Tiny Home
...Wind outside my tiny home, wreaking chaos on its porch
Wicker chairs and potted plants, stand firmly against its force
Finely tuned chimes sound loudly, sending sweetly toned notes into the night
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Categories:
fends, fire, in memoriam, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
A Matter of Love
...The old male lion awakes,
lifts his great head,
but it is midday and so he sleeps yet more.
Come the night his lionesses will hunt
while the king fends off
other male pretenders to his throne....
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Categories:
fends, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wake Up George Floyd Wake Up These Are the Voices of Victumised Black Man In the Usa Part 2
...Off a righteous God America stop the persecutions
We are due out love from you; Stop the profiles
And stand in our shoes and skin for a while, now, How would you feel now?
Situations where people...
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Categories:
fends, america, analogy, black african
Form: Dramatic Verse
Keeper of the Flame
...Keeper of the Flame
Flame born in Genesis’ labors
Springs from the eternal parent’s word,
Image of the ever present truth,
Soars above impotent earth
Lost in the swirling numb abyss
Fragile ...
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Categories:
fends, fire, life,
Form: Free verse
Two Lovers Iv - a Wedding
..."I'm gonna marry you someday"
Her Lover jokes with her
They drive in her fancy car, she's
Amused by tipsy words
"Don't be silly, my young drunk friend"
She shoots back while he grins
"Just wa...
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Categories:
fends, happy, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
What My Heart Knew
...My heart knows …… what’s comes in
From joy to sorrow, its feelings follow,
Sorts them out, makes them blend
Wounds to pain, sews to repair.
My heart knows ….. what it takes to be strong
Fends ...
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Categories:
fends, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart Knew
...My heart knows …… what comes in
From joy to sorrow, its feelings follow,
Sorts them out, makes them blend
Wounds to pain, mends to regain
My heart knows ….. what it takes to be strong
Fends of...
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Categories:
fends, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
My Dearest Rose
...So pretty wrapped in thorns, my dearest rose.
A dish, adorable, a pitbull — small.
She fends off fiends with nettled hands propose.
All pluck, with red stripe lips, sparks Springlike drawl.
Af...
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Categories:
fends, flower,
Form: Sonnet
Healing of the Heart
...Whilst darkness cradles passing hours,
In vaulted rooms the mind had built
Leaving just a glimpse of twilight
Of dreams that heart and soul had spilt.
When stones and mortar form the shawl
That...
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Categories:
fends, love,
Form: Lyric
Dear God
...She's only 9 years old and cries out in despair.
All she wants is for her mum to be there.
Her dad has remarried and doesn't give a damn,
But he puts on this façade that he's a great man.
“Dear...
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Categories:
fends, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Jean
...Jubilation filled the room and lit my mother’s face on her 80th birthday.
Everyone she loved, both friends and family, had come from near and far away.
A huge surprise, the...
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Categories:
fends, mother,
Form: Acrostic
Those Left Behind
...Those Left Behind
Woe, the days have come undone
Many people on the run
Everyone fends for himself
Caution stashed upon the shelf
Rockets crashing, gunshot sound
Where’s the peace that I had ...
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Categories:
fends, future, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Crushed Love
...Expectations brimming.
Nostalgia of my hurt.
Dismantling my mind.
My love was sincere.
I did not know to loll.
Just simple minded me.
The earth my solitude fends.
Sky my dreams suspend.
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Categories:
fends, love,
Form: Free verse
White Swan Black Swan
...Sleepeth thou darkling,
fade....
How privy thy existence made,
to shade the feathered extremity
thy plumage gave;
a kiss unto pools sleeping
white at noon....
neath bowers i...
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Categories:
fends, love, nature, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Our Fathers, Once Gods, No Longer
...Life was holier then when younger,
opened gifts at Christmas, I toyed
beside the shelter of my father.
Faith in the world was stronger
when what little I knew, relied
upon the lies he tol...
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Categories:
fends, childhood,
Form: Villanelle
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