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Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
The Angry Black WomanShe stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
The HeroThe thunder struck and the heavy rains came,
He struggled for survival, fought hard.
The downpour wouldn’t stop, the streets now flooded,
the man now lay unconscious on a boulevard.
The next morning, the Sun couldn’t rise,
the clouds overpowered...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, angel, blessing, courage, god, hero, inspirational, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Face of Modern SlaveryA shameful act in this world we live today
surely an educated mind can clearly see the truth behind a mask
Ignorance is the hardness of heart manifests in such violence
The horrors and inhumanity of it...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, christian, dark, emotions, truth, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Simulations and SymphoniesSimulations and Symphonies
Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations
Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book
Beauty that...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form:
Rhyme
What Price We Will Pay For Believing In a Politician?Every four years they come a courting us, wearing their fine woven suits with their Ivy
League education, some are even lawyers or so called successful business men…they claim
they have the answers to our...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, politicalcar, car, perspective, drug,
Form:
Lay
The PaintingShe’s a painting, conceived in tinted strokes
Smooth as the feather’s tips, drifting through canvas,
The alchemist’s wand waltzes in curls,
Enraptured in pacific zephyr, her entire universe unfurls
An abstruse domain of love, artist’s exaltation of philosophical...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, conflict, endurance, irony, love hurts, perspective, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Ask Your SelfThinking you top of the world
You boogie
Think you untouchable
Entitled you feel...
Bully????
Smart know who to try
Self-absorbed
Think money buy love
No self-worth
Looking out side your self,
For validation
Holding to toxic love...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, confidence, courage, divorce, encouraging, hair, military, moving
Form:
ABC
Undressedat first she did not want to attend the party
was not in the bright mood for heavenly guise
...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
His Hair Was Dyed Redthe world watches Holmes
sit “dazed” in the courtroom,
with each mainstream media
monolith
churning out the sound bites
referencing his eyes & his
red hair---
the picture that goes viral is
of course the one that can
be likened most to something
out of...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, life, world,
Form:
Free verse
Syrian RefugeesSYRIAN REFUGEES
I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees
I'm watching the desperate faces
The terror and hunger and fear
They're facing their ultimate nightmare
And me? Well I'm just...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, political, war,
Form:
Quatrain
A Different Kind of MemorialI write this for you far too late it seems.
That the day would come, the sun would set on you
was always just a bad dream, I'd conjure in my head,
late at night while laying haphazardly...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, america, death, memorial day, prejudice,
Form:
Elegy
Categories:
turn a blind eye, feelings, pain,
Form:
Lyric
It's a Fine LineBlow a whistle, or write a song, while the white bearded-men of small fishing towns drown the nights away. Try to forget, if only for so long, that the tempted wish bowl rolls; floats like...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, change, dream, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Bullying Ruin LivesEvery day in school
They would pick on him
And threaten to kill his mom
If he reported them
The constant abuse
And the physical attacks
For months he took it
And the teachers all turn their backs
The shame and humiliation
His...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, angst, child, childhood, courage, dark, daughter, fear,
Form:
Light Verse
Your Country Needs YouYour country needs you!
Roll up roll up! we’re going to war,
It’s a noble cause, to be fighting for,
If your a boy, we’ll make you a man,
No rules apply, do anything you can.
Bomb our enemies,...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, allegory, betrayal, corruption, growing up, hero, suicide,
Form:
Couplet
Precious AbilityThe brain - the instincts -- the beauty-- the health - the years-- the courage. I thank him who "has all power" for these gifts by using them.!
The compassion- the creativity- the passion- the love,...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, creation, humanity, inspirational love, introspection, spoken word,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ignorance Is Blissstandin on a corner he looks up to the sky
his phone rings as he steps into his ride
no time to think
when it rings its because do's on the other side
red and blue
panicked, frozen like a...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, age, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
To the LifegiverYou’ve given me another year
365 blank pages
To fill up
I know that your ultimate desire
Is for me to fill them in ways
That are according to your will
And that bring you joy
And that make your divine face
Break...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, birthday, god, life, thanksgiving, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Didnt Get the MemoPublic service announcements seem to not work any more.
The stress of our circumstances seem to confirm our righteousness.
We never listen to anybody but we listen to our pity.
We praise and glorify the same thing that...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, allah, black african american, black love, culture,
Form:
Free verse
Crying the Lonely Night AwayMy heart aches with pain,
As I watch you walk hand and hand,
with him, the man who stole you
away from me without remorse.
See no one comes for me.
No one cares if I ever fall in love,
but...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, beautiful, beauty, betrayal, cry, dark, depression, desire,
Form:
Romanticism
The Children of the Streets 3 (2008)This poem is of gross content and viewers are warned of such.
This is written for the children, none of us knows the sufferings they must endure
by the hands of their captors. Let their voices be...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, death, holiday, life, loss, sadchildren, halloween, children,
Form:
Free verse
Precious AbilityPrecious Ability
The brain, the instincts, the beauty, the health, the years the courage.
I thank him who "has all power" for these gifts by using them.!
The compassion- the creativity- the passion- the love the wisdom.
I thank...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, courage, god, life,
Form:
Prose
My Inner FaceAlone I sat on the wet sands,
Of the Sernabatim beach lands.
The sun reflected blue sky,
On the greenish grey waters it looked so dry.
My inner face I saw on the bed in the sweltering sunny afternoon,
With...
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Categories:
turn a blind eye, introspection, life, me, blue, feelings, me, sun,
Form:
Rhyme