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In the Kitchen Cabinets

...One box was stamped two thousand fifteen;
Another two thousand and five.
If I ate the pasta inside them,
Do you think I would still be alive?

Some crackers found zipped in a baggie
Were stale ...

Categories: browner, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

November Weather

...November weather
green tree two seconds ago
browner than brown now...

Categories: browner, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Haiku

Just a Rock

...Sitting next to the lake,
I pick up the nearest rock.
It’s brown, speckled black,
Tinted red by the stream.
Layered and flat,
But a bit too large to skip.
It’s sharp on one side,
Rounded on th...

Categories: browner, deep,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Indian Solar System

...(TW : Abusive marriage )

So we are here in this garden less green than the ones you promised .

Oh you say this ? 
you the girl with eyes browner than the skin , 5 feet of womanhood , 7 inches ...

Categories: browner, abuse, girl, irony, marriage,
Form: Free verse

To Hug, Or Not To Hug

...She is young
and proud
and crying with despair.

I want to give her a hug,
to share a mutual communion hug,
opposite of a hostile shrug
instead of caring with each other,
To cooperatively emb...

Categories: browner, community, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse

Pony Up

...I'm often asked to pony up for someone else's problem,
But not that many friends have ever asked me for asylum,
Or even come to visit me when my own life's a downer,
Might loan me shovel (would be...

Categories: browner, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme

Saucey Suncream

...A fruity smell,
An apple smell,
A peachy, strawberry, grapey smell
Sugary, bitter and sweet.

Cream-like,
Soup-like,
Anything at all like,
That keeps everything cool in the heat.

You get b...

Categories: browner, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme

More Is Blessed

...Blessings to each who need blessing; 
Let the will of our Creator.
and the will of those suffering become as one. 
Any man not standing with the righteous people of this earth then, 
they are not...

Categories: browner, analogy, blessing, color,
Form: Prose Poetry

When a Black Man Is Right

...Becomes browner
White man, whiter
Colored, a rainbow...

Categories: browner, humor, race, racism,
Form: Triolet

Things

...canvas of paints 
are shaped into my death. Yes where i really hold your hand and slunk my thoughts into the cavern mind i live in.
there , there , i graved it all. i bathed a clear face of salty w...

Categories: browner, art, crazy,
Form: I do not know?

How Much Do You Love Chocolate

...I love chocolate, all sorts of chocolate,
The darker and browner the better.
I love it like the Greek love their bread, 
When their bread is covered in Feta.

A shout out to Cadbury and Nestle, ...

Categories: browner, chocolate, easter, happiness, happy,
Form: Rhyme

Black History Month

...Why is it called 'Black History Month'
Black means void of light
why because we are nonwhite
this should be voted out
because the name Human Race 
carries more weight
Sure, I understand
it is ...

Categories: browner, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme