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Marriage of Oil and Water
Cups thrust high, A diving umbrella licks at many fingers, 
rose water licks - and seeks our elbows for a plunge and gathering below. 
Now echoes the trumpet prelude, a brilliant flash of praise, 
almost a ritual proclamation. 

It matters none friend whether you're pro...

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Categories: like oil and water, allegory, philosophy
Form: Prose Poetry
Oil and Water
OIL and WATER 
Oil and water 
Nice feelings escape everyone when they receive hate filled ones and looks can 
be so downright misleading to me they hang the head and look DOWN the snoot 
at me when they could look AT  me and call...

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Categories: like oil and water, passion, people, philosophy, social,
Form: Free verse
Oil and Water
oil and water
we can't be in their names 
any longer 

we can't continue as one nation
any more 

we are like an outcast with
same nationality like them

we are not fighting to get wars
we only need our indigenous rights

even our colony recognise
we can't be together
no wonder they...

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Categories: like oil and water, abuse, africa, care, cheer
Form: Epic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Marriage of Oil and Water
Cups thrust high, A diving umbrella licks at many fingers, 
rose water licks - and seeks our elbows for a plunge and gathering below. 
Now echoes the trumpet prelude, a brilliant flash of praise, 
almost a ritual proclamation. 

It matters none friend whether you're pro...

Continue reading...
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Categories: like oil and water, political
Form:
Oil and Water
You are always on my mind
Raiding my thoughts
Infiltrating my dreams
My constant source of happiness
The kerosene fuelling the fire to my anger 
The highlight of my days
The darkness of my nights 


Oh what a tangled web we’ve weaved
Trying to combine our differences
Compromising but not on our...

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Categories: like oil and water, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Oil and Water
Yes or no,
right or wrong,
their truth so far apart

Opinion
versus stated fact,
polarized and stark

To give
or sway conjecture,
in light of what is known

Weakness
in consensus lost
— black and white has shown

(Philadelphia Ethical Society: September, 2020)...

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Categories: like oil and water, truth,
Form: Rhyme




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry