Best Opinionated Poems

I have opinionated friends.
Bonita will not wear a mask unless it is Halloween.
It violates her constitutional rights.
What about other people’s rights? I ask her.
She scoffs.

I...

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So, I heard you don’t like my poetry style
Well,  I don’t give a toss
It’s water off a turtle’s tush…
(Forget the duck cos it's too...

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It's ok that I'm Native American:
If I am attractive and half naked,
If I am uneducated,
If I speak in broken English,
And sing Christian songs.

It's ok that...

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A TRUE BEAUTY N' FRIEND OF LIFE'S
              NATURE I ASK RAISE YOUR...

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I haven’t been here in a while
At this point in my life that is.
The point where something great becomes misconstrued
more filled with angst instead of...

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        Black boxes atop a vintage shelf
           ...

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Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago...

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"Some Birds Are Not Meant to be Caged"
               Stephen King
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Today, the local daily papers highlighted a man of honour...
Deserving of his honorific title Datuk bestowed on men of honour...

Given his loud and strident calls...

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Once upon a time there never was an Ego
For it was alive by the breath of wishes of those who were suffocating from it
I carried...

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I had my 65th birthday on Monday.
Here are some things that were clarified for me by friends.
I hope it is a sign from God that...

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The council meets, all hours, to hear old batty dames yell, what a *****,
we don't think she's a good person, because she doesn't look and...

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They are vain, quarrelsome men
Bloated, opinionated,
Untidy, men cosseted 
By the academic life,
The literary life—smug,
Tell you what authors are in
Or out. They know best—of course....

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THE BRAVE

So we all have,
Inside of  us, the brave,
The one who would not cave
To none, nor any trade.
Forsaken what we made,
By hand, by mind...

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ME
Me: By Oladeji aka Vicki Acquah

Because I am only
ONE of my Kind.
And refuse
to Abort my mission..I ask..
Could I have been a little more 
religious 
patient
tolerant
willing...

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