Introduction and Table of Contents
Introduction and Table of ContentsThe Proud BumblebeeA Fine MareReflectionMy RosesSome SecretsBlack Churches BurnThe FoxMy ZenithA Present DearBlack Lightn'gWhen Dearest Sleep Betrays My Restless MindEden AgainSome Blesséd DutyDehors ParisThe Lady and the LordShe Gazed Into My Eyes...In London Now...The CriminalMLKBlack Moses At the RiverMichael Brown of FergusonA Gladiator's CryThe Sonnet of a Warrior MartyredMandingo FightingThis PimpKiwi and Cotton Balls' Cadence [aka Ulysses and the Sirens]Judging the "Justice"Mother EarthOn Romney's Vote to Convict [aka Integrity]Sonnet (Cadence) of the American Soldier [aka Heaven's Path Through Hell]
Judging the "Justice"

Judging the "Justice" 
 
Self-righteously and forcibly, he spoke,
Like a great actor in his greatest play.
He said he had been wronged to passion stoke,
And seized on the divisions of our day.
O'er frank detractors, he did rail and lord.
His role was not to be confessional;
Still he bore no ill-will toward Dr. Ford,
Save to suggest she was delusional.
For she had spoken calmly under oath.
She said he tried to rape her as a teen.
There was no way one could believe them both,
Perhaps a polygraph could some truth glean.
Ere 'God and Country' he swore, 'Innocent,'
But would not to a polygraph consent!
 
Copyright 2021 Bernard A. Quarterman, Jr.