Tippy Toe Lited Soul-
...I'm sneaking around
on my Jordans
Tippy Toe
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expected of being in the shadows
I am covered in myself nestling
I have left myself
Tippy Toe
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you can't see me because I'm ...
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Categories:
jordans, allusion, analogy, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Unfaithful Perfection
...Like a broken faucet, your poisonous acid waters the ground
Trapping yourself in an assassin's disguise - suffocation there's no sound
With every one of your weapons - strewn across your Gucci belt...
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Categories:
jordans, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Calvin Klein and Menthol Cigarettes
...When everyone wore Calvin Klein
I wore pairs of Old Navy jeans and graphic tees
When everyone carried a mouthful Menthol Cigarettes
I carried a mouthful of Sour Patch Kids
When everyone was havi...
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Categories:
jordans, identity,
Form: Free verse
My Valentine's Curse
...In either first grade or kindergarten
I first fell prey to the Valentine's curse
when I got but five cards, all others ten
and from there, my fate went from bad to worse.
By middle school, my p...
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Categories:
jordans, 10th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Sonnet
The Day After
...The day after my death
I had the will to get out of bed
I take a short shower to wake myself up
And make myself breakfast
Chocolate chip pancakes with a small glass of orange juice
I walk by a...
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Categories:
jordans, 12th grade, death, grave,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Heavy Heart
...Heavy heart
Die die
The fear in my eye
I can hide behind this badge
It will protect me and mines
Is this how you feds think
Is this how you feds feel
You fear the color of my skin so us...
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Categories:
jordans, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Heavy Heart
...Heavy heart
Die die
The fear in my eye
I can hide behind this badge
It will protect me and mines
Is this how you feds think
Is this how you feds feel
You fear the color of my skin so us...
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Categories:
jordans, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Hypbst
...hypbst
you need to stop spending money
on stupid street wear and shoes
Supreme, Jordans and Yeezys
are a waste of your dues
your closet is full of hypebeast clothes
that you will outgrow in a...
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Categories:
jordans, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Jealous Hood Rat
...There a jealous hood rat in are neighborhood
If you expecting me to call you a man I can't
because your attitude speaks for itself
Theres a jealous hood rat in the neighborhood
and it's you ...
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Categories:
jordans, funny, humor,
Form: Verse
War of Horus
...My Eyes Opened
The Sky Unfolded
See the Physical Hell Hovering
In the Spiritual War of Horus
Im in the Body of Morpheus
I see Spiritual Bodies of Corpses
Burning in Torments
I got a She...
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Categories:
jordans, america, bible, discrimination, religion,
Form: Free verse
Robin of the Hoodie
...Robin of the Hoodie
Alas, resides in Sherwood Forest,
one Robin of the Hoodie. He’s lost
amid the greenery, weeping
as sunset nears for underneath
the Hood he hides his deep
and lonely fears...
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Categories:
jordans, children, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Oh Swaddling Clothes
...OH JESUS CAME IN SWADDLING CLOTHES
KING HEROD NOR
THE REST OF HIS COULD'VE
UNDERSTOOD OR COULD HAVE KNOWN
THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE RISEN AGAIN
FROM HELL'S DEATH SWORD
OH SWADDLING CLOTHES LI...
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Categories:
jordans, christian, christmas, gospel, jesus,
Form: Pastoral
Willie Lynch Take Control
...We think we are free but we’re not….”I have a full proof method for controlling your black slaves”…..yet we’re not slaves anymore…Are we?….we’re chained by ignorance we are whipped by our own stupidi...
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Categories:
jordans, black african american, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Follow the Laughter
...This should be a sad place
There are no playgrounds, schools
One tap for an intire village
Their toys are rocks and sticks
There is a skinny goat running beside them
I hear laughter such sweet laugh...
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Categories:
jordans, happiness, sad,
Form: Free verse
In the Baptism, For Kim
...the prayer:
Quickened once, this seed uncrucified reclaims
Against the dessication of faith in my drought
And root dry tortures of decomposing doubt,
Against it all, a sudden impulse in the kerne...
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Categories:
jordans, faith, inspirationaldeath, me, prayer,
Form: Verse
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