Best Unlettered Poems

Kiss me,  I want to lift you skirt flying
Inside my heart like the wind
To dance on clouds of joy my kite
Embracing time, to hold...

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dialog with myself invariably involves others
we are all perceivers nobody escapes
no really and truly trust me on this
no manufacturing of childish evasions
maybe it is best...

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I regret having been born
to forlorn in this noxious, wicked world.
I distaste that I was born
in a biased, impovershirished, corrupt society.
I was born to careless;...

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With a pride she denied his love....
She wanted a romantic man but she couldn't see that in him - she saw arrogant in the way...

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"He made a difference."

Gramps, my mother's father, 
Dave Luke -- my grandfather, 
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) 
Louisiana man -- was born August 1888....

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OSAMA
Obdurate Sadistic abductor as Machiavellian now abashed
Senseless Saboteur with Sabre sword,
Ablutions of wickedness as apology from vagrant
Mercy and peace mixed fleetingly against unprovoked America and...

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Do not tell me I am but a clever fool
I have sought truth entirely unfettered,
Finding rules for better living as a tool
Among the educated and...

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Pursue joy in itty-bitty thing
A faith like mustard seed 
If move the mountain
Little love is indeed a greater love
Wherein a biggest bliss.

Hunt time to acknowledge
You’ll...

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Keep me blocked, you cowardly wench,
Provoking but allowing no fair retort
Considering the Soup like killer sport,
Where the star is relegated to the bench.
While you continue...

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Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and...

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I look upon the clean white sheet and shed a salty tear
I know not what  I seek my mind seems totally out of gear
I...

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Thou asks how far the wind blows
in fact I cannot tell
Or then how high the heavens
my prayers deep in the well

Thou asks if love comes...

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"I am the wisdom of Greeks 
I am the gnosis of the savage barbarians 
I am the shrewdness of Greeks 
I am the prudence of...

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Be frank; tell me if ye feel lost, alone, 
I shall be thy moving shadow for life, 
I'll bathe and groom thee and soothe thy...

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In unlettered eyes too language there is, 
World would read, hope-mixed mirage too there is.

In breath of death breathlessness too there is,
Wish to live by...

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