Best Hold Your Own Poems

They call me Brave Heart
Not because of my courage but because it is my last name
And not because I "like" Mel Gibson that much but...

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We all have secrets
We all have lies

Some of us the creepiest
Some of them ties,

That bind us together
That make us who we are

They stay forever
They never...

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A stoic sentinal midst waves,
you staunchly stand erect and tall.
Emerged in frothy, churning white,
you hold your own in nature’s squall.

Atop, your beacon light shines bright
to...

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To many numbers on the clock.
Bug eyed over my watch.
Counting every second as life goes by.
One million tear drops fall from the sky.
Can't close my...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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A woman can be a sweet and gentle soul
With a heart of gold and nerves of steel,
She can hold her own in the worst of...

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Ouch! They cause pain whether
from human or cat.
Words can be claw-like when
attacking an opponent's back.
Being swift, cruel and degrading,
Is the clarion call of our generation.

The...

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So many seek you by the light of the dawn only to lose you through the haze of dusk
You are mysterious at times a silent...

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Sometimes as a woman
You will be just too much
Maybe you'll be too ambitious
A man will tell you to slow down
No one likes a girl who...

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Like many merchant vessels
That sailed from our Mersey shore
This sturdy piece of timber
Can hold its own in tales of yore

A dried up piece of flotsam
Washed...

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Intellectual peer pressure

The faces change from smiles to sneers
from effusive praises to contemptible jeers.
A man whose wisdom has been seen for years
now forced to face...

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Captured like game. 
Branded like cattle. 
Herded like sheep
Treated Like cargo, and defects where thrown in the deep.
Certified merchandise 
"***** show me your teeth"
Murder guys who don't hold...

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A Strong Black Woman
Is someone who can hold her own,
She's never weak
Always strong.

She's very independent
Don't need a man,
On her own two feet
She can stand.

She keeps...

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The struggles of a black woman is at best a horrific, tumultuous one
But the black woman is strong and will not be un-done
We don't always...

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Tigers laze in midday sun
their very essence shared,
for when they’re caring for their kind
their fangs are seldom bared,
but should a danger threaten those
that tigers hold...

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