Spring In the Air
...You’ll come to all but me, O spring, and as always once more you’ll bring
To them your scents, hues, birds that sing, warmth and pleasure and everything
Each needs to live like a real king under yo...
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Categories:
indebt, age, loneliness, world,
Form: Rhyme
Debt All
...All to tell
At all hands
Now Dettol
A toll
To pay out
To go out
With no Dettol
How high?
Death toll
All to tell
Indebted all
Dettol
Indebt all
Dettol...
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Categories:
indebt, environment, health, sick,
Form: Free verse
A Poem To My Mother
...I wish I had words to tell
To show you how much more you mean to me
They say without water there will be no comfort
My beloved mother without you, there would be no me.
Your love, your attentio...
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Categories:
indebt, mother,
Form: Free verse
Inside Out
...I spit this on the mic to flow oh so prolific
What's the since in believing in Christ
If ur just gonna take him out of Christmas...
Dish the wish list...u can't re gift this...
Can't unwish thi...
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Categories:
indebt, addiction, america, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Black Roses Perfectly Grown
...Chinue Achebe
You are the moon of Africa' night tale,
You are the muse, the pen and the mood
A thousand brave waves of the blacks
I write through the galaxy of your stars here.
Wole Soyinka
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Categories:
indebt, africa,
Form: Ballad
Carrying a Friend To Father Christ
...They came to Him a paralytic carried by four men. St. Mark 2:3
The paralytic came before Father Christ through the heroic effort of 4 men.
They’re eventually lowering him through a hole in the r...
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Categories:
indebt, black african american, christian,
Form: Light Verse
Your Driving Me Crazy
...with you i find myself in a state of flux
from happy to sad to confused and confounded
in due course an end will eventually come
but now, i wait indebt, out of control
under your control, lost in...
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Categories:
indebt, devotion, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Before the Sun Sets
...The sun set with a golden glow the day on which you I met
On that special walk in the beautiful park as the sun set
The sun set a glowing red as I walked with no threat
Amongst the trees of d...
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Categories:
indebt, allegory, death, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Normaility
...To do the same as your neighbour,
Though dull as ditchwater,
To love, wed, indebt and procreate,
To dread waking up, to hate your life,
To want what others have,
To expedite your own demise,
To...
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Categories:
indebt, introspection,
Form: Blank verse