The Saga Of A Convict Lass
Such a nice girl
funny she never married.
Such a nice girl
money purchases only pearls.
Wisdom Sentimentality Sincerity.
Are free
inflating hearts that can be
above treacherous currents
embroiled
in bitter misty
dark green sea.
Past waves sucked out marrow
chilling chipped raw bones
stripping striped
flayed flesh.
Balsam rubbed in hardens
shuddering residual resistance.
As gashed groaning flesh
rigidly resists
handfuls of coarse salt.
Raked across weeping wounds
scouraged bitterly.
Lashes tongue flickering frequent
constant incriminations
falling relentlessly.
Cat-o’-nine-tails
allows neither
respite nor escape.
Killing by inches
held within rigged triangles
warranted flogging.
Canary century lashing ceremony
preceding gallows-tree.
Smelling salts sympathy denial Governor ordered
bridled regress deriving unconsciousness.
Induces no reverence
for suppurate righteous system.
Criminal tendencies mild discipline
sought to correct. Countless cruel blows
execute swinging carcass preliminaries.
While pantomime noosing rope end
round own neck passes for pleasantness.
Before affixing leg-chain
clinking clanking dragging irons.
Leg-bail impediment
affixed at left anklet
limits a woman’s freedom
surged natural running pace.
Fetters confine womanly grip.
Destitution’s free hands hopelessly handcuffed
impedes sentence side-stepped avoidance.
Imposes full furnaced marital crime.
Plead belly cheats hangman’s release
in exchange Wifely Newgate a prison keeps.
Until executioner’s enticing hand. Ends deprivation time.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in October 1995 on the 4.10.1995.
‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’ is the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period. See also ‘Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves’, ‘Money Purchases Only Pearls’, ‘Flogged Upon Rack At Sea’ and ‘Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life’ by Terence George Craddock.
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Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life
Past waves
sucked out marrow
chilling chipped
raw bones
stripping striped
flayed flesh.
Balsam rubbed
in hardens.
As gashed
groaning flesh
rigidly resists
handfuls
of coarse salt.
Raked
across weeping wounds
scouraged bitterly.
Lashes tongue
flickering frequent
constant
incriminations
falling relentlessly.
Cat-o’-nine-tails
allows neither
respite nor escape.
Smelling salts
sympathy
denial Governor ordered
bridled regress
deriving unconsciousness.
Induces no reverence
for suppurate
righteous system.
Leg-bail
impediment
affixed
at left anklet
limits
a woman’s freedom
surged
natural running pace.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’ is the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period. See also ‘Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves’, ‘Money Purchases Only Pearls’ and ‘Flogged Upon Rack At Sea’ by Terence George Craddock.
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Flogged Upon Rack At Sea
Wisdom Sentimentality
Sincerity.
Are free
inflating hearts that can be
above risen
treacherous currents
embroiled
in bitter judgement misty
dark green sea.
Past waves sucked out marrow
chilling chipped raw bones
stripping striped flayed flesh.
Balsam rubbed in hardens
shuddering residual resistance.
As gashed groaning flesh rigidly
resists handfuls of coarse salt.
Raked across weeping wounds
sentence scouraged bitterly.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’ is the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period. See also ‘Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves’, ‘Money Purchases Only Pearls’ and ‘Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life’ by Terence George Craddock.
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Money Purchases Only Pearls
“Such a nice girl
funny she never married.
Such a nice girl
money purchases only pearls.”
Times past money
also purchased colonial slaves.
“Wisdom Sentimentality Sincerity.
Are free
inflating hearts that can be.
Above risen
treacherous currents
embroiled
in bitter judgement misty
dark green sea.”
Transportation
punished both major and petty
crimes in penal
transportation seven year sentence
or life to America.
To return home
a capital offence
execution by
judicial process.
Exile thought
a crime major deterrent.
Transportation
to America seen as a humane
profit productive
alternative to execution.
Penal transportation
free labour practical profitable
convicts bled to economically
develop colonial territories.
Transportation crime
often; only stealing a loaf of bread
to feed a starving family.
Quoted lines adapted from ‘Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves’. See also‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’, the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period; ‘Flogged Upon Rack At Sea’ and ‘Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life’ by Terence George Craddock.
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Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves
Such a nice girl
funny she never married.
Such a nice girl
money purchases only pearls.
Not so convicts
transported by merchants
auctioned off
to plantation owners
upon arrival
in the American colonies.
Penal labour
was slave labour severe
physical
punishment... included
capital
punishment by flaying.
British French Spanish
colonial empires exploited
parts of North America
as penal colonies to cheaply...
develop an economically
underdeveloped
part of a state's colonial
territories. Slavery
even disguised as indentured
servitude of youth.
Many prisoners died
from excessive
labour, hunger, disease,
medical neglect
or during escape attempts.
It is estimated that 50,000
British convicts
were sent to colonial America
approximately
one-quarter of all British
emigrants
during the 18th century.
Wisdom
Sentimentality Sincerity.
Are free
inflating hearts that cannot
be free upon arrival
in colonial territories.
Voyages in linked chains
cannot rise
above treacherous currents
past embroiled
in conflict bitter misty
sentence dark green sea.
The United Kingdom deported its convicted criminals to her penal colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until the American Revolution in the 1770s. Dr John Dunmore Lang estimated 50,000 convicts were transported to North America, originally to New England. The majority were prisoners captured in battle who originated from Ireland or Scotland. Some were sold as slaves to the Southern states. See also ‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’ the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period; ‘Money Purchases Only Pearls’, ‘Flogged Upon Rack At Sea’ and ‘Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life’ by Terence George Craddock.
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Freedom Is Won By...
Freedom
is won
by common
people
with sudden
instantaneous
veneration
sacred sacrifice
uncommon
courage
uncommon
passion
hero lineage.
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See also the poem ‘A Saga Of Freedom Complete’.
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Freedom Stretching Liberation
Freedom
is stretching heart
stretching mind
giving
empowering
ordinary people
so that
they may
help others
and help
themselves
also.
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Freedom Is Liberation From Greed
Freedom is putting
the needs of many
before bean counting
profit
privileges
of a few
who can never
amass
enough wealth
or share prosperity
to enrich an entire
community,
city, nation
an entire world.
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Freedom Liberation From Emotional Overload
Freedom from fear
anger revenge
freedom to hope
to love
to rebuild
to remain true
to self
to all humanity
against all odds
with faith
love of
humanity
raised up
as an ideal
to be aspired to.
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The Sacrifice Of A Perfect Soul
Our Heavenly hope was prize won
with an offering given of free choice
through the blood gift of the Lamb
'Deliverance Through Life Choices'
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Inspired by the poem ‘Earthly Vessel’ by Brian Kilpatrick.
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Surgical Separation
Return
at abrogated last
left
twilight trophy Turkey
meagre memories
safely stored
between thin
protective plastic pages.
All permissible
total retrievable
removable
taken
from repudiated
heart zone
rendezvous
timed out Turkey.
Where
yearning youth
aspirations
are beauty
bled
broken
bound
abandoned.
Disseminate
upon Globe
shake shellshot shoulders
soul severed
suffer amputated liaision.
Filigree fragile finesse strands
snap shut between thin
clear plastic pages.
Safe sanitated
separation
sustains stains
seminal seminary.
Lifeblood bled bleaches
tantalized terminated
fetish felon disembodied
mink minx mistress mitigated.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in October 1995 on the 25&28.10.1995.
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The Truth Written Within Us
If God is truly within us as God claims?
Then truth written in our soul there retains?
The answer to life questions in our souls we may seek.
Deep within God wrote words of wisdom truth that speak.
How can we accept knowledge of what can be found there?
God gave our conscience to discern truth do not despair.
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Inspired by the poem ‘Quatrain #72 - Where do you look, dear friend....... ‘’ by George Krokos.
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Grim Reaper Creeping
melancholy serene pallor
wrinkle-less sour lip
telling complete tragedy
confessed contempt
who commissioned artist
a youthful death accepted
or bitterly pierce felt sorrow
shadow death contemplated
impending parting agony
approaching death steals
souls taken in youth blood
life pulse short struck down
life acts play short lived
final curtain scene haunts
bitter fruit to savour
is putrid plaintive flesh
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in 2nd February 1996.
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Love Life Lessons
nature has
so many
beautiful phrases
written within
flesh framework
of love life lessons
Splitting Images from the poem ‘Mortal Framework Evoke Life Lessons’ by Terence George Craddock.
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The Sun Stands Still
the sun stands still
only when momentous events
epoch time change
occurs imposes change across
normal time continuum
the sun stands still in the sky
in moments of miracle
when freedom refuses to die
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Inspired by Trilogy/ fantasy of the four elements(2) by Jabberm Alessawy.
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Alamo Moment Birth Phoenix
Alamo moment birth in phoenix
pyre eyes stirs heart of freedom
loving men to battle cry freedom
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This poem is a split image from the poem ‘An Egyptian Freedom Falcon Flies Battle Cry Freedom’.
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Tune In
pulse transmit send
time radio waves
era age capsules
space signal bound
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Written in September 2010 on the 23.9.2010.
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SS Demons
I artist
razor at throat
painted
a canvas life crime
I artist
fish hooks in flesh
wrote
a Holocaust Files.
Why is it popularist
history
remembers only half...
12 million killed, tortured
enslaved by vile sub-human SS
demons during World War II?
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Sarah’s Shadow – Silhouette Shines
You said
in riches vault cruel
Cave of Mammon
you did dwell.
I said
I’ve been there
more than once
as well.
You said
you love poetry
creativity
and fine art.
I said
that’s total
embodiment
of my heart.
You spoke
with wisdom
impressive theory
I too believe.
I spoke
with love
of inspirational wonder
I conceive.
You spoke
of getting together
for a cup of coffee.
I spoke of joy
in such greeting when
we have time free.
Time has a complex ploy
for us time free will ever be.
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The Cave of Mammon. From the 'Faery Queene'. By Edmund Spenser. (Old English poet,1552? –1599)
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White Collar Crime Amasses Billions
If we continue
to allow disease
white collar crime
to amass millions
billions illegally
for putrid debased
individuals never tried
for heinous greed crimes
upon society perpetrated
then how can
our nations prosper
when the fat
of the land
is stolen
not shared?
Splitting image from the poem ‘Injustice In Politics’ by Terence George Craddock.
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Three Crosses Framed Against The Sky
At Golgotha I looked up,
and saw three crosses,
framed against the sky!
In memory from birth creation,
God omnipotent immortalized,
this day his sinless son would die!
Behold, believers look up,
view symbolic appearance,
complete vision parhelion,
three witness bearing 'suns'!
God omniscient has written,
omnipresent Holy Trinity,
Christ’s complete victory
in perpetuity in canvas sky!
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See also the poems ‘Eyes That Look Up’ and ‘God Painted Memory Crucifixion’.
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