Long Hotness Poems

I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...

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I have a destiny,
That most of you look down on,
As being poor and backward.
That many desire to change and have me assimilated,
But I'm surely destined to be African.

When you meet me, I've got more melanin,
And...

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He walks around town
bouncing
over size t-shirts
baggy jeans half way his butt
each day wearing a mysterious smile
today with this
tomorrow that
as easy as his wink
so they come and go

She thinks she is the It gal
Beauty and brains...

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Infallible 

I fall into the rain, beneath me;
My sky a glittery dust to thee,
Calling the joy I hath not met,
Thou cometh sweetly, but late. 

I fall into the cold, and just me;
Only I understand the clouds,
Oh!...

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Of the items in the store,
All were second hand
An old computer did I buy,
With a broken stand

One side was badly scratched
Two knobs were missing too
But that’s not the story
I’m about to tell to you

T’was about...

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Word in words logically scraping speech
Word of words unlock hardened heart as priest preach
Word by word's exposition gain ground as sounds beseech
Word for word's daring compliment duly change to teach

Divided in divisions attentively awaiting wide...

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NOMPUMELELO (SUCCESS)

She is the KEY!
The key to Good, Gold and ongoing life 
Through her progression is guaranteed!

She is the product of positive mindset and creative thinking!
 Education is just her mother and she rose her...

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By Izunna Okafor



Oh ye the sun
Why have you been stubborn like son
Consistent in gazing at ground
Endlessly waxing around the town
The ground is as though as husk
But you never consider the gross of dust.

Why have you...

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My mouth is full of fizzy liquid,
my toungue is tickling vivid.
Even though my dark circles under the eye,
are deep within my following breath, they lie.
The ground is scretchy,
Are with the bathroom one matchy.
The cold shrouded...

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Young as just a week,
He was wrapped in a flannel.
His tender feet were shoeless -
Today was his appointed time;
 His feet must dialogue with gods.

The frontage was kind
To the pews and table.
The priest stood before...

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Summer day; Chittagong, Bangladesh
Though there is no difficulty for the holy Fasting
The sun in its usual service
From our concrete life, global warming kidnaps jovial motion of the wind
Winter is far away from the spring
The hotness...

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Arizona Heat, packing it hard
Deeper then the deepest Chocolate Windows 
Framed by long lashes, ebony compassions
Dying souls oppressed by more than the hotness of the night
Mocha Skin in Summertime
Let’s Roll
Impala,  Hydro, wood grain and...

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rudiments of the day progress like every other
matches burning 1 by 1 so quick 
one can lose count &
if the practice is to tally up the path to death
step by step by step
(as if the...

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For happier me,
to healthier me,
with hotness We,
informing relationships 
emerge EarthBound sacred
co-invested communions
inter-religiously sacramental.

I do not insist
you share this integral worldview.

Yet, I do recommend
invite
exhort
prophesy
endorse
urgently proclaim
this holistic way,
trusted truth,
and loving life
merging past healthy resonance
toward future wealthy resilience

More...

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I hate the essence of you
Killing I shall not do
I will have babies a many
Teaching them my hate
Tutor them to swing the sword

You shall be beheaded
Bloody and red
Better of dead
Soon to be
I will stare into...

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The princess turned into a hideous monster
Roamed alone in the forest of melancholy
She cared no more for what she would become,
Hated the sight of crystal clear skies
For these reminded her of her previous state
Before she...

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This is a poem in class
3rd period to be exact
Lotion smelling all good
Because it’s seaweed extract
Looking good
With my red K- Swiss
Other girls envy
‘cus they wish they could taste this.
And lace this
Ladies just face it
Me myself...

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When I sit alone in my ice block 
And I sing by hunger or cold 
I think,it’s paintfull the process, 
That without you I’m melting 
Buckets of hot blood are licking 
Thoughts as birds fly...

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The warm Summer evenings, filled with bugs galore
Keeps my apathy towards these days, to never implore

Though you can sit without a coat on, sit with warmth
I dislike the heat of the day, I miss the...

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Time is always virgin in its mother womb
Caravan of crossing never knows stoppage
On its attachment all come step by step
This morning came back everything like before

Old existence I wanna not to forget
But today everything is...

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Twenty-twelve attached her to her lowest points. 
Twenty-twelve couldn’t help her body fight the silent killer in her Veins. 
Twenty-twelve made a dramatic change to fight infection and accept treatment as the only option there...

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A jungle of mysteries, ruled by uncertainties
nurtured by intrigues and cycles
but invaded by misnorma to fairness
is a system, sustaining all animate interactions.
This is Life!

No rule, no formula, just connections
with only one goal: Survival.
The summation of...

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Live and let live..
Once I heard when I was young,
That Live and let live was sung.
I heard a priest mutter,
The holy rhyme he uttered.
I saw the god shower,
The blessings of flowers.
I saw the fighter fight,
For...

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There's a pack of jokers in your pack ...
Smiling, ducking, and dodging ...
Lying ...
Waiting on the perfect moment to mislead your psyche and attack.
So, stay ... ONE UP!
Especially now ...
For your cup is full... of...

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You came to me when i turned the lights out.The moon shines 
through so faintly upon your back as your body lays upon me,ever so softly and
so filled with your bodies heat.
   ...

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