Submissions by LobodeSanPedro
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Know justice ... Know peace!
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Sep 2020 2:08pm
4th Sep 2020 2:08pm
Birthday
#corruption
#racism
#inequality #poverty
#inequality #poverty
735 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Aug 2020 12:10pm
28th Aug 2020 12:10pm
Happy Birthday Bukowski ~ an e-card
#oppression
#racism
#inequality
853 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Jun 2020 10:01am
4th Jun 2020 10:01am
Block Party
Social media creates
its own invitations
So I went
I laughed
I cried
thinking about my dad’s last moments
His last words
They surely weren’t
I can’t breathe
Not to the 100 that came to get him
20 of them got hurt just trying to get at him
A knee on his neck long before that day
So I kneel
Trying to find the answer
And they kneeled with me too
its own invitations
So I went
I laughed
I cried
thinking about my dad’s last moments
His last words
They surely weren’t
I can’t breathe
Not to the 100 that came to get him
20 of them got hurt just trying to get at him
A knee on his neck long before that day
So I kneel
Trying to find the answer
And they kneeled with me too
#MentalHealth
#humankind
#racism
857 reads
11 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Jun 2020 9:40am
4th Jun 2020 9:40am
After the curfew
an erection
births bastards
essential cash cows
stray from herd?
get rebranded
McDonalds, Nike, Facebook
I’m out here as a cattle thief
until I’m lynched
My last words?
Same as his.
births bastards
essential cash cows
stray from herd?
get rebranded
McDonalds, Nike, Facebook
I’m out here as a cattle thief
until I’m lynched
My last words?
Same as his.
#racism
#HumanRights
#support
765 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Aug 2019 10:16am
27th Aug 2019 10:16am
Broken
She delights in the most improbable.
like breaking her crayons 🖍 to hear the pop.
a testament to the strength she’s developed in 967 days
But when she’s done
So are they
She wants no part of the tattered ones
Dutiful father.
I pick them up
Not able to teach her
just yet
that the tattered ones
paint the best stories.
Their armor easily
And willing shed to provide brilliant texture and contrast
I’ll try to teach her to love
the broken ones ...
like breaking her crayons 🖍 to hear the pop.
a testament to the strength she’s developed in 967 days
But when she’s done
So are they
She wants no part of the tattered ones
Dutiful father.
I pick them up
Not able to teach her
just yet
that the tattered ones
paint the best stories.
Their armor easily
And willing shed to provide brilliant texture and contrast
I’ll try to teach her to love
the broken ones ...
#children
#humankind
#inequality
1435 reads
22 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
17th Dec 2018 00:57am
17th Dec 2018 00:57am
D.O.A
inverted tombstones
mirroring concrete gallows
Sam’s slave ships franchised
mirroring concrete gallows
Sam’s slave ships franchised
#oppression
#HumanRights
#greed
#inequality
#poverty
1463 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Aug 2018 9:48pm
14th Aug 2018 9:48pm
Brooklyn 42
..
Jackie can steal home
It’s written in black and white
Brooklyn’s melting pot
Jackie can steal home
It’s written in black and white
Brooklyn’s melting pot
#sports
865 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd May 2018 7:53am
22nd May 2018 7:53am
. . .
rising o'er stones
seeds moistened by her sweet dew
love etched in darkness
seeds moistened by her sweet dew
love etched in darkness
#love
#death
#graveyard
1494 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th May 2018 8:40pm
18th May 2018 8:40pm
words of the week ...
#betrayal
#violence
#humankind
1384 reads
5 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
29th Apr 2018 3:10pm
29th Apr 2018 3:10pm
The Bill for those Rights
#humankind
#HumanRights
1298 reads
12 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Nov 2017 7:25am
30th Nov 2017 7:25am
I stay on my grind cousin ...
stay on it
... that's what HOV says
it's 2am
and the baby's sick
but she still laughs
when I sing "Baby Shark"
so I study
ate guinea pig ravioli
in Harlem on Thanksgiving eve
the girls looked beautiful
long and lithe in knitted grey was one
defiant natural locks define intellect for the other
so I study
they took my young prince away
psychiatric ward for children
i cried
critical race theory
and yeah
"Fuck you"
and the president you voted for
so I study...
... that's what HOV says
it's 2am
and the baby's sick
but she still laughs
when I sing "Baby Shark"
so I study
ate guinea pig ravioli
in Harlem on Thanksgiving eve
the girls looked beautiful
long and lithe in knitted grey was one
defiant natural locks define intellect for the other
so I study
they took my young prince away
psychiatric ward for children
i cried
critical race theory
and yeah
"Fuck you"
and the president you voted for
so I study...
#LifeStruggles
#school
1211 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Nov 2017 7:57am
16th Nov 2017 7:57am
Once
once I beat a boy
but I've done it before
the stench of his brown skin crackles
against mine
snot bubbles blossom
where he waters his cheeks
I'm going to work with his father
I know he loves him
and hates me
his father's belt
This was the first exercise I tried by Taylor Mali: Using the two poems below as examples, write a similar short poem that begins with the word “Once” and ends with the speaker of the poem admitting or confessing or maybe suddenly realizing that he or she or it has become an inanimate object like a flower or a...
but I've done it before
the stench of his brown skin crackles
against mine
snot bubbles blossom
where he waters his cheeks
I'm going to work with his father
I know he loves him
and hates me
his father's belt
This was the first exercise I tried by Taylor Mali: Using the two poems below as examples, write a similar short poem that begins with the word “Once” and ends with the speaker of the poem admitting or confessing or maybe suddenly realizing that he or she or it has become an inanimate object like a flower or a...
#winter
#snow
#spiritual
#suffering
#emotional
1171 reads
12 Comments
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