Greenbelt Festival
...Your colour, Green
You are a Belter
Sunny side up
A helter-skelter
Of emotions
My soul recharged
From brighter skies
Bubble of joy
From the prickly lies
Of the world
Our hearts and m...
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Categories:
greenbelt, august, autumn, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
View From My Window
...Under the blue sky,
The mountain peak is reminiscing quietly,
Volcanoes from past slumbering quietly,
Sometime awakened, sends tremors all around rapidly.
On the mountain peak, no one lives,
N...
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Categories:
greenbelt, nature,
Form: Free verse
Easter-Wester and Resurrection
...I
A few hours after April 9th began
My puppies yelping woke me, helping
Me be thankful for this holiday -
Easter day! Better yet: Resurrection Day
For Easter was pagan, named for Oestre
A Persi...
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Categories:
greenbelt, africa, america, gospel, humanity,
Form: Didactic
Jim Link - 3 Years On
...I
Jim was the archetypal Mensch
We loved writing, Greenbelt MD, Jesus
II
At the edge of my tears
I could sit, daydream, make monuments with words
The Hindu soul within my Soul
Had adored wea...
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Categories:
greenbelt, art, best friend, christian,
Form: Bio
1st Black Astronaut-Guion Stewart Bluford Jr
...Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
Most noted
(born November 22, 1942)
is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer
and fighter pilot,
and former NASA astronaut,
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Categories:
greenbelt, analogy, appreciation, celebration, character,
Form: Bio
Sedoka 577 For Jim Link of Greenbelt Maryland Usa
...is it goodbye too?
Jim Link fought the valiant fight
in and for poems, and friends (me);
first Grady Dorsett
and now it is Christmastime
So tarry, 'til I fly "home"...
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Categories:
greenbelt, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Sedoka
Word Hobo and Heroes In Poetry Especially Prof Jim Link
...A Peace Poem for Jim Link and Word Hobo:
This close to CHRISTmas what may I say
You two have seen so much, fought so well ...
And for the underdog, Prof. Jim Link, you and I
Travelled the Marylan...
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Categories:
greenbelt, destiny, farewell, gospel, jesus,
Form: Salaam
Greenish Love
...It's spring and the sun is waking up so take my hand let's walk down the green fields. For this is where our love began. It's still young, fresh like green leaves, and I pray there wouldn't be drough...
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Categories:
greenbelt, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Urban Sprawl
...Gardens, houses, metaled roads, no tractor and mower
Speed limit grows in reverse, bigger and slower
Brick and concrete slowness teks ower
Sixty, forty, to thirty, where does it stop ?
Down to tw...
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Categories:
greenbelt, city, environment, farm, urban,
Form: Free verse
Church Reluctant, Church Militant
...We’ve marched along the watchtower,
And stepped across the wall,
We’ve looked for hearts of gold
And joined the band on the run,
The road we walk is rocky and narrow
As we step towards the gate,...
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Categories:
greenbelt, christian, conflict, destiny, heaven,
Form: Free verse
The New Bypass
...Clinging to sunny Bognors regal
skirts
At his Majesties most royal verges
The readied hand thrusts upon the
lever,
And, shuddering, She forward lurches.
Clanking ominously over diesel fueled...
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Categories:
greenbelt, change, community, corruption,
Form: Rhyme