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She Goes Back
She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey


Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop

Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works...

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Categories: cash crop, anger, devotion, hope, passion,
Form: Alliteration



An Introduction: An Introduction
Considering how many times I set out to pen a small,
Master piece of art, a gem that might underwrite,
The utter liability of being just that...

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Categories: cash crop, humorous,
Form: Free verse
"the Magical Herb"
lying awake 

the pain over takes

no sight of a cure

no hope for the world

deadly perscription pills

doctors with no idea

where is the magical herb

the one we...

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Categories: cash crop, health
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecclesia
An old Greek word, ecclesia,
is often translated as church,
but could also be thought of as a civilization
acting civilly,
as a citizenry
acting as responsible citizens.

The noun side...

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Categories: cash crop, culture, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
She Goes Back
She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey


Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop

Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works...

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Categories: cash crop, courage, freedom, loss, spiritual,
Form: Alliteration



She Goes Back
She Goes Back
By Lillian J. Jeffrey


Whispers flow like a river
she will be sold
sold or rented like a cash crop

Born on a Maryland plantation
her mother works...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cash crop, courage, dedication, journey, pain,
Form: Alliteration
Coffee
the first one to drink it
is the rooster who crows
high in the mountains
where the coffee bean grows

a wakeful injection
a confection so brown
in a dark-coloured liquid
I...

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Categories: cash crop, drink, morning, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Uncharted Waters
as Colorado & Washington
have thrown the dice,
the first big step in the direction
of legalizing pot
has made people against the 
measure begin to stir in their
ridiculously...

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Categories: cash crop, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Slightl-Y-0ff
Hi… 
My name is Ironic Zinc. 
Too say the entire-less— 
Slightly-off— 
Voices echo throughout my inner being—as I… 
Wonder-what— 
Hat I may have thought— 
Questionable...

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Categories: cash crop, adventure, assonance, cool, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Karma's New Years Revolution
When you sit back and look at your life
What can you see, Whats pops up in your mind
Is it the people thats been nice and...

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Categories: cash crop, new year, racism, new
Form: Lyric
Good Knife Me

Ask not what your country can do for you,
don’t question whether your nation will bleed 
red, white and blue true
Tax bleed thru and thru for...

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Categories: cash crop, humorous, motivation, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Too Much Progress
When daddy brought the sweet corn in for dinner
Mama already had water boiling in the pot.
I could hardly wait to taste those buttered kernels
From the...

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Categories: cash crop, food, nostalgia, sweet, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spelled Embarrassment
Mine slovenly unkempt appearance spelled embarrassment

spurred by most recent therapy session 
with Renee Cardone
whereby thematic thread
stitched how yours truly sewed
coping modus operandi,
viz avoiding emotionally volatile...

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Categories: cash crop, 12th grade, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Not a Butter Boy
I was not a butter boy
Who ate his corn in flakes
What did I do with the cobs?
I was not the butter boy
Who ate his plantain...

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Categories: cash crop, i am,
Form: Free verse
Alabama's Top Crop
Alabama’s Top Cash Crop

By Elton Camp

If you think Alabama is the Cotton State
You are behind on developments of late
More profitable & boll weevils don’t stop
Is...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cash crop, business, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs