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POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Poetry is my voice for change. I have 10 kids with my husband of 20 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.
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
28th Dec 2020 1:47am
28th Dec 2020 1:47am
Inert Consciousness
There is intelligence
we question
as inert
although functional
What is alive
can breathe
the inspiration
of benevolence
not impervious
to precious needs
as though encased
in stone
like the boulders
Jesus threatened
with life
if his children
were silenced
we question
as inert
although functional
What is alive
can breathe
the inspiration
of benevolence
not impervious
to precious needs
as though encased
in stone
like the boulders
Jesus threatened
with life
if his children
were silenced
#spiritual
215 reads
3 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Dec 2020 5:49pm
27th Dec 2020 5:49pm
I AM (Not My Body)
I possess my gender
with my DNA
Please respect
the advantage
for me to claim
But if you see my body
you do not see me
Dysphoria is a body
mistaken for a soul
invisible vessel
neither male
nor female
no heritage but all
transracial identity
this is my culture
a family of Spirit
in a nation of souls
without ancestry
with my DNA
Please respect
the advantage
for me to claim
But if you see my body
you do not see me
Dysphoria is a body
mistaken for a soul
invisible vessel
neither male
nor female
no heritage but all
transracial identity
this is my culture
a family of Spirit
in a nation of souls
without ancestry
#family
#spiritual
304 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Dec 2020 3:46am
25th Dec 2020 3:46am
Christmas Looks Like Courage This Year
A lion in winter
with white lamb wool
stained feet and belly
with the grapes of wrath
A tattered treelike
symbol packed with
gifts for survivors
stolen from grinches
It has plenty of shoulders
to cry on
after your car is stuck
in the snow
In darkness
burst of light
with white lamb wool
stained feet and belly
with the grapes of wrath
A tattered treelike
symbol packed with
gifts for survivors
stolen from grinches
It has plenty of shoulders
to cry on
after your car is stuck
in the snow
In darkness
burst of light
#Christmas
282 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Dec 2020 7:22pm
23rd Dec 2020 7:22pm
Give Me Love - Not Affection
Your kisses betray me
the way they run away
over little frustrations
within every day
Your tenderness
evaporates
without any grace
It’s so cheap
you give and take it
to fuel simple
ambitions
Yet you love me
without any
qualification
So I say
keep your affection
because it’s worse
than aggression
or controlling
possession
when your wrath
chooses the
absentee path
instead of steady mercy
and direct confrontation
the way they run away
over little frustrations
within every day
Your tenderness
evaporates
without any grace
It’s so cheap
you give and take it
to fuel simple
ambitions
Yet you love me
without any
qualification
So I say
keep your affection
because it’s worse
than aggression
or controlling
possession
when your wrath
chooses the
absentee path
instead of steady mercy
and direct confrontation
#love
#frustration
308 reads
2 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2020 6:57pm
22nd Dec 2020 6:57pm
Dear War Machine
Founded in the 1910s
in the lands of the free
(Andrew Jackson killed you
for the previous 70 years)
Should we call or write
about that “loan”
you suddenly pull in?
Did you take my signature
as a loan
and fraudulently convert?
Now you come along
to companies like
Rebel News
to bloody harvest
what you already stole?
not value to me
you don’t say?
But value to you?
Expanding credit
as you sell bonds
with signatures to pay
for all these hands ...
in the lands of the free
(Andrew Jackson killed you
for the previous 70 years)
Should we call or write
about that “loan”
you suddenly pull in?
Did you take my signature
as a loan
and fraudulently convert?
Now you come along
to companies like
Rebel News
to bloody harvest
what you already stole?
not value to me
you don’t say?
But value to you?
Expanding credit
as you sell bonds
with signatures to pay
for all these hands ...
#corruption
#dialogue
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1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Dec 2020 4:49pm
17th Dec 2020 4:49pm
Ruby Freeman - Say Her Name
and let it sink in...
because she
represents
under witness
protection
because she was
more like Peter
than Judas
or Jesus
on election night
in a scheme
too much like
cowards parting
a stolen lamb
from our temple
Lady Liberty’s
Body Politic
running ballots
over and over
in secrecy
the dead of night’s
deception
a sacred
pact of truth
desecrated
but not in vain
as she finds the
true meaning ...
because she
represents
under witness
protection
because she was
more like Peter
than Judas
or Jesus
on election night
in a scheme
too much like
cowards parting
a stolen lamb
from our temple
Lady Liberty’s
Body Politic
running ballots
over and over
in secrecy
the dead of night’s
deception
a sacred
pact of truth
desecrated
but not in vain
as she finds the
true meaning ...
#love
#forgiveness
#redemption
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2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Dec 2020 4:06pm
17th Dec 2020 4:06pm
Live and Let Live
If the virus
was so deadly
why do we
have to mandate
suicidal behavior?
If the virus
was so deadly
why is Sweden’s
death rate lower
although their
infection rate
is so much higher?
16% of their dead
had the virus
VS 6%
in the USA
Yet they do not die
more or sooner
A quarter billion
may starve from our
lockdowns worldwide
was so deadly
why do we
have to mandate
suicidal behavior?
If the virus
was so deadly
why is Sweden’s
death rate lower
although their
infection rate
is so much higher?
16% of their dead
had the virus
VS 6%
in the USA
Yet they do not die
more or sooner
A quarter billion
may starve from our
lockdowns worldwide
#hope
#healing
215 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Dec 2020 11:40pm
12th Dec 2020 11:40pm
When Your Gender Is Black
Everybody is gay
or everybody is
something else
Nobody is straight
because they cannot
have the opposite
There is no race
but the invisible
Spirit of Liberty
Judges rule
with an iron rod
and only truth will do
let the world be one color
and no spilling
of our one red blood
Let the captives go free
and do not assign them
their identity
We posses bodies
diagnosed
with chromosomes
Xx or Xy
My mother
and my brothers
are...
or everybody is
something else
Nobody is straight
because they cannot
have the opposite
There is no race
but the invisible
Spirit of Liberty
Judges rule
with an iron rod
and only truth will do
let the world be one color
and no spilling
of our one red blood
Let the captives go free
and do not assign them
their identity
We posses bodies
diagnosed
with chromosomes
Xx or Xy
My mother
and my brothers
are...
#humankind
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6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Dec 2020 2:54am
12th Dec 2020 2:54am
When Jesus Gave the Devils Free Speech
Better than sinners
hiding behind a fig leaf
of socially acceptable
filtered and censored beliefs
are the devils
who get a voice
Worse than unspoken love
...that devil you don’t know
mute and yet active
destroying the show
Silence just covers
the enemy’s blows
Even Jesus
let the tongue free
of devils warring with him
asked them their name
before silencing them to shame
Because he knew
revealing the damage ...
hiding behind a fig leaf
of socially acceptable
filtered and censored beliefs
are the devils
who get a voice
Worse than unspoken love
...that devil you don’t know
mute and yet active
destroying the show
Silence just covers
the enemy’s blows
Even Jesus
let the tongue free
of devils warring with him
asked them their name
before silencing them to shame
Because he knew
revealing the damage ...
#TruthOfLife
232 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
9th Dec 2020 4:32pm
9th Dec 2020 4:32pm
Cynthia Supreme
Honesty is her thing
she wants you to believe
I hope it is
as she sits
on her bench
in the Georgia
House of
Representatives
She says “walk light”
to those not on her side
While she tells her own
“You KNOW what to do”
I wish the black lives of
Georgia meant as much to her
(as they do to
me and you)
as she disenfranchised
the black swing votes
by letting some
stuff the ballots
pretending
it’s not right there
in the...
she wants you to believe
I hope it is
as she sits
on her bench
in the Georgia
House of
Representatives
She says “walk light”
to those not on her side
While she tells her own
“You KNOW what to do”
I wish the black lives of
Georgia meant as much to her
(as they do to
me and you)
as she disenfranchised
the black swing votes
by letting some
stuff the ballots
pretending
it’s not right there
in the...
#corruption
#politics
282 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Dec 2020 7:51pm
5th Dec 2020 7:51pm
Blame THEM if Biden Loses
Blame the ballot spoilers
without observers
The bribe makers
and takers
The talking heads
dismantling
by any means
necessary
Blame the braggarts
the jokers
and the flat-out
lawbreakers
for corrupting
the voting process
without observers
The bribe makers
and takers
The talking heads
dismantling
by any means
necessary
Blame the braggarts
the jokers
and the flat-out
lawbreakers
for corrupting
the voting process
#corruption
#politics
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5 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Nov 2020 9:37pm
30th Nov 2020 9:37pm
Feast Between Firewalls
Walking on water
just for starts
that’s life in a failed
democracy
risking death
by drowning
in darkness
your spirit
moving over
deep obscurity
until a land
of truth appears
in a great hall
where we dine
endlessly
on satisfying words
of closure
surrounded by
blazing walls
mid island
of lake fire
where only
monsters from the deep
are afraid
just for starts
that’s life in a failed
democracy
risking death
by drowning
in darkness
your spirit
moving over
deep obscurity
until a land
of truth appears
in a great hall
where we dine
endlessly
on satisfying words
of closure
surrounded by
blazing walls
mid island
of lake fire
where only
monsters from the deep
are afraid
#hope
#TruthOfLife
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2 Comments
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