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2024 November Poems >> the dreams of lady marguerite
No. 04
the dreams of lady marguerite
Tribute to Marguerite Curtin
Jamaican Historian, Publisher, and Friend
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf
that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”—Michael Crichton
the love of trees, sophisticated hills,
soft-rippling streams, and fragrant daffodils
(among the thrills she calls her favourite)
ignites the dreams of lady marguerite.
echoes of windy nights under the moon,
shadows that lose their length at blistering noon,
children whose...
the dreams of lady marguerite
Tribute to Marguerite Curtin
Jamaican Historian, Publisher, and Friend
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf
that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”—Michael Crichton
the love of trees, sophisticated hills,
soft-rippling streams, and fragrant daffodils
(among the thrills she calls her favourite)
ignites the dreams of lady marguerite.
echoes of windy nights under the moon,
shadows that lose their length at blistering noon,
children whose...
#art
#culture
#historical
#nature
#tradition
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I Wanna Be A…
I Wanna Be A…
So I’m just a rock star
Trying to get on the stage
Thunder from under the auditorium
Broken string that I play
I’m just getting started don’t tempt me
Sit in the audience and listen
Feel like I can be one of them
I can be almost as good as them
Good enough for me and then some
I can slay a dragon if you let me
I can be your demon if that’s what you want me to be
I can be a friar serving penance for the congregation
All I want to be is a rock star
I know this will not...
So I’m just a rock star
Trying to get on the stage
Thunder from under the auditorium
Broken string that I play
I’m just getting started don’t tempt me
Sit in the audience and listen
Feel like I can be one of them
I can be almost as good as them
Good enough for me and then some
I can slay a dragon if you let me
I can be your demon if that’s what you want me to be
I can be a friar serving penance for the congregation
All I want to be is a rock star
I know this will not...
#culture
#identity
#music
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Clown Car Aquarium
A clown car like an aquarium, its paint
A slop of false gold. Inside, beta fish swim
In the swill and piss it holds. Slime-eels glide,
Cold and sanctimonious, droll as Stepford wives—
Bottle blond to the tits. Urchins cling, and spit,
And barnacles breed with barnacle wit. Lampreys
Thread in and out of shadows; oyster toads,
With flattened heads and bulging eyes,
Pump their jowls with lies. Bottom feeders
Suck at the floor, more and more; and above them all,
A bloated starfish spews agitprop galore, nonstop,
Claiming the...
A slop of false gold. Inside, beta fish swim
In the swill and piss it holds. Slime-eels glide,
Cold and sanctimonious, droll as Stepford wives—
Bottle blond to the tits. Urchins cling, and spit,
And barnacles breed with barnacle wit. Lampreys
Thread in and out of shadows; oyster toads,
With flattened heads and bulging eyes,
Pump their jowls with lies. Bottom feeders
Suck at the floor, more and more; and above them all,
A bloated starfish spews agitprop galore, nonstop,
Claiming the...
#culture
#fish
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Colliding Mists
Colliding mists
Soar above me and crash
Sunset off of Japan
Time lapse the time rushes over me
Cascading down and up again
Tranquility in nature within me
I’m koi what I’ll do Mount Fuji next to you
Tattoo Rising Sun Samurai is me
Feeling Nippon American I am
Clouds roll by Godzilla me Tokyo
Take off your shoes before you enter
Sit down cross legs have some Saki
Peddle downtown Hiroshima
Kamikaze lightning in me
I’m Japanese turned...
Soar above me and crash
Sunset off of Japan
Time lapse the time rushes over me
Cascading down and up again
Tranquility in nature within me
I’m koi what I’ll do Mount Fuji next to you
Tattoo Rising Sun Samurai is me
Feeling Nippon American I am
Clouds roll by Godzilla me Tokyo
Take off your shoes before you enter
Sit down cross legs have some Saki
Peddle downtown Hiroshima
Kamikaze lightning in me
I’m Japanese turned...
#culture
#happiness
#inspirational #nature
#inspirational #nature
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She Told Me That Her Name Is Vanessa
Mark went to Japan in
order to forget about
the disappearance of
his fiancé Vanessa
only to see her dressed
up like a geisha at his
best friend's house.
order to forget about
the disappearance of
his fiancé Vanessa
only to see her dressed
up like a geisha at his
best friend's house.
#culture
#deception
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#lover
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Red and Green
Red and Green
Red and Green within me
Sleep on a purple dream
Green relaxes me and me
Red is demon within me
Float on a puff of green
When I’m Red better watch out
Try to sleep Purple with you
Colors on Spectrum
Who is our audience that pays for it
Im Red and Green within me
You die for my former self
Im Autism within us
Everyone is on the Spectrum
Red and Green within me
Sleep on a purple dream
Green relaxes me and me
Red is demon within me
Float on a puff of green
When I’m Red better watch out
Try to sleep Purple with you
Colors on Spectrum
Who is our audience that pays for it
Im Red and Green within me
You die for my former self
Im Autism within us
Everyone is on the Spectrum
#alcohol
#Autism
#culture #marijuana
#culture #marijuana
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My kind, your kind
For Samhain
I hear words falling in a world
pronouncing them dead,
I watch as proud little letters
slowly burn on this modern soil
as those stay at home humans
setting up tables, their lips firmly
closed, and staying small, keep
on haunting steel and stone as
they passed down all that
once lived through them.
If you wish to believe this skin
was made to roam inside
those limited of spirits
i'm afraid you are mistaken
because my kind is not your kind,
i'm a wide...
I hear words falling in a world
pronouncing them dead,
I watch as proud little letters
slowly burn on this modern soil
as those stay at home humans
setting up tables, their lips firmly
closed, and staying small, keep
on haunting steel and stone as
they passed down all that
once lived through them.
If you wish to believe this skin
was made to roam inside
those limited of spirits
i'm afraid you are mistaken
because my kind is not your kind,
i'm a wide...
#confessional
#culture
#freedom
#LifeStruggles
#tradition
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Big Brother Rat Race
Big brother rat race
Adoptive experiment
Feeding hungered stimulation
Reaction according
To plasticity forking
Witness the moment
Walls imprison
Instinctual basis
Freedom to wander
Climactic cycles
Inside the maze
Alienating and dehumanizing
No role defined
By dated statistic
Electrifying brain signals
Somewhere down corridors
Love and advertisement
Emerge the same
Sparking neuronal tense
Literal, physical,...
Adoptive experiment
Feeding hungered stimulation
Reaction according
To plasticity forking
Witness the moment
Walls imprison
Instinctual basis
Freedom to wander
Climactic cycles
Inside the maze
Alienating and dehumanizing
No role defined
By dated statistic
Electrifying brain signals
Somewhere down corridors
Love and advertisement
Emerge the same
Sparking neuronal tense
Literal, physical,...
#culture
#freedom
#humankind
#identity
#spiritual
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Pulling PBS
Pulling PBS
Somewhere in Oklahoma
Clouds form and lightning strikes
Tornado starts funneling
10 minutes from my house
See trouble on the edge
Sit down turn the TV on
Hoping to find information
Put the channel of storm warnings on
And Amber alerts
Find just bars saying it’s not here
My so called leader of my state
Decided to cut funding for PBS
Trying to fight fake culture wars
Says their grooming our children
Looking for my ruby red shoes
To click my heels...
Somewhere in Oklahoma
Clouds form and lightning strikes
Tornado starts funneling
10 minutes from my house
See trouble on the edge
Sit down turn the TV on
Hoping to find information
Put the channel of storm warnings on
And Amber alerts
Find just bars saying it’s not here
My so called leader of my state
Decided to cut funding for PBS
Trying to fight fake culture wars
Says their grooming our children
Looking for my ruby red shoes
To click my heels...
#apocalypse
#culture
#environment #war
#environment #war
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2 Comments
Wrong from the Start
(or "The Beast System Blues")
Wrong from the start
slow roads through this
brokenhearted
asphalt flower
business
strayed from the pack
into bits of byway passing
the gloomy pine
of a much maligned
interstate split
an eminent domain
for crooks & culvert-crawling
philistines and misanthropic desires
to decimate this boom car parking lot hole
with an off-the-grid wandering
a sprat-covered heath
for bulldozer sprawling
mortality &...
Wrong from the start
slow roads through this
brokenhearted
asphalt flower
business
strayed from the pack
into bits of byway passing
the gloomy pine
of a much maligned
interstate split
an eminent domain
for crooks & culvert-crawling
philistines and misanthropic desires
to decimate this boom car parking lot hole
with an off-the-grid wandering
a sprat-covered heath
for bulldozer sprawling
mortality &...
#culture
#FreeVerse
#nature
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1 Comment
3 Amigos
Gino loved his music. He would make it on his laptop, he would record his vocals into it, and make sure that it's all back up.
Sitting in his room, making tunes on his ones, his Spaniard friend knocks on the door because she's shaking for a bong.
Gina was her name. She would buy weed from Gino every day before she started her shifts at work and became a slave.
Gino asks Gina if she would lay some Spanish down on a song that he'd been working on. What could go possibly wrong?
He calls his friend Rev over, who is a wizz on the guitar, with ginger...
Sitting in his room, making tunes on his ones, his Spaniard friend knocks on the door because she's shaking for a bong.
Gina was her name. She would buy weed from Gino every day before she started her shifts at work and became a slave.
Gino asks Gina if she would lay some Spanish down on a song that he'd been working on. What could go possibly wrong?
He calls his friend Rev over, who is a wizz on the guitar, with ginger...
#art
#culture
#identity
#masculinity
#music
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Brain drain of culture
Brain drain of culture
Teachers and nurses
Run for the exits
As right wing madness
Seeps in local school boards
Putting matches to literature
Telling them you can’t be gay
Or be he she or they
Mickey Mouse is an outlaw
Magic kingdom not so free
Down in Texas wheelchair of cruelty
Letting little school kids be mowed down
Or freezing with no power
As cops in the hallway on their phones
Are afraid of a one man killing machine
He’s giving permits to kill out like candy
As...
Teachers and nurses
Run for the exits
As right wing madness
Seeps in local school boards
Putting matches to literature
Telling them you can’t be gay
Or be he she or they
Mickey Mouse is an outlaw
Magic kingdom not so free
Down in Texas wheelchair of cruelty
Letting little school kids be mowed down
Or freezing with no power
As cops in the hallway on their phones
Are afraid of a one man killing machine
He’s giving permits to kill out like candy
As...
#CallToAction
#culture
#politics #responsibility
#politics #responsibility
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