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Premium Member Blame
...A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else—John Burroughs Blame Underneath a belt of stars in stratosphere’......

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Categories: occident, fate, love, lust, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The final frontier post consciousness
...The final frontier – post consciousness as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent, lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent nonestablishmentarian. The following disquisition initially des......

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Categories: occident, absence, adventure, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse



Africa The Beautiful
...Africa my Africa; of resources rich. Aggressively wooed because her potentials enrich. Africa the bride, historically bid for. The continent dark with opulent fields to explore. Your labour past ......

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Categories: occident, africa, dream, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
The Moral Mortgage of Mice and Men
...The moral mortgage of mice and men Yours truly quite astute, especially regarding cute little field mice, also known as meadow voles, which imprecation one doth emote, when aforementioned a......

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Categories: occident, adventure, animal, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
The Nigerian Politician
...Bloated belly, swollen cheeks, and a sunken stiff neck on robust torso. Yet well fitted in flowing apparels; falling and being raised frequently from side to side. Obscene opulence is your delig......

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Categories: occident, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Herald In a New Dawn
...He gasped for breath under the brutal feet.... George Floyd, the black man at Minneapolis, a hapless victim of color prejudice. One more in the list... maligned for centuries, casting dark shadows in......

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Categories: occident, anger, angst, inspirational,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Worm
...In dark rock-cleft with guano splats, There dangle many thousand bats. A lowly worm evolves therein And in bat flesh begins thriving. Now man arrives for bats to eat, For hungry poor, some tas......

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Categories: occident, animal, death,
Form: Rhyme
Love Has a Southern Flavor
...Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew, ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout we tilt to basking faces to breathe out the ordinary, and inhale perfume ... Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangle......

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Categories: occident, desire, longing, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Masks of the Season
...She took a photo of flowers She did not see the demon hiding there. He read the letters in the spaces between the words, Said it "Cald," or "Child?" He sees the spaces between the objects T......

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Categories: occident, magic,
Form: Free verse
A Brief Journey Through Black History
...Once I was scourged by the task masters' horse whips; consigning me for two centuries to servitude. I had my roots forever erased by forced trips to worlds unknown, where contemptuous attitude to......

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Categories: occident, history,
Form: Classicism
Dawn
...O'er the dying night hangs a ghostly silence Punctuat'd by the nocturnal chirping of the crickets And the ghostly melody of the wind Moving thro' the trees From slumber's comfort Has Aurora be......

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Categories: occident, africa, appreciation, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Real Legal V Real Redemption
...re-jargon re-emancipation re-align re-alteration, by design despair intended, no fear with the truth deflected, relagate remove re-tie, retrained in rejection to observe a "new" (religion) the tem......

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Categories: occident, faith
Form: Narrative
The Call of Darfur
...The blood flews in Darfur and in all parts of Sudan. What can a social activist could do to the genocide cruelty affter the Jewish holocaust in Europe in the forties? Features of grief impregnated ......

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Categories: occident, introspectionhope,
Form: I do not know?
Thirteen Takes
...When caught mid-flight End to bloat against gravity Thanks, rejection is not of the earth My eyes are welling I won’t hold back with shame Even warriors often times loosen, weeping A good ......

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Categories: occident, introspection, philosophy, me, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ix: the Vendor's Plea
...Darest V.C. – Did not we notice their appearance? Did not we hear the elders speak? Darest V.C. – We saw their assorted trumpets With assorted chameleon voices they came; Some: mere relics ......

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Categories: occident, education
Form: I do not know?

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