The Greatest Shame
...Had I never known the heat of sensual fire
From a woman consumed with sexual need
Whose object of desire in the darkest hours
For pleasure and gratification - was me
I would never quite realiz...
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Categories:
iger, break up, heartbroken, lonely,
Form: Ballad
Winners and Losers
...Are winners defined by prowess
In business or in sport
Or by intellectual power
Backed by academic report?
Is losing determined
By lack of financial wealth
In lieu of big-hearted happiness
...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, destiny,
Form: Ballad
Golden Opportunity - Key To Community
...GOLDEN OpportUNITY
KEY TO CommUNITY
Unlocks hearts and minds
To the beauty of UNITY
Where hate is dead
Love lives for eternity
And the cloud's silver lining
Beholds a GOLDEN OpportUNIT...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, culture,
Form: Ballad
Life Dies, Love Cries
...While my heart does bleed
For new life never born
My mind does heed
The pain of a mother torn
The decision to forestall
Life's seed to full bloom
Is a powerful anguish
of hellish gloo...
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Categories:
iger, abortion, absence, black african
Form: Dramatic Verse
Naked Limbs
...As twilight approached I felt her loosening embrace
After a night filled with cuddling her shadowy face
My heart beat with passion as I bathed in her charms
Her elusive caress not quite real in ...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Go Green - Recycle Old People
...Now that I've got your attention
Here's what I really intend to mention
One of the most vital resources to uplift our nation
Has been warehoused and stored in suspended animation
The wise men...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, community,
Form: Monorhyme
Perpetual Valentine
...It was a Thursday the first time we "met"
Just like today except two score and three
Nearly two years from the time our eyes first beget
Who could have imagined what our lives might be
The pit...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, celebration,
Form: Ballad
The Boss
...You were there for me...
After the birth of my child
When I needed time
To marvel, and rest, and adjust.
I appreciated the flowers,
And condolences...
On the passing of my parent.
And t...
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Categories:
iger, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
Real Fairy Tales
...In Fairy Tales...
Mother cuddles you at her bosom...
Father bounces you on his knee
In nightmares...called reality
Mommy and daddy
Are antagonists in a stage tragedy
Where their absence or ...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, blessing,
Form: Narrative
It's Your Birthday
...It is more profound
Than one might surmise.
Is it fate, karma...is it providence?
What has determined the date and time?...
That very moment
We make our grand entrance...
Into this world...
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Categories:
iger, birthday, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Let's Get Together
...Let’s celebrate!
Let’s get together soon
Maybe today
And have a toast
For all we’ve achieved
To this point in our lives
Recent headlines remind me
How much I have to be proud of
And grateful ...
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Categories:
iger, best friend, black african
Form: Free verse
'til Death
...How could I know otherwise
The beauty of a woman I’ve never seen
Whose mortality had been claimed by the Reaper
But through the teary eyes of my brother
Who loved her…
Loves her still
What...
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Categories:
iger, bereavement, black african american,
Form: Ode
Bereaved
...It is a fallacy to imagine
I could know your pain
The depth of loss for one we love
And who's loved us
Could never be transposed.
But I do understand...
Your loss is very great
And very di...
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Categories:
iger, bereavement, black african american,
Form: Elegy
Anniversary
...Whether days or years
Time comes full circle
To commemorate our memories
The collage of our experiences
Love and laughter
Tension and tears
A cycle of moments
Returned us here
To triumph in ...
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Categories:
iger, black african american, destiny,
Form: Ballad
The Gift
...My lover's eyes came into mine
Her pain so clear to see
New life inside had chose its time
This day the miracle would be
I invited the Lord to minister us
His presence so much in need
In ...
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Categories:
iger, baby, birth, black african
Form: Dramatic Verse
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