Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
hatreds, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
To Love When
...Love is alike a whisper among the deaf and a light among the blind. Many have claimed to understand it and many have claim to be apart of it but alike religion, they all seem to fall short of scriptu...
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Categories:
hatreds, beautiful, bereavement, caregiving, feelings,
Form: Free verse
What hell is not
...Today, hell wears the face of the wind,
a wind that severs breath
and casts night upon the eyes:
wars devouring the dust of time,
hatreds rooted deep into the earth,
silences clutching the world...
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Categories:
hatreds, christian, hope,
Form: Free verse
All I Have To Say Is Thanks
...All I have to say is thanks
Through the seasons of life
I say thanks to those that disappointed me
Thanks for your betrayals
Thanks for giving up on me
Thanks for your jealousy
Thanks for y...
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Categories:
hatreds, africa, confidence, courage, dedication,
Form: Epic
Freedom
...My life is barbed wire
Shall I string myself along?
Suppression takes more forms
Than Playtex has bras
Am I to be dominated
By someone else’s God?
We addict ourselves
To all we hold most d...
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Categories:
hatreds, freedom,
Form: Free verse
It Is the Most Unsettled of Times, the Most Unsettling of Times
...~ Welcome to 2022 ~
A time of conventional and possibly nuclear war
where no one can be sure what each side stands for
A time of global power struggles and shifting alliances
in which the...
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Categories:
hatreds, change, conflict, confusion, fear,
Form: Couplet
The Hate You Give
...Threatening words spill from all around.
Humanity’s hate, all too easy to be found
Every corner echoes it’s painful sound.
Hatred, not only spoken but shown,
Another punch, an angry grown....
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Categories:
hatreds, allusion, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Acrostic
It Shadows
...funny how heavy a sadness weighs
and angry rage which surely stays
pyre fierce fire an unfair blaze
attempting to burn me in its haze
hotly blinding your tearful gaze
this solemn haunting eulo...
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Categories:
hatreds, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Reject the Self-Hatred, Part Ii
......They proclaimed that we ‘oppressed women,’
it’s the refrain of loud femenists,
forgetting that before birth control
nature gave us little choice in this.
That before we had technology,
when l...
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Categories:
hatreds, america, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme
Good Enough
...The question every broken being,
asks themselves...
Broken thoughts created by families
The families that sings
the verse blood is thicker than water louder than artist in a studio...
While the...
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Categories:
hatreds, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
My Six Relatives
...MY SIX RELATIVES
My six relatives
Some act positive.
Some go negative.
Great maternal uncle of mine
Respectful, si...
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Categories:
hatreds, how i feel, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Spirit
...Through the Spirit
Seven Spirits of Darkness, Seven Spirits of Light.
Spirits of Darkness= 1. Hatred, 2. Mistrust, 3. Despair, 4. Evil, 5. Incompetence, 6. Illiteracy and 7. Stupidity. Misery fol...
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Categories:
hatreds, bible, courage, inspirational, parents,
Form: I do not know?
Without a Doubt
...Without a Doubt
I’ve seen your yellow underbelly now
and there’s no denying or going back
a solid moral compass is what you lack
this country torn, breaking bodies bough
with deaths and sorrow...
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Categories:
hatreds, anger, political,
Form: Quintilla
Tale of False Image of the Beautiful Temptress
...Tale Of False Image Of The Beautiful Temptress
In her allure, a furtive glaze
her eyes, seductive ways
beckoning back receptive gaze,
revealing beauty pays.
She set the stage, spreading her ...
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Categories:
hatreds, appreciation, art, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme
The Saddest Days
...And there are not enough cubicles and grey paneling that
sugar rock candy lights won’t cut
the sapling eye from its still decline into Abyss.
And there are not enough sad thoughts wars rapes t...
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Categories:
hatreds, death, hope, humanity, sad,
Form: Free verse
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