Long Odom Poems

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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