SENSE PLEASURE
...SENSE PLEASURE
Red honeyed apples
autumn leaves dewed
****** merge with sun streams
whilst children sleep dear dreams
Bobbing bubble baths
yogurt ...
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Categories:
heritages, beautiful, children, color, earth,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Little Oil and Five Stones
...I.
I dreaded those days before they came
When I had to look at you laying down, weak as I stared at your frame
And many treasures that couldn't make you stand up
Glory is nothing to those gone,...
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Categories:
heritages, christian, gospel,
Form: Free verse
My God, Thank You For Helping Me
...July 23 Scripture Meditations Based on Isaiah 49-52
Key Verse – Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will p...
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Categories:
heritages, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Treasures To Walk
...Brecon Beacons
for pony-treks
Cumbrian fells
& bubbling becks
Dartmoor
with rocks rain scarred
Lake District views
beloved of bards
Northumbria on moor & hill
where R...
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Categories:
heritages, nature,
Form: List
Memories- Our Country of Past
...Memories of a country past
Growing up in a simpler time
when things were unplugged
fresh air was the norm
playing ball with family and friends
riding bike fast on the gravel, scrapped knees
p...
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Categories:
heritages, freedom, growth, memory, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Tree,Menorah Meet-Up
...Christmas Tree, Menorah Meet-Up
A Christmas tree and a Menorah,woke one morning right next to
one another!
Both were shocked to be so placed, thinking this was such a total
disgrace!
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Categories:
heritages, chanukah, christian, christmas, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Python Dance
...after Odumegwu Ojukwu
after Chinua Achebe
after Christopher Okigbo
after Dele Giwa
after Kofi Awoonor
after Kwame Nkrumah
after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
after Nelson Mandela
after Wole Soyinka ...
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Categories:
heritages, absence, abuse, africa, ,
Form: Blank verse
Elixirs
...beautification of painted imageries)
Like these broken shadows spread on the floor of my father's tattered room,
Like those weeping spirits by the corner of my mother's excited kitchen singing,
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Categories:
heritages, abuse, adventure, africa, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Silent Whisper
...There, they are with their scary galaxy of thoughts!
Those that wanted us to sing those songs they never
sang with the moon and the sun.
Those that wanted us to dance the dance they
never dance...
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Categories:
heritages, abuse, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad
Race-Ism
...Race-Ism
What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?
If our differences are only skin d...
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Categories:
heritages, black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
Some National Treasures
...Brecon Beacons for pony-treks,
Cumbrian fells and bubbling becks;
Lake District views beloved of bards
Stone-bridged hamlets in the
Dales with enclosed leas along its vales.
Snowdonia ,one thou...
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Categories:
heritages, beautiful, places,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
How God Labels Us
...Would that we stamp these words
On foreheads, as soon as an infant slides
Through the open birth canal:
White privileged
Underprivileged
Poor
Rich
Thug
Fat
Terrorist
Hater
Lover
Etceter...
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Categories:
heritages, identity, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Cul Du Sac
...Cul du sac
Blood tears
Leaking
slowly
the empty face
emotions raped
red raindrops
fancy lollipops
empty glass
filling with sanguine color
drip
drip
drip
We are...
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Categories:
heritages, art, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Superstition
...Superstition
A belief in the mind
Learned from another kind
Baseless only a customary
Born from cultural shine
Easy to preach but difficult to practice
Educated brain and grown up scienc...
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Categories:
heritages, social,
Form: Blank verse
Sorrow's Holocaust
...Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota,
And the Sioux,
Choking for a breath of life's sustaining air,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket.
The beating heart of native drums, are ...
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Categories:
heritages, dedication, emotions, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse
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