
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 1:52 PM UTC
Hills
a dark place, dingy and cobwebbed: the forlorn basement below an unfinished house; there is no hope of an HGTV house-flip or a makeover or the sort of boring/heartwarming story where some nice white family —or conveniently diverse— sets up shop, smash-cuts through a renovation and gets their dream home. no, the house will remain gloomy, this basement filled with emptiness; no one desires to come through the door, no one except the tweakers and the vagabonds and the runaways, the ****** and the pimps, the celebrities and psychiatrists, the demons and the ghosts, the preachers and their seething congregations of judgmental ****** that live across the street, and the ***** teenagers hunting for a place to try out *** no cleaning crew or maid service or organize-your-life guru or even the most experienced of all the world’s janitors could enter this house and clean it or beautify this basement or disenfranchise the squatters within; the neighbors just try and demolish it every chance they get, to rid their sparkling, spotless community of this disgusting eyesore.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 10:15 AM UTC
the perfect neighborhood
From day one he was trouble His parents knew on sight Their bundle of pure joy and bliss Was somehow, just not right It wasn't in his nature To be part of a gang He like to be off by himself He liked things that went bang He was troubled in his school years Never getting real good marks He didn't get along with other He was burning caps and making sparks But when this boy found fire Well, then....his world became real small Never mind the big explosions He would go and burn them all Small fires set in dumpsters Behind the shops, by where he ran He'd set fire to the garbages While he trapped a cat inside the can He progressed on up to buildings Made that jump, in one big way He torched a crack house, all abandoned Buy using gas and old, dry hay But, the thrill was not a keeper It wore off as fast as it arrived He had to extend the feeling That made his body feel alive He knew to see his fires He would have to volunteer First he would go set them Then, help put them out...I fear It was a stroke of pyro genius He'd set them and he'd put them out He'd learn what gave them trouble And he'd give them more without a doubt He never killed another Never burnt a persons home He always set his fires Where buildings always stood alone They caught him late September He'd burned a building late one night It was supposed to be abandoned But, was full of squatters, out of sight The picture, it was famous A hippie shaking someone's hand It was on the front page of the paper And it was shown through out the land A fingerprint was lifted A switch, that burned, not like it should And from there, it was no problem To lock this boy away for good He was sent away to prison He was gonna die there, bet on that And on his first day in that prison He saw an old man, who just sat Sitting in the corner by himself, no one around Sat a man, all old and wrinkled Lips were moving, but no sound Came forth from this man's mouth, his lips all cracked and dry, You could stand right there and listen And hear nothing if you tried...
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Aug 19, 2012
Aug 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM UTC
The Arsonist (prequel to Prison Singers)
From day one he was trouble His parents knew on sight Their bundle of pure joy and bliss Was somehow, just not right It wasn't in his nature To be part of a gang He like to be off by himself He liked things that went bang He was troubled in his school years Never getting real good marks He didn't get along with other He was burning caps and making sparks But when this boy found fire Well, then....his world became real small Never mind the big explosions He would go and burn them all Small fires set in dumpsters Behind the shops, by where he ran He'd set fire to the garbages While he trapped a cat inside the can He progressed on up to buildings Made that jump, in one big way He torched a crack house, all abandoned Buy using gas and old, dry hay But, the thrill was not a keeper It wore off as fast as it arrived He had to extend the feeling That made his body feel alive He knew to see his fires He would have to volunteer First he would go set them Then, help put them out...I fear It was a stroke of pyro genius He'd set them and he'd put them out He'd learn what gave them trouble And he'd give them more without a doubt He never killed another Never burnt a persons home He always set his fires Where buildings always stood alone They caught him late September He'd burned a building late one night It was supposed to be abandoned But, was full of squatters, out of sight The picture, it was famous A hippie shaking someone's hand It was on the front page of the paper And it was shown through out the land A fingerprint was lifted A switch, that burned, not like it should And from there, it was no problem To lock this boy away for good He was sent away to prison He was gonna die there, bet on that And on his first day in that prison He saw an old man, who just sat Sitting in the corner by himself, no one around Sat a man, all old and wrinkled Lips were moving, but no sound Came forth from this man's mouth, his lips all cracked and dry, You could stand right there and listen And hear nothing if you tried...
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Derelict, decrepit, Just a waste of space A relic from a different age One who'd run the race An eyesore Gives the place a name Represents a time long past It's no longer in the game A stiff wind would take it down It's not worth a single dime Take it down, demolish it It's enemy is time A single pane of glass is left Cracked from side to side In fact it's cracked the whole way through As tall as it is wide The others are all boarded Keeping out nothing at all The only thing the wood does Is act as canvas to them all Graffiti covers every space That is left standing here It used to be a factory once That made a local well known beer BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE.... Inside the building squatters sit Derelicts, wastes of space The building is their home for now Away from the rat race Eyesores, hidden in plain sight Humanity at it's worst That is the image given them Because of addictions thirst A stiff wind would take them down So thin and frail are they Protected by a building that A storm could blow away One side thinks it awful The other, thinks it's good An eyesore and a fragile shell Of old bricks and glass and wood But...for one plain window Separating worlds apart A crack runs through the window It is the buildings heart.
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 9:54 PM UTC
The cracked window
Her eyes, his lips His lips have the power to bring Her to a knee-weakening ****** ^ Her eyes have the power to stop traffic In Mid-town ^   Where           Straight men could only dream About the sway of her hips ^ A glimpse ^ Of His project runway walk His Aussie slang, Swaggers and squatters ^ A real man stands his ground ^ A woman She wants him to know she Can stand on her own two feet.
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Mar 1, 2013
Mar 1, 2013 at 8:38 AM UTC
Her lips, her eyes
An unrequited love that still offers a seemingly patronizing hand of rapport Is just another way to say "friend zone" But you'll be dancing in the end zone After you finally pay your student loan with money from the job you needed a degree to get which called for the loan in the first place The salt has spilled off the Lazy Susan Throw it over your right shoulder Is this my alter ego? Or do I have a split personality Maybe this is my light skinned doppelganger I've got to get these bats out of the belfry I've got claustrophobic, roided-out butterflies in the pit of my stomach Busted paper thin lips A blood sport Stop it from clotting Vaccinate me This vacuum is a rare find The national demographic is going through culture shock Assume a surname Put on the gargantuan pennant Go to the pulpit and beg for penance Gridlock The paleophone is cracked Study the topography And pay the bus fare The squatters who are on borrowed time Take a swig from the half empty bottle After searching their whole lives for an even break But are forced to cut ties and make a clean cut from society All the lent hands and ears Are lodged between ungratefulness and exclusive pity parties Sweet nothings and forget-me-nots Do a clean sweep It's imperative to have a method to your madness A portrayal of eccentric narcissist Painting self-portraits While on some kind of wonder drug Longing for some moral support Double-dealing Double crossing A hypocritical traitor Who has the right away I will watch your blood coagulate around the bullet holes As your body goes into Rigor mortis I will commit this picture to memory I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that it wasn't you But who wudda thunk it? It's all just an impromptu turn on a dime That encumbers you with cabin fever When you're on display in a human zoo Where unproductive bull sessions are a dime a dozen
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM UTC
Know What I'm Say'n?
An unrequited love that still offers a seemingly patronizing hand of rapport Is just another way to say "friend zone" But you'll be dancing in the end zone After you finally pay your student loan with money from the job you needed a degree to get which called for the loan in the first place The salt has spilled off the Lazy Susan Throw it over your right shoulder Is this my alter ego? Or do I have a split personality Maybe this is my light skinned doppelganger I've got to get these bats out of the belfry I've got claustrophobic, roided-out butterflies in the pit of my stomach Busted paper thin lips A blood sport Stop it from clotting Vaccinate me This vacuum is a rare find The national demographic is going through culture shock Assume a surname Put on the gargantuan pennant Go to the pulpit and beg for penance Gridlock The paleophone is cracked Study the topography And pay the bus fare The squatters who are on borrowed time Take a swig from the half empty bottle After searching their whole lives for an even break But are forced to cut ties and make a clean cut from society All the lent hands and ears Are lodged between ungratefulness and exclusive pity parties Sweet nothings and forget-me-nots Do a clean sweep It's imperative to have a method to your madness A portrayal of eccentric narcissist Painting self-portraits While on some kind of wonder drug Longing for some moral support Double-dealing Double crossing A hypocritical traitor Who has the right away I will watch your blood coagulate around the bullet holes As your body goes into Rigor mortis I will commit this picture to memory I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that it wasn't you But who wudda thunk it? It's all just an impromptu turn on a dime That encumbers you with cabin fever When you're on display in a human zoo Where unproductive bull sessions are a dime a dozen
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little remains of my grandfather's house: raw rafters, warped planks with hints my uncle invested in paint the windows all gone, time and twisters took them, and much of the roof--what is left of that sags, a silent submission to gravity a woodstove survives, cold to the touch, with no memory of the fire it once birthed, the precious prairie timber which fed it now it knows only mourning doves' song; winged squatters unperturbed by my presence, as if they know I lay no claim to now the old boards have stories I will never hear: the birth of babes, reading the Word by kerosene lamps, the last breaths of men the songbirds may know, but they woo the living in flight--a future of nesting and fertile eggs; they owe no belated dirge to long lost kin
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Jul 9, 2017
Jul 9, 2017 at 1:53 AM UTC
squatters
My God, my God, my mothering God! I cry to you from along this trackless waste, Where humanity buried itself so long ago – Scorched earth in place of garden sweet – No water here to cool the parchĕd lips, No sanctuary for the troubled, lonely soul. My God, my God, my mothering God! What did we do to make this barren land, Where souls are turned to shadowy shades, Eyes are empty and hearts grown cold? We long for your mercy, better than life, Gentle rain of grace, light in the darkness. My God, my God, my mothering God! I search this desert haunt, one broken man, Where my brother is stripped of all dignity, My sister is sold into slavery for pleasure; Men **** your world for vanishing profit, And crush your children for fleeting gain. My God, my God, my mothering God! Here in the wasteland we make our home With tears and curses and all our fears – We lost the war we began in ages past – Now here we subsist, hostīle squatters, Breath the air of the world we poisoned. My God, my God, my mothering God! This scorchĕd breeze carries the wailing, Cries of the millions of the sick and poor, Widows and orphans and lonely souls – We blinded ourselves; we are deaf now – Agony and angst, anxiety and final death. My God, my God, my mothering God! Is there some sanctuary in this desert land? To lay down this self-borne cross, to rest – Water to refresh, to cool the burning brow – Some sweet promise of the garden again, An oasis of hope amid our suffering shame?
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM UTC
My God, My God, My Mothering God!
My God, my God, my mothering God! I cry to you from along this trackless waste, Where humanity buried itself so long ago – Scorched earth in place of garden sweet – No water here to cool the parchĕd lips, No sanctuary for the troubled, lonely soul. My God, my God, my mothering God! What did we do to make this barren land, Where souls are turned to shadowy shades, Eyes are empty and hearts grown cold? We long for your mercy, better than life, Gentle rain of grace, light in the darkness. My God, my God, my mothering God! I search this desert haunt, one broken man, Where my brother is stripped of all dignity, My sister is sold into slavery for pleasure; Men **** your world for vanishing profit, And crush your children for fleeting gain. My God, my God, my mothering God! Here in the wasteland we make our home With tears and curses and all our fears – We lost the war we began in ages past – Now here we subsist, hostīle squatters, Breath the air of the world we poisoned. My God, my God, my mothering God! This scorchĕd breeze carries the wailing, Cries of the millions of the sick and poor, Widows and orphans and lonely souls – We blinded ourselves; we are deaf now – Agony and angst, anxiety and final death. My God, my God, my mothering God! Is there some sanctuary in this desert land? To lay down this self-borne cross, to rest – Water to refresh, to cool the burning brow – Some sweet promise of the garden again, An oasis of hope amid our suffering shame?
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"Buy a Star! Own a Star!" The sales are brisk, For cross-eyed lovers, Cross-hearted, lost, Beneath the spinning constellations Burning immortal exhalations, Desiring forever oxytoxic bliss, Burning ******* and hearts Yearn longevity of stars.... PT Barnum saw his opportunity: Sold cotton candy, Hawked elephants, Gawked dwarves, Hid the razors from Fierce bearded ladies, Even sold the elephants' dung, Provender to exotic gardens.... Barnum's packing up The Pachyderms, So Hawkers have us Gazing on the stars.... "Step right up! See the stars!" Purchase your fire in the sky! Your lover's name, Fixed in the firmament   A million years! At least the cotton candy And the elephant dung Served some earthy, earthly good, Paid dentists' children's college, Fertilized the family food. So now go claim a distant star, A million, billion miles away, Its light must make its journey A thousand years or more To greet your eyes, and yet, Your lover's sighs predict A hundred dollars' better spent Than on a good Chablis, Cementing mortal love in Distant stars so permanent, Visited through telescopic glass Atop our rented tenements.
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 9:02 PM UTC
Star Squatters' Circus
I pulled out a scarf and pretended to be a fortune teller; thick insense, marijuana. Lottery smile. I'd never lie about my lucky document shredder, my broken down motorcycle. Not like cheap wine poured over cellulite; a hog dripping blood; she hunter fed on leaves. Should the basketball hoop fall at a different angle and spare your clavicle, you would see smoke signals from the squatters place- their fruitcake is delicious. Can't be sure about their dog though,  their dog had rabies and a collar that says FREELANCE. I put too much hot sauce in the hashbrowns. I was still drunk. I told my boyfriend his fortune was insincere, that I am [today] a dead pilot and a stripper and a jilted florist all before noon.
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 8:39 AM UTC
45°
Fox Fidelis for Hazel So, she said, what do you want? *Somewhere warm to sleep inside,* said the fox in the snow. There’s only the bike shed, she said, and only at night. Right, said the fox in the snow *If you let me in, and you let me out, I’ll be a good fox.* You’d better be, she said, No squatters here, even at Christmas. Verstehen Sie? Etiam, said the fox in the snow, *Semper ergo sum vulpes fidelis.* Fox in a blizzard For Joe Looks serious this blizzard of snowflakes. A proper ice storm perhaps? All the same yet different the microscope shows. Who knows? Just hearsay it’s said, and cold on the nose, said the fox in a blizzard.
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Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013 at 2:45 PM UTC
Two Poems for Christmas Cards
there’s a living reality of fallibly hopeful distraction— sheltered squatters— residing above a room where everything important is angry, not easily suffocated. the warm polyester of a busy mind is sick with monotonous fear that the residents below will expand their decay, raging in a panic until the walls collapse and the nails in the floorboards are upturned and weaponized; a clever, persistent enemy. this unbearably, infallibly hopeless struggle. there are paintings on the walls and books on the shelf, plants on the windowsill in the late afternoon. i’m worried these will die too.
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Jun 29, 2023
Jun 29, 2023 at 8:23 PM UTC
Catatonic
Ragged clothes on the sidewalk, toddlers murmur and cry cold morning air where abandoned row houses smell of whiskey, sage, and molded cotton diesel exhaust belches into light breezes forests of burning coffee beans mingle into their hearth, the children, this is their nostalgia everywhere leavings of life scatter driven by wind cover unhoused, distressed, makeshift families they stand shoeless as fortunate people drive past Glut of humanity smells of wet newspaper grey gulls picking at grimy cellophane cardboard litters muddy sidewalks above the billboard the wealthy jeer at them sitting by a liquor store with bars on the windows shut out of row houses with black wrought iron gates basement stairwells filled with trash men in alligator boots ready to lunge into the lives of slick, bright, vacant women this is the fate of feminine mother love Thriving in dead landscapes growing lost opportunity under skyscrapers where it is always almost dusk
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Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 12:05 PM UTC
Squatters’ Children
Porcelain teeth flashing with that unnatural hue. Pandering your **** in an alleyway for two squatters and a proper *** to see. Knees bent, hips gyrate. Throwing **** like caution to the wind. Moldy pull-tabs torn limb by limb. Manual fixation (or so I've been told). Peel a label. Phone a friend. Flip the switch on this ******* shitshow. Ripe with intentions spilling on the carpet. Red like the drink, the drink that got me here. Slow ascension followed by the free fall ... as is life. Appreciate the absurdity of a swan dive straight into the asphalt.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 1:11 PM UTC
Arca and the Shirtless Circus
Dean Roberts had two homes One was in port Adelaide and the other was in rhw Adelaide hills and he lived in the adelaide hills but he had paranoid mates living 3 doors down from his Port Adelaide home You see there were squatters living there making everyone living around there scared to leave their homes and this usually happened every night from 4pm till dawn and then it appeared to be early but nobody went near the hooise except for dean Roberts who was hermless but the residents Of the nearby homes barocsded themselves in their homes and there were psychiatrists around for anyone who becomes too scared to cross the main road and making sure no vunerable person was struggling getting to where they wanted to go or where they lived and dean Roberts was unaware of all this because there was no sign of people living there and dean's best friend Toni was the target in some way, you see she lived in the house opposite that house And she called the police numerous times which forced cars to follow her making her look very scared but she still wanted to help the police remove them so she used herself as bait to catch them But this was easy for them but Toni was in danger of losing her life making her scream so loud But while Toni was with them dean was trapped inside his port Adelaide home but he broke the window and iinstead of going home to the hills he slept in his car waiting for the Squatters to come back and When they did dean grabbed a broom and came in there saying come on get out of my house and then while that was going on Toni was panicking crossing the road making it half way across and then going back especially after they took her from her place of work and dumped her at the lights making her scared to hold someone even the police Cause she watches the news where people dress up as police to take advantage of ladies like Toni and after dean got rid of the squatters for bow He drove home with people yelling out to him hi mr hero With people bipping their horn Saying you are port Adelaide's Hero but Toni was still struggling to get home and this forced the police to grab her and take her home To take her medication and go to bed and one of the squatters returned and was caught and shoved in Ron coopers psych ward where he was put on eppelim and he was forced to one day tell them why he lived in dean Roberts property and squatter said his name was ken Psrtley and Ron gave ken an injection of abilify to calm Him down and Ron went back home and had pizza and coke While ken was stuck in a Place he hated and Toni was still paranoid about crossing that road and dean helped her get through this like a friend would
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Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016 at 6:10 PM UTC
my seroquel dream in ****** town
Dean Roberts had two homes One was in port Adelaide and the other was in rhw Adelaide hills and he lived in the adelaide hills but he had paranoid mates living 3 doors down from his Port Adelaide home You see there were squatters living there making everyone living around there scared to leave their homes and this usually happened every night from 4pm till dawn and then it appeared to be early but nobody went near the hooise except for dean Roberts who was hermless but the residents Of the nearby homes barocsded themselves in their homes and there were psychiatrists around for anyone who becomes too scared to cross the main road and making sure no vunerable person was struggling getting to where they wanted to go or where they lived and dean Roberts was unaware of all this because there was no sign of people living there and dean's best friend Toni was the target in some way, you see she lived in the house opposite that house And she called the police numerous times which forced cars to follow her making her look very scared but she still wanted to help the police remove them so she used herself as bait to catch them But this was easy for them but Toni was in danger of losing her life making her scream so loud But while Toni was with them dean was trapped inside his port Adelaide home but he broke the window and iinstead of going home to the hills he slept in his car waiting for the Squatters to come back and When they did dean grabbed a broom and came in there saying come on get out of my house and then while that was going on Toni was panicking crossing the road making it half way across and then going back especially after they took her from her place of work and dumped her at the lights making her scared to hold someone even the police Cause she watches the news where people dress up as police to take advantage of ladies like Toni and after dean got rid of the squatters for bow He drove home with people yelling out to him hi mr hero With people bipping their horn Saying you are port Adelaide's Hero but Toni was still struggling to get home and this forced the police to grab her and take her home To take her medication and go to bed and one of the squatters returned and was caught and shoved in Ron coopers psych ward where he was put on eppelim and he was forced to one day tell them why he lived in dean Roberts property and squatter said his name was ken Psrtley and Ron gave ken an injection of abilify to calm Him down and Ron went back home and had pizza and coke While ken was stuck in a Place he hated and Toni was still paranoid about crossing that road and dean helped her get through this like a friend would
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jump in the passenger you can hold the shotgun and we'll take the tour in my temple god's house I've lost the keys in the same place I think as my mental the cops are just here restraining order the limits of my Love have boarders who pay no rent in my heart they've got squatters rights I can't kick em out but I can let you in a small fee of your time but in the end I will pay the price constantly in life first stop a cottage too small for all my baggage with her the closest I came to marriage she loved every part of me my biggest supporter emotionally saw my damage I put her in all my insecurities became her most treasured critic she buried my memory in the attic and threatened I'd be arrested when I demanded passage I didn't do her justice then and I can't do it now she's a stranger whose last act threw me out she's the only one I'm sure Loved me back
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Mar 16, 2018
Mar 16, 2018 at 4:26 PM UTC
Unfinished Love 2
Revolt from the cold of the wind, She spares know waste of energy Under diluted skies and foreign stars, The mask comes off Reveling the reflection of flawed Simply dark Indulged in silence,, for words cannot capture everything She exfoliates a still heart However in her stillness, Everything fluctuates Leaping and bouncing and ******* around In silence there is no stillness, For stillness is a state of mind Just as imperfection is perfect, So is she Adversed to love or not, Embrace your footprint I say Mankind's impeccabilities remain flawless Disastrous and miraculous art formed off original memories and emotions.   Expect the unexpected for it drips of meaning. A comfort to all wanderers and squatters I hope.
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Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013 at 7:25 PM UTC
Masteries
self righteous, self published sought out and backlash sick of black and white pictures of **** women and being taboo and the only thing left in the house that’s interesting to see is the moon through the window but you came along smashing my head against a windshield, and the moment of collision a weightless jolt voices echoing through the cracks in the asphalt gas leaks making me light heading and I’m hearing little melodies in light bass tones a gust of wind down the hill blows cracked leaves between my boots and I feel as if I was falling from a tree myself. And you hit me again thrusting over and over pulling my skin off in a delirium, where I numb my mind and try to read the story of your wall before you open your eyes again or I watch your chest, wondering how quickly your heart must be beating and how my legs are soaked wreaking of *** for the rest of the afternoon before wandering back to my bed sleepwalking to the beach, with images, rapids, sediment ashtrays covered in squatters, voyagers trying to stay the night without freezing to death because the residents across the boardwalk wouldn’t trust a tattered traveler with only enough possessions to fit on his back. reveries, savages, vagrants, in dreams follow me in the woods syndicating ****** schemes to keep me on edge the moon plays these motion pictures and I consume myself every night before the sun light.
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May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011 at 11:52 PM UTC
backlash
The colour of my blood And the colour of your blood Ain't they just the same?, Red. The blood that runs in both our veins Is the same colour, Red. The colour of my skin And the colour of your skin Ain't they just the same?, Black Yes I am from the Equatorial And maybe I am darker than you Blacker than you. Yes I am from the East, the west, the north or the south of Africa But still we all black. You might be lighter You might be blackish But still we are Africans We are Blacks. When the Whites come to your countries You call them tourists. But when us Blacks come to you You call us terrorists You call us refugees. We more than just squatters in your land, But we come seeking a helping hand from a brother. Why welcome outsiders Yet you oust you own. Why burn our shops? Why burn our shacks? Why let our souls weep? Brothers and sisters of Africa Why the violence? Why the killings? Why the brutality? Why the cruelity? What happened to humanity? What happened to Ubuntu? Violence has never solved a thing. Will killing a man with 5 children and a wife back at home, Bring food to your table? What will burning a man down to ashes bring you? What will stoning a man to death bring you? Can it pay your bills? Can it bring food to your table? Can it pay your your children's school fees? Brothers and sisters of Africa I plead with you Our, Black nation If we come together with mutual hearts and minds We can bring back love and peace We can fight poverty Just stop the hate! Our the violence! Stop the killings! It's enough!! Say NO TO XENOPHOBIA. # Treeweezy_d_poet ©2018 I am the voice of the voiceless.
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Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 9:17 AM UTC
NO TO XENOPHOBIA
The colour of my blood And the colour of your blood Ain't they just the same?, Red. The blood that runs in both our veins Is the same colour, Red. The colour of my skin And the colour of your skin Ain't they just the same?, Black Yes I am from the Equatorial And maybe I am darker than you Blacker than you. Yes I am from the East, the west, the north or the south of Africa But still we all black. You might be lighter You might be blackish But still we are Africans We are Blacks. When the Whites come to your countries You call them tourists. But when us Blacks come to you You call us terrorists You call us refugees. We more than just squatters in your land, But we come seeking a helping hand from a brother. Why welcome outsiders Yet you oust you own. Why burn our shops? Why burn our shacks? Why let our souls weep? Brothers and sisters of Africa Why the violence? Why the killings? Why the brutality? Why the cruelity? What happened to humanity? What happened to Ubuntu? Violence has never solved a thing. Will killing a man with 5 children and a wife back at home, Bring food to your table? What will burning a man down to ashes bring you? What will stoning a man to death bring you? Can it pay your bills? Can it bring food to your table? Can it pay your your children's school fees? Brothers and sisters of Africa I plead with you Our, Black nation If we come together with mutual hearts and minds We can bring back love and peace We can fight poverty Just stop the hate! Our the violence! Stop the killings! It's enough!! Say NO TO XENOPHOBIA. # Treeweezy_d_poet ©2018 I am the voice of the voiceless.
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O You Queen of Carthage! Kiss me dearly Through the violent storms Mediterranean warrants And be over me a watch Like a lion and her cubs from the Atlas O You Treasures of Masaesyli! Bid me whole a glamour Like colourful radiant orchids Baked to bask In the light sunset sheds And price me golden amongst there is O You Sweet olives Massyli begets Feed me reverence the drops you hold And lay me affectionate a sack In the mild winters With my soul a serene-calm O You Tripolitania! Posit me shields And hearten me as not afraid The swords squatters lift To jealously pierce the beautys I own O You Tender night breeze of Cyrenica! Solace my melting lips When the dessert roars And gentle my hand with seven kisses each O You The pleasing of the heavens! Idolize me like the Maghreb Make Me Idol ©Historian E.Lexano
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Oct 11, 2015
Oct 11, 2015 at 5:36 AM UTC
Make Me Idol
Time goes so slow when waiting for the dawn. These early mornings that ****** me from my haven that is unconsciousness. Where nothing can touch me, gnaw at me, remind me that all is not well. These uninvited guests that thrive in the darkness, they **** and poke around in my mind,   Evoking all my negativity, my grief, my pain. They remind me of where I am now, and of where I used to be. Delivering each morn the same shock again and again. They cling to this darkness like squatters, refusing to leave. I wait for the morning light, for sunrise, for respite.
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Nov 23, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 at 3:27 AM UTC
Uninvited Guests
Where God's colors renew the horizon's edge, Salvation Soldiers aren't to be found. And while prairie dogs find themselves squatters on their own land, upper crust artists show us where the day old bread is. This is a good place to clear your head if ever there was one. Where dusty markets lead down dusty roads, which lead right into the middle of where I want to be. Free and Alone on the side of a mountain, where the sun don't apologize to me, and I don't have to explain myself to anyone else. Some go ahead and call this God's Country. But I call this place New Mexico.
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Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 2:03 AM UTC
Santa Fe
*it’s not perfect... but **** me... there’s a life to be lived... even if it’s just defined as walking the dog, or drinking a pint! let’s just rearrange the solar system spheres with a game of snooker to make summer random with winter of the least expected follow-up.* you catch me playing with my fox / cat purring his ***** slingshot arousal just where the spinal cord in music begins and the evolutionary testament ends... you catch me there in the drift of night... and i’ll bet you 5 quid to have found quantum physics... a particular instance in a universe of innumerable stasis plurals of decipherable energy to pluck and theorise, like autumnal flowers readily drifting from the tsunami of green of summer to brown mahogany of autumn. here’s one for the puppet engineered to dance tugged at with its tail the solitary cursor; paw print dot dot dot? i had my two thumbs on it, squeezing out the hallucinatory juice of neglect, with scoffer ready bouncers of peeled wallpaper about to tattoo me in political conversation of slime slogans to shout! i heard squatters were about... i didn’t hear anything from newcastle, i guess the second mongolian invasion / investiture came from the north... rather than east anglia / saudi arabia.
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:33 PM UTC
slinghsot fox
Unremitting tears in dry eyes and halted flow of blood in nerves What lies just behind my pectus is a heart or a muscle filled with igneous unwanted emotions Let’s just hold our breathe for a moment and see moments of eternal attachments are becoming breathless with our detest Is it really necessary to search answers for all the unsolved questions and find reasons for all the incidents/accidents and bruise equanimity of sun soaked day calm attraction of loneliness Is it really necessary to drag all dead souls from their graves and **** them again I know restricted sensations are hitting my heart to be expressed to be showed to be felt and filled But is it really necessary to plead for the need to rest and cry over your chest to face the silence that will come after your departure Silence has its own words Darkness has its own color How does it matter whether all the squatters know this or not Its enough for me If I could let you know I and mightiness of my feeling started with you and will end with you
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May 21, 2016
May 21, 2016 at 12:03 PM UTC
The same feeling....within feelings
My windows point East The first touch of soft light Heavy darkness Caressing me while still ****** Mist sways in ghost like swirls Across the scythed field edging the yard I am thankful Deer play, eating the harvest lost by machine Tie dye Tuesday with assorted colors Stains on cement Waiting A robin's nest squatters are ready for flight New wings shake nervous feathers I am healing As the leaves unfurl Warm breezes skate through every crack Soaking up the sun with sable pelt Side by side Both hearts radiating love Her gentle purrs reassuring All is well Summer reinforcing my frame I am
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 9:29 AM UTC
Mason-Dixon Line Summer Therapy Session