Duping the Demons
...I often wake up tired
Too much cerebral housecleaning
Dusting, filing, musing
Feeding the demons
They are less likely to act up
If they are nurtured
Recognized for what they are
I no longer fe...
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Categories:
act up, fear, identity, scary,
Form: Free verse
A letter poem to the next black Friday
...A letter poem to the next black Friday (On the eve of)
I was encouraged to promote a white lie
Poetry I need to bid you farewell
I may stay silent, act up in intricacy
And also declare, I am no...
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Categories:
act up, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Sprucy Lucy
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Sprucy Lucy watering blooms
As pooch lounges, the kitten grooms
Each sprout peaks out toward the sun
Rising in vibrant hues who’ll stun
Lucy speaks sweetly to the pup
As she wa...
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Categories:
act up, cat, dog, flower, girl,
Form: Kyrielle
school is no longer a good place
...school was my earthly life for longer than most
I taught until I was seventy-two, my brain now toast
today was the first day of school I did not return
my health is bad; I thought I would be in an...
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Categories:
act up, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
IT WAS CALLED SENILE
...Many decades ago,
You would rarely here
Anything about or see
An elderly person
Act up, they use to
Call it senile but this day
And time, it is hard to believe
That so many people have come
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Categories:
act up, education, food, how i
Form: Free verse
I'm Kamala - your next President
...I'm sitting pretty biding my time
Staying real quiet towing the line,
For President Biden, that lovely old man
Playing the game as only I can.
Why make loud waves, somehow act up,
When everyth...
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Categories:
act up, humor, identity, parody, political,
Form: Quatrain
Broken love
...I know i broke your heart but baby let me fix it they won't see us apart i'm sorry i was trippin you mad all the time i hate when you be dissin all the time you on my mind it wasn't my intention I ne...
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Categories:
act up, girlfriend, happy,
Form: Free verse
Mothers Love
...Soft brown eyes with sharp tongue
Meaning to distract the dumb
A little warning before a slap
Hard knocks hard life traps
Lots of love when you are ill
Prayers hugs and home cooked meal
Long ...
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Categories:
act up, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Challenge
...Who Am I To You?
Am I just a stranger?
An online lover or a nobody
That once who passes by
In a lifetime of your stream ?
Maybe a poet?
A woman only good in sweet words.
Easily fooled ...
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Categories:
act up, anxiety, art, care, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Roads of Reason
...Thin are the lines between love and hate,
Between life and death...
But I'll tell of your fate
With my dying breath...
I open my eyes wide
To see through the windows of my soul
All t...
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Categories:
act up, angst, dark, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
The Watch Woman On the Wall Part One
...The Watch man on the Wall is Erick Stakelbeck and I consider him to be one of my mentors!
Russia and Red China flew nuclear armed weapons over Japan recently while Joe Biden was in Tokyo talking to ...
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Categories:
act up, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Obama's My Weapon - In Biden's Own Words
...Folks say I'm struggling
That I'm old and confused,
They don't see all the haggling
Which leaves them bemused.
My colleagues are wordy
My enemies too,
But my willpower is sturdy
As I'm all f...
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Categories:
act up, analogy, humor, political, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Hit 'Em Up Collaboration With Brenda Chiri
...I write like bakers bake
my rhymes make earth shake
Going into contest with me was your biggest mistake
I control the earths plates, tectonics, your rhymes are bollocks
I cause land slides and ea...
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Categories:
act up, england, hip hop, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Oh Charlie, That Spoiled Doberman
...Charley was being obnoxious so I took away his hedgehog,
it’s such a small toy anyways for a big Doberman dog.
A spoiled rotten boy who whined for an hour or so
hoping to get his way and t...
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Categories:
act up, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Life
...Life is a broken story, we try to live piece by piece,
we born from our parents but they might not be right
mentally, then we grow and we may be scarred from
someone, then we become an adult it...
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Categories:
act up, storm,
Form: Free verse
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