Long Odom Poems
Long Odom Poems. Below are the most popular long Odom by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Odom poems by poem length and keyword.
This Life
This Life
By: Woodrow Odom Lucas
Sometimes as I listen to the Beatles,
I find a sadness that I need to feel,
I find a shadow that resents God for my suffering,
And hates the devil for what he has...
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Categories:
odom, beautiful,
Form:
Blank verse
The 'With You' Is Silent
The "With You" is Silent
By:Valerie Odom
February 27,2020
Am i worth more than what my past treated me?
Everything is applied
But my eye suggest that I'm not really apart of the Brady Bunch
Just a hunch
We all've felt it
Some...
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Categories:
odom, cry, deep, emotions, heartbreak, love hurts, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Untold
Untold
By Valerie Odom
Feb 28, 2015
They told us that we’d come into the world unblind
That it was our time
That our generation was the one
And when I’m with the quarters before the dimes
They said our generation was...
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Categories:
odom, conflict, spoken word, truth, youth,
Form:
Free verse
My Neighbor
My Neighbor
By Valerie Odom
February 8, 2017
My neighbor got a problem with me
Cus’ my self confidence is “too high”
How he can’t stand this generation
But what he doesn’t know is that we are they made
and that...
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Categories:
odom, age, appreciation, conflict, happiness, humor, judgement, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Black Boy
Black Boy
By Valerie Odom
December 1, 2016
Black boy has it all,
but black boy is afraid he’ll fall
Black boy ain’t no sissy,
black boy has to be a man
Ain’t his fault his dad left him
Black boy can’t love...
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Categories:
odom, black african american, boy, community, racism, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Today Was Cloudy
Today Was Cloudy
By: Woodrow Odom Lucas
Today was cloudy,
Dark all day,
I wish I had hope,
Come what may,
I saw a homeless man,
And gave him a kind word,
His smile lifted me to flight like a bird,
A bird of...
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Categories:
odom, day, god,
Form:
Blank verse
All Lives Matter
All Lives Matter
By Valerie Odom
June 17, 2017
How can All Lives Matter when your
are bombing kids in the Middle East?
How can All Lives Matter when you
are killing black people as you please?
How can All...
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Categories:
odom, bullying, how i feel, humanity, perspective, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
No Greater Sin
No Greater Sin
By Valerie Odom
April 13, 2017
Black man
White man
This man
You man
He drinks
He smokes
He steals
And he provokes
He's polytheistic
And he works on Sunday
He makes child videos
And he loves the money
But I'm gay
So I'm automatically first in line...
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Categories:
odom, anger, god, how i feel, judgement, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Mr Brown Baby
Mr. Brown Baby
By Valerie Odom
February 14, 2017
Mr. Brown Baby
You either knows too little or too much
The white man still gonna beat you on the daily
While you're still accused of raping that young lady
Everywhere you goes...
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Categories:
odom, abuse, america, baby, black african american, corruption,
Form:
Villanelle
Government, Oh Government
Government, Oh Government
By Valerie Odom
January 12, 2017
Government, oh government
Why focus on the bigger picture
Why control, divide, and deprive us
Are you some sort of deceptionist
Or maybe a megalomaniac
Why you gotta lie to us
Government, oh government
Make...
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Categories:
odom, america, corruption, earth, freedom, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
On October 11
On October 11
By Valerie Odom
Jan 31, 2017
On October 11
You’ll finally receive the news
That
I’ve been waiting to tell you my whole life
No it’s not a phase
I apologize for dissembling my true spirit
I do not care if...
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Categories:
odom, celebration, dedication, emotions, october, pride, women, word
Form:
Bio
Black Holiday Taunt
Black Holiday Taunt
By Valerie Odom
December 24, 2016
Another year’s gone by,
Another holiday look how time flies
Another lie programmed into my brain
But this year I’m awake
Tryna break off the chain
They just want you either for your money,
For...
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Categories:
odom, celebration, deep, holiday, how i feel, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
In My Spirit
In My Spirit
By Valerie Odom
Jan. 20,2017
In my spirit
I am free
I am me
I can be whatever I want to be
In my spirit
I am a cat
Very power, I get what I desire
Treated like a king
My intelligence is...
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Categories:
odom, black african american, culture, feelings, pride, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Blackface
Blackface
By Valerie Odom
March 24, 2017
Blackface
White man down
Black paint
Yell our race, stand in the crowd
While you screaming “All Live Matter”
Our men being shot to the ground
Blackface
But you got white lips
Blackface
Why you making your white supremacy the...
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Categories:
odom, black african american, bullying, corruption, how i
Form:
Rhyme
Never the End
Never The End
By Valerie Odom
Dear whoever reads this,
I just wanted to say it wasn’t your fault that you did this but humanity itself for creating a beautiful light and destroying an undying love. If...
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Categories:
odom, depression, how i feel, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Smile
Smile
By Valerie Odom
2-20-17
A feeling in my head, a feature, expression
A positive position that always taught me a lesson
Hide your pain, don’t let others see the real you
Shut your mouth, cus’ your words stay spilling toxic...
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Categories:
odom, anxiety, depression, happiness, how i feel, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
By Valerie Odom
March 5, 2017
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
My mother told me
To pick the very best one
And you are not...
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Categories:
odom, anxiety, black african american, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme