Ballad for the king Owa Clement Adesuyi Haastrup Ajimoko III
...Owa Clement Adesuyi Haastrup Ajimoko III by Adejola Joseph
Sagacious king
Prudent king
You are an embodiment of knowledge
Encyclopedia of principles
One in a trillion
A king with an uncommo...
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Categories:
emancipate, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Emancipation
...I am a hostage inside my mind, A wall of
crippling deformities
I want to emancipate myself from you, to
rid these tortured thoughts that burn
words of poisonous acid, deep into the
darkest corn...
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Categories:
emancipate, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
A Paradise Sepulcher
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A promise born, a life designed,
To emancipate, to break the bind.
But fate dealt blows, parents passed away,
Leaving her to shadows, in a world astray.
She sells her body, a living corpse,
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Categories:
emancipate, abortion, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Playing Ball
...Curveballs come and they go
They exist in mere
Fragments of time
As they test our consciousness
And stretch our faith
They provide us with an opportunity to define
Who we really are
Curvebal...
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Categories:
emancipate, anxiety, change, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Shatter the Delusion
...Shatter the Delusion
Enormity of lies
Creates infallible illusion
Humanity obeys unable to resist,
as though with some instinct of feigned rebellion,
were it ever really enough - for
Earth'...
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Categories:
emancipate, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
ANOTHER SYNDROME LIE
...It’s time we become aware of this syndrome lie:
“The more things change; the more they stay the same.”
Use your NI to simply check out this scamming phrase;
Are not change and same oxymoronic juxt...
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Categories:
emancipate, abuse, allegory, analogy, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
TALES OF PREGNANT MEN
...Under the canopy of the silver crescent light, right before the ripe of night, basking in the mushroom embrace of twinkling stars, listening to crickets’ melancholic lullabies, before temporary death...
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Categories:
emancipate, corruption, leadership, political, power,
Form: Free verse
UNSUNG HEROISM
...THE UNSUNG HEROISM
As long as this Heroism remains Unsung,
The miserable shall die miserable,
The frustrated shall die frustrated,
The disappointed shall die disappointed,
And broken heart...
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Categories:
emancipate, 12th grade, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Wisdom That I Know
...Mathematical wisdom solve area of prism
Engineering wisdom govern railroad system
Business wisdom gain more sustainable income
Investigative wisdom solve a crime victim
Political wisdom emancipat...
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Categories:
emancipate, engagement, freedom, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
TO THE VALETS OF FRANCAFRICA
...We are tired of enduring the odious cult paid to the lackeys of Françafrique.
This situation is becoming intolerable.
It is deeply humiliating to see mediocre and alienated ******* running the ba...
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Categories:
emancipate, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Swimming with sharks
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In times where eyes are fixated at your sins,
judgment trolls in deceptive double standards.
When pointing fingers nobody really wins,
there's no joy in being defamed and slandered.
Swimmin...
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Categories:
emancipate, judgement,
Form: Ottava rima
Journal
...Yes, that is the role of the Teacher, as Shams was to
me – showing one ‘who they are’, so they can stop
bleating, crying at night, and never again be afraid.
Rumi
Oh beloved,
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Categories:
emancipate, devotion, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Soothing Tomorrows
...Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, sile...
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Categories:
emancipate, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Inhale In Hell
...If you are in hell, Inhale
In jail? Inhale!
But exhale, too...yes. Inhale in hell the ex IT hell
Exhale, exit hell.
You can.
In, Ex. Repeat
Must emancipate the mind, the body, the spirit.
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Categories:
emancipate, 12th grade, analogy, chanukah,
Form: Lyric
Chrysalis
...Chrysalis
Chants emancipate mind unlocking subconscious fantasies
Stimulated perceptions propel imagination beyond galaxies
Amid silenced dark...
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Categories:
emancipate, symbolism, universe,
Form: Rhyme
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