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Taught To Fear And Suffer

Taught not born,
To hate.
Taught not born,
To fear.
Taught not born,
To discriminate.
And taught not born,
To jeer.

Taught not born,
To give.
Taught not born,
To take.
Taught not born to be of benefit to others.
But many bigots interfere...
With an infliction of their insecurities,
That smother one another.

Some are taught they are better than most human beings.
With a stunting of their own growth,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Incite Insight

INCITE INSIGHT

Can candlelight melt icy start,
incandescence stem descent,
incite renaissance, shared assent
discovering dream's counterpart?
May heart to heart though far apart
heartache soothe to circumvent
walls beyond walls which represent
apparent obstacles - impart
ardour surpassing Richter chart,
gift elan confident, lament
layers in lairs where hermit spent
temptation torment playing part?

Tenderness twins thoughts to teach
touch formal frontiers may outreach.

10 June 1996 revised 20 November 2008

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Instigator

Escalations,
Appear in their sights.
Warmongers hunger to incite fights.
Determined to burn with precise agitation!
Aggrevating civilizations...
With more repeated irritation.

An instigator like a cancer spreads.
Thirsting on conflicts,
To leave many dead!
Mourning victims with salutes and praises.
Something is in the water,
To daze their crazed heads!

Mourning victims,
With salutes and hollow praises...
Something is in that drinking water drank.
Affecting their minds and dazing their heads!
An instigator like a cancer spreads.
Thirsting on conflicts,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

quote by Audre Lorde
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This Has Never Been Rare

Incite,
They do.
With a barricade...
To masquerade insecurities.

It took overnight,
To fight themselves...
Over their rights!

And a greed that now sees them seething...
With heated breath felt,
Close to the nose of those they chose.

They see themselves as enemies.
Distrusted with beliefs...
That their way of life was jeopardized,
By those that despised them.

But none could do that better,
Than they do it...

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Don't Be Bullied By A Fool

If you've got a snotty nose,
Learn to wipe it.
And if somebody's on your toes,
Don't be invited to ignite...
A fight they incite.

Bite your lip unball your fists,
And resist the thought of it...
To do a walk away.
That's right don't fight.
Just do a walk away.

And that's not easy to do.
To choose to walk away.
No that's not easy to do.
To choose to walk away.

Don't be bullied by a fool.
Choose to walk away.
Don't be bullied by a fool.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A Thought Upon the Power of Words

Words have the power to please the soul of awareness
Words have the power of ecstasy; they have the power to heal or to scorn
Words have the power to rebuild worlds that have been torn apart by words.
Words have the power to invoke, to choke and to joke,
They have the power to bring you to your knees just as they have the power to plea.
Words have the power to incite trance like states, they have the power of fate,
They conceal meanings deeper than he greatest oceans and are a method
By which we express the emotions we feel, just as we may use them to question
What we consider to be real. You can incite love, hatred, fear,
You can bring a tear to the most stone cold of king giants and you may
Describe the sorrows of the world yet through words we may also share our dreams,
We may ponder upon the events of tomorrow and we may laugh with one another.
We may love and express love through our words though at times we go unheard,
We may share in our experience as we may laugh alongside memories ghost.
Words are the host to our instinctive knowing of all we wish to express,
Words are the dressing of our wisdoms blessing, with words we may put the soul to rest.

poem by David Lacey
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Rough Stuff

Folks are stuck,
And can't grow up...
To leave behind their colors.
Whites and blacks attack,
And all down the brown!
To be found...
All around!

What on Earth are we?
Why can't we share humanity?
And be what it is that God,
Wants us here to be!

The rough stuff is enough!
We all are living...
And times are tough.
Whatever it is dividing...
Has to crush this BS,
To snuff.
Before it chokes us,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Father Told

Father Told

i

Father told, ink filled pen causes writing
I poured ink into pen and started to write.

ii

Father told, the door if knocked
Some one or other will open that
I knocked at the door
From other side the door opened.

iii

Father advised me to walk carefully
I proceeded step by step
But I stumbled on the walking way
Father told, this is ornaments of walking path.

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poem by Bongokobida Zakaria
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Rien De Ce Que J'ai Vcu

Com' une feuille morte - que le vent d'hiver emporte
Je vole la drive - je vogue vers d'autres rives
Jamais je n'aurais pu croire - que j'en arriv'rais l
Je tourne en rond dans le noir - oui - et je ne pens' plus qu' toi
Comment pourrais-je te l'expliquer? Et par o commencer?
Dis-moi ou aller - tout a chang
Rien de ce que j'ai vcu - ne m'invite aimer
Rien de tout ce que i'ai vu - ne m'incite rester
Mais je suis l - j' n attends que toi
Et je perds - mes repres - dis-moi o est ma terre
Eh - c'est si fort et a ne ressemble - oh non
A rien de ce que j'ai vcu
Tu es celle que j'attendais
Celle qu'il me tallait
Tu es celle qui me donne - une raison d'esprer
J'ai suivi une toile - qui m'a conduit vers toi
Je me sens si fort - pourquoi aurais-je tort?
Rien de ce que j'ai vcu - ne m'invite aimer
Rien de tout ce que j'ai vu - ne m'incite rester
Mais je suis l - j' n attends que toi

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