A Daughters Promise
...I promise I would be a good girl when I go out into the world, I promise to stay out of trouble and return home in a hurry. I promised never to play in the street or walk barefoot, I promise I would ...
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Categories:
conceptualize, america, beautiful, culture, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Consciousness correction
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Gradually it internalized.
Taking over it mesmerized.
Initially it demonized.
Intense pressure loomed.
A feeling I was doomed.
Festered a previous wound.
Forgiveness given in confession.
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Categories:
conceptualize, angst, anxiety, sad,
Form: Tercet
Dumbfoundedness Still Prevails Three Weeks Later
...Dumbfoundedness still prevails three weeks later...
when held spellbound courtesy grifter
Flim-flam man left lasting emotional whiplash
his derelict perfected artifice
to hijack every last cent...
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Categories:
conceptualize, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Conundrum
...I'll write only of my biggest fault,
over it, I daily agonize.
My heart and soul are under assault
I need to conceptualize.
I can't seem to conquer my dislik...
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Categories:
conceptualize, angst, books, conflict, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
The World I Should Enjoy
...His wisdom did his happiness destroy,
Aiming to know that world he should enjoy;
And wit was his vain, frivolous pretense
Of pleasing others, at his own expense
- John Wilmot, 2nd...
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Categories:
conceptualize, angst, fate, places, poverty,
Form: Free verse
God Blessed Me
...God blessed me with no obstacles as my follicles were fertilized just right.
Giving birth to two beautiful sons, as I rejoiced when they kept me up at night.
Their first words, first laughs, firs...
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Categories:
conceptualize, blessing, growing up, mother,
Form: Rhyme
The Green Fairy
...The Green Fairy
If I were a flapper girl sipping on a dirty martini with a jade cigarette holder, would you still love me?
Singing a bluesy, swing song, while the gents in the room had a great...
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Categories:
conceptualize, appreciation, art, celebration, crush,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For Michael
...Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision
to respond to you
our multi-versed
mathematical magician
Because even I kno...
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Categories:
conceptualize, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Where
...We see ourselves as that fire across the land;
a wall of words to wall out hurt or pain.
We create a story among ourselves to entertain,
experience awareness as a finger of approaching throb.
It ...
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Categories:
conceptualize, baptism, birth, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Remote Control Madness
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Where do remotes go, is what I,
in aggravation ask?
Mine must have feet and to find
them is a most frustrating task.
Hiding under a magazine or my cat
lying on it, hatching one li...
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Categories:
conceptualize, funny, home, humor, technology,
Form: Couplet
Course Correction
...Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.
Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s one ball;
The ...
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Categories:
conceptualize, leadership,
Form: Political Verse
Burn
...In the depths of hell, I burn, as the fire whispers in my ear, the pain begins to turn
The fire, like a pair of eyes, stops and stares at me reminiscent of how I used to be
How I would stay up all ...
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Categories:
conceptualize, 10th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Glimpse
...Imagine complete annihilation, of all that you hold dear.
Think of a young child's life, full of nothing but fear.
Could you even envision a playground, with no children playing?
How about a room ...
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Categories:
conceptualize, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Mirror
...The reflection of myself in a mirror
Is only the opposite of what people see.
A photograph, on the other hand, is right-side forward.
But a mirror and a photograph only show a flat picture,
And a...
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Categories:
conceptualize, i love you, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Conceptualize
...Can you see
Oh’ Can you see
What are you looking at
What do you see
Can you see
Oh’ Can you see
What are you thinking
What do you see
Can you see
Oh’ Can you see
What’s happening ri...
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Categories:
conceptualize, analogy, art, black african
Form: Ode
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