REJECTED CHILD OF MARIANNE
...Rejected child of the Republic of Enlightenment,
In the land of human rights, my Africanness is a handicap.
In their eyes, I will always be the scapegoat for their failures.
I fled the tyranny o...
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Categories:
promiscuity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts on a Boring Day
...Haunches and Paunches
It’s strange to say,
but people who sit on their haunches
develop fat paunches
but, say, isn’t it usually the other way?
Definition
Procrastination is
a synonym f...
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Categories:
promiscuity, humor,
Form: Light Verse
London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...
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Categories:
promiscuity, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Love Fleeting Soul Control
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Written: April 8, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand
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love fleeting
moments
soul controlled
promi...
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Categories:
promiscuity, analogy, love,
Form: Other
In and out the lusty nil wedding bells
...(Inspired by Marvin Goldfarb's great contest in which I won a trophy cup and wonderful poems by other English poets as noted below, 'LESSON IN LIFE' by BrittBrattTechy, 'Every child deserves better' ...
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Categories:
promiscuity, culture, desire, heartbreak, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Rising From Ashes
...I was born into darkness, a world full of lies,
Sold by the one meant to shelter my cries.
In the hands of strangers, my worth was defined
By the hunger for drugs, my body confined.
A child tur...
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Categories:
promiscuity, appreciation, blessing, emotions, growth,
Form: Free verse
A Hotel's Interpretation of a Day Use Room
...There is that ever-popular Motel Six version, for it's their bread-n-butter, and then there are less promiscuity five-star types ... like those donning wedding rings, or discreetly rounds of ...
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Categories:
promiscuity, blessing, friendship, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR MAKING US KNOW THAT HE IS THE LORD
...August 30 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 5-8
Key Verse – Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comfor...
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Categories:
promiscuity, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
In Pacifica
...In Pacifica
I despise that portrait of me.
The likeness ends
with the name.
Yes, Jane Seymour, unbeheaded
Queen of England.
No, not of pinched thin lips
and sharp bird-beak nose.
Those hideou...
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Categories:
promiscuity, history,
Form: Free verse
Outside the Livestock
...Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, three precious ideals, blinded by the darkness of xenophobia.
The Republic, democracy and human rights are the pillars of a just society, but in the depths of Mari...
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Categories:
promiscuity, 1st grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
Dangerous Dalliance
...Perilous is the journey, sordid is the quest, flashing flirtatious desire,
Treacherous is gaudy aspiration, playing with torrid flames of fire;
No matter how thrilling, how visceral may feel this i...
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Categories:
promiscuity, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
A Phantom of Love
...All alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects, innocent souls...
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Categories:
promiscuity, death, lust, sorrow,
Form: Verse
The Goodness of Walking With God Part One
...What does the Bible say?
3. Deuteronomy 8:6 "Observe the commands of the LORD your God by
walking in his ways and by fearing him."
4. Romans 13: 13 "Let us walk with decency, as in the dayli...
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Categories:
promiscuity, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Turn and Repent
...The innocent criminalized, chased down with pitchforks and torches of fire. Their names dragged through the mire, by the hair, stripped of their humanity.
Meanwhile the guilty cheer with cash and ...
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Categories:
promiscuity, christian, fruit,
Form: Didactic
If I Were Your Love
...If I Were Your Love
Val,
Long ago we were in our twenties
We were a beautiful couple
Our life was gifted
And your father wrapped a house
Upon our marriage
And I thought the table...
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Categories:
promiscuity, farewell, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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