foolish things
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I do foolish things
when I'm blue
when I'm sad
and missing you
I do foolish things
like dancing all night
foolish things
drinking everything in sight
foolish things
shopping til I drop...
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Categories:
ashe, boyfriend, education, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Not An Evil Step-Mother
...many years ago my sister and I went to Georgia to spend the Summer with our Daddy.
sadly he had to work so at home all the time he couldn't be.
However, we went to visit our aunt and grandmother. i...
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Categories:
ashe, anxiety, body, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
My Poetry
...My poetry
I want my poetry to join your poetry pointing the way...and providing safety nets... for our most sacred / also provoke, incite, inspire, inquirer, encourage, discourage respect, dissect...
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Categories:
ashe, age, allah, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Male Bard Meets Female Bard On Facebook
...Alieu A. Bah Ask:
How art thou faring bard?
FEMALE BARD: Love art faring well in my heart.
IT WAS you, the master of wit and charm;
With masterful words you have stirred my heart to become ...
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Categories:
ashe, adventure, age, beautiful, care,
Form: Blank verse
Good-Bye Mcc-Whatever Your Name Is
...Ashe is a punny name for a
Bandit and Aristocratic girl
I've never seen white blankets of winter stupor,but her hair is as white as snow
Gold-accents and speck of southern rich
The anxiety of t...
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Categories:
ashe, character, fun, games,
Form: I do not know?
Furnace Body
...Burning inside
I know my will to survive will never die
My alliance is with God
No, not one of our enemies will survive
They will run and hide and try
But i promise you
Fire will purge through ...
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Categories:
ashe, art,
Form: Rhyme
Those Thoughts
...Life seems to be but a breathe of disappointments
Inhaling thoughts with whispering voices
All i am...wish i was more to me
But as i contemplate...i cannot phathom the concept of eternity
So ma...
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Categories:
ashe, lonely, longing,
Form: I do not know?
An Unanswered Question
...When misery strikes, one may ask: Why me?
Finding no answer, may say: Let it be!
Ashe or Husserl’d tell us how to cope with it.
But the question remains unanswered, doesn’t it?
***...
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Categories:
ashe, life, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Thank You
...Thank You!...
It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate,
all the hues of brown that made our nation great!
From Fredrick and Harriet to Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, because of the stan...
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Categories:
ashe, america, celebration, culture, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Cb Tribute For Many
...Lin Lane and Sandra Haight
Brilliant artists, both paint to bring sheer delight - be it words or pictures.
Vincent Flannery and Gordon McConnell
My brothers in Christ whose wor...
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Categories:
ashe, appreciation, friend, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Lethal Balletic Duel
... Dark rain dripping
hands and feet poised ready
as danger appears
Two Kung Fu masters ~ trouble eye to eye
There would be no peace ~ the tension was high
Each one knew t...
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Categories:
ashe, appreciation, art, metaphor, strength,
Form: Verse
Serena
...Serendipity, sun do smiles
European titles in mind
Royally, I was at Garros
England, Wimbledon, my crowns
Nigh, the glory from Aussies
Arthur Ashe, the home in honour
When honours came call...
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Categories:
ashe, eulogy,
Form: Acrostic
The Lost
...Our minds in mouths agape
When lost the game at Ashe
Our minds with you in pains
Shaking we are in silence
Aces lost in paces
Paces of your races
Sour the foot to graces
Unforced errors not ...
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Categories:
ashe, inspiration, lost, sports,
Form: Epic
Bruce Caitlyn
...Bruce/Caitlyn
© Ben Burton 7/14/2015
Arthur Ashe was more than brilliant
As a man and tennis ace
Now, along comes Caitlyn Jenner
Gets a trophy with his name
PCI's call her heroic
Much the ...
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Categories:
ashe, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Absence of Pain
...The absence of pain,
Is that what you wish for?
Perhaps you should think more
On plan to abstain?
Pain found to be real culprit
Or just how you interpret
A touch that is too hard
Emotion tha...
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Categories:
ashe, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
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