History Beyond Poems

Genre: Poetry
Title: Love Beyond Death
Author: John King Ayanfe ©

If your love is my Hercules heel
Thence, I'd be ready to die a valian
For you sake, I'd...

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Above party
Above caste
Above station 
Above place
Above state
Above nation
Above riches
Above race

And the reasons
And excuses
And the grief
And the shame
And the guilt
And the sanctions
And the blood
And the stain

Beyond...

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I should get a smart phone
but i'm 73 and don't give a toss.
Black history is about ***** folks - who knew?
No, I will NOT untuck...

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There are so many things manipulated by mankind... But the truth will always be there, no matter what is said or done, or reported in...

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I
If he forgave me, I got more than ever
Jesus not only forgave me forever
He loved me from Eternity
(or eternity past, Now, any Future)
He has not...

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This piece was inspired greatly by the horrors of the tornadoes that leveled miles of life in this Kentucky and neighboring states, killing over 100...

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Sing Broken Beyond Mankind


because I speak


                IN   

...

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Her name was misery . . .
And it was the only thing she owned.
Any joy had now abandoned,
Leaving pain that wasn't condoned.

Somewhere, long ago, the...

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There Just Beyond That Long Black Sea Curtain

Across the expanse, twilight's beckoning mystery
Far flung over hidden thundering, splashing waves
Lies the unknown, extension of man's history
Adventure...

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A man clad in mystery,
history would learn

His face on the mountain,
immortality earned

A man from tomorrow,
reliving today

Intrepidly fated
—truth on display


(Crazy Horse Monument: May, 2008)...

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Imagine a freedom beyond imagination!  
Like 102 passengers embarking on the Mayflower 
As the ship’s sails billowed, the horizon disappeared, 
Nothing ahead but wide-open,...

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the seeing child 
exotic and special
an old soul

she had a history
unknown to those unenlightened
understood by the others

she saw well beyond her flesh years
the villagers flocked...

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Gained in 1957 our Independence.
Hailed by all as the Black Star, the gateway and leader to Africa's independence.
At the turn of this decade, are we...

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Never beyond distant shores is my Savior and Lord*
Who knows my best condition!
My soul He freed from hell’s eternal damnation
He redeemed me, giving me His...

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What great dimension of the vast beyond
     makes Earth a microscopic vagabond?

But we, the wisest in Earth's history...
   ...

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