I'm an Afrikan
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Rose from dusty arid land of these great mountains and forests, guided and quenched by life breeding rivers and lakes, my mind and head kept at landscapes soo nurturing and grinding...
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Categories:
cowardness, africa, art, beautiful, culture,
Form: Free verse
Some Thoughts on Courage
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Courage comes from facing your fears
•We fear tomorrow at the expense of today
•Fear can confuse the mind; fear can paralyze the heart
•Fear about tomorrow costs us the joy of today
•Fear can c...
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Categories:
cowardness, christian, courage, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
The Day of Halloween
...The emerging of wizards and ghosts
On a night of deep and frightening darkness
Children dressed in special costumes,hats and masks
With a Jack-o'-lantern in hands
Hoping to frighten the evil spi...
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Categories:
cowardness, evil, god, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Nature's the Colors Of- -
...Golden Memories
Black and miseries
All these sincerities
My nature
Purple righteousness
Yellow cowardness
Bound complexities
Color of my nature
The green leaves on the gre...
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Categories:
cowardness, color, imagery,
Form: Free verse
My Answered Prayer
...I was chiseled by angles before
Witless from pain my haunting nights bore
From a past I can't blindly forget!
Those heartbreaking years I will always regret.
For I never did what I should have ...
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Categories:
cowardness, fate, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Dearth
...Dear death
I'm sending my condolence to you
I'm telling you that it is enough
You took my brother
Now you took my son
I didn't want it to come this way but I am tired
Let talk about it men ...
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Categories:
cowardness, death,
Form: Epigram
Escape From Curses
...Safe proof from the words
Uttered as swords in the air
To undermine worth
Feeling the ego menaced
Act with cowardness and fear
Dedicated to a special friend
7-28-2016...
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Categories:
cowardness, friend, friendship,
Form: Tanka
Moody Coloring
...Red can be rose pedals so sweet,
or blood needlessly flowing down the street.
Blue could be a clear majestic sky,
Or a bad mood plunging from on high.
Green ca be a rolling carpet of grass,
Or e...
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Categories:
cowardness, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Voice of the Children
...I am the voice of the children. I beg you, listen to them.
Do not shut out their small voices. Do not make them mute thru lack of listening.
Hear my story, I will tell you what they ar...
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Categories:
cowardness, change, child abuse, courage,
Form: Bio
Outside Looking In
...One minute apart
So much older
Yet we couldnt be further from eachother
You were a second mother
All three of us
Yet eye to eye we'll never see
Always wanted acceptance
Always wanted to fit in...
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Categories:
cowardness, absence, deep, family, drug,
Form: Free verse
Curiosity
...Curiosity: they say kills the cat,
but the distinct possibility is; that cat was unlucky.
Of not being tough enough to cross that bridge in front of you, is tantamount to
cowardness.
Of not ...
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Categories:
cowardness, art, prejudice,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Mind Without Temptation
...A fragile mind
Is a prosperous mind
It has a delicate structure
Pure as possible
loyal as it is noble
It puts bravery before cowardness
No temptation can seize its existence
Forever more shal...
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Categories:
cowardness, dedication, devotion, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Remembrance
...A maze of mixed depression
Welcoming my perplex thoughts
And undesired dreams.
Covering the cowardness I speak
In truth of riddles that darkness hides
Yet all because destiny lied?
What rul...
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Categories:
cowardness, confusion, death, depression, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
My Alphabet Salad
...A is for Anger we all bear
B is for Bravery not all of us share
C is for Cowardness some of us face
D is for Dignity we often chase
E is for Elegance most of us lack
F is for Fear that holds us ...
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Categories:
cowardness, funny
Form: ABC
God's Hand
...Another day like so many others
With American's blood spilling on foreign sand,
So many wounded and so many lives have been lost
There are so many led to heaven by God's hand.
How many soldiers...
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Categories:
cowardness, confusion, death, family, children,
Form: I do not know?
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