Kiki Poems

Premium MemberOde to the Feline Companions

...From memory's gentle and sun-drenched haze,
A tapestry woven of cat-filled days.
They prowl through the heart, a paw print each one,
Leaving love in their wake when their time here is done.

Fir...
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Categories: kiki, animal, best friend, cat,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberKiki Lindstrom Had a Dog

...Kiki Lindstrom had a dog
A tiny puppy poodle
When she took it for a slog
It flipped a puppy's noodle

Kiki think about your pup
And think about the clover
When you try to pick it up
You have ...
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Categories: kiki, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberKiki Lindstrom

...Kiki Lindstrom had a cat
For tea with Mrs. London
Stuck a feather in her hat
And said that she was well done

Kiki dear, how do you do
The feeling is electric
Everyone is fond of you
Because ...
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Categories: kiki, beauty, crush, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

My Cats

...Ears twitching
After a long retiring sleep
Their eyes on tender hook

for one moment they are wild
The next moment tender
with a loving look

When illness falls my way
Their heart rallies to...
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Categories: kiki, cat,
Form: Rhyme

Colourism of the Black Woman

...Born from slaved backbones of our forefathers and mothers
We have risen, Liberated, freed from encroachment
Apprised through noble heritage, an abundance of history
Mother Africa gave birth, infus...
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Categories: kiki, africa, color, culture, discrimination,
Form: Free verse


Cracks In My Walls

...The building of me stands erect 
Perfectly, imperfectly flawed
My plastered, painted smile hides the cracks
inside my walls
From outside looking in 
sun shines through the windows of my eyes
Bu...
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Categories: kiki, body, confidence, home, image,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOh Brother

...(tales from the viral lock-down)

Brice (my brother) is cutting through what smells like a stack of cinnamon french toast.
My stomach growls at the aroma like a hunting cat. 
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Categories: kiki, 11th grade, brother, daughter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOncle Albert - Part 2

...In May the year of 1912 Albert left his home in  Lyon. 
He made his way to ecole Sommer at Genever's  Mourmelon. 
In June, with circuit d'Anjou done, and with his engineer,
Albert  deployed a newe...
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Categories: kiki, flying,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberOncle Albert - Part 1

...Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats, 
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is...
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Categories: kiki, flying, history,
Form: Narrative

Silent Dream

...In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:"
                                                                                                  Robert Frost

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Categories: kiki, addiction, baby, care, depression,
Form: Etheree

Yuki

...Drake has a KiKi 
But I have my Yuki
She is one of a kind 
She’s always on the grind
Giving care like always 
But her burdens weigh 
Still smiling for everyone 
Thinking of others before anyon...
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Categories: kiki, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad

Iseyin

...ISEYIN MY TOWN
If you don't know,
'Emi lomo ISEYIN  ORO
'Oro omo EBEDI MOKO.
I know my town, I love my town,
I celebrate my town, as great town to everyone, I praise my town, and I cheer my town...
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Categories: kiki, africa, allegory, thanksgiving, together,
Form: Bio

Locked Up

...Locked Up


Tomorrow I'll wake up
I'll stretch and look around 
Not a single bar in sight
And yet no freedom to be found


Imprisoned in a life of hell
Where the captor takes my soul
He de...
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Categories: kiki, abuse, anger, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Tragic Life

...TRAGIC LIFE / TRAGIC DEATH ~ 
     A Holocaust Story


The odds were stacked against us
With hearts that beat so strong
Our only crime was loving God
Please tell me how that's wrong

The sol...
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Categories: kiki, art, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme

He Never Loved Me

...He never loved me
Well damn I just found out
Took a shot to the heart
Don't know where I should start
I guess I musta been strung out
Cuz I was straight up on his arm flashing that smile like ai...
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Categories: kiki, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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