Narcissist
...I didn’t do that.
I didn’t mean to hurt you, you're too sensitive.
I apologized, you seem to have forgotten.
Apologize? Never.
Running your mouth, carefree.
Thinking you are perfect with no fa...
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Categories:
belittle, corruption, family, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
I am a loud and angry black woman, So what?
...They make the stereotype of the loud and angry black woman seem bad
But why has nobody questioned who made us like that
The language they use to belittle us
Our mouths hand stitched with silence
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Categories:
belittle, corruption, discrimination, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Call it Bazball or just Test Cricket
...We knew from the get go after Brendon accepted the call…jettisoned old school for new cool..the Kiwi on the balcony who looks like he’s smoked some bud..having a kip..let slip..quick to quip..almost ...
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Categories:
belittle, england, sports, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Spring 2
...Matsuo Basho English Translations of haiku about spring, birds, bats, butterflies, flowers, sun, cherry.
Seeing them naked
almost makes me caress
the wanton flowers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation ...
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Categories:
belittle, bird, butterfly, culture, earth,
Form: Haiku
Consequences of Hate
...Your words have power
They’re not just sounds they’re spells
You can cast them with malice
Or cast them wishing well
The consequences of hate
evident in one’s words
Is to mentally mutilate
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Categories:
belittle, america, anti bullying, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
...Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...
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Categories:
belittle, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
Whence con clues on
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Monalisa is smiling there, mounted on the wall,
eternally to be understood and felt along
I saw many digital mimicry,of this, many carbon copies,
but never the original subtlety of a song
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Categories:
belittle, analogy,
Form: Free verse
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
... MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS
She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner...
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Categories:
belittle, character, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Epic
A Much Prayed through Decision
...As we continue this new journey, a much prayed through decision;
it really hurts my heart that it can create so much division.
The questions and the doubts continue to roll in.
To explain and de...
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Categories:
belittle, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
Hazing
...This is in reference to fraternities and sororities who participate and initiates hazing.
Recently a young, black male was killed during a hazing incident while trying to become a member of a frater...
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Categories:
belittle, abuse, anger, brother, bullying,
Form: Narrative
WRODS OF HATE
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This goes out to anyone who’s ever felt the hurt of being called a name.
The sting when someone uses a word meant to malign you…
meant to denigrate…besmirch…defame.
Sometimes their words are o...
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Categories:
belittle, hate,
Form: Rhyme
REJECTION
...Every rejection, a redirection
Don't be ashamed or let it tame you.
Don't let them change you,
If they won't accept who you are.
People don't value
What they can't control or own,
Just stay i...
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Categories:
belittle, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic
When in-laws clash
...My blade is sharper, so they claim.
And his hoe is blunt.
Each voice raised is struggling to rise above the noise,
eyeing for supremacy,
living to convince,
competing for dominance,
quarreling ...
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Categories:
belittle, conflict, political,
Form: Free verse
My Dear Amy
...My Dear Emmy,
I'm in deep Envy
Were you born to be infallible to
belittle me?
your art deco with shiny trophies,
the boy you got is exactly how I dreamt mine should be.
you're the superstar, p...
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Categories:
belittle, anxiety, courage, for her,
Form: Free verse
The Bear vs Uncle Sam
...The Bear to the East of Uncle Sam, what is Uncle Sam doing in the territory of the Bear? Uncle Sam behavior is that of a moron.
Uncle Sam is like a mad child ,trying to kill himself out of his own...
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Categories:
belittle, conflict,
Form: Free verse
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