Grief Culture Poems

The bombs wailed out
In terror they scream
Her fears come to life
He was only fourteen

A young boy whose life is gone
A mourning family whose life has...

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Sharing the cheesecake

Dating with my sweetheart frequently
sharing cheesecake while kissing intensely
Committing love and making witness
The madness moments of cheesecake sweetness
Pledging that whenever we grow a...

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The world is a callous place,
Indifferent to our strife,
It cares not for our pain or grace,
As we navigate this life.

If we should stumble and fall,
And...

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Amidst the peaks of the Himalayas,
Lies a land of culture and beliefs,
A world that's rich and diverse,
Where ancient traditions still breathe.

Nepal, a land of many...

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Sing tae me the auld sangs that ah learnt when a bairn,
Sitting at ma mithers knee hearin the lilting tunes,
Carrying me far awa in ma...

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Two Fridays ago, a fowl thief 
Ruled over hearts, pets, relationships
Broke in (burglary) during my absence
Took Mr. Five (her half- brother) for his unearned pot
I...

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Is this the price we pay for our right to have guns 
the blood of innocent souls lost to oblivion: a gentle violence

Forever a mental...

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The iroko tree,
Wise in the growth
Faithful in its development -
The seer!
Sees good and evil
Brings death to those who deserve
Showers blessing on those who reckon
With Its...

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As poverty got worse
I thought about leaving
Not far;
but weaving.

Somewhere
I could forget my problems
A vacation;
a grieving.

A place
where I could enjoy the sun
A place that far.

Where liquor...

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The follies of fools 
The lord of fools 
The fools that are lords
a leader of the damned 
Insane the minority of minions 
Deplorable and disdained...

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The year 2020 was a year of adjusting to new realities dealing with the pandemic. A pandemic that affected so many people in many ways....

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This land of entitlement, 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping, clutching, scraping the infernal sky.
arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunt like...

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Twenty-twenty, why didn't you abide
by centuries-old rules required to exist?
Why was it prudent to run and then hide;
protocol, you felt, was there to resist

Painfully we...

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I spit
I litter
I play my music loud

I swear
I'm bitter
and common to the crowd

I'll hit
and twitter
to share my wit as proud

And sick
and stricken
to bare more when...

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Reining in jet-black steed;
Rangle for her falcon.
Repugnant mudslinging, 
Risible in content,
Rankled those in the know.
Recent loss of soulmate; 
Ravens smudge the teal sky.
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GLOSSARY 
Queen Elizabeth...

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