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Rayn Roberts

Rayn Roberts

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July 28, 2020July 29, 2020Rayn Roberts

Shades of America

Shades of America White Supremacy, where is it? What every American needs to know about White supremacy Interview with W. Kamau Bell on the Tonight’s Show W Kamau Bell, who is he?   Feature image credits:   (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)  

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July 20, 2020July 24, 2020Rayn Roberts

Has It Really Come to This?

The story has been told and retold:  Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]

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July 15, 2020July 28, 2020Rayn Roberts

Break This Bottle

If I taxed my heart long enough to reach ninety-one I’d run short of beats, I know, dumb idea, no matter. I don’t need to map life that far to be happy– Still it’s good to know what’s out there before setting a course for the Isle of Calamity—waves rise and fall no gull flies […]

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July 14, 2020July 28, 2020Rayn Roberts

Current Affairs

Left, right, left, center, the political stammer But we talk on and on and past one another Real discourse too hard in the Trump nation. Junkyard Alt-Right Dogs bark racist slogans We breathe deep, ignore the jerk at work, we Do our best to couple, dismiss the nightmare For the dream of a big house, […]

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June 30, 2020July 21, 2020Rayn Roberts

A Few Bad Apples?

The War on Americans. Attacks on the Free Press. A war is over when hostilities end and people become civil again. The Civil War never ended.  Racism in America is due, in part, to the inability of Americans to end the violence of war.  So it goes on with talk of a second Civil War […]

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June 20, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

A Reckoning

There must be meaning behind a will, there must be healing. Night deepens but I cannot sleep, a lily pond glows drowsy koi floating by a moonlit walk in the park. Is there a reason to feel the loss of so many I never knew, did I help herd them to slaughter my twisted heart pounding […]

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June 16, 2019August 19, 2020Rayn Roberts

Why My Poetry is The Greatest

I have all the best words I use like no one else I’m a very stable poet a genius I confess, Vlad loves my poetry translated into Russian it grabs him by the poesy he’s got a covert mission. My newer stuff is best SLAM SLAM BLING BLAM make poetry great again… Losers! I wrote […]

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May 2, 2019August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

The Lifeguard

Donald was just beyond the breakers when I saw him in trouble struggling to stay above water, I was swimming to the rescue when not a hundred feet before I reached him, a huge grey fin parted a small wave…. he went under, the sea turned red, a seal got tossed up into the air by […]

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March 31, 2018March 31, 2018Rayn Roberts

Spring is an Empire

  Photos of Leaves and Trees by Rob Kashey.

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March 5, 2017March 27, 2017Rayn Roberts

Negative

Was there ever a president of the United States Who said he could freely grab women By their pussies and get away with it just Because he was a star? No, there never was one That said that.

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