Azure Vistas
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"Azure Vistas"
Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...
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Categories:
denigrated, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
AFRICA'S SACRED ARK
...Soon,
The sacred black ashes and dark disfigured, but resilient bones of our enslaved, enraged and estranged ancestors,
Will awake from their centuries of dazed, polluted and denigrated slumber, t...
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Categories:
denigrated, africa, corruption, humanity, independence
Form: Free verse
Do Miracles Still Exist
...Don't ask anything that's so improbable...
if your faith is lacking a strong foundation,
if it has doubt in folks who had a conviction:
didn't they fight to accomplish the impossible?
My questi...
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Categories:
denigrated, america, betrayal, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
In the twilight of thought, where shadows of reason linger
...In the twilight of thought, where shadows of reason linger,
I find myself floating in an ocean of consciousness,
A man, a whisper against the turbulent waves of culture,
Each wave a metaphor, each...
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Categories:
denigrated, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Right Or Wrong Choice
...Is it rather simply a case of me
myself being at fault
Should I not look ever deeper delve
far more inward
Into my own soul at what actually
makes me tick
Approach my choices and ways
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Categories:
denigrated, character,
Form: Free verse
How Do You Feel
...Spiritually, I FEEL highly favored and full of grace.
Emotionally, I FEEL calm, peaceful, and relaxed.
Financially, I FEEL fortunate and blessed.
Family-wise, I give love and FEEL loved.
Physic...
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Categories:
denigrated, america, feelings,
Form: Verse
Festering Wound
...On the banks of river folks gathered solemnly
Where in repose lay the body of his father;
Dry dead-wood was stacked in layers they built,
Fire was crackling, burning, heads were bowing,
Memoriali...
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Categories:
denigrated, angst, death, memory, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Because I Choose Freedom
...Imprisoned
They robbed me of time,
controlled me by their lenses
censored my opinions
took my rights away
mere men speculating
ignorant kings from central casting
spoke for simpleto...
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Categories:
denigrated, abuse, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
Refusing Fear
...Pressed into cavity, wardrobe holds captive
Constrained where space is a premium
Love lodged squashes logic, lungs ravaged
Quicksand scenarios draw a dreamer in
Denigrated to respondee in hi...
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Categories:
denigrated, allusion, anger, conflict, for
Form: Rhyme
Unuttered Verses
...Friendly faces, cheery grins, words, and noises,
Trivially significant, a haze of voices.
Events that transpired, plans in the pipeline,
Unpredictably predictable, a cloud benign.
Emphatic op...
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Categories:
denigrated, character, irony, me, perspective,
Form: Free verse
I Raise This Glass
...I RAISE THIS GLASS
To the sparkle of your skin,
To the reflections of your diamond,
To the span of your life,
To the stride of your gait,
To the depth of your bosom,
To the glow of your skin,...
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Categories:
denigrated, 1st grade, birthday, celebration,
Form: ABC
Das Papa Anathema Furor He Hiss Toward Patriarchal Hierarchy
...Das papa anathema & furor he hiss toward patriarchal hierarchy
Courtesy mine eldest sister Amelie
Beth (thirteen plus months my senior),
whose maternal love equals heart as emoji,
she nsync wit...
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Categories:
denigrated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Scatter Harm Hatters
...Remain receptive and objective
Though environment spins crazy
Twisting and insisting subjective
Attempting to drive away Daisy
To coerce you to surrender
To wills and seals bent
On nurturing...
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Categories:
denigrated, poems,
Form: Free verse
Belittled Bedraggled
...Constant denigration
wears you down
you feel so small
as your efforts are
downgraded with cast-off scoffs.
Your pearls bedraggled,
lack lustre,
displayed dimmed and dulled,
squelched by doubt...
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Categories:
denigrated, depression,
Form: Free verse
Rehab Again
...Rehab Again
I’m alone, I’m sick, in need of help to purge my body of this opiate fuelled existence.. no.... subsistence in which I am stuck.
One last blast before being subjected to yet anoth...
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Categories:
denigrated, addiction, drug, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
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