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It's A Crying Shame
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curtis johnson
| Prose Poetry |
abolished, america, god, leadership, prayer,
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When Glory Arrives
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Catie Lindsey
| Free verse |
abolished, love,
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Lord We Need You
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Jocelyn Dunbar
| Verse |
abolished, 2nd grade, inspirational,
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Balloon Heads
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Jack Ellison
| Limerick |
abolished, future,
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Brilliance
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Robert Ronnow
| Verse |
abolished, animal, city, grief, hope,
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Anti America
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Heather Turner
| Free verse |
abolished, america, corruption, grief,
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Mother Nature
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elya natasha
| Rhyme |
abolished, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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NOT NOW
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Kuleza John Lembi
| Lyric |
abolished, anti bullying, gender,
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The Essence of Me
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Bio |
abolished, identity, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
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What It's Like To Be A Black Man In America
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Marc Acrich
| Prose |
abolished, black african american,
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Dictators will die too
by richard nnoli
dictators will die too
I never see a man
live forever
either have you
heard of one
so if men die
then there is a hope
of...
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Epic |
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Categories:
abolished, africa, confidence, courage, dedication,
P
by James Edward Lee Sr.
Positively P
Positional
Pleasing
Prominence P
Poster child for...
Porcupine
Penciled
Purple colors P
Disney character of cartoon carrots
Roman gladiators flying parrots
Eating possum, squirrels, rapid frogs
Flying saucers chasing three-legged cats
As I run...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abolished, anxiety, character, humorous, imagery,
Song From Beyond The Stars part 1 The Approach
by Ian Love
[ story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of...
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Verse |
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abolished, adventure, destiny, future, imagination,
The heavens be praised
by Julian Scutts
We no longer immolate babes on Moloch’s hideous altar.
May Heaven be thanked.
We no longer burn heretics at the stake.
May Heaven be praised
We no...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abolished, blessing, celebration, eulogy,
Babylon everywhere
by richard nnoli
Babylon everywhere
Babylon was destroyed
says history
yet Babylon rules the world
it creates Sodom
while our ladies
turn sodomise
it hides false greatness
while the uneducated
dream of it rich...
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Epic |
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Categories:
abolished, africa, courage, humanity, humor,
Is There No Place for Us
by Balambal Suryanarayanan
Is there no place for us ?
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
abolished, race, racism,
IN PERSPECTIVE
by Brian Strand
latent privacy
emerges into the limelight,
into the unfamiliar:
emptiness
exhaled
anguish abolished
destroyed:
insignificance
dismantled
despatched
to the extremities
of life...
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Verse |
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abolished, character,
Charlottesville
by sean ferris
Robert e Lee was a treasonous ole soul
To defeat the republic his goal
Slavery was abolished the people were free
But only two third a southern decree
The...
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ABC |
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abolished, philosophy, political, social, society,
Hope
by Lionel Derbyshire
Hope
poem
Lionel Derbyshire
A day dim
Cloudy and grey.
A dark cloud
Coming down
Like a contract with doom.
Dire straights did not have
Enough security
For this hazy day.
Feeling filthy and nasty
Abolished...
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ABC |
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abolished, anxiety, cheer up, dark,
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising Ladies of their qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal
by T Wignesan
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal
[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to...
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Epigram |
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abolished, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
flame polished
by pipping stars
flame polished
my
hands are wet
polishing flames
of
regret
names abolished
my
plans far fetched
abolishing names
a
nest
fame demolished
my
demands star bet
demolishing fame
at
best
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I do not know? |
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abolished, art,
Year Zero
by Wes Martin
Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge movement, the leader Pol Pot,
Killed twenty-five percent of the population, a fact most people forgot.
To spare you is no profit, to...
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Rhyme |
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abolished, conflict, history, people, political,
Following the Dissolution of the Union
by Andrew Jung
I remember my childhood in the good ol' USA
Fireworks at the lakefront every Independence Day
But that all was concluded twenty years ago today
The Union was...
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Lyric |
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abolished, usa,
Yes, That's My Crazy World
by raina liem
Yes, that’s my crazy world
Where the beetles are buses,
For the people and children
Are only an inch high.
Yes, that’s my crazy world
Where all clothes are...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abolished, crazy, world,
A Moment
by Anne-Marie Coreggia
A moment
(the full lyric is embedded on the video)
A moment just a moment
give it a chance let it take you
it will guide you and seduce...
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Lyric |
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abolished, beauty, nature, peace,
Clutching The Torch
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
So I fired up the welding torch
for my soul seemed a lil' ragged
n' perhaps seperating?
I thought of the young man
in the L.A. riots touting
we're not...
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Free verse |
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abolished, uplifting,
The School Boy Anthem
by john chizoba vincent
I will learn to read tomorrow
When the teachers are not around
When facebook becomes book face
and instagram, pages of a textbook
Then, my boom will be...
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Ballad |
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abolished, abuse, africa, age, art,
Token Monarchy
by Michael Coy
There is an hour
which interferes with work -
"our hour".
We use it, or are used by it,
to bound round supermarket chains
or...
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Free verse |
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abolished, work,
Unshackle my Verse
by Kai Michael Neumann
Poets Hanging from a Poet Tree
Poetry in motion is perilous a dangerous pastime a thing of the anachronistic
past in the global villainous village in...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abolished, bereavement, sad love,
Mayflower 2017
by Christine Phillips
The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of angry widows steadily grow bitter
The bosoms of weeping mothers open...
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Dramatic monologue |
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Categories:
abolished, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict,