Embodied Poems - Poems about Embodied

How can I be both banished and captured? I try to restore what was fractured. I embody lightning! These shocks to my body are a little frightening. I feel myself flicker. Like the laughter in these halls, and shouts that seem to bicker. In the line, I am in the middle. With each day, I feel my...

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She says “He treats me so well!” I say “I can hardly tell!” She says “No one understands him but me!” I say “Sista, I hear you, but why are you on the floor with bloody knee. . .caps?” The rhymes and the reasons given by women Allow them to mistakenly drink the vermin Embodied in the shape and size of a...

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Across the chest of river like night Still Blows moaning wind, turbulent waves- Still her face floats in the memory-mirror As if- A shadow floating In the crystal-clear water of the pond at Krishnapur Flying kite hovers with flying wings Or like- Reflected image in the window glass. Rowing in the splendid moon light The full moon stays awake Exquisite cloud wanders around the moon For its...

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Embodied By David J Walker As if I were a Ford or Chevy Or an Old’s 88 Classified by year and make and Model, registered and taxed and Licensed with the local government A product of an assembly line from the American Big 3 proudly adorned with Airplane like fins and flashy chrome bumpers Popular in my generation Parts interchangeable with the few That...

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As an artist, you go where art takes you As a writer —you become the words (Dreamsleep: April, 2020)...

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African embodied in a birth of a nation, I do apologize for my lateness in my African time To the only goddess of Mother Nature in her smell of sweet Grains of mountainous African mahogany, fruits; mahlatswa, ditshidi. Picking up well blended colored African butterflies Flies wild in to the bushes that shines whiteness and blackness for them It’s in their...

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A gray stormy sky matched my mood; its violent, tempestuous streaks of discontinuous light fired across a charged atmosphere soon answered by thunderous claps. My mood is not unlike the storm: It is emotionally charged, unrestrained and prone to tantrums that spark an electricity too powerful to be controlled; and like the tempest where wind blows and precipitation follows so too does my angry blowups injure causing a...

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Electrodes electrify in currents so sporadic, Never leading to objectives but moving with purpose, Electrolytes breaks down to iron that stays erratic. And the purpose still erodes to being worthless. The body is an ecosystem in itself, Brainwaves fluctuating in perfect unison, And my life's aura seems to cause stability to melt. While your beings duplicates seems to do you in. Parts of...

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Embodied Adam’s Rib? Adam’s Rib, or did you come from Adam’s Rib?, Were you a progeny of Man, Or rather grafted by the cosmos, in the image of sacred splendor, Black Body, Beautiful and Slender, Round and Tender, Is it your shape that compels me to wonder? Is it your black beautiful shape, in all wondrous compositions and sizes that captures my eye? Such that...

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