Never Amount or Equal To
...She didn't understand ways in which the world worked or her place within it
On the outside a beautiful girl but beyond her eyes, deeper inside she burned with rage but you'd never know for the ima...
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Categories:
fronting, appreciation, confidence, encouraging, for
Form: Rhyme
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it’s still brick
everywhere in the City
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Categories:
fronting, anxiety, character, city, community,
Form: Shape
Our Restless GenZees Winds That Scatter and Gather
...They are a generation that is disillusioned and disgruntled with the Status Quo
Ever they are faulting the old guard for running our most beloved country down
Most of them are very techno savvy and...
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Categories:
fronting, africa, change, conflict, future,
Form: Narrative
Roots - For Alex Haley
...Pensile clouds of a new Truth loom.
With them are selected versions of
Extinct grief.
Looking through the yellowness of a
Dog’s eyes, this aura of Truth, pervasive,
Sours my palate.
What sa...
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Categories:
fronting, eulogy, tribute,
Form: Ode
On the Others Side
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a coin, a vinyl recording
a mirror, a leaf, a door
a picture, a photo of the wall
a day, dawn, moon, clouds
alive, awake, eyes open, floating
ahead, today, tomorrow, a shadow
growing old, a ...
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Categories:
fronting, age, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Gafas
...lows over my eyes
trying kill what's inside
just a different drive
hi jacked the vibe
trying to bug my line
get sprayed with pesticide
you see them thuggin
I'm with the plug
trippin o...
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Categories:
fronting, addiction, car, drug, friendship,
Form: Verse
Cheeses Stunt Double
...A sly Sunday smile
Shadows hide between
Words so soupy
Some starving sister surely sips
Yet this brother’s lips
Serves spanks
That can’t plant peace
Jerks that don’t move deep
Inside where s...
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Categories:
fronting, anti bullying, brother, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jane-By-Pebble-Beach: -3-
...I think you would have found sociology agreeable.
The chapters jump right into the heart of the matter and do not cause you to stray wondering--spelled with an 'o' not an 'a'--as 'stray' w...
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Categories:
fronting, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Requiem For A Motherless Child
...The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are...
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Categories:
fronting, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Non verbal approach
...Rolling your eyes, the chair in your hand fronting me,
pulling my backpack with both hands, eyebrow risen,
movement of mine you quickly stepping aside holding the back of your backpack, the accid...
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Categories:
fronting, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
San Francisco's Union Square
...The following scenario occurred via the guest sharing with me
when I was managing the front desk at a hotel in San Francisco,
fronting Union Square. I found his morals promising and c...
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Categories:
fronting, allusion, analogy, character, confusion,
Form: Than-Bauk
Mother Nature Draws the Dawn
...** Mother Nature Draws the Dawn **
Already,
Dawn sets off
This longitude’s waking,
Displaying nearby trees
Into their scribbled silhouettes
In shades
Of gray with blasts of black masse...
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Categories:
fronting, art, day, imagery, light,
Form: Imagism
Fall
...Sudden slump of that which was erect
Which by standing up tries to correct -
Continually, we meet a fall,
As athletes compete; during football,
Nearly always suspending a game,
Referees whistl...
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Categories:
fronting, allusion, analogy, cry, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Skies
...I'm used to the dark skies
I live in the part of town
where the sun don't shine
I take the long way around
Just to find there's no turning back time
Ain't nothing here mine
Nothing was ...
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Categories:
fronting, dark, deep, depression, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Hiram Hank Williams 1923 To 1953
...Seventy years since he died
An artist with so much to give
A talented, troubled man
But his music still lives.
He used simple words
So easy to understand
Presented to the world fronting
His D...
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Categories:
fronting, in memoriam, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
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