A Pound of Flesh
...What is it that you need from me? -
I pray that you do tell.
For everything I've offered -
hasn't gone over too well.
Patience as you grow? -
As you learn from your mistakes?
No, that can...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, abuse, betrayal, break up,
Form: Rhyme
My Best Friend
...My best friend,
Always makes me laugh,
My best friend,
Never made me feel as if I were last,
My best friend,
Always held my hand,
Now it's my turn to take a stand,
I'll be your sho...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, beauty, blessing, family, feelings,
Form: ABC
ANYHOW
...Anyhow
Was just thinkin’
Which is not recommended
On rainy cold spring days
The pollen count is down
But who cares
Its too cold and wet to go outside
Dammit, the heat just kicked on
The frigg...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, humor, rain,
Form: I do not know?
No More Dignity
...I want...
Well-
It's just-
like...
Oh, give me some decency.
Don't tell me to tell you what I want when you won't even tell me how you feel.
Don't expect me to do all of the lifting, it is both...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, betrayal, break up, lost
Form: Free verse
Dear Self
...
Carelessly you threw away each wise act of preservation for sake of being loved
Today I wonder about yesterday. Why life took you to the brink, as you hunkered down that liv...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, appreciation, me,
Form: Narrative
The Power Of Positive Comments
...
I am a confident, content person
l know and like who l am
I know my strengths and weaknesses
Me …l understand
Though at times , l lack confidence in aspects of my academic ability
I have ...
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i know you are but what am i, confidence, poets, power, self,
Form: Rhyme
Birds of Feathers
...What the birds know today is that I am not there
Funny as it may seem, those birds and I have something in common
We are always looking for something,
What puzzles me the most is when I put out fo...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, adventure, africa, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Hurt The Same
...Stuttering heaves of prickling breaths
the wind I swallowed is laughing at me
or is it the oxygen it boasts that mocks the lungs that crave
ammunition, cogent, to birth veristic life?
Whatever ...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, allusion, angst, red, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Melatonin Man Woman-My SpokenWord
...I am of the brown persuasion
I am golden
Tan I am
a man a woman
I am King
I am queen
I am the color of the sun
I am energy fortunate am
I whom
I am needed
I am not of...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, allusion, america, analogy, black
Form: Dramatic Monologue
ELEVATED GRADUATED- A DEDICATED VERSE TO ALFUNTIZE CUNNINGHAM-
...Elevated GRADUATED-
A dedicated verse to Alfuntize Cunningham
Son, Brother, Entered forth into His Kingship
The vail is torn
The Crown I wear, I’ve worn
I’ve graduated yet rising
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, appreciation, birth, blessing, confidence,
Form: Bio
Descent and Ascent
...“on an as is where is basis we choose
descent of consciousness into the gross
then we rise again following heart’s muse
higher than where stood, bearing love’s cross”
...
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i know you are but what am i, anxiety, conflict, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Love in the DMs a song
...© Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11/11/20.24 All Rights Protected
[Verse]
I log in every day to get my fix (my man!)
Your voice in my mind, the perfect elixir (Yep)
You’re encoded into my dre...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, anxiety, relationship, scary,
Form: Lyric
I Could Love No Other But You
...The centuries that separated us have now gone,
We are together at last and will remain from now on.
The gentle sound of your voice stirs back such fond sweet
Memories,
And the promise you mad...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, dedication, desire, destiny, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Post Truth
...I know someone to whom I am a fact
But I can be generalized to an opinion
Which disappears fast if they distract
And so I hibernate until they turn me on
United with my opposite, I laugh
In some...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, identity, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Addiction
...i'll be waiting for you on friendly hill with no friends ill be sitting down in lonesome town waitin for
thee end.memories tell me what's this all about i dont want to hear you shout i don't want t...
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Categories:
i know you are but what am i, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
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