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Best Straight Up Poems


Premium Member Words Straight up
I want conversations 
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky 
the dark and the stoic 
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is chronic 
The name of my affliction
I think it’s wordaholic

Writers and poets
Dig down to the deep
Some are more honest
Others have secrets...

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Categories: straight up, how i feel, language,
Form: Quatrain
Straight Up
A lot of people are going to hell the path is wide
Their souls they sell, living off their own pride
Believing in chance in denying God's on Word
Like a satanic trance in such speaking so absurd

The numbers are all there science gave them to us
But many...

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Categories: straight up, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Straight Up Star Wars
Yo,

I was in an empire, part of the rebellion,
I was luke and han solo,
Takin' photos, of a world in love with chedda'
Prayin' all day for things to get betta'
Askin' Yoda in the sky for some wisdom,
Sherley Chism, and Rosa Parks were my idols,
Strong, black, beautiful,...

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Categories: straight up, black-african amerstar, me, star,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Straight Up Flow
This place is pathetic, 
my critique’s not unique when living amongst these freaks,
everybody so demonic, crisis mode, my diagnostic is more than socioeconomic,
I see your issues their tragic,
learn how things works, otherwise it just seems like magic,
life lessons for the session, 
aggression towards what we’ve...

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Categories: straight up, america, character, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Straight Up G For Ma and Pa
what the definition of a gangsta really is:
It's said I'm a gangsta, 
I'm a straight up G,
your a gangsta to,
if you grew up like me,
it's not by any means,
not a life, about just being a thug,
this is for every child,
that never got a hug,
a ma...

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Categories: straight up,
Form: Bio
Straight Up Sin
You woke on this day
your heart pounds
you can't breathe.
Contemplating your needs
your thoughts feed
the hunt.
Your focus to find
to seek
there's no truth.
Deceived by the feel
thoughts of pleasure
you feel pain.
Depression and anger
where are you
tonight.
Pacing and sweating
no relief
you can't wait.
The searching and calling
the waiting
haunts you.
Vicious is sin
and it laughs
in...

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Categories: straight up, confusion, people, social, son,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Straight Up Into Green Pines
the majestic northern elk
pierced by the archer's swift arrow
through the forest divine
deep into the heart it shatters
the elk leaped over the river's flow
oh what matters
straight up into green pines
yes he shall go to thine
oh Lord he shall not die...

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Categories: straight up, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Straight up
Jack and Jim stood up to sing a hymn
Jack's voice broke
Jim's did choke
 Both did croak
Through their pain
They both did gain
Praise in heav'n for  singing to Him...

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Categories: straight up, joy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry