The chains are still there you've just got to look closer
Stalked all their life
Stained by a crime not committed
A permanent mark on black skin
A reminder how we will never fit in
Labelled as criminals
Despite being exonerated
Probation was for those in need of reformation
Not those who already good behaviour
But any chance to stereotype
The oppressors will take their chance
To keep the invisible
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Categories:
look on, discrimination, freedom, power, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
What does it look like
It's always a battle,
Everyday is,
Always a battle,
Between life and death,
I forgot something,
I didn't check before leaving,
I didn't look before going,
Everyday's like this,
I didn't eat,I overeat,
I overslept, I under slept,
I haven't moved, yet I'm so tired,
Always like this, everyday is,
Incase you're asking,
What depression looks like,
It is like this,
Everyday is,
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Categories:
look on, depression, lonely, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Look Back Look Back At Me
He said ' look back at me'
but she didn't want to see
so the conflict carried on
and events, spiraled uncontrolled, from day one
she had to move from home she loved
for the sake of parents, beloved
and when he struggled to find the words
her pride refused , his sense of worth
she thinks he's not responsible actions
but
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Categories:
look on, film, husband, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Look at the womb of my mother
From the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I am flesh, made of bones and skin that can easily tare. That unhinged love is the most unconditional, I grow and deforme when all I do is obey. From the womb of my mother- I was born a blessing. While others see
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Categories:
look on, bible, blessing, emo, faith,
Form: Free verse
Look at Things a Different Way
Sharp questions make me reassess
my thinking’s illogical mess
Look at things a different way
False premises and conclusions slay
Hit me hard where it really hurts
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Categories:
look on, change, emotions, motivation,
Form: Couplet
When I Look At His Picture
I kiss his bedazzling framed picture,
Every time, I miss my former mister.
I gently hold my own cheek imagining
How he used to do so in a way so endearing.
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Categories:
look on, crush, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Look How They Shine
Look at the stars how they shine for you and I
better learn to appreciate them before we die !
See the banquet of beauty God has created
feast your eyes on it and you will feel elated;
Dappled in light heaven is our Sacred Window
absorb its secret as if you were a leaning willow
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Categories:
look on, analogy, star,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
look on, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, imagery,
Form: Epyllion
Just One Look
There’s gray
in my beard
but no gray
in my soul
Where Peter Pan
flies
Cherub’s wings
in control
My edges
though silver
my center
of gold
One glance
never tells you
what prescience
— beholds
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
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Categories:
look on, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Look Closer
A calligraphy, a veined post-script
for the rusty sheen of mortality.
Behold the dying and the replenishing,
the glory of the shedding and investing.
All this upon a forest floor.
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Categories:
look on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Taking A Look Inside
Should a man dare to look within?
Search secret places of hidden sin?
The lack of which could be exhilarating,
But those long loss, debilitating.
Even those revealed can be a gift,
Confession, forgiveness, they could give a lift.
Or an insight into his authenticity,
Could open his eyes that he might see.
Through the illusion, that’s led him astray,
Guiding him back to
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Categories:
look on, bible, introspection, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
When he said
The gelatintion of used
and fry grease waste.
fry your catfish in me
fry your chickens bay-bay
them potatoes fry crisped and all
grease slatting on the wall
shrimps and zuchinni too
baking soda doughnut
fried up too
then when it starts to stink
and the porkchops come out pink
sprinkle in the soldifier hardener
and that old grease
is ready for the trash can
when the potaos
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Categories:
look on, america, creation, film,
Form: Bio
The Look In Loves Eyes
The day seems so right,
then comes the dark night.
Love brings happiness,
and the loss sadness.
Mothers raise their young,
the rest left to Jung.
The news sells the lies,
for the lord of flies.
The look in loves eyes,
when grey turns blue skies.
For life is the lure,
and death... is the cure!
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Categories:
look on, life,
Form: Rhyme
The dance is over just look at the time
I have a dance
And so do you
So we could dance together
My heart a hole
For you to fall
Losing all your feathers
I can’t breathe the air of death
Without the tangle of our mess
Kisses of the black hole kind
Loving, hugging and making us blind
Make us hungry make us sad
Promise to make my world so glad
But when I
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Categories:
look on, allusion, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
A Look at Life
Look at life as an excursion.
Here, you stop, there you learn;
there you pick up a wife,
then a kid or two.
Then you run out of gas.
You look back and say:
“Damn, how did I go so far
on so short a road so fast?”
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Categories:
look on, humor,
Form: Light Verse
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