Coupled
...When tears soaked pain in pity
and forced man and God from Junction City
They prayed he'll come again
when the whites melt
forcing $hi# and sticks
down the hungry storm drains
Can ladies be gen...
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Categories:
placentas, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Biafra: 1967 In 2017
...I smell a darker age
I fear a fiercer rage
the conflagration will begin a new page
in the history of a country once named.
More 'saints' would die
birds of bullets would fly
and there'll be n...
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Categories:
placentas, africa,
Form: Narrative
Quality Time
...Quantities of time feel nothing.
Calculating, accumulating and subtracting,
days and weeks,
months and years and decades
roll past our eyes and ears
our growing and shrinking stomachs
to leave ...
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Categories:
placentas, beauty, culture, earth, environment,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Paint and Poetry
...I
Throw myself into my poetry
Fling myself until I bleed
Until I'm knee deep in similes
Until from my eyes seep seas of salty seeds
Spiraling in the double helix of hyperboles
Hyper..
Hy..p...
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Categories:
placentas, art, black african american,
Form: Lyric
Autumn
...For all daylight hours of this magical season
I lingered along the edge of a lake and
Was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves
And all sounds are as crisp as autumn air.
The leaves fall and...
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Categories:
placentas, summer,
Form: Free verse
A Woman
...A, Woman, such a loveable gift from my Lord
The womb of this world full of nourishment
Placentas-n-umbilical cords ultra glamorous
Valiant, valuable-n-val...
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Categories:
placentas, creation, life, love, woman,
Form: Free verse