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Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Sunday, July 27, 2025

When Unity is a Threat

 

Art of Division

In a time when public trust is eroding and unpopular decisions mount, the preservation of power increasingly relies on division rather than unity. By selectively awarding lucrative contracts to favored groups—often funded by gutting federal programs or displacing others—leadership manufactures economic loyalty while deepening resentment. Aligning with influencers ensures that curated narratives drown out dissent, turning public discourse into a performance of consent. And by appeasing one marginalized group through the targeting or deportation of another, the administration exploits fear and prejudice to fracture potential coalitions. These tactics, though cloaked in modern language, echo centuries-old strategies designed to keep the majority fragmented, distracted, and disempowered—ensuring that the true source of their hardship remains obscured.

The Art of Division 

In halls of power, where silence buys time,
A whisper becomes policy, cloaked in design.
They carve the nation not by need, but by scheme,
Feeding one hand while the other bleeds unseen.

Contracts fall like rain on the chosen few,
Funded by the jobs of those they undo.
Programs gutted, safety nets torn,
While the hungry are told to weather the storm.

Voices once loud now echo through screens,
Influencers crowned as the new kings and queens.
Truth is a script, rehearsed and refined,
While dissent is drowned in a well-curated mind.

And when unrest stirs in the belly of the land,
They point to the stranger with a trembling hand.
Deport the dreamer, cage the plea,
To calm the fears of the angry and free.

But this is no new play, no novel deceit—
It’s the same old mask with a modern beat.
Divide the poor, distract the wise,
So no one sees where the true power lies.


Co-written with Microsoft Copilot

Friday, January 10, 2025

Broken

 


Description

My version of a Triptych. A Triptych in poetry is the artful composition of a poem in three distinct yet interconnected sections, each telling a part of a larger story or theme. In my version, the first poem is on the left, the second poem is on the right, and the two poems read together, ignoring the division between the two poems, represents the third poem.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Strategic Couples

Through strategic planning, 

love becomes our quest,

For loving couples 

engaging life's many tests.

Friday, December 2, 2022

This is America

 

This is America,

Home of mass hysteria,

Where life is inferior,

And guns, we got plethora.

 

This is soil,

Where blood boils,

Water, thicker than oil,

Psychologically wound like coils.

 

This is the place,

Where you get erased,

Virological debates,

And politically defaced.

 

 

I'm so cool like whoa

FDA all in your bowl,

Control your menstrual flow

So new birthrates be real slow.

 

 

This is America.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

The Voice of Division


 

It was a black hole.

A nasty, filthy, dirty emptiness.

It was dark and damp and

creatures lived there.

You couldn't see them,

but you could hear their voices;

their ugly words;

hate-filled speeches;

statements with a single purpose:

to propagate divisions.

 

It was a hole of emptiness

stuck to his face

where a mouth should have been.

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Fading Democracy

 



"President Trump encouraged supporters…to vote twice, once by mail and once in person — which is illegal…."

-CBSNews.com

 

Fleeting and often in disrepair yet equal: Justice

is but a memory.

Agents of Peace; executors of law; fleshly bulwarks of freedom

is but a memory.

Simple smiles, honest handshakes, and polite hellos from perfect strangers

is but a memory.

Blue metal containers fed licked and sealed paper pouches

is but a memory.

And now

we're being told to

test the voting system

by voting twice...

 

Soon

fair elections

will be

just a memory.

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Title: Prayer Warrior
Artist/Photographer: Daryl Horton
Model: Daryl Horton
Description: From the book Mustard Seeds, Prayer Warrior symbolizes the religious spirit of the African American culture. Mustard Seeds is a collection of poems that explores how the various obstacles we encounter impacts our faith. View the book trailer and view the author's Amazon page at https://amzn.to/2Yatn95

Art Prints