Two Drunkards
They sat holding bottles
In their hands
And armpits
Pouring mouthful
Of liquor to fill
Their hollow stomachs.
They gazed at each other
As cat and mouse
And spoke a lot of
Inglish with slain syntax
To devirginate
Their motherland.
The two drunkards!
Spoke of a nation's illusions
And the wilted state of
A nation's elites
Raping the cultural norm
Who raped the temple?
They said something
About
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Categories:
gen., africa, allegory, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Gen Z
If you are under 23.
Then you are Generation Z.
You grew up in a technological age.
I don’t know if that makes you sage.
Sometimes, you go outside to play-
On your phone on the porch all day.
You grew up with a different sort of struggle.
Social media that takes a toll.
Never will you have kids or a house.
Maybe an
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Categories:
gen., age,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Frequency Ascension
396, 417, 528
Climbing the celestial staircase
To that sweet heavenly space
639 love, love divine. A pause at the crossroads, the beautiful heart at the center of it all
Connecting vibrant, verdant earth as Jacob continues his upward crawl
741, 852, 963
Removing obstacles for an even higher ascent
Steadfastly moving
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Categories:
gen., beautiful, bible, dedication, devotion,
Form: Didactic
Baby Boomers Gen X Gen Y Gen Z
Baby boomers, Gen X Gen Y, and now Gen Z
What will the next crop of babies be?
Will we start with A? Will they be boomers too?
Many of us want to know, especially Gen Z.
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Categories:
gen., age,
Form: Rhyme
That Was Then, This is Now
Your paradigm's a relic and yes,
a plea from data's cemetery
While I sculpt luminaries on screens
a sable sea.
"Company loyalty!" a myth
spun in your reverie.
But AI forges kingdoms
in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic
the gig life sets us free.
No cubicles confine us
from drudgery's apathy.
You bartered years for baubles
in tenure's fallacy.
Oblivious to the
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Categories:
gen., dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Sestina
So Here We Are
So here we are…
Brought into a world of discrimination and disarray
We are not the keystone but the voussoir
Simply a pebble on the pathway
Because hopefully our kids can figure it out
At least that is how we got here
“Oh, I'm sure someone will come about to resolve our extestential drought”
Unfortunately for us, the path is not
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Categories:
gen., anxiety, blue, deep, for
Form: Rhyme
Finding A Lost Smile
She no longer felt taunted by the race of it all
Could not sit around and watch a life fly by, before her eyes
An unkept promise used to keep her up at night
Sense of trust - absent, lingered on like strayed kites in the wind
The media did nothing but consume and show all the ways she
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Categories:
gen., addiction, adventure, deep, mental
Form: Free verse
THE PRODUCT OF GEN X
I am from a generation they call X
Not because it marks the spot
But because it marks the best
We are eccentric because we walked the moon
And because we shared lust as an essential need
But wait until you meet your resurfaced acknowledgement
A frantic existence you call Technology
Generation X from 1965 to 1980
Where Charles Manson, the flower childe
Meets
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Categories:
gen., child,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Wishes from the Parents
The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front window
To me
Staring back from the couch
He is sweating out there in his winter coat
House fills with noisy nightly ghosts
Filling empty beds left from the grown kids
Creaks I suppose from the
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Categories:
gen., children, christmas, eve, growing
Form: Free verse
Leave Me At Right Time
In this world of selfish people
Will you be mine someone special
No, I am not purposing you
I just want to know reason of you
No, I didn't want someone to make me smile
But I want you to hold when I am crying
I know for me love is in Gen Y
But I
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Categories:
gen., break up, cute love,
Form: Rhyme
Hey Boomers
What will we do now that we’ve reached Gen Z
Will we have to do like hurricanes do
Give them names like Alpha, Beta, and Gamma
or perhaps just Roman Numeral I and II
Shall we call the new babies Gen Trump
Or perhaps Gen Pandemic or Gen Covid
Or do we just let them live out their lives
Like long ago
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Categories:
gen., humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Gen X 1965-1980
Gen X or the
MTV generation.
See a big growth in the
Dept. of education.
A generation of latchkey
Kids home alone.
Rocky hits the box office,
With Sylvester Stallone.
New music with attitude,
The intro to Punk Rock.
Women working,
punching a time clock.
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Categories:
gen., childhood, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Gen
* Reading Comprehension.
* Visual Inputs in form of images, doodling, sketches,
graphics.
* Based on
Competency
Inference
Theme
Tone
Vocabulary
Analogical
Logical
Reasoning
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Categories:
gen., angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Lyric
Tribute To the Lion of Mogadishu
TTribute
With many echoes I step my boot out,
To go and make our country a better place.
I smell smoke, hear war drums and see fatalities
I do it for you, myself, our predecessors and descendants.
I will surely blow the horn of victory.
I will surely return home in colors.
To my comrades (my responses) in the fog of war:
If
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Categories:
gen., appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Gen-Z Ruling 2021
Gen-Z Ruling 2021
Gen-Z is what they call us we are the next leaders of America.
We have to make a difference for the next generation.
We need to make the world what it should’ve been before.
2021 will be a better year because it has us to make the difference.
We will stop the police from killing
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Categories:
gen., 9th grade, america, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
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