Tarnished Gold
...Shayura:
“I dreamt my body was dull gold and rotted, fickle grace abandoned me, yet scattered, I reforged my essence through brilliance and incandescence, allotting my time – I dared to dream again....
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Categories:
nietzschean, beautiful, imagery, inspirational love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Oblivious to Palestinian Suffering
...No, I'm not one of those who say, "It's nothing, it's collateral damage for just cause."
How much I regret this plight of conscience,
people walking around unmindful of the tragedy.
Have they no ...
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Categories:
nietzschean, anger,
Form: Free verse
Exclusion
...I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.
Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the mala...
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Categories:
nietzschean, absence,
Form: Ballad
Nietzsche, Hitler, the Holocaust, Slavery and Racism
...The will to power is a prominent concept in Nietzschean philosophy,
And exerted a strong influence on some major movements in history.
Its effect can be traced to the fields of politics, evolution,...
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Categories:
nietzschean, black african american, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Phoenix Expanding
...No grabby
Material axis-
Astounded this fundamental
Fact of blistering depth-
How meaning wraps inside
Taking hold as you open
A netting to be grazed
By the spirit of nuance
Our fruit grabbing, kn...
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Categories:
nietzschean, allegory, passion, political,
Form: Free verse
Claude Mckay
...Countee Cullen knew you, and you nectared him
Lambent voice when Harlem was wrapped in night
Artist and rebel, African singer of Grecian hymn
Umbilical to Jamaica, nightingale in Nietzschean fligh...
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Categories:
nietzschean, art
Form: Acrostic