Why us?
...Why as black women do we just have to accept everything
Can't complain just accept the bare minimum
Treated like mothers who didn't get a choice
Forced into a life of sacrifice
Treated like ...
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Categories:
prodded, discrimination, hate, jealousy, power,
Form: Free verse
Butt out - humour warning!
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Bill prodded his sebaceous cyst
‘Twas massive the size of his fist
It spurted green pus
His wife made a fuss
“Get treatment NOW, I must insist”
Blue lighted to the A & E
Huge ...
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Categories:
prodded, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Battle scarred but unbroken
...Battle scarred but unbroken
I was captive in a silent war.
My body, the battlefield.
A quiet siege waged beneath my skin,
where cells divided
and uncertainty grew.
This body, once solely m...
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Categories:
prodded, angst, cancer, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Layers of Intention
...Coming back to recapture and constitute whys,
To understand our train of thought, the path we seek with our eyes,
The external influence that suggests and surrounds,
Take it all away and what have...
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Categories:
prodded, beautiful, blessing, change,
Form: Light Verse
Obedience
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Obedience is worship at our core,
respectful gratitude,
in practiced restraint,
armored Saint parkour.
Obedience helps you to be still
as you are shown the way.
A north star com...
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Categories:
prodded, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Carrying of the Cross
...He carried our sins as He carried the cross.
He walked up to glory through pain and through loss.
He fell many times but got up once again
As He carried our sins.
A man from Cyrene they had pul...
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Categories:
prodded, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Creative Inspiration
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There's no set list of motivational things I can name
because my inspirational impetus is never the same.
Often, I'm encouraged to pick up my pen and write
by celestial bodies glimmering upon me...
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Categories:
prodded, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Retention Pond
...If displaced, found nowhere, but in water
of the retention pond,
no longer in V-formation, nowhere
in the bluest sky,
however, beneath and at the behest
of angels, ruled b...
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Categories:
prodded, bird, dad,
Form: Free verse
Recalling Your Kiss
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I recall the kiss of your lips,
only to increase this feeling of desperate hunger.
Striving to taste the sweetness in a ripe strawberry
during the winter fast…
to quench my thi...
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Categories:
prodded, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Caged Animal
...We started off with being/
A human stuck in a tiny box/
Like a caged animal/
Day by day, we lose our senses/
To be poked and prodded/
Day and night for amusement/
This is a game to them/
Looki...
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Categories:
prodded, animal, anxiety, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Labyrinth and the Gardener
...A pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation a...
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Categories:
prodded, abuse, allegory, corruption, extended
Form: Free verse
Echoes from Aeon's Garden
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Written: January 09, for Contest Sponsored by: Tom Woody
Poem emulating Gene Roddenberry Style
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The distant drone,
a delicate decla...
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Categories:
prodded, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
...The following fictitious scenario I evoke
Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of sp...
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Categories:
prodded, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Unitarian Church returnee
...Unitarian Church returnee
After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...
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Categories:
prodded, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR SETTING US AS IT HAS PLEASED HIM
...December 1 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 12-14
Key Verse – 1Corinthians 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
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Categories:
prodded, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
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