Just One Thing to Leverage
...
She believed her Barbie's and Ken's
had shared a love far more complex
than any feelings they'd expressed --
AND dolls couldn't even self-dress!!!
She knew they were a mistake -
one she want...
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Categories:
intelligently, anxiety, break up, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Genuine love
...The word simple is so beautiful to me,
Even though I know I could speak intelligently,
I choose not to... here's why,
Would I want you to feel less valuable in my eyes,
People will relate your sp...
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Categories:
intelligently, beautiful, devotion, first love,
Form: Light Verse
UnSung IrReligious DisAuguration
...How does it feel to you
when presidents proclaim anthro-supremacy
exclusively made
in one universal God's
straight WesternWhite monotheistic
over-Capitalized
autocratic entitlement
for a mon...
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Categories:
intelligently, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
BOLD by Brunch, with a side of a bunch of BS or Say-Less
...The limb elongates in the bodies flayed attempt at survival.
Internal struggle, intelligently struggling in the maintaining of oxygen in a Bold yet desperate display. Feeble gravities
Lungi...
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Categories:
intelligently, beautiful, change, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Bye
...I am going, leaving to another world, my old and new world
You are staying, enjoy here, and remember, time is not coming
Time is far and gone with him. Don’t keep me in your memory
Just keep thi...
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Categories:
intelligently, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Geisha Grin
...Green geisha grins
Charming the gentlemen
Eyes like chocolate pools
Drown in their sweetness
Their sweetness uniqueness
Able to sweep away grief
Smiling and styling
Dance romanced by
Graceful...
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Categories:
intelligently, allusion, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Mercury Wave
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When Water and Fire Collide
Tongues knoted in Silence, Silence Preside
Mercury Dulled Lovers Communication
Muddled Messages, Interactions Barely There
No Interest, No Warmth, No Feelings Shar...
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Categories:
intelligently, planet,
Form: Free verse
YOUNG AND OLD
...YOUNG AND OLD
Wisdom is the only entity that rules this sphere.
'Omode gbon, agba gbon lafi dale ife.'
The translation cascades from life's vault:
On the wisdom of both youths & adults,
The f...
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Categories:
intelligently, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
War of Words
...Pappou, means grandfather in Greek,
He would listen carefully then speak,
Cleanse yourself first and heal,
Any rifts or wounds that gnaw.
Chose wisdom over wrath he’d say
Your time to fail, he w...
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Categories:
intelligently, words,
Form: Free verse
Brainwaves On the Plate
...I eat them as if l am possessed,
I ravage them one by one intelligently,
Chewing carefully but mercilessly,
Orgh, they taste sweet, nice and crunchy,
Better than loose biscuits from market stalls...
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Categories:
intelligently, adventure, humor,
Form: Epic
Bantu Poem, Shahiri Mussabwa 9
...Telling you the truth
You will end up hanging
Yourself and I will lose you
While I am still crazy for you
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Better I use lies
To protect our relationship...
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Categories:
intelligently, 12th grade, africa, feelings,
Form: Other
I Reached 80
...Since I reached 80 years of life
time has moved too fast but in slow motion
I oftentimes feel embarrassed at what I became
and what I could have been
but old men dream more of the what could h...
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Categories:
intelligently, age, children, father son,
Form: Free verse
Addicted To Writing
...I wonder if Wright
ever thought himself wrong,
before making an actual
flight?
I mean, pigeons heckling
him, from the tin roof's ledge (Oh yea! They
do laugh, a sort of subtle, mocking co...
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Categories:
intelligently, addiction, bird, flying, history,
Form: Free verse
Stranded In Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
...Stranded in bittercold without food or drink...
Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine
(intimation also quite far-fetched),
some unnamed rea...
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Categories:
intelligently, absence, adventure, animal, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...The possessions I pray upon,
Are not meant for me to grasp,
Toughs of becoming a man,
Is unreachable like the stars.
Joy I once had turned into fear,
Prayers, miracles and faith,
Are words th...
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Categories:
intelligently, appreciation, life, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
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