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LETTING LIFE NOT BE LIVED IN VAIN
LETTING LIFE BE NOT LIVED IN VAIN
Know that the righteous life you’ve been living,
Has not and could have never been lived in vain:
You’ve trekked shadowed valleys of ole death;
You’ve mastered many bridges of...
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Categories:
courage, desire, endurance, faith,
Form: Prose
AT THE CROSSROAD OF CHANGE
AT THE CROSSROADS OF CHANGE
On the wings of time, we’ve soared
From the canyons of history to the horizon
That has become ourstory’s beginnings:-
From the clefs of struggle, was heard
A creak in the door of time; was...
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Categories:
endurance, black african american, black
Form: Prose
Gains From RunningRose, this time I'm too fat
Let's run with me in the morning
While there is not yet the sunrise
Let's go to the oval and run.
Let's get up and ride a bike with me
Have the same bike,...
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Categories:
body, endurance, fun, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
A Blues Sonnet for JanEvent: Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902—Measles epidemic in the concentration camps.
In the voice of: Sannie Botha (a survivor).
Jan’s cough kept me awake all through the night.
The children are all coughing in the night;
the fevers gave us all...
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Categories:
africa, conflict, endurance,
Form: Sonnet
In Another LifeIn another life, I’ll love you,
For my devotion won't be new.
The time together that we spend,
Will last when we ascend.
So hold me close today,
And let us both together pray:
That as your...
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Categories:
death, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Lyric
For This Man I Spoke Out
I spoke out
A yearning calls
But, is it of the heart
Could be a yearning of a selfish pride
A secret to gain self-glory
A trek of agony
To forge through this life
For the glory of self-satisfaction
Is a...
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Categories:
endurance, change, courage, creation, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Peculiar
O, strange, unusual, odd one.
You never seem to fit in; you always find yourself in front of the gun.
Always at the end of scurrilous attacks
They aim and shoot vitriol with their shameful acts.
But fitting in...
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Categories:
endurance, abuse, anti bullying, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Hanging on for Dear Life
A marriage, once strong, is slowly disintegrating.
People and negative forces r a g e against them;
...
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Categories:
endurance, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Narrative
Our ValleyIt is mid winter now,
our valley in full frosty
set; all the forest, absent
canopy a crystal wet;
heard a drippy
critter sneeze, not a wild nose escaping
cold's frigid breeze --
bare trees in thick bark sleeves --...
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Categories:
earth day, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse
Silence ShoutsStanding at the cross-roads of
past,present and unseen future,
holding the truth so strong & firm,
fearing it may slip out of the lips.
Weeping heart hopes to shout the
truth to the world that I aint a
bad human...
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Categories:
angst, cry, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
IN CELEBRATION OF 2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTHIN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 2025
1
Once again, it’s Black History Month; a time to celebrate
And commemorate Blacks and those many organizations
Which have,...
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Categories:
endurance, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
THE LONELINESS OF A CODER“Good night, everyone!”
One by one, they retreat to their rooms,
Drifting into dreams,
Resting for the day ahead.
But I remain.
In the dim glow of the living room,
Laptop perched on a blue table,
Wi-Fi connected, headphones on,
Soft LoFi hums...
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Categories:
africa, endurance, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Avant-garde
Avant-Garde
she studies the philosophy of art, of expression, and freedom, allowing the spirit to drift of shape, of movement, of sound, where white plaques and blackened ground, streak rays of light in prolific sound to...
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Categories:
art, desire, devotion, endurance,
Form: Free verse
IN HOLY NAVIGATIONIN HOLY NAVIGATION: A HAIKU QUINTET
Moonlight skies are bright,
My palisaded road clear;
God navigating:-
Destiny awaits,
End of the forest is seen;
God navigating:-
In my life's garden,
I walk a fruit-tree-lined trail;
God navigating:-
In shadows of death,
Blooming life is brightly clear;
God...
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Categories:
endurance, extended metaphor, fate,
Form: Haiku
THE SONRISE INSIDE OF ME“The Sonrise Inside of Me"
(by Michelle L. LeBlanc 04/04/2023)
Dedicated to my son, Jayden Donald LeBlanc
My heart aches
My body breaks
My mind protected
My tissues exorcisted
A whole new level I have found
Learning to process trauma
Has definitely broken new...
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Categories:
death, endurance, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Endurance Poems
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