The survival and demonisation being black
...Acceptance equals survival
Survival equals safety
Comfort equals invisibility
And invisibility is vital
For us to live a somewhat peaceful life
'Somewhat' because they even kill us in silence...
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Categories:
cremate, discrimination, evil, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Jumping Fences
...Did you know you’re trespassing?
Gated communities with white pickets; white teeth.
All of their new blood rushes towards leagues of Ivy and ROTC gold.
Loud engines.
Window signs.
(...
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Categories:
cremate, community, family, growing up,
Form: Free verse
No burial, just a lousy cremation
... No burial
When I died, my family didn’t dare bury me in a grave.
They knew, without a doubt, I'd only misbehave ~
that I'd party with the germs,
and have sleepovers with the wor...
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Categories:
cremate, death, grave, humor, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Silent Mission
...
Glass shattered Saturday afternoon tea for S I L E N C E
holding steady raven momentum for its own r i p p i n g
fire from heartbeat slashes its void to tumble wounds of ...
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Categories:
cremate, abuse, change, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Petals of pain blossom into colours of Love
...My soul is my guide.. Rumi
I once adored the warmth
of unreachable desires.
Ascending too high,
I fell from the sky just like Icarus.
Suffering from the flames of fate,
my eyes resembled a ...
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Categories:
cremate, allusion, love,
Form: Free verse
On Death
...Should I die and be cremated, please preserve my little skull,
For like a nut when the meat is gone, all's left is but the hull..
My skull is house that traps my thoughts, wherein does reason dwe...
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Categories:
cremate, death,
Form: Rhyme
Market place of hallucination
...
In an endless night,
time is my nemesis.
In the realms of sleepwalking nightmares,
where trumpets blow an eerie tune,
I can see the Grim Reaper,
perched upon my tomb.
I search for the san...
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Categories:
cremate, allusion, angst, fate,
Form: Free verse
Narrow Margin
...
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who sunk like winter sunset,
but...
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Categories:
cremate, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Journal
...“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
David Levithan
I will forever be as pure
as white virgin fibres,
in your onyx
fiel...
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Categories:
cremate, angst, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Please Don'T Bury Me
...Please don't bury me
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023
Please don't bury me under that apple tree
So beautiful and abundant
It needs space for life to experience
Its shade and soft mossy feet
...
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Categories:
cremate, death, farewell, funeral, in
Form: Free verse
Positive Ideas Cremate Chaos
...A good time will surely arrive
On a safe path God will drive
Quietly continue the journey
Like this are waiting many
Surely God will confer a favor
That is why He is the Savior
Trust Him ...
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Categories:
cremate, courage, emotions, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Couplet
When I Pass
...when i pass
i will linger on in a few memories
a few nanoseconds in man's history
place no stone above me
with some name easily forgotten
never bury me in the earth
in some hollowed-out cavity
...
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Categories:
cremate, celebration, faith, happiness,
Form: Free verse
I Beg To Differ
...We had a difference of opinion on final wishes
I swing back and forth like a pendulum this is
because she said it is wrong to cremate
to destroy the body that God made
That even the lords body wa...
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Categories:
cremate, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Alpha Pistols
...Alpha Pistols
It’s a nice warm summer’s evening in 2004
The cool man was on top of the Manchester tower block
He fires down with various guns at his lower targets
There is a builders yard two hun...
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Categories:
cremate, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form: Verse
To Light the Spoken Air
...Thoughts inflame as feelings stir,
words simmering yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night,
a pyre still to fan
As heat restores the human soul,
all prodigals return
With hope to ...
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Categories:
cremate, voice,
Form: Free verse
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