BACK ROAD MAN
...(verse 1)
I have really long hair,
don't understand why people stare.
I'm looked down upon by society,
they try to destroy my dignity.
The people call me lazy and low class,
'cause my mop is al...
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Categories:
dap, america, class, friendship, society,
Form: Lyric
Bike and Beans
...I got a mountain bike
it sits on my side porch
it sits under a torch
it should go on a hike
I got free beans from Mike
There’s three beans in my jeans
That I’ve had since my teens
or ...
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Categories:
dap, humor,
Form: Limerick
tongue tolerates teasing
...Napping nap nighty night
Tapping tap tighty tight
Sapping sap slightly sight
Happing hap heightly height
Japping jap jightly jight
Wrapping rap rightly right
Lapping lap lightly light
Dappin...
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Categories:
dap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Wise Advise
...Abiding balance cadence dap ease facility gems handle
Illuminate jasper keep language magnanimous
Never oblige people qualify raise sage
Take unchangeable values waken
Xenophobia-not yank zealo...
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Categories:
dap, wisdom,
Form: ABC
Bleak Moments
...Violent noisy events in waves slap ,
Break and coersively snatch away
Distrubing the foamy thoughts in array,
Spreading across the stretch and dap
Calm and quietude that envelope
And revive ...
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Categories:
dap, success,
Form: Lyric
Sweet Tooth Dinner Date
...warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream on top
cookies and cream ice cream sandwiches
chocolate chip cookies baked to chewy perfection
all in abundance
this is the best dinner ever
we pull out t...
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Categories:
dap, fun, humorous, joy,
Form: Free verse
Blue Hearts
...1 man
all by himself no one understands
The government even determine when he can see his kid
Now he got a bunch of stuff running through his head
Streets getting wild
Never knew he wasn’t my...
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Categories:
dap, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes You Have To Cry--
...Sometimes you have to cry
Somethings in your eye
you tear up water flows down
your eye to your chin
slowly you blink watch it keep
an eye gently dap rub it
2/2...
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Categories:
dap, analogy, assonance, cry, desire,
Form: Tanka
The Beat
...The beat, the beat it swings, it sings
Its bouncing tone a memory brings
a-tap ter-tap de-dap de-dap
and then she sings...
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Categories:
dap, america,
Form: Free verse
Dance Beach Hiphop
...it was on the sand
was boom box band
the music was was dap
it was rap
it was music wide hats flop
and beach cot
we all by ocean prance
was
DANCE BEACH AND HIPHOP...
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Categories:
dap, desire,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Unnamed
...(Intro)
Hello……..my friends.
(Chorus)
It’s nice to see you
After all this time……..once again
Where has the time gone off to
Are our memories of yesteryear
Still as fresh as the lingering pai...
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Categories:
dap, dark, death, friend, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Parallel Are the Rails
...PARALLEL ARE THE RAILS
(PRE-VERSE 1)
Feeling all alone
Cast away like a stone
Few friends what I got
True friends can’t be bought.
(VERSE 1)
Living is a joke
Think I’m about to choke.
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Categories:
dap, addiction, allegory, change, dark,
Form: Lyric
Dismantling of a Nation
...Dismantling Of A Growing Nation
Back in late 70s, while I was just another fresh face in a local varsity....
Racial based politics was gaining grounds with public sympathies....
Remembered disti...
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Categories:
dap, anxiety, birth, character, community,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Bye and Bye
...Well, drip the juice
turn off your
Sunday suits
Fried chicken crackling
Rerun, what's happening
Brothers givin dap again
ain't no O'Jay
whistlin
back stabbin-in
Bill Cosby
found a friend a...
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Categories:
dap, black african american, easter,
Form: Free verse
Wait Up Baby
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Wait Up Baby
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February/1989
The water/smooth
feathered
white suede
winter hat
was tilted
"Ace/Duece,"
to his head,
in the he...
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Categories:
dap, relationship
Form: Light Verse
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