Nowruz
...The mirror breathes beneath my palm—
twelve days polishing chrome and calm.
Sabzeh¹ sprouts in jam-jar earth,
each blade a green and tender birth—
a promise held through patient hours,
while...
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Categories:
haft, new years day,
Form: Masnavi
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarian
...One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, in...
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Categories:
haft, 12th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Haft To My Cane
...I was born blind
I know not my front or behind
I see none beyond my brows
My fantoms only heven knows.
Beauty a mere figment to me
For love i ponder what it can be.
I heard hope is like sunri...
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Categories:
haft, black love, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Fear
...I imagine you with the ten inch chef’s knife honed to razor edge
My eyes closed against the fear within, weeping for the danger without.
Your tender silk soft hand clenched tight ‘round the haf...
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Categories:
haft, fear,
Form: Rhyme
A Single Tree
...A Single Tree
Steve L. Siegel
August, 2015
-:-
Up on the upper Hoh River there is a trail
Only two and haft miles long, at end of trail is a tree
Were it has turned into a cross all by Gods ow...
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Categories:
haft, christian, faith, god, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Staff
...Cursed by the staff
Ill-fated is it's haft
Frigid hold
Blood turns cold
Ancient wizard of old
Cursed by wrath's mold
Staff untold
Darkest hymn, unfold
A guardian felled his soul
A natura...
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Categories:
haft, fantasy, myth,
Form: Lyric
Why Bother
...Why, why, why, I reach out my hand, waiting, waiting, waiting, for someone to come, my arm is getting tired, my skin is bruised, the wind, the rain has taken its toll, the lighting and scorned sun ha...
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Categories:
haft, absence, anger, anxiety, depression,
Form: Ballad
Struck Out
...Today at 8:05 AM
Why must we feel stuck, as if we can't get out.
Instead of positive on our minds, most are filled with doubts.
This life was never meant, to be easy for a second.
That's why...
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Categories:
haft, baseball, blessing, community, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Where Is Okonkwo
...Where birds are two
We ask:where is the eagle?
Where trees are two
We ask: where is iroko?
Where men become two
We ask: where is Okonkwo?
Gut in the forest of Titans
He roared in the jungl...
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Categories:
haft, africa, art, books, celebrity,
Form: Elegy
To Love a Woman
...To love a woman is the greatest feeling I have ever experienced in life. A woman has so
much to give, and sometimes doesn't know, the worth and beauty she possesses. A woman
needs to be reminded ...
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Categories:
haft, dedication, devotion, faith, happiness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dreams
...Dreams are too daring,
with all those people staring.
Closing your eyes, dreaming those lies.
How can you live with your cries?
all the time you have is in your eyes.
dont let someone dream for ...
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Categories:
haft, adventure, imagination, mystery, dream,
Form: Free verse
When My Mind Begins To Wonder
...When my mind begins to wonder
My feet began to walk,
Ideas hit me like lighting,
and my visions as blurry as smeared chalk.
Lord knows I’ve been trying to do right and it got me so bored I can ...
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Categories:
haft, urban, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Tick Tock/That's the Sound
...Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock,
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock,
That's the inevitable sound
Which abruptdly summons
You back to the ground
As you seek to find
Something inside yo...
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Categories:
haft, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse