Best Standers Poems

My friends are my family.
Except....they like me, they adore me, they say nice things about me.
My friends understand that in a writer's life, sometimes I ignore their
phone calls, their emails and their texts.
If my muse is on fire, I am not a good friend.

My friends...

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Courage is to stand up for another
On social media,
To ask the coward to delete 
The mean
To not show the victim
For feelings might not crush
Or crucify her
If she is never told

Resist the urge to be cruel 
Or mean
Little bullies are
Usually tormented 
By big bullies 
Unseen

Do not...

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Up-standers ask a bully to please stop.
But not in a bullying voice.
Understand?
Head nod.

Down-standers join the bully.
They call the victim names too
Scared they will be the next target if they do not.
Cowards.

By-standers stand by,
Trying to ignore what is happening, feeling badly later
Wishing they had been an...

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Made in Neonazia

Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town 
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attraction
warm sand under my soles and my soul undisturbed

Wandering on and carefree...

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It's been almost a year and I can truly say the love I have for you is truly unconditional
From the very beginning we would speak on the phone for hours not paying attention to the time 
I enjoyed that we never spoke about copulation and/or...

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Conclusion


Conclusion was announced
Finish of a game

By-standers stepped towards
To ride vehicle again

Comment in the mind
Different person to person

Everything reaches sooner or 
Later towards ending then

Every start is the beginning
Similarly end is the completion

In knowledge of day or night
symmetrical junction of function

How were those days when 
Legs...

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Tis’ truly hopeless…I cannot save myself from thee

Shakespeare’s sonnets, serenades and poetry all tis’ true?

Yet, I must profess

Every desire of adoration, before I am through

 

Thine smile shine unto those tone enriching eyes

In my direction peer but, for shortest of while, seemingly chide

The sweet elixir...

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Uneasy Road
I ceased to complain, I dash forward stalking 
With all the foot going and coming,
With the going steps courage, I mode 
In this track many are seen by the side
Mirror of the road, made with them discourage

My heart sorrowful with my leg
Wandering if it...

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In Africa since the 1960s
Africans have been driven
in vehicles with square tires
whose drivers sit and steer
behind square brake-less wheels

January to January vehicles
jerk and jolt all the  way
passengers scream and shout
hardly enjoying  the ride
on rough and pot-holed roads

Most times passengers
leave the seats and kneel
they...

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We look down,
Trying to rid the frown
Threw up on our face
We're no equal
To people
Who spit a bitter taste

 Yeah,
Victims soon turned up-standers
Shining bright lights 
On those Bullies
And those bystanders

Who walk by
When someone is being victimized
Bring them down to size
Show them the bully
Through the victims eyes

And...

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Early to rise
late to lay,
business minded people
who barely slay;
best of friends with traffic
who make their day.

Clicking show glasses of Ghana bons
with schoolers ready to buy;
Athletic traffic sellers who could
catch up a bus at 120

A metropolis
coloured with yellow molue and danfo buses
whose drivers are as audacious...

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Lay atop our great abyss an ancient tapestry,
an ornate picnic rug, upon which many will sit,
exhorting the tales of its tattered threads.
Tall tales of scholars of sort,
that made deities of fortune tellers.
Gluttonous sitters will long rest
on the laurels of scholars ago,
oppressing other sitters at will,
like...

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Never mind what they think, ima do me.
so its Ur opinion, i don't have to accept it.
who cares if i don't meet Ur standers, i'm not going to lower mine.
so what, i don't wear designer clothing,
my swag isn't yours.
and so what if i don't wear...

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Is your dream worth it

 What is your worth
Could  you be the star or nurturer 
  No on can tell you
  To lower your standers

Lower 
Originality 
Or the
Kindness that pays off

Because you can get up
And you can go far you
Can be the
King of all dreams....

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THE WORD OF GOD

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, in Christ, just as He choose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and...

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