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The Image of HIM

...You can act as if HE isn't HIM
as if going against God isn't a sin
What's behind is something that isn't
seen by the blind but this is by design
What shines from above also illuminates
what is b...
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Categories: overstand, god, introspection, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJHORE JIHADI domestic terrorist IKJ reckless endangerment 15 convictions

...From ISIS to J HORE totally 
unafraid of the JIHAD domestic 
threat arriving to end my 
life over my American poetry 
accompanying Rasta yago 
waving a 9MM driving a 
Tahoe parked next to her 
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Categories: overstand, allah,
Form: Ghazal



Death of Celebrity

...A once opaque veil has become gossamer.
In the dawn of Aquarius, the light of the 'ego' is becoming dimmer.

A changing of the guard is being felt throughout the land.
Sweet souls are awakening, ...
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Categories: overstand, allusion, america, celebrity, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Friend Calamia

...Remembering our friendship 
how we'd talk for hours about
any topic family love kids life
how it hurt not to hear from 
one another sending cards 
pictures letters remember that 
I remember so ...
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Categories: overstand, allah,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberHumane Color

...Calculating bravery, designing a plan
To conquer fear and rise above it
Emotions running high, sweat on the skin
Genetic alphabets, a faulty concealment
Pulsing circuitry, a universal connection
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Categories: overstand, age, birth, feelings, growth,
Form: Free verse



Sunglasses

...Why do you wear shades inside?
Is there something you're trying to hide?

There is no sunlight here
Only shade, so sun damage you shouldn't fear

If the light inside is too bright, say no more
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Categories: overstand, conflict, cool, corruption, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Venting

...Everybody's ready to ride the wave but he never really ready to ride his fade they said enough to thinking everything is good copesthetic but then you realize most of your life be hectic and it's a s...
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Categories: overstand, anger,
Form: Free verse

Perso Que' Bassoons and Strangs

...they are gonna try to find a way to relate it
to their lives
they are gonna try to overstand.
make something out of their interest in someone new.
thinking they're unloyal to what they spoke of a...
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Categories: overstand, betrayal, guitar, music, perspective,
Form: Romanticism

Mind Is Flustered

...I'm watching everything slipping away
And I'm just tip toeing around as the dust fades
Hard to display
The things of affection and I'm erecting 
A design that'll leave the mind 
Wide open and th...
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Categories: overstand, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIndian Giver Or a Loan

...She is gone, but where, but why?
Where does that leave me:
And why did she have to leave?
"What is the real word for Indian giver"?
You give someone something, and you take it back,
there has go...
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Categories: overstand, bereavement, betrayal, birth, child,
Form: Prose Poetry

Logics Lord Willing

...I'm so tired 
Frustrated at being exhausted almost expired
Out here looking for the plug that'll have rewire
And give me the battery in back 
To flip stacks
And put me on the map
Before my insi...
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Categories: overstand, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Mad and the Roots

...Gripped by the throat with tension 
Mad aggression pumping thru my veins 
Changing my complexion 
Pressing thru the world of small selections
Fencing off the other feelings of oppression 
And wh...
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Categories: overstand, crazy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Mannequin Challenge

...Decisions, decisions, and consequences of balance,
deciphering the outcomes can leave you paused like the mannequin challenge.

One brain, one mind, and influential abilities,
mathematics can be ...
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Categories: overstand, black african american, community,
Form: Ballade

Ahem Moment

...Ever have that “ahem?” moment. nothing seems to go right;
though friends and family see your life tight, 
they don’t know your struggles, your sleepless night, 
the homicidal and suicidal demons y...
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Categories: overstand, conflict, depression, how i
Form: I do not know?

Care

...stand behind you.
     stand beside you.
     so  I fear no harm whenever London bridge comes falling down.
     
     I close my eyes and walk with "hope" when the forgotten remains
     unclai...
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Categories: overstand, courage, inspiration,
Form: Verse

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