The Unbroken Spirit of African Leaders' Legacy
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Africa's land, shadows of colonialism still linger
Leaders rise, with hearts aflame, resisting the fetters
Of Western dominance, a legacy of dolor
Their courage, a luminary, in the dark of night...
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Categories:
puissance, allegory, appreciation, betrayal, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Aurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back
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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...
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Categories:
puissance, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse
Trapped Breath
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Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney
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Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain,
Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall.
The...
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Categories:
puissance, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
The grief I hold apart
...Drops of rain smudge the window blurring my vision,
Pouring down as my spirit drowns in omission,
The obscure moon feeding wispy light into the void's delight,
Bowing to the impalpable depths of n...
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Categories:
puissance, deep, desire, devotion, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Our Differences
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Like pieces of a puzzle,
Our differences fit together,
In this grand mosaic called life.
Each shape unique, Each color vibrant,
A bourgeoisie woven with threads of diversity.
The edges m...
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Categories:
puissance, life,
Form: Free verse
L Etat Trouble De La France
...Qu'est-ce que nous sommes, sinon des larmes tombant dans les villes,
Tu es moi, et je suis toi, et ensemble nous pleurons,
Écrivant de la poésie au milieu de la nuit,
Fuyant la politique, les nouv...
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Categories:
puissance, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tea Time In the Desert
...Tea time in the desert,
a stellar hibiscus moment;
the freedom of passionate dreams
build to a crescendo amid
starlight reverie.
A release of stress and trauma,
is a sip of love from the u...
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Categories:
puissance, appreciation, drink, peace, poems,
Form: Free verse
Daredevil
...Like many comrades and councilors of Moon Knight,
Daredevil, Matt Murdock, was in fight and might, bright;
Reservoir of Herculean power and strength,
He could lift thousands of pounds and punch an...
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Categories:
puissance, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Split Ends
...Her hair, blonde, is twisted in the wind.
The whipping strands are the colors
of the shinning cropland
by which she is standing. She is alone
by this golden feed that is bounteous; wholesome ...
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Categories:
puissance, allusion, angel, anger, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry
Powerful
...You are powerful, I see it in your walk, puissance;
proud and strong as the mighty oak.
Your words speak with the strength of our people;
your shoulders hold their plight.
You have never waivered...
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Categories:
puissance, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Lyric
Puissance
...Breathe, celebrate our ways; never forget them.
Rejoice in the power of our foremother, forefather.
Puissance in each footstep.
Celebrate their words; sing loud, spirited.
Sing to the moon which ...
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Categories:
puissance, africa, blessing, celebration, courage,
Form: Epic
To Chance
...Sometimes
You have to
Leave that which
Puissance couldn't hold
To chance,
Trust
The rhythm
To Dance
Back
Good corollary.
The falcon
Flaps
Awhile
Seize,
And spread
Wings—
A ...
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Categories:
puissance, humanity, mystery, truth,
Form: Free verse
Wolf Meet and Greet
...I identify as the king who only kneel to God
With the puissance to smile with destruction all around
Frustration mental abusiveness
Still comfortably above ground
Humbled by the sounds of instrum...
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Categories:
puissance, abuse, allegory, blessing, parody,
Form: Free verse
After Violins, Buoyant Triangles On Red Horizon
...Morning brews sunrise colors-
yolk yellow seeping over
edges; light sterling silver
strung; rubbed linens ironed
across the rim. The creatural
world-a lime olive, sea blue
cup- has a ...
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Categories:
puissance, allusion, appreciation, art, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Colors of the Half Man Half Beast
...A sketch of cimarron
shades: an appollyon emerges,
her spectre arms reach
like the charcoal bones
of the wild, the webbed trees.
Their silhouette absorbed
into the night clasp
the edge o...
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Categories:
puissance, allah, allusion, angst, color,
Form: Haiku
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