Best Detestable Poems

A desire of truth only his pleasant warmth 
can provide comfort. As I age tears and disquiet 
are my reward. I'm saddened by reality. 

I,...

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Rain falls on the lonely water’s edge,
is it a tear of a forgotten woman?
Sojourned on the surface of the water forming a bubble 
for a...

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To hear the woodpecker
To see the sun set 
To smell the lavender as it blooms
To feel another’s touch
No more

To be locked in this pitch black...

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God has declared through His inspired word
all that He is and all He can do
this word is living powerful and so sharp
more than two-edged sword...

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We lost our “UMOJA”, the basic concept and core value of our being “We, therefore, I am”, at the time of our history that began...

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I thought for a long time

to try and do something right

(in your eyes)

I've taken the blows

and the comparatives 

of every beauty you know



You love me,...

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This age we live in
with no moral absolute
standards no longer exist
now we bear its fruit

Fewer couples no longer marry
live in is the thing
not thinking of...

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Hoping everyday there will be a vicissitude in your thinking.
Irritation and repose.
Waiting.
For a text, a call, reticence.
White space on paper.
Empty.
I drank your wine.
I reveled in...

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When we grow old, we’re in need of care:
Our friends grow sparse, with whom to share
Remembrance of our younger energetic days.
Life and living having changed...

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Adorned with momentus meaning ,
darkness can be a terrible and scary thing  -
For some- a time of nightmarish convening
Yet to others - divinely rich...

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what made her unworthy of love
was it because she couldn't live up to your ideal
that she lost her appeal?

You lived for the surreal
now too numb...

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The Rose That Grew From A Concrete

The Rose That Grew From The Crack In A Concrete 
Black Rose That Grew From The Fertile Roots Beneath...

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Gross insect!
O Monstrosity!
Of putrid death beguiling me.
Be gone! O blemished devil’s bat!
You vex me perched upon my lap.
Such ugly gait and sticky bait,
Of bile produced...

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GINGERLY?  -  NOT GINGER!

Ginger used an array of colourful drugs,
And owed money to many cruel thugs,

She was a beautiful fresh fifeteen year old,
When...

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Yesterday, my heart felt a little tapping
Coming from the inside, a friendly rapping
It grew strong then weak, refreshed then weary
Sometimes ordinary, sometimes eerie
So I opened...

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