Best Mics Poems

His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's...

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Trust, Trust, Trust
By Dr. Tina Medina
Whether it is Benghazi or Kansas City,
You will call and she won’t answer
The pattern and practice is established
You will call...

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Politics is all about haves and have nots.
Who gets ahead.  Who waits in line.
Privileged ones, and the rest get denied.

Politics is about relative truth.
Data...

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The People's Coop
is a warm inviting place,
for some
a reading and meditation
and arts practice and performance space,
for others
a place to ride sleek bicycles
with self-and-other improvement book...

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I write like bakers bake
my rhymes make earth shake
Going into contest with me was your biggest mistake
I control the earths plates, tectonics, your rhymes are...

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QUARTET

A friend    young    like myself    declined
These concert tickets    and    here...

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In my magnitude solitude
Within my loud silence is a rumination the past, 
The worst happened so fast 
You went, I stayed, still fresh
This a hurt...

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Tried to stop them, think I failed
everyone who listened, dead or been jailed.

Countries been taken from sea to sea
citizens imprisoned, not roaming free.

We must to...

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rhyme cause i want to
all about the thought
develop my delivery
summarize a plot
story telling chivalry
too many double shots
its my medium believe me
when i say id never...

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What bound my soul is as hard as bromite
i might not be so intricate with words 
i leave sixth sense condescending
my metaphors absolutely power driven
you'd...

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My name is Mario,
I know yall may not know me yet, but you will soon.
I got poetry for days, stacked on my Youtube playlist, ready...

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One thing I'll neva do is provide a pre-packaged product for you
I'm quality food, so mouth shut, shallow and chew 
Speaking in tongues. I came...

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this is the story of a special place in my life;

In my family home of 50 years
In the Queens suburbs of N.Y.C.
There was a special...

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its in me, the music in my blood my veins it flows continuously.
my heart speaks lyrically as my mind rejoice spiritually.
i live and die for...

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I could care less about 
getting a haircut or 
finding hair color to 
dye my nappy roots
So what my nails need
a fill and my feet...

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