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Black Body Poems - Poems about Black Body

Norman
...There was a man I once knew. His name was Norman. You know how there’s a first for everything? Well, he was my first. Despite my visits to the nursing homes with my grandma, I really didn’t kn......

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Categories: black body, art, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
A Son of The Soil
...I am a son of the dark continent By conception and ancestral offshoot This black earth, Where my dark ancestors deposited The birth right of my life In the dark bowels of our black sacred ear......

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Categories: black body, africa, beauty, humanity, inspirational
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wednesday Memory
...Every Wednesday on the dot, off to the newsagent like a shot. A solitary sixpence,all my wealth picking up the Hotspur comic from the shelf. To read of my hero W W Wilson,the wonder man, sporti......

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Categories: black body, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry In Motion Contest Wilson
...Every Tuesday on the dot, I would be off to the newsagent like a shot. A solitary sixpence,all my wealth to pick up my favourite comic from his shelf. Not the Beano,Beezer,Dandy or Eagle... th......

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Categories: black body, childhood, fantasy, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Letter To Our Beloved Car
...Traveling birds Shifting seasons Are reflected on your front glass This is a usual scene every morning That day, too Before bringing our children to school That day, though You didn't come......

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Categories: black body, appreciation, car, morning, pain,
Form: Free verse



A Body, a Tree
...A white sepal falls, it is of the early May bloom, it is of a blossomed tree that smothers with the light yielding weight of its insistence, that it will be stirred with the gentle wind. A......

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Categories: black body, allusion, beautiful, blessing, creation,
Form: Free verse
Winter V - the Light the Dark
...Braving the cold air For the moment it takes To stroll to the end of my driveway Wearing but a wool sweater I bow To the mid-afternoon Picking up A popsicle of morning bound newspaper Str......

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Categories: black body, seasons, winter,
Form: Free verse
Why Are You So Loud
...there comes a time when people you once respected reveal or you discover the real person behind the mask face facts people who never wanted you to do better than them are now wishing tha......

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Categories: black body, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Free verse
Stray Cat
...I looked out my window and there to my surprise was a beautiful set of green eyes These eyes were in a glossy black face With exquisite features that sent my heart at quite a pace Sleek black ......

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Categories: black body, animal, appreciation, cat, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
The Ant
...Damn ants- found one walking on my good glass table. grabbed a napkin pinched it over the black body. there's something so unnatural about having a bug in your home. how the hell d......

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Categories: black body, house,
Form: Free verse
Liberty Bow Face
... Red power mode White digital Blue logo My, oh my ... sweet apple pie! Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot ne......

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Categories: black body, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Folding the Flag
... Amend them errant, wavy ways, put a cease crease in those idol traditions Don’t give servile salutes to the droopy god of billowy doctrines What price will be paid for giving homage t......

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Categories: black body, allusion, patriotic, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Bumble Bee
...Bumble BEE I Flutter and fly Got stripe yellow/black body Stringer my beehind zzzz!! 10/30/17 by James Edward Lee Sr.......

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Categories: black body, engagement, i am, insect,
Form: Haiku
Fairytale
...If it ain't Sunday its Monday, Jamming to slow jams while contemplating my next come back, This system got a brother on pursuit they told me from day one that i can run but never hide, Feeling ......

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Categories: black body, anxiety, blue, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
Beauty of Nature
...BEAUTY OF NATURE A butterfly on a flower, It's a moment of pure delight Testing the nectar with it's feet, Colourful wings ready for flight. A ladybird sits on a leaf, Her red and black body ......

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Categories: black body, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme

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