ONE DAY
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One day joy herein will not be found
Your sound mind will become unsound
Your friends will no longer be around
Your body weak will long for the ground
One day the beauty you admire will f...
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Categories:
pomade, absence, death, obituary, world,
Form: Rhyme
Barbers Shop Sonnet
...Don't tell me men don't care about their hair
They care about it even more than girls
As soon as they were open they were there
All queueing round the block with all their curls
Tucked up insid...
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Categories:
pomade, beauty, england, hair, happiness,
Form: Sonnet
O Saviours
...O Saviours!
We wondered through the valley
Our hands clenched together
Culture destroyed us
Our mother's tongue brought pain to us
It torn us apart and brought subjugated Joy
Here you com...
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Categories:
pomade, africa, beauty, culture, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
When I Visited God
...That day when I visited God
He was in far away Heaven
He drove no Toyota or Ford
Neither did he had human in his oven
I called to him, Lord
As if calling my nephew Kelvin
He had a big book-li...
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Categories:
pomade, beautiful, beauty, bible, creation,
Form: Imagism
Happy Birthday Dad
...Raise the flag and let it fly high
On every mouth of joy they cry
File unto the street with dance of many styles
This is a special day for a mankind
Raise the sword in the air for the hero
For...
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Categories:
pomade, birthday, dad, eulogy, father,
Form: ABC
Proud of Incivility
...PROUD OF INCIVILITY
They claimed I was naked and uncivilized
So they came to clothe me and ''disrobe'' my naked shame
But I wish I remained the same
For they wiped away my honor and fame.
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Categories:
pomade, abuse, africa, bereavement, discrimination,
Form: Lyric
The 50's
...There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw them all as time moved on
From classic pop to ...
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Categories:
pomade, remember, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
That Day
...that day*
two score and ten
business men in leisure suits,
grandmothers with grey handkerchiefed hair
and adolescents in gaudy glasses,
girls wearing bouffants and sweaters,
the boys maybe ...
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Categories:
pomade, confusion, crazy, death of
Form: Epitaph
Ginger's Marriage
...Ginger cat decides to marry.
His *****cat lives in the yard.
Tri-color coat she wears wary,
On her lips – a beautiful pomade.
A manicure, eye-lashes, a hat …
Ginger loved all that in his *****c...
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Categories:
pomade, funny, cat,
Form: Verse
Harry's Barbershop
...A cluttered barbershop in my old hometown I fondly call to mind,
Was a gathering place to loaf and socialize, a great place to unwind!
Harry, the barber, kept farmers, the local rabble and boys lik...
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Categories:
pomade, funny, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Shoes To Somewhere
...I must have been six or younger then.
Mama took me for a walk one morning.
Must be special occasion, I thought
like Sunday mass or someone's birthday
Pomade sticky, smelling good, shining
on...
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Categories:
pomade, motherme,
Form: Free verse
The Red Blanket and the Rubber
...Two blankets on the dry grass
at the far side of the open field.
One red one and
one small, pink one
off a girl's bed.
Off to the side, a ball cap,
a knapsack, and a sad, empty, bottle of r...
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Categories:
pomade, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passion, people,
Form: Free verse
A Walk To Town
...he must have been six or younger then,
his mama took him for a walk one morning,
must be a special occasion, he thought,
like Sunday mass or someone's birthday,
pomade sticky, smelling good, ...
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Categories:
pomade, children, happiness, hope, mother,
Form: Free verse
I'M a Person Too
...I'm a person two
she said
and flipped her hair
and turned her head
into someone
I don't know
this person two
has got to go.
Person three
is debonair,
he wears cool pomade
in his hair,
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Categories:
pomade, introspection,
Form: Couplet