Faith Raven Poems

My black is majestic my black is smooth
Even when I was banished from public pool
Even if I was portrayed black face fool
I was a raven...

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Comes a time of unbreaking
what's broken
maybe broken to the point
a thing can't be fixed
ever
forever
severed.   

To be sure prayers can find a home
but not...

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Wild Birds in Captivity

Those birds that roamed free,
Endless flights filled with glee,
They glide over the trees,
Flying side to side with the breeze,

Above the deserts, they...

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Bright

The morning is bright, 
even with all the clouds 
that cover the sky. 
It is raining, a little. 
It is misting, a lot. 
The world...

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*** TOMORROWS ***

These thoughts begin composed
   (“adagio ma non troppo”)
With a happy, a peaceful heart’s tempo,
Assured the nature of 
Imminent or distant tomorrows,
Is...

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Hello, Oblivion am I welcomed to thy realm?
            down into the darkness 
 ...

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In the corner there...
Under the defused lights,
With spectral highlight’s here, 
There, they float near and afar.
An apple sits in its technicolor glory, 
It's not fully...

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Metal, blood, and mascara 

Half sunk a shattered visage lies,
A wrinkled lip, a sneer of cold command,
Of boundless and bare
Along the level, sands stretch far...

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Like The Raven Said'''
Late at night
sitting with sleep deprived thought....
Spinning around
as I turn endlessly over and over in my mind,
I hear in the distance
the hour...

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Halloween Tale, Poetic Dream Of Raven, Poe And I
(Not a contest entry)

When into an unearthed slumber I fell
An accursed storm came with its black tail
Within...

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“Raptor of death! Wherefore seek'st thou me?” Poe's
     Raven craves me during the hours of night,
     an...

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Raven Speak Not To Me, For A Plague Flees Thy Lips

Sadness came, in clumps of ripping hard, smashing waves
as if morbid thoughts could such sorrows...

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To drop one bellow,

to saunter in a blow,

one that the head will know,

and the body can grow-

to drop one into the casam of death,

that I...

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Oh Raven, Raven where were thee,
Flying high? On the ground? In a fruit filled tree?
I'd hoped and hoped that you'd appear
to give me proof that...

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I opened my heart 
Where lies my brook?
Where are thou my Raven?
Our land is in FAMINE
Almost like that of the Israelites
I cried with millions
Wept for...

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