What is your confidence?
...You may notice someone in power
Wealthy in either financial fortune
Or social freedom, or popularity
That makes you feel inferior to keen
Thereafter, you wonder the reason
Underlying all the d...
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Categories:
hypocritically, 10th grade, confidence, confusion,
Form: Verse
The fine art of making excuses
...The fine art of making excuses
which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
...
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Categories:
hypocritically, animal, appreciation, autumn, business,
Form: Free verse
The Rumble
...I remember the rumble
It seemed so distant at first, a whisper in this urban jungle
No one seemed to notice it
There was no proof,no broken glass, no fires lit
I remember the sound of it
It...
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Categories:
hypocritically, america,
Form: Rhyme
BUILDING TENSION
...
Beware of my building tension might
driving destructive and perilous fight
or causing anxious, grievous fright
toward shameful frustrating flight.
Be braced against my building ten...
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Categories:
hypocritically, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Personification
Interacting With Mark Twain
...Are we true all the time?
How could we be considered "good
person", if we didn't hide the truth once and for all
when....?
"If the pain and sadness on the face were stamped",
...
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Categories:
hypocritically, allusion, analogy, appreciation, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Southern Kaduna Story
...Southern Kaduna bleed,
The sad Reality with Lamentation,
Months with mockery
Philanderer is second to non,
Men follow slim skimpy skirts
Rather than skills acquisition,
Graduate drink to stup...
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Categories:
hypocritically, heartbreak, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Narrative
Mon Semblable
...Hey you, dear reader!
You over there
immersed in this fairy world
lost in this wonderland!
"Mon semblable, mon frère"!
What if
life goes awry
and plans do stray
from the intended course
from...
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Categories:
hypocritically, courage, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Hypocrite
...All of which I hypocritically love and hate
Are the greatest guilty pleasures I enjoy too late...
All too often I refrain from the mediocrity of normalcy,
When really all I wish is to never fade t...
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Categories:
hypocritically, angst, character, growth, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Proud Boy, Indeed
...I was alone
in here I found a crowd
I was scared
in here there was courage, strength they said
Strengths to harm and kick and maim and kill
Drown the world in petroleum soaked rage
Napalmistry ...
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Categories:
hypocritically, abuse, evil, fear, hate,
Form: Free verse
Hypocritically
...All of which I hypocritically love and hate
Are the greatest guilty pleasures I enjoy too late...
All too often I refrain from the mediocrity of normalcy,
When really all I wish is to never fade t...
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Categories:
hypocritically, angst, deep, depression, how
Form: Free verse
In the Soup
...IN THE SOUP
My late aunt was always getting herself in the soup,
Wanted to share this with my poetry group,
Good clients of ours we invited home for a Greek meal
But my aunt made a mistake she ...
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Categories:
hypocritically, dad,
Form: Rhyme
The Silent Sad Soul
...THE SILENT SAD SOUL
Torches in the sky,
Tis a spiritual sight,
The sun n moon so bright,
and each star a glow
as a hopeful wishing light.
Smouldering beneath is a soul,
in blind darkness,
...
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Categories:
hypocritically, blue, care, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Good Samaritan
...GOOD SAMARITAN
I'm a certain man, innocently I journeyed
Stripped and wounded; did no wrong
They had chances to help out yet they neglected
Everyone you meet daily is a neighbour
Not because ...
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Categories:
hypocritically, faith, society,
Form: I do not know?
At a Funeral
...They have come for your funeral
Their looks belie ‘their hearts
When you needed them
Their backs turned on you
Now shamelessly and hypocritically
They drag those sacrilegious legs
To pr...
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Categories:
hypocritically, betrayal, death, destiny, farewell,
Form: Elegy
Nothing But Goat Cheese
...Old Willy’s ice-box housed nothing but cheese.
Row after row of perfect pillars packed
with gouda cheese, bleu cheese, mascarpone cheese
and a bit of brie (though for cheddar lacked)
all sealed i...
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Categories:
hypocritically, appreciation, funny, poets,
Form: Rhyme
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