OF US AND DISMANTLED JUSTICE
...OF US AND DISMANTLED JUSTICE
Equality smashed!
Slammed down by the new,
Unjust sledgehammering laws:
Scales of justice ripped away
And thrown in the junkyard:-
Time to reconstruct:
It’...
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Categories:
reconstruct, wisdom,
Form: Tanka
Atopos
...the space
was invaded by his disappearance,
everything he touched felt so quiet, and alive,
more alive than i was,
(i sat on the bed, curled, like a dog,
with the nozzle on its paws,
eyes in ...
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Categories:
reconstruct, for him, i miss
Form: Free verse
My soul weeps again, calling out your name
...My soul weeps again, calling out your name,
Through endless dreams of silence.
I lose my roots, no longer knowing where you are,
My soulmate, from where will you appear in evenings?
I write lette...
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Categories:
reconstruct, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I'm a Puzzle Man
...I was a poor boy from New Orleans.
Living in fear.
No one taught me how to steer.
My A.D.H.D made be focus on the fear.
The O.C.D made me re-live all the worst years.
Always told myself I was be...
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Categories:
reconstruct, anxiety, confusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
to do or not to do
...I look at the ancient dilapidated stairs
Should I renew, reconstruct, rejuvenate or repair?
Revamp it as an original or make it posh, slick and chic?
Preplanning the right refurbish is an importan...
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Categories:
reconstruct, 3rd grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Backspace
...I already understand that children
grow inside two blinks,
as quickly as the novel Mayfly
comes to the surface to die.
I'm pining for those first days again,
of edentate smiles, milestones...
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Categories:
reconstruct, absence, children, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
SHAKA ZULU
...When they play hide and seek
And memorize your words
Watch them
When they adjust the truth
And do not know what is occurring
Smile at yourself
These,these are the revelations,
Sometimes the...
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Categories:
reconstruct, adventure, africa, appreciation, black
Form: Free verse
Artificial Humans
...Weird world evolves,
Weird creatures
Wired to gadgets
Evolve.
They articulate
And gesticulate.
They giggle
And tread
On the trajectories of living.
Their brains brim
With artificial i...
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Categories:
reconstruct, allusion, creation,
Form: Free verse
THEY NEVER TOLD THIS STORY
...When you fall on the Table Mountain
You gather your thoughts
Amazing it was
When the rain washes the sorrows
You pick yourself up
Incredible it is
It left a mark,
The pouring of the rain
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Categories:
reconstruct, adventure, africa, appreciation, change,
Form: Free verse
Starman
...
I am...
quintessential optimism;
the rainbow you see
after the rain is gone.
I am...
order amid the chaos;
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Categories:
reconstruct, encouraging, life, wisdom,
Form: Personification
Constructs
...Ignorance is a lie;
A construct of entitlement.
Separation is a lie;
A construct of inflated ego.
Hatred is a lie;
A construct of self-directed loathing.
Powerlessness is a lie;
A constr...
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Categories:
reconstruct, freedom, growth, inspiration, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Change
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Change, watchword of our time
Change without reason, capricious crime
Reform, reconstruct, recast, revise
Change for change-sake – foolish, unwise
Alter, adjust, ada...
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Categories:
reconstruct, change, pain, relationship, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Religion is just a fragile shield
...Religion is just a fragile shield,
That man raises before the overwhelming encounter with God,
A refuge built from holy prayers and ancestral fears.
I feel each wall of faith as an ancient fabric,...
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Categories:
reconstruct, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Rivers of thoughts flow through my mind, like dreams lost in the endless ocean of memories
...Rivers of thoughts flow through my mind, like dreams lost in the endless ocean of memories,
Spreading night over my heart, searching for answers among falling stars,
Departed from a "home"...
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Categories:
reconstruct, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I am part of the chaos that once found me, intricately woven together
...I am part of the chaos that once found me, intricately woven together,
Each fragment of the soul with which I had the chance to communicate,
Every skin I touched randomly carried by dreams,
All of...
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Categories:
reconstruct, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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