I Ain't No Good
...I ain’t no good, I don’t do the things I should,
My woman tells me ‘bout it all the time.
What I do wrong, well the list is mighty long,
But my woman seems to know it all by heart.
She got her ...
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Categories:
eschewed, books, education, funny love,
Form: Lyric
Come forth our Angel of the North Stokesy
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Come forth our Angel of the North
Working class…but VIP pass…standing sentry for cricketing gentry
Towering injury tarnished Talisman penury
Revarnished..primacy rebooted for his mooted destiny ...
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Categories:
eschewed, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Tale of Two Cities and Two Captains
...Well what the Dickens is going on?
My choice as the greatest scribe and voice of our tribe
Charles not himself a cricketing man but definitely a fan
Twas…the tale of two skippers and two cities
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Categories:
eschewed, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Hurt is Real
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Treated like you don’t deserve
tepid greetings that unnerve
No sparks of warmth nor dying embers
Did you hurt somehow this family member
Once you got along just...
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Categories:
eschewed, family, hurt, pain, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
...Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment...
analogous to where
the fountainhead of knowledge
gushes forth unstoppable
as a result after Atlas shrugged
his head and shoulders
loo...
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Categories:
eschewed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Sisters
...My sisters are my pride and glory/
An endless legion, woven into my story/
Our bond defies the boundaries of space/
A sacred connection no vastness can erase/
I dwell in shadows, a soul of the ni...
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Categories:
eschewed, blessing, character, deep, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Judgement Day
...'And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which w...
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Categories:
eschewed, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Message To The Blackman
...If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our p...
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Categories:
eschewed, africa, black love, history,
Form: Free verse
Eschewed Essence
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Rhapsody of rainbow
morphs melted
into morose mélange,
scattered in sullen sky.
Bleeding colors bleached
from twilight cloud
ruinous rainstorm daubs
as derelict blemish
on abandone...
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Categories:
eschewed, analogy, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Dance of the banded peacock
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Pouncing across the white pinwheel flowers,
dancing to the delightful tunes of breeze,
Blue beauty performed an air show for hours;
For a few moments, my sorrows she seized
Displaying a kalei...
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Categories:
eschewed, beautiful, beauty, butterfly, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Let Me Be
...gilt
but of intricacy
of a mirror’s frame
guilt
shown an ember in me
am I not the reflection’s heel
am I not intrinsic
asked, though eschewed
you judge me mirror
abased, now
heavens j...
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Categories:
eschewed, angst, anxiety, introspection, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
...Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils...
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Categories:
eschewed, appreciation, bird, earth, february,
Form: Rhyme
Books Unread
...Why is the middle where I put a book down?
My anticipation dies at that half-read interlude.
I lack the discipline that keeps me inbound.
A famous author's endings should be praised, and not esche...
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Categories:
eschewed, books,
Form: Rhyme
Your Best Poet Friends
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Your Best Poet Friends
9/15/2023
Poet Friends read you first, no matter what!
They crave your...
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Categories:
eschewed, appreciation, friendship, poetry, poets,
Form: Quatrain
The Usa Nation
...~THE USA NATION~
Observe, the very last of boys and girls.
Teachers decide now if they might be birds?
Educators, these, are also high above you.
Parents’ rights are summarily eschewed!
T...
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Categories:
eschewed, america, children, education,
Form: Couplet
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