Being In The Moment
...**Being in the Moment**
My mother believed in prayers more than my father did. My father preferred to tackle his problems with a flask of white rum, while I believed in the importance of being pre...
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Categories:
coexisted, allegory, allusion, anxiety, child,
Form: Narrative
Lyric Melody Tale
...Written: August 14, 2023
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In ancient times, when celestial roam,
A tale of music, love, and home
There lived a bard of...
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Categories:
coexisted, analogy, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme
Vulpine Visions
...If I search through old memories, shaking dust from visions long filed away, I can see scenes from my childhood. Whenever I am feeling old, I pull a few out, polish them up, and put them in a frame f...
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Categories:
coexisted, animal, childhood,
Form: Haibun
After the Funeral
...The town lost its street maps,
new plots of land appeared, houses were built
where just yesterday there had been none.
Her world seemed relocated,
changed, as if it had been redrawn.
They had ...
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Categories:
coexisted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Will Marry a Poet
...Poet will use all it takes
To travel our works all over the world
Meeting poet celebrities with handshakes
The ones figurative words twirled
Monsters of us flowing lakes
Our works will run ...
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Categories:
coexisted, appreciation, art, career, color,
Form: Rhyme
Bobo's Comeuppance
...A Rottweiler Shepard mix
longsuffering had proven to be
With the Doberman pup, a red one,
won on a gambling spree
Rocky the mix and BoBo
coexisted for a time
As any two male dogs can manage...
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Categories:
coexisted, animal, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Altered State of Reality
...An altered state of reality,
Could there really be a duality?
Who determines if everything is twisted?
I always thought everything just coexisted.
It’s just a matter of perception,
Outsiders jus...
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Categories:
coexisted, people, self, senses,
Form: Rhyme
The Africans of Old
...THE AFRICANS OF OLD.
The Africans of old
At night, slept and of Africa
For Africa they dreamt
Of a day to come
When Africans will be free
Uhuru Uhuru Uhuru
From every form of enslav...
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Categories:
coexisted, africa, allusion, black love,
Form: Didactic
Before Our Time
...cobblestones filled in with rain
crowded by thirsty mourning doves
just down the road a bit
connects the noted Canterbury lane
flower pots hanging by the windows
of a small Tinkerville hamlet
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Categories:
coexisted, society,
Form: Free verse
Let Peace Reign
...We were one yesterday
We coexisted yesterday
Dreams were achieved
Roads were built
By my grandmother' side,
we sang a great song
Our parents cohabited a barn-
Unity they stood,
Our children ...
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Categories:
coexisted, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad
Faith Not To Be Sold
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FAITH NOT TO BE SOLD
Joseph O. Adebanjo
I have seen pain, kissed pain, lived with pain, overcame pain
Deep in my oceans of pain, existed bliss, and coexisted the Son
I saw t...
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Categories:
coexisted, cheer up, courage,
Form: I do not know?
I Don'T Tolerate You, I Accept You
...With the invention of man came a myriad of difficulty and distress.
When the first australopithecine gained it bipedal wings and set sail on the journey to societal grandeur, origin was not an issu...
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Categories:
coexisted, history, world,
Form: Free verse
The Fishing Weather of Love
...O yes, that is fine day
For fishing in mountain river
When weather is bad,
And raining from early gray dawn.
When world look so pity and doleful
Maybe for artists and poets
But so nice for bi...
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Categories:
coexisted, rain, , Lullaby,
Form: Lyric
The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Four -
..." She was born in 219 A.D.,
I met her in 235 when she was 16 years old.
I was working hard with her father as a mercenary
from a Belgium territory, trying to persuade a chieftan named Horaic
to a...
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Categories:
coexisted, creation,
Form: Ode
We Are Tomorrow
...Whether life or death coexist in us
Nothing changes the ability to change a fraction of this life itself
Nowhere is safe as they say
But into a cataclysm of this magnitude
Might other intelligent as...
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Categories:
coexisted, dream, hope, miracle, life,
Form: Free verse
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