Light Skinned
...Light skin, fair skin
All clamoured for by
Creams to the rescue
Fading creams, toning creams
All bleaching creams
Women and men, old and young
all clamouring for light skin.
Looks enhancers...
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Categories:
enhancers, africa, color, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Restorative Normalcy
...During a period of despair and emptiness,
I used to peer into deep tunnels of pettiness.
Dark and dull hobgoblins gnawed at my heart,
I've developed a strong sense of impart.
Now...
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Categories:
enhancers, analogy, emotions, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Space Enhancers
...A sign posted in front of the library tells of
no internet service available - good heavens what to do?
the rain has waned the sun is coming on which lends
a never be daunted air and so I mosey ...
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Categories:
enhancers, introspection,
Form: Elegy
Rant
...This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith
malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph
into mult...
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Categories:
enhancers, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
My Amphetamine
...Enantiomers do not make my amphetamine.
No cognitive enhancers do I need.
Don’t bother giving me that crazy Benzedrine.
Imagination was my mind’s first seed.
I need no extra sleep; I’m sufficie...
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Categories:
enhancers, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Flavor Enhancers
...What are the things that add Zest to your life,
What moves your heart into Joy,
What kind of remedy mollifies Strife,
What dials you back from Annoy?
Who can you count on to come to your Aid,
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Categories:
enhancers, life,
Form: Rhyme
She Simply Said
...She Simply Said
I'm no model...
I do have my moments,
When the mid-day sun
Compliments my masculine mask—marvelously
And my mug is admired
So when I asked her
What does she sees in me?
She simply s...
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Categories:
enhancers, devotion, life, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
We Poets Are Farmers Still
...We poets are farmers still,
ploughing our mind in the invisible field,
whenever the mind makes the pen wield.
Sowing the seeds of emotion,
in the field of melancholy,
we reap the expression of joy
wi...
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Categories:
enhancers, imagination, happy, happy, joy,
Form: Free verse
God's Moon Pie
...If God would take the moon
And make it into a great pie,
The sweet aroma of spice
And green apple would fill the sky.
He’d begin with the careful peeling,
Making the globe shining appl...
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Categories:
enhancers, allegory, food, funny, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
2012
...Oceans started to rise
As polar caps melted
Meteors fell from the skies
The Earth’s surface was pelted
The days grew dark
Radiation was high
Cosmic sparks
Lit up the sky
Religious zealots...
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Categories:
enhancers, visionaryworld,
Form: Rhyme
The Favors
...The thing with favors is that they eventually
outdo themselves,
Almost like overzealous elves,
One too many favors may deem a person
too obliging,
Sometimes they are enhancers to one
who is co...
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Categories:
enhancers, introspection
Form: Light Verse
Categories:
enhancers, love, passion
Form: Epigram
Mysteries
...It has a certain kind of fame,
Often times considered a tease.
Its purpose has remained the same,
That is--it has no guarantees.
Some have a hidden message to send,
The key is to find it without...
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Categories:
enhancers, mystery
Form: Rhyme
Lost In Mind
...I can't stand the way I feel,
I just want to break away;
My head drowns in pools of sorrow,
throughout the hours of the day.
I think about the mistakes I've made,
and how they can't be fixed;
I...
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Categories:
enhancers, depressionsound, sound,
Form: I do not know?
Defiant
...I brought myself back from the dead
Like a prodigies creation,
Aggression in my veins instead
of wreck-less speculation...
The surface just above my head
Once vast and so astounding,
Fragile li...
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Categories:
enhancers, black african american, devotion,
Form: I do not know?
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