Long Unvarnished truth Poems

When mum would talk to other folks about her family,
She’d always speak particularly proudly about me … 
Of how I’d gone to grammar school, my bookish ‘steel-trap’ mind.
To hear her, you would think I was...

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~ Bygone beauty - the spark still pulsates ~
                          ...

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Pages of your book
By Michelle Morris
09/09/2022

The snowflakes come down 
Like a flurry of white hope
Upon the grave that we stand around
The ground silent like our souls 

The pastor gives a beautiful service
Words I cannot hear
Not...

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Black History Month began as "Negro History Week"
Our holiday was adopted at a time when the country was bleak
Created in 1926 by noted African American Historian, Carter G. Woodson
Today, we celebrate the "Congressional Gold Medal"...

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Lay my heart bare, let it bleed and spill,
Upon these pages, where silence once filled.
With every tear, my story is written,
In ink and in sorrow, my truth will be told.

I rip my heart wide, like...

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Most police officers 
are genuinely good, decent people. 
I know that. Deep down, we all know that.
Unfortunately, though, the bad apples 
among them have tainted
their reputation beyond repair.

It's no secret these "bad apples, "
mostly Caucasian...

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On Thinking Too Much

You think too much, she said, and I think
She might be right; she, whom once I fell in love
With and think of still.

Thought on thought, I explore every option, each an
Imagined path...

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Sometimes unvarnished truth is hard to take.
It’s often just as difficult to tell.
Truth may cause tears to fall and hearts to break.

Withholding truth when there is much at stake
is wrong. How could such pretense turn...

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Ha! Please take down
The eyesore
You've mounted atop your head.
You wonder why
It feels much too heavy.
Here's the unvarnished truth.
Because, well, because
One cannot be
A fool
And a king
Simultaneously
Your counterfeit diadems
Hold no weight, or value.
They wouldn't shine beneath
A plethora...

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He keeps trying his barrage 
of raging vitriol, but it's a blunt knife
on his target's alligator skin

A predictable high school bully
with the same ol' lines of attack.
His target always sees them coming...

and the invectives inflict...

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The preposterous fictions many
           profess to be unvarnished truth
     warp the very fabric of our universe --
cause those long dead to...

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                In our heads are
               ...

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Your Rhythm, a gentle breeze
swirls the emotions
and guide me through maze
of life, i learnt lately

Your imageries, a telescope
amplified the bitter truth
But, wasn't it a gem to be seen

Your words, an enchanting soul
sparkle the page, making...

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(Italian Sonnet)

If men all spring from one, as now they claim
new studies prove beyond a skeptic’s doubt,
will those who scoff at God rise up and shout
to argue still with bated breath the same,
or hold their...

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A PLACE IN THE SUN
Through each disconcerting walk of life
Till all my explorations cease
All the vulnerability I’ve got culminate
I have lost the kiss of peace.

In a place next to the sun I gladly soar
Hoping to...

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While climbing the corporate ladder,
Jill zoomed right by Jack. He got madder
than a wet hen. Then, fit to be tied,        
so determined to soothe his hurt pride,
he told...

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Cut the chedder
World wide boom and bust
Economic cycles derived
From circadian rhythms
Making a corroded artery plunge
Into diabetic, catatonic comas

Companies that mine hormones
Sparkling that appetite reservoir
Congress will fund the model
Subsidies to the dirt and cheese
Feed lot arranged...

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Why so many must die?
Disparity…not death’s fault;
Death loves all people…

The truth has its ways,
Be careful how you respond;
Bigotry explodes!

Together…we die,
Together, we live apart;
To gather…denied…

Covid-19 kills,
But it’s not the enemy;
The news reveals…who…

Unvarnished truth…: shines;
Varnished lies reflect...

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Verity
 
 Telling the truth to people close to you
is a difficult feat, the accusations and repercussion
can be dire.
When you puncture the picture where they see 
themselves as helpful people.
The unvarnished truth is they will...

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