FREE SUB-SAHARAN
...The colored pains are carved onto the back of my ancestors’ history.
My oppressors see my Africanness as a curse,
the rotten fruit of savagery, slavery, and the barbarity of colonization.
The blac...
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Categories:
multinational, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
No Luck For The Masses
...No Luck For The Masses
Reversed into a corner where there is no way out
Rehearsed by a performer who likes to scream and shout
Inverses like a reformer who doesn’t know what he’s talking about...
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Categories:
multinational, life,
Form: Rhyme
CRUCIFIXION OF AFRICA
...Africa, the land of first breath,
Where the sun kissed the soil and diamonds wept from the womb of the earth.
A continent dressed in gold and green,
Where rivers write scriptures and mountains sin...
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Categories:
multinational, abuse, africa, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse
God Weeps Through Me
...I stood beyond the stars,
past the birth-cries of galaxies,
and turned my gaze to Earth—
and I wept.
Not with the tears of man,
but with the sorrow of God.
For what I beheld was not creation,...
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Categories:
multinational, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Multinational
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If it takes a dollop of Dutch courage
to French kiss an English rose
would it make a lily-livered
Indian giver look down his nose
but with Yiddish chutzpah
as a Spanish fly on the wall...
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Categories:
multinational, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
I Understand Now
...A multinational corporation
Will probably sell your thoughts
In exchange of profits and assets,
More valuable than your freedom.
But can you stop them?
A real question.
Probably not, for you do...
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Categories:
multinational, anger, angst, community, confusion,
Form: Free verse
the sensualist
...I’m a bit of a sensualist.
First, let me emphasise emotional resonance,
there has to be an emotional base,
not just an appreciation of hotness.
Then, there’s a sense of longing and mystery—
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Categories:
multinational, beautiful, boyfriend, feelings, friend,
Form: Free verse
querulous
...( A university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning. Lisa, Leong and I were in the common area, lazing about. “This is what happened to us (Lisa and I) last night.” I said, beginning to e...
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Categories:
multinational, abuse, anxiety, funeral, humor,
Form: Free verse
Dinner Scraps
...Dinner scraps, primal deathtraps.
Life’s meal is the class struggle,
and some of us are left starving.
We are the movement of the masses,
a sleeping colossus running on
corporate time.
Dinner...
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Categories:
multinational, class, freedom, life, political,
Form: Free verse
Labyrinth of Sighs
...Labyrinth of Sighs
Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die
An emboldened range ...
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Categories:
multinational, life,
Form: Rhyme
This Or That
...This is the luckiest fountain pen That tongue makes me to pass the exam. This is the valuable double degree ...
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Categories:
multinational, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Greed Will Make Peace Nil
...Money has become the only matter
And almost all are crazy after that
By hook or crook all earn money
Wisdom and peace are uncared
Maximum profits all love to mint
Noble morals are viewed as si...
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Categories:
multinational, conflict, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Blank verse
Oodles of Google Doodles
...Oodles Of Google Doodles...
visually delicious as germane strudels
the following cooked years ago
courtesy me noggin awash with noodles.
Yours truly crafted remaining poem
around 27th July ...
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Categories:
multinational, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
For the Millions He's Paid
...Phil Mickelson is a fine golfer, one of the best
But his mouth just flunked its first diplomacy test
Said, 'Saudi executes people for being gay'
No way to talk for the millions he's paid
Now ...
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Categories:
multinational, business, money, pain, satire,
Form: Couplet
Culprit
...Somehow he was made to feel the culprit
for the sins of all house trained mammalians
the breath he drew apparently criminalized
eventually concluding that 90% of the obstacle course
was the low h...
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Categories:
multinational, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
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