Best Immortalizing Poems

scouts stand proud
two spears and shield
immortalizing Kenya's legacy


Name: Teddy Kimathi

Country: Kenya...

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Shahjahan built the Taj Mahal, a mausoleum
Situated on the bank of the River Yamuna,
In memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz
With whom he fell in love at first sight
Espying her in a fair, enraptured by her charms.

 The very sight of The Taj leaves one mesmerized.
The...

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The Writer

Inspired by darkness he writes only at night;
Studying stanzas—seducing spellchecks
With the stroke of a pen he is anyone or anything
His great works are subjected to sabotage—prone to plagiarism
His ideas far exceed his lifespan
He will take them with him so that they remain unforgotten
There are...

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Simplicity seduces stunning symmetrically salivating stimuli
Complexity confounds controlled curiosities calculating clarify
Ambiguous ambitions amplify arousing academics admirable
Mellifluous melodies making magical memories memorable

Poetic pendulums pondering pensive promiscuous pleasures
Esthetic echoes encouraging efficacious emulative endeavors
Deceiving diametrical dilemmas distancing dichotic delusions
Receiving rhythmically ratiocinative raging roaring revolutions

Beautiful breaths breathing benevolent boisterous...

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While out and about
an unexpected over bare ring bout
to defecate arose,
     where sphincter asserted clout
and would excrete
     despite without doubt...

if closing distance
     (to reach rental abode)
beaten out by loosening sphincter muscle
  ...

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Rushing to take a stand for what is right,
Using the gifts from above to strenghen your stance,
Throwing your fist in the air and yelling with all your might,
Caring more for your partner, than the steps in life's dance.
Rebelling against tyrants, at any moment ready to...

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The nails cut deep into my clenched fist
Blood escapes life to death’s never ending list
My ebony skin has healed from your banishment 
My translucent soul weeps an eternal testament

Our way back to heaven is measured and laden
With endless detours and sharp thorns lay hidden
We came...

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Rumor has it one takes pictures of stuff
that one is afraid of losing.

The girl who captures moments with her camera
seeking the company of entangled dwellings
beneath the womb of nightfall
for the city is silent 
in this witching hour of her heart;
her misbegotten heart which, 
with -...

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resounding echoes in
caves of timelessness
my hands caressing walls of rock 
never kissed by daylight
walls that speak loudly
of proud ancestors
immortalizing their
essence and
existence
painting
dwelling
hunting
sleeping
making tools
raising families
communicating 
telling stories
leaving messages
their legacy
much like us
in many ways
yet so very different         



AP: Honorable Mention...

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Behold!  that human angel hovering
not in bright skies but on far-distant land
a siren voice, hypnotic, echoing – 
desperate singing, sundry songs without demand – 

Till comes that calming gentle rest.

Unfettered wings whose feather tips remain
too still until in cauldron stirs the beast
found’ring gales ablast...

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Devious and mischievous illusions
Run through my tired mind.
Happily ever after will never be.
Longing for forevers is a farce.
A few spared whispers,
A few poems relishing our love.
Complex lines forever immortalizing what?

Distance causing love to wear thing.
Your spouse a denied taboo of conversation.
Relishing in the here and...

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Walking',
that barely-Summer beat;
the wind with butterfly kisses 
flushing my cheeks 

So much potential 
packed into  the thickness,
dreams undressed 
in the eyes of a lamp post 

a billboard of stars
illuminating  nights stage,
with a brilliant  luster 
electric, energy's humming

caught in the rhythm
immortalizing a verse 
to be sung for all time
street lights adventure...

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Butterflies don’t die,
instead they become Frankenstein
electric shocked and back to life;

Hot and cold heart,
hopelessly frozen yet fiercely beating;
Stomach just short of regurgitating,
butterflies are alive;
So blue you want them to decay 
instead they flutter endlessly;

Electric shocked and back to life,
possessing traits of a zombie;
Butterflies won’t die;

There...

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This is my pencil.
There are many like it,
but this one is mine.
With this pencil I can create.
I can write about hatred and mistrust,
unrequited love and hardship. 
With this pencil I can destroy;
I can erase immortalizing words,
emotions that elicit a response,
I can. 
I will sharpen my...

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Assia's victory over Sylvia
And her existence with Ted
Was bitter-sweet
There was no fairytale ending
Her Prince grew discontent with her
Like he had with Sylvia
Though her womb bore
Him a daughter to cherish
No wedding bells would ring
Just reminding Assia again
That Ted's heart really
Belonged to Sylvia
Despite all her trickery
She realized...

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