Best Laboured Poems
The Weaver
...T’was flair from the cobbles that drove the loom
with forced hardy sweat they laboured till eve
a family tradition from the womb
with threaded shuttle and reed hook they weave.
The warp the weft ......
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Categories:
laboured, nostalgia,
Form:
Sonnet
Unlike Thee Athenian
...Those rarer men I once fondly
knew...
Many dead now...
What remains of them they are so
Few.
Am I to die when numbered
Amongst the......
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Categories:
laboured, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
INTERCEPTION
...
INTERCEPTION
Shadows waning distorted fading
Teasing tempting, a psychotic hack
Scheming concealing cerebral deceiving
Sun retreating behind shades of blac......
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Categories:
laboured, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Just One Last Night - The Last Goodbye - A Musical Multi-media duet
...
Just One Last Night – The Last Goodbye - A Musical Mini-Movie Duet
Sometimes, love lingers long after the last goodbye. We think we’re letting go—but in truth, we’re holding on.
Not ju......
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Categories:
laboured, lost love,
Form:
Ballad
Mama Africa
...MAMA AFRICA
My driver to the earth
No crush,No regret
Tales of a black mother
Mother that mother the
mother's tongue of mothrer's land.
When you waft my infant?
The love you show me i......
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Categories:
laboured, africa, universe,
Form:
Ode
Questions of Balance: a Jeremiad
...QUESTIONS OF BALANCE: A JEREMIAD
Why is it at 70 politicians are still underage
To assume political offices
And at 30 youths are overage to begin a professional career?
What divine strength ......
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Categories:
laboured, abuse, africa, anxiety, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
The Plight of 'Naraini' - Women of the Girmit Era
...Young, gentle and in bondage
This innocent bird flew towards the promised land
Her frame petite yet powerful
Her eggs beautifully nested when transported from Calcutta
The sight of the new turf......
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Categories:
laboured, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Botched Artwork Saves Town
...Botched Artwork Saves Town
Sometime last year, in late August 2015, something unusual went viral..
It was an ancient picture on the wall, vastly unlike its original art..
A piece of botched ar......
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Categories:
laboured, appreciation, beauty, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
A Glimpse of the Future
...What is this resplendent thing that sparkles ahead,
Pacing faster than limbs of incapacity
Beyond the all-pervasive dakness of want?
Could my eyes be playing upon me some sly pervasity,
Seeing th......
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Categories:
laboured, faith, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Elastic Ice
...I feel a searing chill in my bones
as they painfully turn to black ice
Under the weight of my loneliness
I fear there's an ultimate price
Will I witness my own demise
As cracks appear under th......
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Categories:
laboured, courage, death, depression, emotions,
Form:
Quatrain
Autumn Given Voice
...Spring speaks of promise beginning anew,
While winter winds whistle of being true.
Summer shouts like ferocious violins,
Buzzing warmth of Sun delivers up-chins.
Fall's voice is favoured, it's so......
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Categories:
laboured, autumn, loss, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Mama Africa
...On thy breast I suck
On thy belly I walk
On thy hand I cluck
On thy nose I cock
On thy orders I talk
With your knuckles I knock
With your brain I fork
With your tears I shock
With your mo......
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Categories:
laboured, black african american, childhood,
Form:
Lie Down On Me
...I wait for you in the moonlight
In the quiet of the night
Within this room that holds
So many moments of your life
The dreams you've dreamed
Still linger here
Between these flower-papered wa......
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Categories:
laboured, age, death, grief,
Form:
Personification
Don'T Be Upset, Mommy
...Mommy, don't be upset
When they say how you should stand, sit and eat
While I munch on your blood and meat.
Just don't be upset
When they advise you on when I should be fed.
You alone know wh......
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Categories:
laboured, birth, judgement, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
1947-The Peeing of the Peaked Peasantry - a Mocktail
...Monah Kaur and Robert Kumar fled from London, came to ‘Hindustan’; tied the knot
The 'Singhs' stopped their songs and 'Kumars at no. 42' burnt their studio; this rebellion; they will forget not
A p......
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Categories:
laboured, culture, grief, patriotic, war,
Form:
Rhyme