worth fighting forWorth a Fight.
It is no longer about right or wrong. it is about taking a stand
Against those who came to this country
to escape poverty and tyranny, and now want to end democracy
The unwritten consensus among people of different classes.
We have become soft liberal, Christianity, you said?
Don’t make me laugh; we are far too Self-assured
to believe...
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Categories:
art, break up, corruption,
Form: ABC
A forgotten victim of the systemAn untold story of black British history
Throughout history our voices have been silenced
But what happens When they take it further and murder us?
What about those who were permanently silenced?
How will they speak up about how they were 'welcomed' with violence?
But I have a voice and I will speak it
The stories Of the forgotten...
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Categories:
color, corruption, discrimination, fear,
Form: Free verse
How Far We FallThe sun has gone to rest my babes
I give you this last tale
If only you will sleep my dears
For you will I regale
There was a man of great esteem
In wild woods afar
No one knew his given name
They called him Mr. Tar
They named him such for all his soul
Which some...
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Categories:
anger, christian, corruption, depression,
Form: Rhyme
RAISE YOUR VOICEYou can never know
who was watching
waiting for you
to say no.
To say no to injustice
to broken systems and lies.
To say no to drug abuse
to bullies in disguise.
Raise your voice
sound the alarm
just maybe your words
will shatter the harm.
Maybe your voice
will rewrite the story.
Maybe your voice
is their path to glory....
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Categories:
corruption, 12th grade, confidence, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Silence Listens
Find fortitude and strength when life gets tough
Keep going when the future's looking rough
Step back from those whose only claim to fame
Is deceitfully blackening your name.
Sadly there are those who will bring you down
Turning smiles upside down and brows to frown
They’ll get their comeuppance, yes that is true
For God knows exactly the bad they do.
He...
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Categories:
character, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
FIRERiver makes its final clunk
Between
Hills
Rolling boulders like turtle shells
Empty of their mouths and hearts
River bent
Flailing legs and neck
No longer reflects
The sun and moon
From water’s absence down its back.
Turns her terrible brittle head
From me
Teeth gnashing on the spools of willow
To her memory
When mud was forest
Footsteps
Croaking with frogs and dazzled with dragonflies
Ringed in a halo of cold...
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Categories:
anxiety, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Great American literatureGreat American Literature
Our bookshelf groaned under the weight
of American Literature, and my mother was
principally a communist.
An American Tragedy, I read at fourteen,
and my fascination with A Bridge over San Louis Ray
was endless, and so it went on.
I joined the youth wing of the communist party
of Norway, it lasted a month; they kicked me out
I knew...
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Categories:
corruption, absence, black african american,
Form: ABC
The Point of No ReturnThe point of no return could be global or individual
but never is it in the middle.
It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope held by tentative
strands of rope that weaken and deny what hearts are
seeking. It is love, stirred with hate that drips need to
bleed us, heal us and force...
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Categories:
change, conflict, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Pope’s Forbidden TunnelThe Vatican hides many books, but some stories bleed through stone.
He was Pope Fourteen, God's chosen hand,
A shepherd cloaked in crimson and command.
But beneath the weight of holy crowns,
A man still burns when no one's around.
She was Anna, a Catholic nanny, pure and fair,
With ink-black eyes and Marian prayer.
She sang the hymns with sacred grace—
But...
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Categories:
corruption,
Form: Free verse
Musk is a Farley's Rusk
Demagogue not pedagogue
Aghast & agog
Perfidious insidious fog
Reeks of the past
Slog through the smog
Musk seeks to flog
Earth & its serfs
Downed & drowned
In his dystopian bog
Even starry nights
Elon’s neon satellites
Seedier media perch
Utter nutter besmirch
Thriving in the gutter
Conniving depriving church
Vex "X" & Tech T-Rex hex
Or next bogus Rogan
Bogan slogans prevails
Alpha male tales derails
Sod the planet’s scars
Cruise trips to...
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Categories:
confusion, corruption, hate,
Form: Rhyme
The skin I have vs the skin you haveThe skin I have Black Vs The skin they wanted White It was like a lifelong competition With only one condition Whiteness wins And well blackness Loses So from young they Indoctrinated us Into believing White=advantage Black=disadvantage And if you were somewhere in the middle Well that's their decision You better hope that you get...
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Categories:
color, corruption, discrimination, history,
Form: Free verse
InjusticeLocked up in a cage.
But the beasts are allowed to roam.
The lights are dimming and the darkness grows thick.
It is like a mirror on the wall.
Reflecting everything in which you desire but can never have.
Those who takes gets.
And those who gives loses.
The scales have broken.
And you sit alone.
Crying on your throne....
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Categories:
10th grade, allegory, corruption,
Form: Free verse
wind and silencethe wind whispers,
speak not against corruption-
you'll have no friends....
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Categories:
corruption,
Form: Haiku
AFRICA IS MORE THAN WHAT THEY SAYUnlike the headlines in their tabloids
This land was not a den of thieves
Not orphans begging at their gates
Nor lazy minds with rolled-up sleeves
It’s home to those with skin like night
But hearts that shine a like gold
Its people brave and its stories bold
Their wisdom deep and their spirit bright
It holds a culture vast and admirable
A place...
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Categories:
12th grade, africa, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
So it's come to thisIt's right out in the open for everyone to see ~
puppets bought and paid for
dancers strung and played
delusional parrots with microphones
hostages read the demands of a madman
while maintaining somewhat of a poker face
It's never been so obvious : integrity has its price....
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Categories:
anxiety, corruption, integrity, political,
Form: Free verse
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