Jagged Edges No More
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The jagged edges tear apart
The cornerstones of her heart
Each day, there's an emotional dart
Thrown by her counterpart
The husband's venom impart
And sadly, she's his push cart
Whe...
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Categories:
blackheart, abuse, angst, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
BLACK HEART
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As your black heart
is without hate,
it can not hurt
by the swords of hate,
as the Holy Spirit
dwells in it....
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Categories:
blackheart, black love, christian, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Darkheart
...He rode in on horse
It was pale of course
He was as mean as he was crazy
He'll rob, murder and steal, But he ain't lazy
The first man was shot in front of the saloon
It wasn't close to being hig...
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Categories:
blackheart, cool, crazy, murder,
Form: Sonnet
Happy Days
...Once more we see the signs of the restart
as nature wakens plants with her magic art.
We laugh as at long last winter does depart
leaving us full of joy and light of heart.
Leafy branches conce...
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Categories:
blackheart, birth, spring,
Form: Monorhyme
Blackheart
...Bruised and broken time and again
Loved and tossed away lover and friend
Innocent and free and lovely you
Now battered and worn what can I do
I weep for your woes and wipe your tears
But love y...
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Categories:
blackheart, giggle,
Form: Ballad
Fall Skies
...The bell of the high church tower
Rings every hour
The sound echoes with power
As in the skies shooting stars shower
Beyond the castle wall
There is suffering of a lonely soul
The chestnuts fall lik...
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Categories:
blackheart, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Blackheart Man
...All day again
Down the road from Albion school
The child shivered in the sun in pain.
Somebody broke the rule
They said, the blackheart man
Drove a white van
As we suspected all along.
When I ...
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Categories:
blackheart, satire, school, child, day,
Form: Verse
Rastaman
...Walter Rodney
One evening leaving the bamboo hall
Stood me
Impaled with questions
Die me
To the dead colonial dreams
Wiped my tears of history
And showed me
Rastafari wading through the flood...
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Categories:
blackheart, religionsound, children, sound,
Form: Free verse
The Legacy
...Picture decibels of granite landslide wailing
Rocks of flocking tears tumbling savagely down
Upon the dry valley, and the heart's raining
Wide torrents of griefs in shoutings unknown
And then str...
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Categories:
blackheart, history, philosophy, politicalold, love,
Form: Verse
Saint Blackheart
...Saint Blackheart walks the Autumn streets and smiles with diamond eyes;
She's well-aware of what you think, but listens to your lies.
Confess your deepest fantasies or never look her way --
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Categories:
blackheart, allegory, death, imagination, introspection,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Black
...At the age of THREE,
I realized people didn’t look like ME.
As I grew older I realize everyone wasn’t treated EQUALLY.
At first I didn’t UNDERSTAND!
As times went on I started to COMPREHEND.
Tha...
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Categories:
blackheart, life, words, god, people,
Form: Verse