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American Dream Poems - Poems about American Dream

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Premium Member Help Me Reviving The Dreams
The Dreams… That human beings pursue Freedom and Happiness That men share all of Mother Nature’s resources That all religions and faiths practice Compassion That land and sea disregard the boundaries That men’s skins recoat in the Blue Earth’s...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse



Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed... Oddly enough even when frolicking in the autumn mist with seasoned super tramping cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls some resembling Indigo Girls, one foo fighting beastie boy unable to...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dream, Hope and Inspiration
Dr. Martin's dream is a dream for many generations Past, present and future… Life is about hope, compassion Love, freedom and justice. It's not asking for too much Because human lives are precious and priceless. As such We were...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, africa, america, birthday, black
Form: Rhyme
Smiles To the Sky
I saw a cloud today shaped just like smile Then I saw it fade became sad a while Sitting there in wonder I Had this Little Dream About the lips that smiled on a face I'd never seen Then I heard a whisper That...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, allusion, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions
(Apropos of Hughes’s Proverbial Question) What happens when rotten strange fruit… Hanging from trees of auction block wood Become stinking pieces of black flesh…dried blood Putrefying in murderous streets…? When crystallized tears of remorse…Laden and loaded With explosive grief…flow down weary...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry



Incense
To my nose she was a stick of incense. Filling me whole, her eyes. The ashes fell, Spacing her walk. With smoke closely trailing. The sun quickly set. There's no where in the world I'd rather be. An empty room filled by...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse
Do You Truly
Do you truly know what it's like to dream with your eyes open? To confess that you don't know why you dream the way you do. The need to miss as much as you do. Missing the reality...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse
From the Ledge
A rose bloomed. A poem written in buds. It offered its arms, illiterate to whats been written. It fell asleep. A garden in thought. Slipping from the ledge it grew. In REM it whispered. Wake me when we land. For I...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse
Heaven Ends Too Soon
I seen heaven in a dream and like all good things It ends to soon. Eight hours narrowed down to short memory. Lopsided sheets tucked comfortably in a discounted comforter. Just before I waking up I heard a voice...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse
Heart Flares
I thought I told you about it; The dream I had with eyes wide open. I met this girl whom sparked a world of curiosity. The way she stares, the sparklers that melt away in her eyes. She traced...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse
Naked Limbs
As twilight approached I felt her loosening embrace After a night filled with cuddling her shadowy face My heart beat with passion as I bathed in her charms Her elusive caress not quite real in my arms I thought...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mind Power
its small not to see yet fresh inside the curly of its skin sweet to see the touch of its feet sweet to feel the breath from it nostrils so warm to kindle the lights of a candle simple structure...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, anxiety, black african american,
Form: Personification
Preterition
Whoever I dreamt about Certainly it was not she Though any woman I dream of It might very likely be she No I do not say that She comes only at night Though it should be very natural If she avoided...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, allusion, beauty, black african
Form: Verse
Today Is a New Day
Today is a new day it's 6am and I have woke up to skate it's too early in the day to let troubles ruin your day I'm going to work a 12 hour sift just...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, black african american, dream,
Form: Free verse
Thnks Mj
THANKS MJ Words of wisdom can come from anywhere and when I least expect it and cause me to look at my star These words has me looking at my soul, has me in deep thought about my life...Read the rest...
Categories: american dream, america, black african american,
Form: ABC

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