Prayer
...Our son-in-law was in a really bad wreck yesterday
He according to the test has no broken bones but is in terrible pain
The ER doctor let him come home last night
Thank God that he ha...
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Categories:
broadsided, prayer,
Form: Prose
God Made What
...My mind broadsided by my great-nephews imagination
I heard…
“When God made “Spongebob”, we weren’t here.”
Curiosity, the controlling force that it is made me ask,
“Where were we?”
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Categories:
broadsided, children, cute, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Broadsided
...broadsided
emotional
collision
forcefully
pushed
sideways
when it
hit the heart
indiscriminately
resulting in
an emotional
eruption...
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Categories:
broadsided,
Form: Lyric
Relapses
...mentally
broadsided
subconscious
unrestrained
causes
habitual
relapses into
vice regression
each time the
conscious mind
starts to wounder...
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Categories:
broadsided,
Form: Lyric
Befuddled Brenda
...Ol’ brazen Brenda, battlin’ biography,
Banters bewildered brave boatmen at sea,
Brushstrokes besieging her beleaguered brain,
Broadsided by fiction now baking insane;
Balanced betwe...
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Categories:
broadsided, confusion, heartbreak,
Form: Alliteration
Red X 'Trane
...Red x trane
(a black arts movement kwansaba)
by ‘bro.zayid’
Garvey greased Harlem struttin
Baraka bluuuue New Ark floats
Chicago ‘sippi blood thick
Watts fire ibeji badd
Big Eazy polyrhyth...
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Categories:
broadsided, inspiration, memory,
Form: Kwansaba
Categories:
broadsided, allusion, celebration, drink, history,
Form: Ballad
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 6 - Robert and Ernie Adventures
...Here Ernie and I were in this loud New York train yard,
I had just promised him I'd try to save his new found love.
She was a fair haired mouse, in fact her fur was so white,
That sun glaring o...
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Categories:
broadsided, adventure, growing up,
Form: Narrative
It Seemed Like a Dream
...The truck came out of nowhere and broadsided his car
Judy's head hit the window
She began bleeding from the blow
other cars started skidding in the snow
It was awful
these situations were NEVER ODD...
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Categories:
broadsided, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Car Wrecks
...Cruising for a bruising, I wreck my blue car.
It runs on regular with no gas gage, goes far.
She ran the yellow light at sixty. I went on green.
Her witness date, on same yellow light.
My car s...
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Categories:
broadsided, adventuregod, me, car, god,
Form: Narrative
To Fight the Good Fight, Finish the Course and Stay True To My Faith
..."I fought the good fight, finished my course and stayed true to my faith"
these are the last words that Paul the Apostle did convey
many pastors use this text when they preach a eulogy
but I think...
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Categories:
broadsided, life, son, words, god,
Form: Didactic