The Magnolia Tree
...There are those special moments in life
That become etched in one's heart
Leaving a sweet precious memory
Etched….. never to depart
I have one so treasured memory
Though so simple in its act
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Categories:
dreadlock, appreciation, blessing, simple, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Solitary Confinement He's Everthing I Am- I Am Everthing In Him My Spokenword
..."Voluntarily solitary confinement;
He's my eternal involvement;
I live in a single thought;
With the free loving heart;
I'm isolated with the Creator;
Separated from my old self;
Del...
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Categories:
dreadlock, absence, appreciation, desire, engagement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Change Is a Com N
...A Change Is A Com'n
Though this baby boomer,
(who didst roam man
upon this Earth
since the year
mcmLix) does not
coon sitter himself
a political activist his wear
re: some ness, p...
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Categories:
dreadlock, anxiety, class, environment, grief,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Making a Wrong Turn
...
What can a bewildered brotha’ say,
it happens every unnatural day
Sunshine is labeled as shade,
crystal clear is called opaque fade
Did I make a left turn
into the wrong dimension?
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Categories:
dreadlock, gender, perspective, society, wisdom,
Form: Ode
Eliminate Disorder For Good
...Ensnared in greed’s deadlock
Where I can’t open the lock
To the barn in which kindness stock
That humankind in its hour of need
Longs to free its soul from the greed
That frustrates the compas...
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Categories:
dreadlock, poems,
Form: Free verse
The New Look
...Your hair gathered in creamy layered,
Mirror into style where the wind rose,
With liquid gold comb brightly flared,
Today embraces the color you choose.
Where your beauty goes with the glow,
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Categories:
dreadlock, adventure, birthday, change, character,
Form: Free verse
The Sign Said
...
When civilization begins to crumble,
it's gonna end with a crash
The sound is gonna be loud:
Big Bang!
Everything
swirling down the toilet drain
The first crashing sound
i...
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Categories:
dreadlock, death, future, visionary, world,
Form: Narrative
Not As If All Is Well
...The priceless honey pot has dropped from high
Fallen heavily on granite like egg
The pot is broken the honey is spilt-
How can I then live as if all is well ?
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Categories:
dreadlock, bereavement,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Heart Shaped Wishes
...she moves sleepy-headed in the bed next to me
and in the stillness of the mornings dim light
her hand finds its way across my chest and like an idle dancer spins
nonchalant circles of heart shaped...
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Categories:
dreadlock, love, lust, romance, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Fluorescent Beauty
...My fluorescent beauty, with lips so pink and fruity
With a smile that's flawless an cutie
With skin, radiantly silky smoothie
And a kiss, so wet and drippingly juicy
like...
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Categories:
dreadlock, beautiful, beauty, fruit, love,
Form: Couplet
Lamar
...(In Memory of Lamar "L-Boogie" Featherston)
A handsome, dreadlock-wearing Prince
was My Lamar
With Big, brown Eyes and skin like
tar
Who was destined in LIFE, to score
many a par
Until FATE,...
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Categories:
dreadlock, death
Form: Elegy
Mornin' Silence
...Hello! Jesus, my old friend
I've come to talk to you again
To receive blessings in early mornin' light
After the night
No longer in a world of silence
The sun rises once again
From distance...
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Categories:
dreadlock, devotion, faithworld, sound, me,
Form: Quatrain
Something About Culture
...Something about culture
Something deeper than root
Thicker than blood
More brutal than ancestry
Wriggling from the mud
Something inviolate
Absolutely unemancipating
Something the nomenclatured...
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Categories:
dreadlock, places
Form: Free verse