The many funerals of a black girl
...How many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer
It's rhetorical anyway
Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol of when they would stop and star...
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Categories:
minimised, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Proposals For Upgrading a Company
...It was a dragging argument
For the need to funds augment:
Ten voices in Duke's Department,
Their owners in Fred's Apartment;
Not sure of Duke's contentment
With talks on firm's new investment:
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Categories:
minimised, absence, allusion, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter of Challenge
...Fifty five year old me will be a gypsy. Solar powered bike/ car hybrid towing a tent will be my mode of transport. Unfolding continent selects destinations. Isolated majesty I will claim enrichment f...
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Categories:
minimised, adventure, appreciation, courage, future,
Form: Haibun
Polka Dot Crazy
...My uncle's polka dot bow-tie is markedly symbolic,
For he has been, throughout his life, a fervent spotaholic.
His patient wife, dear Dottie, with whom he is quite besotted
Will only buy him under...
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Categories:
minimised, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Community
...I belong to the local community
The loving home where local hearts belongs
I belong to the rich soil of the planet earth
The soil that accommodates the less privileged
It is the soil that proudly...
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Categories:
minimised, 12th grade, caregiving, celebration,
Form: ABC
The Word Misused I Am
...I am the word
wrongly
used....misused/ In a
layman's
terms I've been ill-
treated....abused/ A
professional
might say I've been
charged with
serious crimes such as
death....accu...
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Categories:
minimised, love,
Form: Classicism
On the Flicking of a Switch
...The switch flicks
- and in that moment everything changes.
The flicking switch
rearranges everything;
what was important is suddenly
unimportant. Priorities re-prioritised.
Problems o...
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Categories:
minimised, angst
Form: Free verse