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Enslaving Poems - Poems about Enslaving

Waves from the Tigris

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Green woods 

Barefoot I walk 

Chalk half broken 

Unspoken yearnings 

Earrings from the caves 

Waves from the Tigris 

Enslaving existence 

Distances chopped 

Pearl drops
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Categories: enslaving, emotions, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberSpiritual Gem

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The self-obsessive free-will seemingly dormant,
envelopes the possessed mind with an illusory veil, 
obscures the ordained destination God decides,
l need to reach, for I’m subservient of His ...
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Categories: enslaving, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLaw of karma

...the thought that we are separate
is simply what’s called the ego
pursuing its own well-being
attachments afraid to let go

this false identity serves us
to navigate this harsh terrain
but some...
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Categories: enslaving, fate, love, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain

Humanities Claim

...Verse 1- I see the faith inside humanity humanity
Need to let it go 
Let it go 
I see the hate inside all you claim to be claim to be 
Need to let it go 
Let it go 
I see all that’s inside of y...
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Categories: enslaving, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Vision of my mind

...Far above the reaches of my mind
A mystery enslaves my thoughts
Entitling a Spector Visual Spectrum (SVS)
Scoping all enterprises of my mind
Enslaving a rainbow arc
Captures in visual power
Cat...
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Categories: enslaving, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



***** REPUBLIC

...They captured and tortured my humanity.
They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness.
Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration,
To become yet...
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Categories: enslaving, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Warning to Conspiracy, the Paranormal and the Occult

...Crowley can suck eggs and men in beds,
The spies can take a long and slutty hike.
Leavitt can take the words she spreads,
And sit for each on cactus spikes.

Magic is but a muse,
A trick a mind...
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Categories: enslaving, america, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPilate

...POWER enamered me, but the fear of Caesar tainted me.

I was not willing to risk the loss of my position.

LEADERSHIP is both liberating and enslaving.

AUTHORITY has boundaries and limitations...
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Categories: enslaving, easter,
Form: Acrostic

Premium Memberunchained

...none of your thick walls 
can succeed enslaving me ~
I'm an idea
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Categories: enslaving, freedom,
Form: Haiku

I CHOSE

...I chose to write,  
For all those torn-off branches,  
For all those scarred backs,  
For all those dehumanized bodies,  
For all those centuries of persecution.  

I chose to read,  
To decon...
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Categories: enslaving, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

UNSHACKLING THE MIND

...To the downtrodden, the marginalized, and worn,
Is this the fate that's yours to mourn?
The bourgeoisie, a cabal of power and might,
Gather to crush the poor, and snuff out their light.

The poo...
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Categories: enslaving, africa, class, conflict, courage,
Form: Lyric

The Velvet Life

...Oh, my love, your intoxicating eyes,
Like lotus flowers, your lips, a treasure to the skies.
Your waist, a velvet lotus, your voice, a cuckoo's call,
Leaves me breathless, and in heaven's thrall.
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Categories: enslaving, break up, death, fantasy,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberAndreia

...Our fear of pain intrudes upon
The calm we have inside,
So forcing us, then, to control
It bravely; not to hide.
Steadfast and strong, that courage found
Is all we need to show;
That manliness ...
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Categories: enslaving, confidence, courage, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member July 4th, 2024

...In America today
our president will stand at the Nation's 
sacred podium (a canned speech) will read from 
a prompter, he will bluster, pontificate the Democrat lie -- 

how freedom is truly the...
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Categories: enslaving, america, evil, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes

...In the temple of the shadows of the century, where moments are lost in metallic echoes,
Technology has wrapped its cold tentacles around the human soul, without us realizing,
A worldly instrument, ...
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Categories: enslaving, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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