Ode To African Child
...Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal
Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beau...
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Categories:
belike, africa, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Everything I Do, I Do It For You - Shakespeare Style
...with all due respect to the Bryan Adams classic, this is my Bardish version:
heed my visage close thou wilt mark
to me thou meanest all
thy bosom enquire soul beside
wherein shall I be found
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Categories:
belike, longing, love, song,
Form: Free verse
Dear Sister
...You were the reason I stayed
but not the reason I'm gone today
for you I braved her torture
and even with a tumor of self hate
she still knocked me down
but I did not break down
"ugly, f...
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Categories:
belike, abuse, anger, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Changing Sky
...My weeping eyes behold the changing sky
O'erspread with clouds of grey where once was blue
With gaze upturned, I heave a burdened sigh
At all the world now changed to leaden hue
Yet still they onward...
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Categories:
belike, earth, emotions, rain, rainbow,
Form: Ottava rima
How It Feels To Be Stalked By a Serial Killer and Have No One Care
...how many people in your life that have been murdered?
probably none
my grandfather was a war herp
coma tosed
to have his wife a cripple
so i could run away scrambling from bs people for the rest...
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Categories:
belike, funeral, visionary, warme, family,
Form: Free verse
Unsounded Depths
...Uncanny as the truth may often be,
A sailor worth his salt will quickly cede;
There's more than godly made beneath the sea.
Alow, where neither fish nor man can see,
Obscured, the worst of He...
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Categories:
belike, adventure, mystery, seamay, truth,
Form: Villanelle