Song of Sorrow
..."There is a sorrow on the air
I taste
but cannot name."
Nickole Brown
We are a conspiring sour in the air,
a wonder through perspiring space and time
I taste
but cannot name
and fear t...
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Categories:
earthless, change, conflict, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
You Are My Sun
...You are my sun, you are the only star I have ever known;
One joy the more, one ache the less;
Had kindled those baby fires o'er your face;
Dimples that twinkle and a smile whose glow scares the da...
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Categories:
earthless, best friend, blessing, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Diary of a Loner 2
...February 2050
The commotion continues in present,
I tried to run away but my pen held me
Back to the weird view of human destruction;
To write that which I see and witness.
Houses were at the ...
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Categories:
earthless, art,
Form: Ballad
And the Poet Wept
...He sat among the broken Calabash
With a broken red lips weeping.
His elephant like muse hidden behind
The earthless atmosphere crying like a child.
His venom birthed sadness among the sadist,
He...
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Categories:
earthless, africa, art,
Form: Free verse
Remember Your Six Feet
...When you walk gallantly like the Elephant
And make gold and silver the clothes you wear
to be seen by all men whose life are worthless to
You, remember the six feet waiting for you!
When all...
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Categories:
earthless, art,
Form: Blank verse
If I Could
...If I could, I would write a love poem that never exist
But exist in the lost mind of the betrayal of love.
If I could, I would stop the movement of the clock,
If I could go to heaven to see God, I...
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Categories:
earthless, abortion, age, art,
Form: Naat
The Traditional Story
...In my little village, Nkporo,
We celebrate the Iza Afa Festival
And the Most Magnificent Igboto Nma Festival.
The two are more than four hundred years old,
Our forebears told us that it began wit...
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Categories:
earthless, africa, art,
Form: Narrative
Silence
...I turn my face up like a waiting cup
Ready to catch beads of beam that falls
From your face turned downward to mine.
And between our distant thoughts, silence.
We, two black souls, face to distant fa...
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Categories:
earthless, nature, heart, heart, moon,
Form: Free verse
Conquest
......And then they speak of un-translatable conquests,
Though my face looks so much like your face
And our voices can get caught and surprised in mutual, glancing harmony
Over and over and then some...
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Categories:
earthless, life, love,
Form: Free verse