Message To The Blackman
...If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our p...
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Categories:
obsequiousness, africa, black love, history,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Love Me Too Much
...Don’t Love Me Too Much.
Don’t love me too much.
It is a smothering pillow, please
I can barely breathe.
You won’t let up
with your passionate touches,
your obsessed adulations on reverent kn...
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Categories:
obsequiousness, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
I Am
...I am a poet
I am a healer
a real pain feeler
I don't inject
or give pills
to take 2, 3 times a day
but I undress the truth
to stich pieces of a torn heart
and un-blind the closed eyes
I'm a...
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Categories:
obsequiousness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Truth
...THE TRUTH
He stood up in court of law and said –
I swear to speak the truth, nothing but the truth
The whole truth, so help me Lord - the truth?
Whose truth, your truth or my truth or his truth
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Categories:
obsequiousness, beautiful, crazy, cute love,
Form: Acrostic
The Silver Tree
...There was a silver tree
Which shimmered under a moonlit night,
And eloped coyly whenever the sun wanted to kiss it.
Spring was every night
When the sky became murky blue,
The labyrinth of the gaudy...
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Categories:
obsequiousness, art, imagination, silver,
Form: Free verse
Wishes
...(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)
Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas”
all in the world forget the truth.
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Categories:
obsequiousness,
Form: Rhyme
Poet In the Pot
...Of many are poets in soup
gagged with the air we breathe
suffocated by the strings of hawks
perked by the long neck of an ostrich.
Drown in the murky water of obsequiousness
tied to the apron ...
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Categories:
obsequiousness, angst, funny, imagination, nature,
Form: Free verse