The Final Word
...We set upon a journey
That would make us great
We decided to love our neighbors
Instead of embracing hate
We opened our hearts to the poor
A roof over every head
We measured our speech
Con...
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Categories:
protested, america, anger, black african
Form: Quatrain
levels of it
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stubbed toe / during a broken heart—
you said pain is pain, offered to kiss both.
we nursed the plot of a favorite episode,
argued over what constituted foreshadowing.
talking to you about ...
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Categories:
protested, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Protesting sound of music
...2025.07.09 Wednesday.
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote
"To play a wrong note is insignificant,
To play without passion is inexcusable".
I have been distracted and emotionally affected,
By this parti...
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Categories:
protested, anger, anxiety, music, passion,
Form: Free verse
Helens Hugger Bugger Ways
...Helen’s hugger-mugger ways caused a hullabaloo
Her hoarder house hardly had room for two
Let’s trick her outside, someone suggested.
But Helen firmly and fiercely protested.
She’s got to go out s...
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Categories:
protested, age,
Form: Rhyme
1st anniversary of playing piano at M Central
...On Friday, 2024.06.28, at 11:13:07
I first played piano at the M Central.
It was BB who introduced me to a world of music,
The 1st song played was his favourite.
It has been exactly one year.
Ma...
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Categories:
protested, anniversary, appreciation, memory, music,
Form: Free verse
blood and ink
...as a child i often found myself participating in sadistic activities.
i felt my sins rotting into my body-
into my soul as-well my veins.
it kept my blood pumping throughout my body that i ...
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Categories:
protested, addiction, atheist, childhood, cry,
Form: Free verse
Origins Of Over Nurturing
...Origins Of Over Nurturing
My need to protect others began during my turbulent adolescence. It started out as the need to protect others from me. This morphed into over nurturing everyone around m...
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Categories:
protested, children, emotions, growth, introspection,
Form: Prose
PROTECTOR NOT PROTESTER
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We attended a peaceful protest yesterday…but that word protest…I must reject it…
because, in our minds, we are not protesting our American Democracy…
we are trying to protect it.
Standing on t...
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Categories:
protested, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Wilted Flowers
...Wilted Flowers
What’s happened to Justice
and speaking truth to power
When people protested
With a peace sign and flower
Yes times are changing
Evil has invaded thoughts
The shifting of p...
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Categories:
protested, anxiety, betrayal, courage, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain
How I Quit Jersey for Juliapa
...It’s tattooed lightly on my upper arm
“I love my mom, and she loves me”, it reads.
A squad from Space Force dragged me in the weeds:
“We’ve nailed you, boy. You’ll do no further harm.”
I woke i...
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Categories:
protested, satire,
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:
protested, christian,
Form: Rhyme
a warped tree edited
...A Warped Tree
Today, when not arguing with Walter the Jew on Facebook
the ambiance in the house was surprisingly calm since
I got a key to my study in peace to read my latest collection
and found...
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Categories:
protested, adventure, age, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
She is 'death'
...I found myself falling for youth,
She was warm, she was sweet, she was wild,
She was everything one could ask for.
I chased after her,
She allowed me a glimpse, a touch
For a moment i felt the e...
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Categories:
protested, death, poems, youth,
Form: Free verse
the rotting of socialism
...The rotting of a socialist
I knew of a young man, a rebel who wanted
his country to adopt the Scandinavian model of socialism.
He was elected to great acclaim by the people,
he wanted taxes to ...
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Categories:
protested, africa, age, betrayal, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
healing
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my child eyes had grown dim
seeing life's turmoils grim
upright i protested
with new sight contested
inner vision from Him.
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Categories:
protested, beauty, blessing, christian, color,
Form: Limerick
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