Best Shadow Boxing Poems

Death accepts us all
        Life’s the discriminator
        Move towards the light...

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Each moment grows
Birth and death
Shedding what was left

The chrome piece of time
Dangles like a wooden cross
neck lace, passionate for death
The stolen widow
Her extensions outstretched

From a...

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Spark

Crackles

Flames flicker

Shadow boxing

Glow

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For Brian's "Light My Fire" Contest. (Lanterne!)...

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There’s a quietness in the shadows.
A lonely place where sadness grows.
A place in time where my mind goes.
Thoughts and memories are my foes.

But I have...

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Shadows  9-22-23
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Shadows

Living in ethereal shadows of compassion,
In profiles of grace,
Mercy overshadows stumbling stones
Revealed in a lens of benevolent focus
To eclipse blisters of ebony shades...

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while shadow boxing
sometimes 
i kept on
moving dancing and
a prancing
just bouncing
off the ropes 
in my imagination and
suddenly i caught
my opponent shadow off guard
standing flat footed
so i...

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A quiet place in the shadows,
a lonely place where sadness grows.
A place in time where my mind goes,
thoughts and memories are my foes.

But I have...

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Lord I'm trying to design lines to give sight to the blind
that Chuk D fight the power 1989

that Brand Nubian/BDP scriptures
trying to tell them slow...

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You want them to be as yourself, morally depraved ever reaching 
Towards the darkness; to further these covert, self-serving agendas ?
Sprinkling a bit of powdered...

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drifting upon this groovy scene
could this be a movie theme
you putting me here on earth
the needle tracks in both arms hurt
Lord, my knees are touching...

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The first time I lost my mind,
I was standing in the rain.
The second time the song remained the same.
My brother told me all you’ll ever...

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Greek mythological
drama flourishes,
nee thrives within
noggin of yours truly
gods and goddesses
sporting Hellenic origins

purportedly cavort
higgledy-piggledy
rampantly running ragged
ruminative raconteur
resultant rueful end product
wreckage of present day me

chafing amidst yesteryear's...

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Human wreckage
Skeletal wasteland
Void of emotions
Echoes... vague-
Shadow boxing
In darkness
With ghosts....

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Father?
Have You looked at us lately?
We're so far away
And so full of hate, for each other.
Father?
Have You listened much lately?
The things that we say
Make my...

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Shadow boxing and
Knocked out
From a stiff left jab and
Then, from a strong right hand
Oh, what a sweet science...

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