When You Return
...Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage...
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Categories:
aro, africa, beauty, culture, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Give In Not
...© Francis Maugo
Never surrender
Never surrender.
Move on the up and up with
strength from the inside.
Continuously accept,
Continuously look forward.
Never be the person
Who is viewed as ...
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Categories:
aro, cheer up, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Blackbeard's Secret
...Laughing she told me of her
Lack of interest in him
She spoke candidly of him
As a means of being creating
Need to be wanted.
He suffers from his inability to
Be Aro sed and she exploited
Of e...
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Categories:
aro, america, betrayal, boat, community,
Form: Free verse
Can You Here the Whimsy Call
...to get her or a,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,, part
we will bounce
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Categories:
aro, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When You Return
...Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage...
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Categories:
aro, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Didactic
Held Captive
...(For a contest using another poets lines switched up)
HELD CAPTIVE
The wind blows, and gusts prevail
I sense your essence in the breeze
Descending onto my grateful knees
I knew the pain of los...
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Categories:
aro, heartbreak, loneliness, lost,
Form: Free verse
Life Happens
...Life Happens
Life happens says the preacher
Preaching to the masses en mass on the day of the sun
Words so heavy,it depicts finality
And desperately i seek tranquility
In all sense of serenity...
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Categories:
aro, allusion, art, birth, books,
Form: Didactic
But I Have Seen
...But I Have Seen!
If I was told the water will boil fish,
I would hold the conveyer in a grip,
That would fear his breath before I retreat,
Dragging his wits to their territory.
I would take hi...
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Categories:
aro, satire,
Form: I do not know?
Categories:
aro, nature, water,
Form: Shape
Beowolf Or Boewelf
...BEOWOLF OR BOEWELF
Tho werld weould romain tho samo
Mon weuld levo wemon - a damo !
Tolophenos weould bo noodod
Swoot werds weuld bo hoodod
Meroevor levo ceuld ond up as moro
Omet...
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Categories:
aro, funny
Form: Epic
Iseyin
...Aranmo laso Iseyin ni ohunso
Aso ti aro olowo faramo olowo
Iseyin
of harried hills and skyscaping rocks
of humming hurricane and haughty harmattan
of succulent virgins and tasty lasses
of fea...
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Categories:
aro, nature, nostalgia, song-
Form: Free verse