VitalsDoctor blinks, breath caught, face goes still.
“Oh,” he says, voice sharp, split.
Hands tremble near charts, numbers all wrong.
Room spins quiet, cold like a grave.
Chest tightens, heartbeat thuds, loud, slow.
How long have I lived this broken?
Sick laughs die. Fear lives in bone....
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Categories:
10th grade, death, sick,
Form: Kwansaba
I Dare You To Praise HimNever really know what part of Sunday’s
sermon my mind’s eye will lock hold
What portion of the Holy Story will
ignite passion as Pastor’s lucid homoly unfolds
“I DARE YOU TO PRAISE HIM CHURCH!”
and Good Lawd did that church explode
and I sat at the red light -Exposed.
Bill Marable
12-4-22
11:00 am...
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Categories:
blessing, devotion, emotions, happiness,
Form: Kwansaba
Fraud Alert Severe PTSD anxiety disorder person of power extorting my identityBeing a disabled person since 1999 my last employment I suffer severe domestic trauma severe anxiety disorder PTSD a result of my wearing wires pregnant for the Fbi buying weapons and drugs from corruption going deep inside hostage situations while my young children sat with the Fbi supervisor Leroy Heimbach Milwaukee Fbi and Chicago federal...
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Categories:
allah,
Form: Kwansaba
Sheridan Road and Freud street all aboard Sitting in my therapist office calmly she takes her pen lines it with my forehead between my eyes my eyes make movements back and forth following the pen back and forth a sort of pendulum on a clock back and forth I’m to imagine I’m on a train in a coach watching my traumatic events...
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Categories:
allah,
Form: Kwansaba
Untouchable We danced all night on Maxwell street
singing the blues and eating chicago style
hotdogs driving by Halsted my hair blew in
the breeze as I winked at the Cermax river
flowing of winter green this year the infamous green
mile lounge can be seen in a distance glare after visiting
Logan square headed straight...
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Categories:
allah,
Form: Kwansaba
The ReckoningA reckoning, daring taunt bestowed
my weariness, a covenant catering
to the boundary, of self why I'd become
more open to resolve, life's issues
abundantly, as though life was simply,
a passing fancy, cleverly orchestrated
to be rehearsed, over and over again
while I'd gravely, excepted a single
faint hue, as a quaint challenge
flowing as a...
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Categories:
allah, peace,
Form: Kwansaba
Kwansaba Praise-Family’s purpose respond consent concord harmony oneness
Licenses aptitude ability qualify oneness harmony
Collect travail attempt struggle respond oneness
Ujamaa’s service product consume society produce various
Impetus intents apropos purpose fitting resolve mission
Fertile inspire imagine product qualify oneness harmony
Believe loyalty ability fitting resolve mission oneness
11/22/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
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Categories:
analogy, black african american,
Form: Kwansaba
Moon GirlYour arm is Soft like sponge pillow,
Heavy is the head that rests on;
Soft but strong, made me embrace loner.
Serene voice is all you got, deary!
Your oxygen the fairy has breathe,gem!
This being none have seen; pretty shorty.
How I wish this was not...pseudo....
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Categories:
angel, atheist, black love,
Form: Kwansaba
The Poems I Never WroteThe poems I never wrote are
all here on my page on this site
I mean it
I plagiarised every one of them
from some wannabe poet
that got expelled back in pre school
I’ve an excellent memory
and am a recalcitrant liar
But now I’m coming clean
No time for homework
I just wanted to play...
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Categories:
childhood, fun, ireland,
Form: Kwansaba
HumanimalTackled by a stutter murmur of Deus.
The praying ended and packed as threats.
Err, umm, uhh, were cliched by vomits.
Grasped all the needs and rusty flirts.
Prune back Sheoak! The cutest green pine.
Pity Sheoak no more green crown again.
Where are Quechua and Sherpa? They go....
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Categories:
environment, nature,
Form: Kwansaba
KwansabaI see a girl in the mirror
A thing of beauty unseen by all
She weaves poetry, and cooks sublime notions
Paints the sky green, the land blue
Twirls on cliffs, tiptoes along its edges
Drama, risks, thrills, that is her life
A thing of beauty unsung by all.
K.S.Lakshmi...
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Categories:
appreciation, celebration, encouraging, for
Form: Kwansaba
Token StepsImage of South Africa Cape Town Table provided by Pixabay
Token Steps
Ruling winds the austral buttes naked slopes ...
as vortex smoky rise aloft Zulu's kraal
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Categories:
africa, hope, peace, tribute,
Form: Kwansaba
Sushi
There are all kinds of raw fish
that can be used to make sushi.
Orange salmon is quite popular these days.
Try mahi mahi or yellow fin tuna.
Mackerel, and caviar both red and black
Shrimp and surimi are still in demand.
Please don't give me any sea urchin.
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Categories:
food,
Form: Kwansaba
Tanzanian FestivalIn the bush the dancing begins early
Leather drums call from far and near.
Steady rhythms mark timed steps, and
Swahili is proudly spoken here;...
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Categories:
africa, culture, happiness, imagery,
Form: Kwansaba
Adolescence: Apollo's Aria***NOTE: Poem posted on the above video. If you need to read it again, just right click on the video and then click on 'Loop' on the top of the drop-down menu, whereto, the video will continue to scroll.
SONG: 'Run To You', by Kaue Penna
VIDEO: The Voice Kids (2020)
POEM: 'Adolescence: Apollo's Aria' - [Kwansaba Form]
2020...
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Categories:
teen, uplifting, voice,
Form: Kwansaba
Specific Types of Kwansaba Poems
Definition | What is Kwansaba in Poetry?