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School of Misery

...A packed lunch of sandwiches 
meant to take away the weariness 
that comes with going back to a set prison 
meant to change our lives. 
Friends are scarce. 
A definition lost to those I found ha...

Categories: give notice, 12th grade, anxiety, sad,
Form: Free verse

Soft Heart

...
Have we forgotten
How beautiful a heart
Who is soft – kind – gentle
Soaked in sensitivity
Truly is?

Have we neglected
To give attention to the soul
Who is supple, easy, forgiving
...

Categories: give notice, appreciation, blessing, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Starry Night

...Of one thousand stars I see
there are many more unseen
I’m amazed how they sparkle
they do not sleep or dream.

when I hear the stars are out tonight
I sleep before to stay awake
the moon will...

Categories: give notice, appreciation, stars,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Skeletons of the Sea

...They crunch under foot
Before i give notice
Shells and corals
These skeletons of the sea
Reds and purples
Most bleached white
upon this beach
Whole or in part
Vacant 
thou some with
Inhabit...

Categories: give notice, beach, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse

A Jerky Reverie

...A Jerky Reverie

Where is the moon just now?
The light shining from the sun
appears, to have blotted it out.
The stark darkness of a motionless 
void, where atomic debris not seen,
passes
 th...

Categories: give notice, animal, anxiety, august, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Gilded Cage

...Have you heard
the pretty bird
in the gilded cage
sing
 
Its melody
is like a rhapsody
oh what joy
it can bring
 
But, if you knew
like I do
of a once broken
wing
 
You'd understand
t...

Categories: give notice, bird, feelings, imagery, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Nativity

...I have come again, your highness, 
Yes, I have come. Falling at your feet at your feet like a discarded gown whose beauty has found no place in a maiden's eyes. 
Here, with this aging desire, I ple...

Categories: give notice, birth, childhood, father, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

A Place of Comfort For Me

...Down by the spring's watery edge
I soak my feet to cool them from
the long, day's heavy dread.

The shade of the pine tree's tops
give notice to the cooler, filled with bright
colored pops. I s...

Categories: give notice, beauty, cheer up, cool,
Form: Rhyme

Who You Calling Nigga

...Who you calling nigga?
when I done making you rich from my sweat
bearing the children you calling bastard
when i done cleaning up your mess
and as soon as i sit to rest
you calling me names

W...

Categories: give notice, africa, freedom, slavery,
Form: Free verse

Harbour Mornings

...Like oil on troubled water, dawn pours upon the sea,
cajoling worried waters from their midnight reverie.
Her fresh North-West accomplice adds his whisper to the light
and shoo’s the fleeing night cl...

Categories: give notice, inspirational, sea,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Intuitive Visions

...In my life I have seen infinitesimal good I ponder all the time why is life so unkind. I live my 
life the best way that I could, but someone always despised where I stood. 

The competitiveness o...

Categories: give notice, imagination, introspection, life, visionarylife,
Form: Light Verse