For the women with hearts ignited by divine fire
...For the women with hearts ignited by divine fire,
Who love with an intensity that surpasses all boundaries,
With voices echoing like a call through the mountains,
Proud and confident, like lions r...
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Categories:
full of life, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rust
...I am a ruined house
With a rusty fence,
So many phantoms reside resting recklessly,
A clock on the mantelpiece that won't work. It's stuck staring at me,
Tick………,
The wallpaper is crumbling an...
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Categories:
full of life, heartbreak, heartbroken, love, love
Form: Free verse
A Busy Bee
...A busy bee browses the lavender bush
Collecting sweet nectar no doubt
Visits loads of blue flowers
Goes on round about.
Some distance away tall buddleia blooms.
Its long purple blossoms in sp...
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Categories:
full of life, beauty, bible, butterfly, god,
Form: Free verse
Patience
...Patience teaches us to wait;
Not everything in life happens as desired;
Some moments arrive in subtle fragments.
Patience encourages us to find an opening in the inky window;
The meadow...
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Categories:
full of life, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
A danish mermaid
...The Danish Mermaid
The famous mermaid of Denmark we know well
a grey figure, the color of seals with breasts
That was not seen as a threat to anyone's sensibility
I have described the old...
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Categories:
full of life, 4th grade, 8th grade,
Form: ABC
Asylum Ghost Haunting Me
..."When pain, rage and screams buried in the asylum of your heart start to poison your heart slowly and surreptitiously, you become a living ghost." - Anne Winter
La...
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Categories:
full of life, anger, angst, cry, depression,
Form: Rhyme
MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
...MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD
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crackerbox houses
a house a plumber
could afford,
barely.
I recall the pecan tree,
remem...
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Categories:
full of life, 12th grade, home, memory,
Form: Free verse
African Rain
...It falls with grace.
Metallic bawls hail the strength of zinc roofs.
At the mercy of the thatch,
Drops drip from needle points of skeletal
Palm fronds.
Particles of rain descend on thresholds
A...
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Categories:
full of life, africa, rain,
Form: Ode
TRUST IN HIM-
...TRUST IN HIM
Elohim
firm belief
I will trust in Him
My God reliable fulfilling meaning full of life
My God is true, I trust in Him
Strength
He's real, truth he's real soul real
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Categories:
full of life, analogy, appreciation, devotion, god,
Form: Lyric
Bitterness now worshipped as religion
...In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers –
lifestreams of Rossiyane and T...
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Categories:
full of life, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Under the vast sky of illusions, we are actors wearing masks of stars and ephemeral shadows
...Under the vast sky of illusions, we are actors wearing masks of stars and ephemeral shadows,
Our gazes meet through mirrors of mist, seeking reflections of hidden desires,
We are magicians of an il...
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Categories:
full of life, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Gairjeen
...It's the place called peace
a canopy of green
from mans un-baring sun
there no fear....here.
Its the place l close my eyes
and l just....listen
its a place to go to
and let the rain on leave...
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Categories:
full of life, meaningful, peace,
Form: Lyric
Heavy heart
...I’m so tired of goodbyes and I dread those new hellos
I dread those new hellos because I can’t take another goodbye
So I guess I’ll just stick to what I’m used to
I try looking on the brighter sid...
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Categories:
full of life, life,
Form: Free verse
CRAYON BOX DIVINE DREAMS
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My crayon box is filled with dreams’ color
Of joyfulness tints and happiness’ hues
Brightened by thanksgiving and praises ardor
Midst gold of gladness, devoid of sad blues.
Oh, there ...
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Categories:
full of life, appreciation, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Sonnet
The many funerals of a black girl
...How many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer
It's rhetorical anyway
Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol of when they would stop and star...
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Categories:
full of life, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
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