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Premium Member Persecuted Petals

In a province exploited 
by prejudiced seasons,
a minority ebony rose 
is taunted by prominent 
i v o r y      ...

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Categories: oppresses, analogy, community, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive.
A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the...

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Categories: oppresses, memory,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member We Worship You, Lord
We worship* You, Lord … praising You for Who You are
majestic in Your radiance, verily magnificent
splendid in Your goodness, constantly present
wondrous in Your glory, drawing...

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Categories: oppresses, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A New Home Concluded
In Heaven
You're in a better home. 
There are no vicious attacks there 
but beautiful angels sing.

Assured by the florist.
Roses have no thorns,
sorrow is always banished,
discomfort...

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Categories: oppresses, heaven, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Craft Can Capture It
Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppresses, adventure, art, brother, dedication,
Form: Narrative



I Cannot Single Handedly Manage
I cannot single handedly manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis

Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably,...

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Categories: oppresses, angst, birth, dad, fate,
Form: Free verse
Caught In a Haze
The grey oppresses;
surrounded by fog,
 I traverse this shadowland;
Dorothy in reverse,
stuck in this land of monochrome
Xerox grayscale in 2-D.
Hoping it is but a dream,
valiantly, I...

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Categories: oppresses, dark, depression, introspection, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Alone
(No Hope)


The alone...
oppresses me.
She settles inside of
the life she has stole,
leaving the shell of me,
as cold as stone.
Oblivion so close
I can feel it's low groan.
For...

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Categories: oppresses, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom Reigns
"'Cause when your back's against the wall
That's when you show no fear at all
And when you're running out of time
That's when you hitch your star...

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Categories: oppresses, absence, abuse, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Arike and the Changing Time
The times are fast changing
The certainty of season is 
evading
The sure signs of weather has 
for long disappeared
Along with our cultures and 
moral values has...

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Categories: oppresses, youth
Form: Rhyme Royal
Baluba Love
A perfect plain in the Sub Sahara

Discerning screens, Japanese Madara

Your frame formidable despite design

Why shan't I sing aloud about your shine?

Your songs of praises serenades...

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Categories: oppresses, africa,
Form: Ode
Undesirable Now
Undesirable Now	Robert Denton (September 23, 2014)

I feel like my life is over.
I'm caged, imprisoned, locked within
the confines of this broken container.
I'm undesirable now.

To be young...

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Categories: oppresses, body, discrimination, life,
Form: Free verse
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So Manage
I cannot single handedly – rightly so - manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking  Glycopyrrolate 
2 MG  Tablet three times daily.

Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and...

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Categories: oppresses, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Your Compassion Toward Me
August 6 Scripture Meditations Based on Lamentations 1-5

Key Verse – Lamentations 3:22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his...

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Categories: oppresses, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
About Allah and God
Poems about Allah
In The Name Of Allah
I seek Allah’s protection
Praise be to Allah
The lord of the world
The beneficent, the merciful.
The master of the Day of...

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Categories: oppresses, allah, god, allah, allah,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs