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Iger Poems - Poems about Iger

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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