SEEDS OF WISDOM
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The seed of freedom is curtailed,
germinates interrupted,
the harvest is delayed...
The fruit of freedom
may take time to be harvested,
but it is worth every stoic sacrifice...
We c...
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Categories:
germinates, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A seed grown in shadow
...When the seed of fear is planted in minds,
It germinates in brains as a tormentor—
Sometimes sown by a whisper,
a shadow,
a lie repeated twice.
When illusion becomes reality,
And starts by ma...
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Categories:
germinates, depression, fairy, fear, mental
Form: Free verse
KARMA
...Karma that patient gangster
Very slow in action
But never fails to repay
Creeps into your life
Paying in double all your deeds
After replaying all your acts
Karma is just like a seed well p...
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Categories:
germinates, africa, children, community, dedication,
Form: Epic
Apollo and Daphne by Bernini A collaboration with Di11y Da11y
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We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly laced with lead
Transformed rapture to qu...
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Categories:
germinates, art, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
TO POETIC REAPING
...TO POETIC REAPING
In the mind’s garden,
the poem of poems, germinates
in its fertile soil:
The poem’s ripening word-fruits
seeded with enlightenment:-
May poetic grace
be reaped from rhyth...
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Categories:
germinates, creation, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Heaven Turned to Hell, Then Hell Turned to a Heaven
...What's man that heaven turned to hell
in Eden's garden? It's a tale,
as old as time before the flood,
before Cain spilled Abel's blood.
Subtler than murder, the neighbor
grows rich against th...
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Categories:
germinates, america, bible, fate, god,
Form: Couplet
When Trust is Planted
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When trust is planted
it germinates
before it percolates
and rounds into belief
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Categories:
germinates, growth, journey, trust,
Form: Free verse
FAITHFULL OVERCOMING
...FAITHFULLY OVERCOMING
(A Senryu Quartet)
Leaves of pain falling...
Waterfall agony flows...
Healing faith sown...
Sowed faith germinates,
Sprouting in all its fullness;
Healing grace b...
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Categories:
germinates, allegory, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
FAITHFULLY OVERCOMING
...FAITHFULLY OVERCOMING
(A Senryu Quartet)
Leaves of pain falling...
Waterfall agony flows...
Healing faith sown...
Sowed faith germinates,
Sprouting in all its fullness;
Healing grace b...
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Categories:
germinates, allegory, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
IMANI
...IMANI: Kwanza Thoughts For Today
seeds of faith must grow,
fertile soil germinates faith;
Be that soil of faith:-
We must live our faith...
We must be our faith's heartbeat...
Let's blosso...
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Categories:
germinates, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
In her pregnancy
...#In_Her_pregnancy
I feel touchy, maybe my unborn son too wanna feel my hands, wanna speak the touchy language, my hands on her belly and my unborn son ears on the wall, listening to my heart speakin...
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Categories:
germinates, birth, body, care, child,
Form: Free verse
Her unique story
...#Her_unique_story
From a distance, my thoughts provoked, gazed in with deep mesmerization, saw only the fine linens God had embroiled her silky soft texture with, forgot that she too was human befor...
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Categories:
germinates, color, crush, emotions, for
Form: Free verse
Agape Love The Highest Form Of Love
...The fortunate ones know
How such a precious treasure
As your own newborn's
First engaging sunshine smile
Making your own heart so warm you melt
And sings with so much joy it dances
Making your...
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Categories:
germinates, angst, baby, birth, cute,
Form: Free verse
Genius, you are a soul of poetry, a wanderer in the wasteland
...Genius, you are a soul of poetry, a wanderer in the wasteland,
And your fate is that of a star, solitary in the azure seas of the sky.
You fly through kaleidoscopes of thought, all fleeting,
Weavi...
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Categories:
germinates, hero,
Form: Free verse
Zen Mode
...slow strangulation
osmotically penetrating
the very fabric of our being
stymied before fear germinates
simply by our nonchalant observation
plateaus off the sunken vibration
which we look at sl...
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Categories:
germinates, i am, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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