Beggarly Poems - Poems about Beggarly

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...From sunrise, when the breath of the new-born day
Kisses my eyes, information startles me.
Waves of my sleep leave the froth from my mouth,
Youthful and earnestly fresh with the harassment of
Bot...

I Shall Ever Be Who I am

...Inspired by Black Hole Love (Max Frost)
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                                      I Shall Ever Be Who I Am

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Runaway Dream

...Out the window my dream go
Escaped from the clutches of self
Wandering the streets beggarly 
A holigan besmeared in slime and guts
Where is my dream? Where is the world I hoped to see myself?
Wh...

What of This Niggardly Miserable Earth

...What Of This Niggardly Miserable Earth

What of this niggardly miserable earth
this small plot awaiting a white tombstone
when she cares and asks what is it all worth
once enslaved a soul fades ...

The King of Mercy

...Ten Lepers sought the Lord 
carrying their badges with a Plea 
unclean unclean was the cry 
Mercy alone was their Plea
The King of mercy heard their cries 
by his word He healed them all 
One a...

The Rebel Artist

...THE REBEL ARTIST                                                                                             Why do you paint pictures of silent days?, Lonely roads, lonely streets; of beggars gropin...

Emilokan the Chants of Rogues

...Emi’lokan, the lyrics from a loon,
the vituperation born from the womb of greed, 
the menace of recycled gangsters. 
Emi’lokan, the beggarly shame of old vermin, 
the intrusion of mafias and thug...

The Cancer of Africa

...Our Shame, 

"PRESIDENT" & "LEADERS" 

Full grown men,
old,
devoid of vision,
Lacking in wisdom, 
wicked weaklings 
protected by paltry paid gun men 
great grandfathers, 
unwilling ...

Misfortune of War

...

They were wavy heart told,
there was a silver star-shaped pot of gold
at the end of the hellstorm rainbow

This was the time-honored 
private talk 
to the latest crop 
of pawn fodde...

The King of Mercy

...Ten Lepers sought the Lord 
carrying their badges with a Plea 
unclean unclean was the cry 
Mercy alone was their Plea
The King of mercy heard their cries 
by his word He healed them all 
One a...

Time Encapsulated Pain

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My melanin bar code pain
feels like a time encapsulated link chain
The future and the past
are excruciatingly one and the same
And this bleak present
is probable cause tense — 
Just be...

Feed Me

...
Too deep to call a parody
Flice compels like someone smells
Not a funny sight to see
One declines in boxes dwells

A plaque of cardboard sells her plight
Despite the last intention...

A Weird Woman

...she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado o...

Obsequious Odor

...

Brown nose,
head bowed low
Sniffing submissively so

Wag the sniveling tongue,
show the power privileged ones 
much servile love
Catch the prime scraps
tossed from your master’s ta...

This Dereliction

...A Nation, wearied, sapped traumatized.
This vast exotic land, fringed by lush emerald jungles 
A spark rising from the west, once looked upon by all,
A giant? 
No, faded glory. 
Vistas of burnin...

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