Stage 4 silence
...Diagnosis:stage 4 silence
Treatment:a kinder world (one where racism doesn't exist)
Cure:unknown
Lifespan:1-5 years, if that
Symptoms:
? a silenced voice
? being black
? loss of contr...
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Categories:
loss of control, death, discrimination, health, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Dwarf Star
...The universe swallowed my thoughts
In another instant of uncertainty
Truthfulness and doubt together were something
Morphed into a new creation of nothing
As if my time itself were the black hol...
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Categories:
loss of control, age, emotions, identity, self,
Form: Rhyme
The In-Between
...What is there to hold onto if you don’t even know your Self?
There’s nothing worse than a hardened heart that yearns to crack and spill all over
Bleeding for the truth, finally breaking free
Thic...
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Categories:
loss of control, emotions, faith, introspection, longing,
Form: Free verse
Cancer - a Demon of Our Making
...loss of control. an aberration. a defect,
when the perfection of creation is lost,
a cell grows and grows without a stop,
and all its purpose and function is deranged,
it blinds the eye or strang...
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Categories:
loss of control, death, fate, stress,
Form: Free verse
The Hots
...i got a ghostly
mostly moist handful of you
i got a mind
that's top heavy with you
it spills over with you
leaks you
I pant like a Parisian poodle for you
my baggy saggy heart
is packed to ...
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Categories:
loss of control, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Loss of Control
...Before I even put it to drive
I saw you in the future
As if my heart couldnt believe my eyes
The Spring day lovers
Conquest of summers sunsets
My heart explodes
Minutes of our loving days...
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Categories:
loss of control, anti bullying, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
I Had a Father Who Loved Two Women
...I had a father who loved two women:
one so faithful and sincere, the other
spell maker and always showed a defying grin.
no, nobody in that god-fearing town liked her!
And mom, the devoted one...
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Categories:
loss of control, anger, beauty, betrayal, childhood,
Form: Ballad
Peaceful Reading
...Peaceful Reading
I was writing.
There was a beginning,
a middle and an end.
It was not happy or sad,
but it was exciting,
and interesting... at times.
The pen hit the paper,
the in...
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Categories:
loss of control, america, angel, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
Free the Dandelion
...Why
The dandelion
Do we hold with poisonous contempt?
The word weed grown to our lips
From what past snare?
Ah, those words that pop up from nowhere
To keep the front yard order
Clean flat a...
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Categories:
loss of control, appreciation, change, earth, flower,
Form: Free verse
Poems For Fun - Proposal of Marriage
...A proposal of marriage means
taking into consideration
lifetime risks, as well as LIFETIME ADVANTAGES
such as
loss of interest, BUT BEING so much INTERESTED IN PINTEREST
loss of confi...
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Categories:
loss of control, fun, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Cashing a Feeling
...I use to be and might still be
completely dedicated,
chasing a better feeling,
I needed to, I want to.
Constantly running from the silence,
that is deafening.
Every day is the last time
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Categories:
loss of control, anger, anxiety, best friend,
Form: Free verse
I Told Lara
...I told Lara,
told her we would meet again.
Her on the metal table,
the light bleeding over
stainless steel and clinging to
arm hair’s, draining
color from her matted fur.
In her eyes somet...
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Categories:
loss of control, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Loves Cliche Coup
...It was love at first sight
Thought of you every night
Can’t stop thinking of you
What am I gonna do?
Blinding love at first sight
It was love at first sight
me feeling high as a kite
Ah, but...
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Categories:
loss of control, crush, love, romance,
Form: Lyric
Hanging On
...Diverting his eyes from that last final hour,
denying death its due
His conscience and awareness tight in his grip,
ownership unrenewed
Both arms around life, he’s forever rejected,
blinded ...
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Categories:
loss of control, death,
Form: Rhyme
Falling
...Falling
I can’t tell anymore
Which way I’m falling,
At once, I was sure it was down,
But it’s been so long
Expecting to hit ground
That I must be falling sideways.
Is my life so much a tri...
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Categories:
loss of control, growth,
Form: Free verse
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