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On Filling Voids - 2nd HalfHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
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Categories:
play the hand you, family, father daughter,
Form:
Narrative
Meet On the Upper FloorWhat would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no one to guard the door
What would the rich do...
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Categories:
play the hand you, beauty, change, emotions, friendship love, independence day,
Form:
Narrative
Rain ShowersThe Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
As the nature withers...
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Categories:
play the hand you, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry and Poker Life of TragedyI AM NOT THE POET I ONCE WAS , I AM NOT THE POET I HAD HOPE TO BE
I AM BUT THE POET I HAVE BECOME, NOT THE ONE I OUGHT TO BE, NOT...
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Categories:
play the hand you, absence, analogy, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Blank verse
The JourneyThe Journey
There was a time in my life when I had it all.
I always held my head high I always walked very tall.
My head full of dreams and my heart full of hope....
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Categories:
play the hand you, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
Takes Pride In His WorkShe walks gingerly back to the pride,
sensing something’s not right,
Dropping her kill upon the grass,
greeting party’s nowhere in sight,
My cubs my beautiful cubs, calls them,
but only silence echoes back,
Smelling the air desperately,...
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Categories:
play the hand you, africa, allegory, allusion, animal, death, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
A Perfect Impossible FaceBrush bristles edged fine in light,
As I fought the battle inside,
A fine clothe matty was on board,
Most expensive colors lay all spread,
Other brushes and pencils cluttered the floor,
I had already...
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Categories:
play the hand you, philosophy, day, day,
Form:
Free verse
Her FaceHer Face was perfection, Still see it everywhere
The beauty in her eyes, Please forgive my stare
Though to confess my love,
Oh no, I wouldn't dare...
So I'll just keep thinking of her, But it's just not...
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Categories:
play the hand you, absence, beautiful, bereavement, dedication, depression, desire, devotion,
Form:
Ballad
A ManA Man
Now that im older I catch myself reflecting on the things I do, my father use to do when he’s stressing; once he bit his lip and his eyes twitched,then you were in shit,...
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Categories:
play the hand you, anxiety, appreciation, black african american, childhood, dedication,
Form:
Lyric
Changing In the MiddleIn the presence of the present sense of where things are.
I'm left to stay right where I am under this dark star.
The world in which I rotate on has tilted just a bit.
And what seemed...
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Categories:
play the hand you, change, love, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Ambitions of a Man-Wit Beyond Measure Is a Man's Greatest Treasure-
Day by day I'm overcome with the ambitions of a man
Not worried about the cards I'm dealt, but how I play my hand
I know my personality and motives...
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Categories:
play the hand you, inspirationalmoney, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
TimeUNSUPPORTED CODE Only time can help me now.Time is wasting so dam fast ,that the hour glass is running out fast.
Why this way,Must I lay to waste.In a world with no respect.And...
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Categories:
play the hand you, bible, courage, creation, death of a friend,
Form:
Epic
Brace For ImpactI never thought of love as a game of chance
Only that we were forever bound by romance
Didn't think it was a gamble to fall in love with you
until the interest on my losses quickly began...
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Categories:
play the hand you, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Do What It TakesInspired by "Where you come
from" instrumental.
Cats & Dogs record by Evidence
of Dilated Peoples.
Some dream of nine digit
account in a bank,
I take the music & do what it
takes,
Some just rely blindly on...
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Categories:
play the hand you, hip hop
Form:
Verse
My Name Is CatastropheHell hath no replete replica like an Ohiohell
memom memoboys dispelled with lovelessloss lorn laments
measured in misgiven gravid neutral grautities of cool compromised cruel
capsid cascades of dreary demented drowsy dump deep demented deny desires
with wilfull wallowing...
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Categories:
play the hand you, angst, child, father, children, fun, gender, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
Drop a DiamondIn a world of darkness I try to drop diamonds in my rhymes
I hope you pick them up and use it to shine
I hope you take my gems and keep them in your mind
When I...
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Categories:
play the hand you, dream, encouraging, happiness, happy, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Desolation AngelDesolation Angel
Just got out of prison Los Lunas, New Mexico.
She was smoking crack back in Chicago.
I was headed there to get my life on track.
She was living each day at two C-Notes a...
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Categories:
play the hand you, depression, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Red Coburn's Return, Part IElden Hewett smiled at the sight
of Gretta Coburn moving his way,
she had worked here at his saloon,
ever since that dark, tragic day.
He pinched her as she walked by,
said,”Now I think it’s time you see,
you got...
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Categories:
play the hand you, adventure, conflict, husband, lost love, love, men,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Ghost MorningGHOST MORNING
this morning i awakened
to your face stirring
in my cup of (strong)
black coffee.
and last night you visited
me and we touched
each other which is something
we had never done.
now, here you are,
in my coffee
and i am afraid
if...
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Categories:
play the hand you, friendshipmorning,
Form:
Narrative
Guard DutyToday the gates were fortified, first time since I've been here.
The razor wire and barricades help to justify my fear.
Half the city went dark last night and now it's dark again.
And I...
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Categories:
play the hand you, family, inspirational, life, night, dark, dark, night,
Form:
Couplet
Matters of Life and DeathMATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Isn’t life short, today here tomorrow gone.
Switching the world off, turning eternity on.
How many before us, in the world have lived?
Just in a short while, to embrace their grief.
Many sort and...
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Categories:
play the hand you, age, death, heaven, life, mystery, philosophy, stress,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Keeping On TrackJust about the time we start figuring out life, darned if it ain’t too late,
Cause we can’t go back and besides I doubt then we’d get it straight.
You just have to play the hand that...
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Categories:
play the hand you, dedication, devotion, faith, life, life, happy, words,
Form:
Verse
A Life PretendingI could go thru life pretending
that it didn’t really happen that way.
Then I wouldn’t have to deal
with thinking all these things today.
I could go thru life pretending
that things were really all quite good.
But then I’d...
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Categories:
play the hand you, child abuse, feelings, how i feel, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Lest You Yourself Be JudgedLEST YOU YOURSELF BE JUDGED
If my game is to be judged, let it be in the way
I hesitatingly judge other people’s play.
Perhaps...
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Categories:
play the hand you, philosophyteacher, teacher,
Form:
Couplet
This Blackbird SongThe sound of a clear Blackbird call
Echoed through the trees and over the fields making me stop and fall
Upon my knees his song followed on and on
An angelic sound of music ‘twas the...
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Categories:
play the hand you, beautiful, beauty, bird, death, soldier, world war
Form:
Dramatic Verse