Another Feather In My Cap
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By day, I followed her around and watched her every move, for she was bigger than life itself. But when the sun went down, she would change into her uniform and go out into the summer evening. Busi...
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Categories:
moonlighted, spoken word,
Form: Narrative
UNAFRAID OF JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY IDENTITY THIEF
...I DON'T FEAR YOU BREAKING INTO MY HOME PUTTING STICKERS ON MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES I GUESS YOU'RE STILL STALKING ME WHAT 23 YEARS YOU ARRIVED WITH THE GUNMAN WHAT A BLESSING YOU ACTUALLY CUT YOUR HAND ...
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Categories:
moonlighted, allah,
Form: Naat
Divine
...Why do you run from me?
What it is you’re afraid of?
Just embrace the feel, of a moonlighted love
Your Insecurities, don’t mean a damn thing to me
So don’t run away, Just believe in me
Mak...
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Categories:
moonlighted, art, black love, for
Form: Rhyme
For Madelyn Mckay and May
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Get Well Soon!
For Madelyn McKay, this May!
M~magical, moonlighted May
A~ asteroids, in the sky play
Y~yacht club lights flicker on the bay
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Categories:
moonlighted, dedication, health,
Form: Acrostic
Bern Bernard
...His full name was Bern Bernard
He was an imposing bodyguard
From a few scuffles he was scarred
But nothing serious in that regard
Walking down the boulevard
Showing off his business card
He a...
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Categories:
moonlighted, confidence, hero,
Form: Monorhyme
Of the Dreaded Scourge Currently Afflicting the Municipality and Environ of My Nativity and Youth
...This dread disease that has afflicted my home,
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof
Into something wholly despicable and ...
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Categories:
moonlighted, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Elegy For My Father
...Godwin Adizue Ibeh
(1937-2017)
Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh
Aged 79 years
Was and is
My beloved, doting father
“Is” because he remains
Spiritually present
Present
In my mem...
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Categories:
moonlighted, death, eulogy, father, how
Form: Elegy
Failed Crow of Elaine
..."I watch the bathwater drain"
says Tonight Alive with powerful refrain
stepping out of a bleach bath to hide from her pain
Hesitating, she turns the water back on, her self esteem slain
as she ...
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Categories:
moonlighted, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye
...You walk away within a moonlighted sky
Not many shadows passing by
A turning glance just for you
to wave goodbye
That was the last of the memories
Within a lingering kiss upon your palm...
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Categories:
moonlighted, absence,
Form: Free verse
Daemon
...Startled I see my dream again tonight
Awaking from within me deepest fright
Creeping from out my misty eyed slumber
The beast inside me began to lumber
Catching myself in front of the mirror
Y...
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Categories:
moonlighted, dark, fear, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Goodbye
...You walk away within a moonlighted sky
Not many shadows passing by
A turning glance
To wave goodbye
That was the last of the memories
With a lingering kiss upon your palm
Sending it my...
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Categories:
moonlighted, family, loss, me, voice,
Form: Free verse
Orchards of the Moonlight
...Jasmine blossomed
from the concrete of heaven
while angels sing soft melodies
that land on the intimacy of my soul
My eyes left perplexed
captivating the presence of this beauty
from a ...
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Categories:
moonlighted, lovelost, flower, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
Darkstone
...DARKSTONE
FortySeven
Statistic
Several missing parts some scars beaten up and left for dead the mighty men
have used the fists oh GOD when will eye get some rest walking walking looking
lookin...
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Categories:
moonlighted, devotion, faith, god, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
In the Open Air At Night
...April showers, shaking flowers;
`A la belle `etoile.
Always wishes, almost kisses;
`A la belle `etoile.
Whispering hush, carefully rush;
`A la belle `etoile.
Shadowing near, moonlighted here;
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Categories:
moonlighted, happiness, places, time,
Form: Shape