12th Street
...12th Street
The curtain rises, the stage light
beams on the darkest street in town.
On a hot night, 12th street lives.
The old abandon buildings jump
with jazz, hot rock, and laughter.
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Categories:
poising, image, lust, people,
Form: Free verse
All My Students
...Blowing breeze they are
Flowing fragrance they are
Glowing glee they are
Lively lightning they are
Tender thunder they are
Range of rain they are
Shining Sun they are
Moving Moon they are
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Categories:
poising, 10th grade, repetition, student,
Form: Lyric
The Rooster and the Peacock
...On a lower branch of a crooked mango tree ,
Flapping wings and shining tail , in charge
Perched the happy rooster steady and free,
Intending to view his surroundings at l...
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Categories:
poising, nature,
Form: Lyric
Divide and Conquer
...We have the purveyors
That hide the truth
Causing division
Poising the minds of youths
With hateful ideologies
And entangled roots
In a confused state
They spread the lies
In a toll of conseq...
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Categories:
poising, allusion, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix Rising
...Phoenix rising
One can see the emptiness of ages in her eyes,
riding the beast of burden without disguise.
Dead to rapture and despair by daily routine,
taken another drag of smoke to be genuin...
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Categories:
poising, joy, love, magic, senses,
Form: Ballade
Trophy Hunters
...Cecil the lion of Zimbabwe, famous and beloved,
shot by a bow hunter after being lured from his sanctuary;
it took Cecil forty hours to die, how he must have suffered,
he was tra...
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Categories:
poising, how i feel,
Form: Verse
Covered Bridge
...Once The Covered bridge
Till last fine month
I was poising firm,
Aloft those giggling waters
that often went wild.
Taking pride of
my sinewy timbers,
As brimming loads of
endles...
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Categories:
poising, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Ballerina
...Long ago there lived a girl with long livid locks of sable,
Whose vivid avid amber eyes derived, it seems, from fable.
Her tiny tendons tied to nimble bones to each limber muscle enhanced,
By th...
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Categories:
poising, dance, fun,
Form: Couplet
The Hunt
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Cecil the lion of Zimbabwe, famous and beloved,
Shot by a bow hunter after being lured from his sanctuary;
It took Cecil forty hours to die, how he must have suffered,
He w...
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Categories:
poising, animal, beautiful, death, nature,
Form: Verse
Synth
...How could he be so cold with the raging lightning striking through his aluminum lines?
His synthetic skin made of wax, glass, and fibrous mass has more than an eternity brushed abrasively against...
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Categories:
poising, beauty, body, love, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
On Bedlam
...He sat on the bed of roses
They were spread in a confused manner
Certainly intrepid in their graciousness
Their petals waning at their edges
And there alone, he sank into another
She was distant...
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Categories:
poising, depression,
Form: Free verse
How Will I Die
...The more i think about it the more I wonder
will i die in a deep slumber?, or will the heavens send a angel for me.
will a car come from around the corner and hit me
will a robber stick me up at ...
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Categories:
poising, anxiety, death,
Form: I do not know?
Guns On the Rise Hero's Fall
...Guns on the rise Hero's fall
The preacher man ask me never to curse a thing
I replied not if I have to curse one day
Guns on the rise Hero's fall
The day gun was made
Worth a curse
A fas...
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Categories:
poising, abuse, africa, change, conflict,
Form: Epic
Two Murders - Part I
...1.
In the slow, dead hours that hang attendant
Upon the birth of the dawn,
When all things pure lie safe abed,
Nested in sleep's safe oblivion,
The rituals take place, unseen, unfelt
In woo...
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Categories:
poising, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Gulf Spill
...The gods of oil have reigned downed their wrath,
For which we have not begun to see the aftermath.
For thousands of miles balls of tar will wash upon a virgin beach.
It will be felt around the wor...
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Categories:
poising, angst, animals, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?
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