Best Laurence Poems

Dat gal done gone an lef me? '?lone
went t'town wit huh red shoes on.
Hi' ole heels,dress on tight
Powda and paint,sum'in ain't right


They's som kine of problum I caint explain
I believes sum main done turnt her hed
stayin out late,alw ays rais'in sayin
gotta take uh baf, fo'...

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Before Laurence survived bone cancer, 
Chemotherapy and everything, he swam, 
Competed nationally and internationally, 
But afterwards rowing became his gram. 

He was born on August the 29th in 1991,
And comes from North Yorkshire, moors, 
He went to Hurworth House and Polam, 
Schools, he won triathlons...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar
In terms of poetic excellence, he set a high bar 

He was called "the poet of his people", so adept
At writing his poems in African-American dialect


Date written and posted: 04/14/2019...

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land of lost shadows
and unweathered skies

five urban colours
through unflinching eyes

tall distant chimneys
and schoolyards at play

smoke drifting sideways
in stillness each day

sketches on packets
of stained cigarettes

strange brooding faces
and marionettes

people bent walking
with heads looking down

 - if lowry was living
he'd have painted my town....

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