I couldn't talk about it so I wrote a poem
...TRUTH
By: Kimberley Pittman
There's history in heathens; the Earth has been our home,
Though lost in our own hell, it's a place we've come to own.
My heart is gold, yet its worth is judged by ...
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Categories:
kimberley, appreciation, confidence, death, how
Form: Free verse
Gothic 17
...
"Gothic 17"
provided they are
all story
and no reflection
I’m all for heroines
those coiled springs
minds like vampires
the ones
who
never sleep
sharp tee...
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Categories:
kimberley, muse,
Form: Narrative
Keen Inspired Muser
...K-een
I-nspired
M-user
B-egins
E-mploying
R-emarkable
L-ine's
E-xcellent
Y-early
I-dea
R-ightfully
O-ffering
S-weetness
I-n
D-ivine
O-bjective
Topic: Birthday of Kimberley A. Iros...
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Categories:
kimberley, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Old Mate
...I have this burning desire
To find old mate
I want to sit
And chat with him
Under a Gum and setting sun
About what has come
And what has passed
Times of old
Places we’ve been told
Along the ...
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Categories:
kimberley, 12th grade, absence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Regardless of Scenario
...K-eep
I-llumination
M-uch
B-righter
E-agerly
R-elieving
L-onely
E-vening
Y-ou
I-solate
R-egardless
O-f
S-cenario
I-n
D-ark
O-bscurity
Topic: Birthday of Kimberley ...
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Categories:
kimberley, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Grief of the Eighties
...1980
With deep sadness, I heard the awful news,
My favourite stand up comedian Richard Pryor,
It was June 9th while being in a drug-induced psychosis,
He poured rum over his body and set himself ...
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Categories:
kimberley, memory, remember,
Form: Quatrain
Ou Allons Nous: Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Where Are We Going By T Wignesan
...Où allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan
Ils sont venus dans une petite ville
Une bande à moitié nue soumise silencieuse
Tout ce qui restait de...
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Categories:
kimberley, discrimination, grief, horror, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
They Called Him Diamond
...They Called Him Diamond
They called him Diamond still do and his colour is black like
scorched earth frozen shadows of hell shafted and grafted on
his scarred broken shoulders deprived of not ...
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Categories:
kimberley, power,
Form: Narrative
Killing Machines
...Only eighteen and conscripted to the military,
no choice of mine it was the norm at this time and scary,
barely out of school and still wet behind the ear,
too young to watch an adult movi...
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Categories:
kimberley, children, men, military, sad,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Continue My Ballet
...My sweet Dr. Kimberley called me today
I'll be here for a while, good to hear her say
Need Vitamin B12
For memory health
Thankfully though, I can continue my ballet
© Jack Ellison 20...
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Categories:
kimberley, health, silly,
Form: Limerick
Warm Heart of Africa
...The emptiness and unhappiness so closely related
Left her with a hole bigger than Kimberley.
No man dug fortune, only misconception and silence.
Her predecessors left her no gold to kick the dust ...
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Categories:
kimberley, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
kimberley, society, , cute,
Form: Haiku
Climate Change
...Eucalypts in storms
under a Kimberley sky...
the Polar Bear fries.
© Harry J Horsman 2012...
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Categories:
kimberley, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Man
...For years I thought I was the man because of my independence
uncanny work ethic
and my wit..
For years I thought that it would be me and only me for the rest of my life...
It is amazing how in...
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Categories:
kimberley, lifelife, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Blood Diamonds
...A stone so beautiful
The gem of gems
This carbon icon
A girls best friend
In many a place mined
All legal and right
To be marketable
To be pretty in sight
On our Jewellery do we wonder
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Categories:
kimberley, black african american, business,
Form: Rhyme
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