What If I Have To Live Again
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What if I have to live again—
Reborn in the bone-thin hush of grief,
A jawbone grinding air,
My love trailing like a torn dress through corridors
Of someone else's dreams.
You cheated with a...
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Categories:
milkless, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Slave In Freedom
...Africa my Queen, my King yet a slave
An angel in hell a freed soul in bondage
How else will I show you the gold
Beneath the glowing dark skin of yours
How long will you dine on rotten tables
W...
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Categories:
milkless, africa, corruption, discrimination, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Engulfed By By a Tsunami
...“Buzz buzz”, the anopheles shrilled the night
As with hunger on grasses, they slumbered without light
Babies, held against skeleton milkless breasts
And gnashing teeth, the men in dispiritedness b...
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Categories:
milkless, bereavement, betrayal, death, holocaust,
Form: Narrative
The Lover's Rendezvous
...The Lover's Rendezvous
The wicked sense of a complete lack of control
has always led mankind down roads nobody knows
Until it unfolds
Until the Devil takes hold
Until the bodies g...
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Categories:
milkless, 12th grade,
Form: I do not know?
The Boadicea Blood Cup
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"The Boadicea Blood Cup"
Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely l...
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Categories:
milkless, daughter, home, lost love,
Form: Free verse
My Grandmother's Wounds
...I am being thrown from the depths of centuries
Carrying all my grandmothers’ wounds
Combat boots marked my head with terror
my back bruised with the lashes of my man’s old belt
I am being thr...
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Categories:
milkless, abuse, grandmother, islamic, lost
Form: Free verse
Flawless Vs Flaws
...TWO COUPLETS ON “ FLAWLESS vs FLAWS “
POEM 1
I had no idea what he meant :
We bought a small one-roomed unfinished apartment.
He said I was too critical, always looking for flaws.
Thi...
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Categories:
milkless, funny
Form: Couplet
Rocks and Skulls
...It was like spidural
dry crumbs of silence descending,
a still born sun popped out
through a raw hoematoma :
mountain was guilty of something,
it changed its mood and started
talking to cloud...
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Categories:
milkless, art
Form: I do not know?
.timeless.
...Thorns on roses
ticks, fleas on
kittens
no help for the poor
snowball with no mittens
cereal that's milkless.
food with no taste
no seconds in minutes
elementary art without paste
artists w...
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Categories:
milkless, life
Form: Rhyme