The chains are still there you've just got to look closer
...Stalked all their life
Stained by a crime not committed
A permanent mark on black skin
A reminder how we will never fit in
Labelled as criminals
Despite being exonerated
Probation was for ...
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Categories:
exonerated, discrimination, freedom, power, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
These Useless Words of Mine
...These useless words of mine are excrement of the finger; promptly evacuated from the vapid finger follicles to present themselves before the pupils of whoever.
Spending day and night hoping for th...
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Categories:
exonerated, angst, anxiety, depression, fate,
Form: Free verse
Those Exonerated Five
...Exonerated Five
exaggerated
while they were castigated
then exonerated
Future of Democratic Campaign
was a detection
selection of direction
causing infection
creative thinking
to det...
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Categories:
exonerated, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Refining Consciousness
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“Instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded.” (Unseeking Seeker)
Defeat...
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Categories:
exonerated, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Unconditionally conditioned to flourishing
...Unconditionally I speak for the verbs in my gladness in my praise and raised arms and hands I no longer in sadness I spit out the verbs that reach joy and gladness unconditionally I am he
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Unc...
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Categories:
exonerated, allusion, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mental Thing
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Can I be exonerated
For the crimes I never commited?
There’s no one to ask, I’m afraid
Which doesn’t make me uplifted
And its nowhere to go, I’m unseen
Cause my passport is shining too bright
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Categories:
exonerated, analogy, emotions, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
Pushover
...I’m a push-over,
even the moon changes color
when I turn away from it.
Cats only take note of me
when I eat a banana.
A banana is as much a mystery to a cat
as are the pyramids to us.
Last...
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Categories:
exonerated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Drift
...I had the opportunity to observe the transformation of men into women.
I had the opportunity to witness the transition of women becoming men.
I have seen the Republic of Enlightenment allow minor...
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Categories:
exonerated, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lucy Gives Tortoise a Fine Day
...Tortoise had only great things to say about his comrade Lucy.
She inspired their boss to give him a day off with his cousin Deucy.
When Deucy bowed out of the adventure, Tortoise felt relieved
L...
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Categories:
exonerated, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
World Wishes Now
...What are the world's current requisites?
Is preferable to intelligence than bellicosity.
We should stoop our heads like wind chimes,
Additionally, supplicate our Almighty God.
It do...
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Categories:
exonerated, analogy, angst, bereavement, peace,
Form: Free verse
A Hangover
...Betrayal of the heart
cocaine disguised as oxygen,
controlling your breathing
slow to grow like an addiction;
Enamored;
Such passion confined,
exonerated with a touch;
Wordless I cry...
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Categories:
exonerated, emotions, feelings, lust, passion,
Form: Free verse
You Can Know Everybody In the World But Jesus
...On a European tour the famous American novelist, took his young daughter. His young daughter noticed how the cream of European society exonerated her father. And she wisely made the following stateme...
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Categories:
exonerated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sully
...At New Yorks LaGuardia airport passengers stood in line
Waiting to board U.S.airways, flight one five four nine
Chesley Sullenberger was the captain and Jeff Skiles the co pilot
They were boun...
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Categories:
exonerated, america, boat, courage, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Special Occasion
...2/28/21
Dang it
Still doing the same s***
On a planet that is overpopulated
Always getting faded
And intoxicated
Often facing Goliath, call me David
I won and was elated
I also loss and got...
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Categories:
exonerated, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Most Dangerous Call Ever Made
...I’ve recited this a trillion times
now I utter one single word,
but in code,
Not through amnesia or illness of any kind
Moreover because I have become
part demigod and part devil,
Nothi...
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Categories:
exonerated, allegory, allusion, america, death,
Form: Free verse
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