We paid
...Never will i depend on no female, because we paid. Trust, money up top, ask around we rock, because we paid. No time to wait and sit, bless my day so we paid. Baby momma tripping, if I'm not on it ....
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Categories:
ervin, 12th grade, africa, america,
Form: Lyric
Best Sports Poems Iv
...The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV
King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch
Long live the King!
Send him victorious,
happy and glorious,
long to reign over us:
Long liv...
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Categories:
ervin, america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Form: Rhyme
Ervin's Garden On the Hill
...one would wonder where is this garden on the hill
unsighted from many searches, now I’m standing still
bewildered and weary I sat down on a log to rest
I know that I have given it my best.
th...
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Categories:
ervin, dream, garden, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
To Be Black Is a Crime In America
...Gunshots and tasers aimed at the back
tracking the movements and memories
of unsuspecting dark-skinned citizens
marked by the scars of a history denied
For Rumain Brisbon, 34
it was crime to ...
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Categories:
ervin, anger, bereavement, black african
Form: Verse
Don'T Shoot
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Don't Shoot
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: November/2014
My hands
up!
Don't shoot!
POW! POW! POW!
Michael Brown
Er...
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Categories:
ervin, death,
Form: Prose Poetry