The Way To Prosperity
...In the world of diversity and disparity,
Hard would be, to see tranquility
Abandoning, God-given equality,
Oh! It would be a bitter reality
Survival of the fittest, deprival of the weakest,
Ra...
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Categories:
deprival, discrimination, peace, spring, success,
Form: Free verse
An Outcry
...The countryside was their homeland,
Buried in the rich soils were their sons’ navel strings,
Nothing of their history was bland,
Not even the stain on their names or grit on their rings.
They...
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Categories:
deprival, hope, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
I Understand, a Poem For Granddad
...I understand,
Each time you held our little hands,
How lucky we were and yet,
Such moments that glow midst the hearts swirling core,
Are the easiest to forget.
I understand,
When you wrapped ...
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Categories:
deprival, absence, appreciation, grandfather, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Mariah of Magdala
...Continuation of
Part IV: FORGIVENESS
Today Mariah of Magdala,
It's written not only of you but of your enemies
Do you discover Mariah of Magdala
We are all alike
In pitch dark, we hide our d...
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Categories:
deprival, appreciation, blessing, celebration, community,
Form: Narrative
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
...Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I u...
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Categories:
deprival, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
I Need Quiet
...Quiet! Everything around is too loud
I can’t stand to be in this crowd
Their voices go silent but I can still see their mouths moving
They’re giggling, obviously find something amusing
Are they...
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Categories:
deprival, anxiety, bereavement, child, deep,
Form: Lyric
Jealious Rivalry
...Jealious Rivalry
To preserve a Politician's personal survival
Realize they may be jealous of another rival;
When challenged by
Much harder must try.
And do expose all without having a deprival...
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Categories:
deprival, allegory, analogy, political,
Form: Limerick
Genius Forsaken
...Days further plagued by deprival
Evermore is as the numbing slumber
Inspirations with it, they are
The fruits which wither
And the fish that writhes
Withdrawn from what's vital
The waters of l...
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Categories:
deprival, god, poetry, writing,
Form: Classicism
Maria De Medeiros
...Her presence vale of privy
Amid mere, less gentle eve
A summer lost, arid supple, a longing
Among a velvet morning mistarl breeze
Deprival chills left within perfume, a wakes
Atmospheres sheerly...
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Categories:
deprival, people,
Form: Rhyme
Let Go, Never Give Up
...Another day passes by
Sun sets, Suns rise
Skies fly by
Parallel to the
Ambitious eye,
Lie in between what we are searching for
Truth is never certain, it seems that's
all they're searching fo...
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Categories:
deprival, art, devotion, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse