Best Peaceably Poems

Just you and me, cogitating intently, placidly,
Contemplating peaceably, balance of being,
Listening to birdsongs jubilantly serenading 
Tranquility luxuriating upon hills and valleys
Where bees on blossoms propagate...

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Winter approached 

in hours of finality, 

quelled midst midnight's 

imperfectly lit enticement 

of darkly notable

impressive spirits, 

motioning a welcomed 

goodbye gesture, 

laying to rest 

a...

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Freedom isn't Free
                      ...

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Lord, help me be who you made me to be,
To be true to myself as well as to others
Help me see the value of every...

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Who said my role model had to be black;
Who said she'd have to be like this or this is the way she should act.
Who put...

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Prevarication permits pretend perception, presenting
piquantly piqued, pimply pimping playboy, plucky
pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently
puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playing proletarian

puppeteer pygmy, peevishly punky, plummy, plumy,
pompously pushy, pampered,...

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THE GENTLE SOUL
 
   so many roads i've traveled
so many years i've roamed
 
   when will this tired gentle soul
ever find...

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TWICE UPON A TIME 

two things clicked. A severed 
evening parachuting down 
on a hillock where a palace 
hovered about. And coming 
to terms with...

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Thinking about tattooing
"noitatneserP erocnE"
across my back.  
Install mirrors on the 
bedroom ceiling
so she sees it spelled 
correctly as I pray for her
only stopping when
Hallelujah...

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MOUNTAIN GORILLA


            Gentle giant of the great apes
      ...

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I’m flatter by the system it’s not corporate it just ain’t witness

If every answer came out of the air or thin hair we could do...

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Acquah Vicki on Sunday March 31, 2013

 THEY CALL ME NELSON
 
No man can keep the spirit contained 

He herded sheep when they 

called him...

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It was suggested that I plan my
Own funeral
The entities living on me
In me
Have ensured that I will not last forever

I lived quietly among my family...

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A worthless worm…writhing in wretchedness
Hell-bound creature because of iniquities
That was I: doomed to everlasting torment
Condemned to suffer forever…
Yet, God Almighty with His grace and compassion...

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I'm just a common workin' man and have been all my life,
Laborin' eight hours a day to support my kids and wife.
Tryin' to do my...

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