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Tag Archives: Black Lives Matter
A few bad apples
The people who say, “There’s just a few bad apples” refuse to look at the roots of the trees, refuse to believe the soil tests refuse to believe that those apples aren’t rotten, refuse to believe that all the apples … Continue reading
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Tagged America, apples, Black Lives Matter, death, history, life, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, systemic racism, truth, white supremacy
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Manifesting (some restrictions may apply)
We create our own reality, some people say but what about the reality of those people who have to lay their children into graves because the reality created for them by American taxes. You can’t manifest your way to safety … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Black Lives Matter, create your own reality, haiku, manifesting, poem, Poetry, reality, tanka, universe, war
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In My Dream: An Ode to Dr. King
(Maybe April 4th isn’t Martin Luther King, Jr. Day but it’s the day that in 1967 he most vocally spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the day that in 1968 he was assassinated. My poem includes the majority of his … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collateral damage, dreams, empathy, human rights, humanity, MLK, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, racism, refugees, taxes, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, Beyond Vietnam, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, civil rights, Dr. King, fear, hatred, human rights, iraq, MLK, Peace, poverty, racism, silence is betrayal, Vietnam, violence, war
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Uncle Sam’s Muslim Ban
We want to ban Muslims from coming to America because it is a lot more socially acceptable for Uncle Sam to kill them when they are in their own countries rather than here in America unless, of course, they are … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, apathy, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collateral damage, cops, death, democracy, drones, empathy, empire, greed, human rights, Iraq, justice, Muslim Ban, Muslims, New York, poem, Poetry, police brutality, refugees, slavery, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, Yemen
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, ignorance, iraq, Muslim Ban, palestine, poem, poetry, slavery, Syria, taxes, Trump, war, war tax resistance
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As American As Apple Pie
It’s awful, it really is beyond words how America separates children from their parents how Uncle Sam herds them like animals and throws them in cages… But I’ll let you in on a little secret… this shit is as American … Continue reading
Posted in america, poem, Poetry, police brutality, taxes, Trump, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance
Tagged America, Black Lives Matter, Genocide, immigration, poem, poetry, racism, slavery, taxes, Trump, war, war tax resistance
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Remembering Dr. King 50 Years Later
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death” On April 4th, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly spoke out against the war in … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collateral damage, history, human rights, Iraq, IRS, Jesus, slavery, Standing Rock, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, Vietnam, war, war tax resistance, Yemen
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, Beyond Vietnam, Black Lives Matter, iraq, MLK, racism, Standing Rock, Syria, taxes, Vietnam, war, war tax resistance, Yemen
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The Eyes Have It
The eyes of the prophets are crossed and the line is dotted signs are spotted in the crowd remove the shroud it’s too loud to think swim, don’t sink but crossed eyes blink Morse code teaching us to curse the winding … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, america, american dream, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, collateral damage, dancing, death, depression, drugs, earth, empathy, empire, eyes, god, government, greed, human rights, humanity, Iraq, Kaepernick, life, love, murder, music, night, poem, Poetry, poverty, propaganda, racism, religion, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing, Yemen
Tagged alcohol, America, american dream, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, dancing, drugs, earth, empire, eyes, football, god, government, greed, human rights, humanity, Kaepernick, life, mother earth, music, nature, Peace, poem, poetry, poverty, Propaganda, religion, Rome, seasons, taxes, truth, violence, war, writing
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September Tears
Forget about Afghanistan just keep your heads in the sand, and pay no mind to Iraq and only care about white, not black and only care about white, not brown look away as cops shoot ’em all down and as … Continue reading
Posted in 9/11, Afghanistan, america, american dream, Black Lives Matter, collateral damage, Iraq, Kaepernick, poem, Poetry, poverty, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, american dream, Black Lives Matter, iraq, poem, poetry, poverty, violence, war
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We Buy The Bullets
Who said it was written that some folks should die, who told us that only their families can cry. We’re all connected on this little blue dot. Whats that? A teenage boy was just shot. They might not … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, cops, government, I Can't Breathe, justice, letter, poem, Poetry, racism, solidarity, taxes, Uncategorized, white privilege, writing
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Break The Silence
My hands are red from blood thats shed my tongue was bitten another is dead Betrayed with silence for too many years time now to break from all the fear Slavery ended so too Jim Crow but we … Continue reading
Posted in america, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, death, dreams, Eric Garner, fear, freedom, humanity, ignorance, justice, Liberty, life, MLK, murder, Occupy, peace, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, poverty, racism, slavery, solidarity, truth, Uncategorized, white privilege, writing
Tagged America, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, bread and circuses, death, dreams, empire, humanity, ignorance, Jim Crow, justice, liberty, love, poem, poetry, police, poverty, prison, Propaganda, racism, slavery, solidarity, truth, white privilege, writing
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