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Premium Member Soul Stance River - 6
Back on the river, forward into the howl of the unknown, 
for three days Sergeant Floyd has been crippled by excruciating pain in his abdomen, 
as the only man here trained in internal medical matters...

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Categories: pryor, adventure,
Form: Epic



A Life That's Lived
A LIFE THAT'S LIVED by Brandy Jean Pryor
We live life for the fight
Never knowing if we are right
We just take off and go
Not knowing if we are darkening our soul
Living for only tomorrow
Brings us only...

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Categories: pryor, dance, how i feel, identity, life, music,
Form: Rhyme
The Haunting
one night in the end of October drifting through the woods
 there rose up a demonic creature that would haunt the neighborhood
 one one such occasion it bit this little girl in the neck
 blood...

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Categories: pryor, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Black On Black About Blacks Blackness
I dont subcribe to the keep it real principles that got us calling effed up situations 
all good
Neither do I allign myself with the masses of black upper classes that think 
whatever they think is...

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Categories: pryor, black african american, confusion, education, me,
Form: I do not know?
Comic Relief
The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...

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Categories: pryor, dedication, funny, people, thank you
Form: Rhyme



A Thank You Poem To the Bravery
I think it's genius
when a person can
see beyond the veil
as they used their gifts
in the most creative way,
in imperiling the darkness
in a jesting way. 
This is what we call comedy. 

There are many but 
few...

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© K. Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pryor, grief, hero, meaningful, poetess, sad, society, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The Comics
The Keystone Cops were funny
Chaplin, Keaton, and Fields too.
Laurel & Hardy and Will Rogers
were some of the names we knew.

Who can forget the Stooges
or all the pies we saw them throw.
Who didn't laugh at the...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pryor, dedication, funny, giggle, humor, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Thank You Lord
thank you Lord for the gifts in my life.
the farah fawcett, the michael jackson my willy wonka,the muhamad ali, the al green.
the prince, the babyface, the elvis presely, the johnny taylor and b.b. king.
the john...

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Categories: pryor, dedication
Form: List
Wolves, In Sheeps Clothing
Slicing through this heart of their matter ? Said the mad hatter..
Giants causeway; going to view a rare as of late movie bits in, escapism
American Hustle it's title given and two facts for myself parted...

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Categories: pryor, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?
Another Generation
   We had Debbie Gibson, 
And Motley Crew.
   We had Jon Bon Jovi,
  and Scooby-Do.
 We had Axl Rose,
And MTV.
   We had school
 house rock, 
And MR. T.

...

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Categories: pryor, childhood, life,
Form: Rhyme
Grief of the Eighties
1980
With deep sadness, I heard the awful news,
My favourite stand up comedian Richard Pryor,
It was June 9th while being in a drug-induced psychosis,
He poured rum over his body and set himself on fire.

1981
It was cold...

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© Dedu Son  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pryor, memory, remember,
Form: Quatrain
Guns
Fifty-Nine Dead, 597 Injured by Gun—US Tragedy—We continue to kill each with abandon!

Needles without thread
Stallone without stones
Marriage without love
Man without his gun

Romeo without Juliet
Parson without parish
Ocean without motion
Man without his gun

John without Marsha
Taylor without arrows
Pryor...

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Categories: pryor, anger, death, heartbreak, humanity, loss, murder, obituary,
Form: Political Verse
Luner Coloney Rime
IDE like 2 live , in a luner coloney .

Wair all us aytheist hockey players can live in liberty .

Away from all the dirtey talkers like Richard Pryor .

& away from people hoo are addicted...

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© John Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pryor, fantasy,
Form: Limerick

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