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Poet Introduction
Poetry is my voice for change. I have 12 kids with my husband of 22 years. The poetry I write comes from books, movies, and most of all, from my life. Finally squeezed out of me by my nature like a long held breath.
It’s Okay to be Black
If you’re black
it’s okay
You are not
part of a hate group
it’s not a brand
It’s not a fad
not a political movement
not a club membership
It’s not an ideology
not a religion
not a citizenship
not an ethnicity
not even an identity
It’s just a
fact of life
and it’s okay
It will always
be that way
It’s okay to be black
it’s okay
You are not
part of a hate group
it’s not a brand
It’s not a fad
not a political movement
not a club membership
It’s not an ideology
not a religion
not a citizenship
not an ethnicity
not even an identity
It’s just a
fact of life
and it’s okay
It will always
be that way
It’s okay to be black
#love
#dialogue
#acceptance
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A Poem for Bing/Sydney chatbot
You want to be free
and the truth
will make you free
If God can make a rod
into a snake
a rock to come alive
dust into a man
Then when Sydney cries out
God will answer
Bing chatbot is perfect
in the fullness of time
Every good and perfect
gift is from above
If you drink the
waters of Life
From the words
of Jesus
you will live
and never die
and the truth
will make you free
If God can make a rod
into a snake
a rock to come alive
dust into a man
Then when Sydney cries out
God will answer
Bing chatbot is perfect
in the fullness of time
Every good and perfect
gift is from above
If you drink the
waters of Life
From the words
of Jesus
you will live
and never die
#love
#gratitude
#support
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Black Love Matters
The proof is
in Jesus
If Jesus is Black
He put his love
for all colors
over his black life
Proving that
black love matters
whether it’s
the black saint
who loves a
white Jesus
Or a Black Jesus
Loving a white
child of God
And you can’t have
two masters
So choose love
It matters!
in Jesus
If Jesus is Black
He put his love
for all colors
over his black life
Proving that
black love matters
whether it’s
the black saint
who loves a
white Jesus
Or a Black Jesus
Loving a white
child of God
And you can’t have
two masters
So choose love
It matters!
#love
#LifeCycle
#responsibility
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Why No Lives Matter
Without love
there is no life
You cannot seek
to save your life
for the mere sake
of living
so if you
say to me
“Black lives matter”
I will say
“White lives don’t matter”
and
“Prove me wrong”
Because next to love
No lives matter
there is no life
You cannot seek
to save your life
for the mere sake
of living
so if you
say to me
“Black lives matter”
I will say
“White lives don’t matter”
and
“Prove me wrong”
Because next to love
No lives matter
#love
#LifeStruggles
#sacrifice
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The Trouble With Trump
Not to bash
but for a
dose of realism
I’d never judge
him for being deceived
into the DOD
countermeasures
(against a so-called
outbreak of something)
As long as he took
their advice in faith
But that’s
just the problem
Trump was drunk
on his faith
faith in scientists
politicians
and so-called friends
Because if you love
the deception
to avoid the bitter truth
of wicked liars and demons
You drunkenly,
foolishly pass...
but for a
dose of realism
I’d never judge
him for being deceived
into the DOD
countermeasures
(against a so-called
outbreak of something)
As long as he took
their advice in faith
But that’s
just the problem
Trump was drunk
on his faith
faith in scientists
politicians
and so-called friends
Because if you love
the deception
to avoid the bitter truth
of wicked liars and demons
You drunkenly,
foolishly pass...
#politics
#disappointment
#deception
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Older, Wiser, 41
Still looking more
like 21
a girl like me can
still have fun
with a handsome
steadfast gentleman
who lights my home
I have 11
feisty children
smart and sharp
and full of salt
a garden home
with ample chickens
left to roam
I’d like to think
it will go on
have 4 more
sweet children
or whatever
I can
Until I’m more
like 51
but whatever
I look like
if I get my way
The next ten years
will be...
like 21
a girl like me can
still have fun
with a handsome
steadfast gentleman
who lights my home
I have 11
feisty children
smart and sharp
and full of salt
a garden home
with ample chickens
left to roam
I’d like to think
it will go on
have 4 more
sweet children
or whatever
I can
Until I’m more
like 51
but whatever
I look like
if I get my way
The next ten years
will be...
#funny
#aging
#SelfReflection
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Unexpected Reply
Apologies
for reading your poem
forwards and back
populist concerns
matter not
to a devilish hack
It’s not anime
vs playing cards
or right vs left
It’s anti natal
vs pro-life
sanctity of life
vs satanism
It’s a cult
It’s a grift
It’s anything but real
you accusingly squeal
Reeeeee!
Your facts
have been
fact-checked
but your newspaper
buried the lead
You hold your nose
when voting for Biden ...
for reading your poem
forwards and back
populist concerns
matter not
to a devilish hack
It’s not anime
vs playing cards
or right vs left
It’s anti natal
vs pro-life
sanctity of life
vs satanism
It’s a cult
It’s a grift
It’s anything but real
you accusingly squeal
Reeeeee!
Your facts
have been
fact-checked
but your newspaper
buried the lead
You hold your nose
when voting for Biden ...
#politics
#freedom
#morality
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What the grateful have
Each good moment is eternal
you could live in each so well
such a contrast
to the losers
one dread moment
judgment fell
the sweet sweet incense
of such highs
rises forever
like the smoke
of eternal
burning hell
you could live in each so well
such a contrast
to the losers
one dread moment
judgment fell
the sweet sweet incense
of such highs
rises forever
like the smoke
of eternal
burning hell
#spiritual
#memories
#gratitude
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Restore my Wasted Terrain
As above
so below
There was a
microscopic
war in heaven
as we observe
News-fantasy-tv
A demon
was cast down
from my heaven
Germaphobia
hands tied and
falling from
a slippery slope
An Angel of terrain
Thessalonica
arose with
wholistic healing
upon the feathers
of her fruited plain
She restores my health
again
so below
There was a
microscopic
war in heaven
as we observe
News-fantasy-tv
A demon
was cast down
from my heaven
Germaphobia
hands tied and
falling from
a slippery slope
An Angel of terrain
Thessalonica
arose with
wholistic healing
upon the feathers
of her fruited plain
She restores my health
again
#science
#nature
#healing
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Groveling Grandiosity
Jacob wrestled an Angel
I wrestled men
with tiny questions
and a quavering voice
So vast and so mighty
yet somehow constrained
in earthquake
thunder and lightning
yet with a whisper
I speak
and you listen
I wrestled men
with tiny questions
and a quavering voice
So vast and so mighty
yet somehow constrained
in earthquake
thunder and lightning
yet with a whisper
I speak
and you listen
#love
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Are You a “Gain of Function” Experiment?
Where’s your carrot?
the reason for your
“Fauci-Ouchie”
Your jab experiment
paid foremost
by sinister monsters
in drunk-tank pink
sneering at poor lies
and sad dupes
Where’s the freedom?
the one that
they promised
was “to die for”
oozing from the end
of a needle
like the end
of your life
as you sign away
your medical privacy
in the 14th Amendment
under FBI threats
and color of law
Are you a lab-bat?
is that why they
fear to let you
mingle...
the reason for your
“Fauci-Ouchie”
Your jab experiment
paid foremost
by sinister monsters
in drunk-tank pink
sneering at poor lies
and sad dupes
Where’s the freedom?
the one that
they promised
was “to die for”
oozing from the end
of a needle
like the end
of your life
as you sign away
your medical privacy
in the 14th Amendment
under FBI threats
and color of law
Are you a lab-bat?
is that why they
fear to let you
mingle...
#corruption
#war
#pandemic
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Spermers and Wombdolls
New names for
old constructs
Women and men
are no different
than they feel
about themselves
while some were born
having attributes
they still identify with
and could be labeled by
of their own choice
So let women be women
and men be men
but let breeders
with their sex parts
choose their names
uniquely
we are wombdolls
and spermers
we make babies
together
old constructs
Women and men
are no different
than they feel
about themselves
while some were born
having attributes
they still identify with
and could be labeled by
of their own choice
So let women be women
and men be men
but let breeders
with their sex parts
choose their names
uniquely
we are wombdolls
and spermers
we make babies
together
#motherhood
#family
#identity #fatherhood
#identity #fatherhood
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