Black or White
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In the Sistine chapel where frescos peep,
away from watchful devote eyes that weep,
a conclave gathers in reflection deep,
to choose a shepherd for gospels to keep.
Amidst partisan whispers, ...
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Categories:
redemptions, change, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
The Inmate
...There is a man, locked away. Shackled.
Chilled rusty bars and barb-wrapped fences
apart from his fellow man.
Shunned, unseen and unheard.
Stigmas of a world unknowing of repentance.
Of reawa...
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Categories:
redemptions, courage, forgiveness, self,
Form: Free verse
Learning From Loss
...The hardest losses
are those too late to repair
what has been win/win time lost
to despair
Just as love
cannot co-arise
where fear grows
fully uprisen
a prison
predicting anger's nearby
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Categories:
redemptions, addiction, anger, fear, happiness,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Luminace Light Shines So Bright God's Son Shines So Bright-
...LUMINACE LIGHT SHINES SO BRIGHT;
And the so shines beautiful;;
Visage of light holy and right, so bright;
The Son shines beautiful;
O’ and the Son shines beautiful;
The Son shines beautiful;
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Categories:
redemptions, analogy, devotion, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Bloodlines
...Far from educations superstition
In the barren fields they planted their tyranny
Where the pagan made a cross of stars
In the green lands of their mysticism
Yet still by ancient tongue they ha...
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Categories:
redemptions, history, life, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Speak To Me of Love
...Please speak to me of love in gentle tone,
That I may recall her voice in your inflections
Never were her words shrill or monotone,
But sweet like honey-frosted confections,
She spo...
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Categories:
redemptions, lost love, memory, voice,
Form: Terza Rima
Our Relatives Is Our Problems
...Our relatives is our problem
The colonial empires
Has left Africa
So we thought that was
The beginning of a total redemption
We rejoiced cos we thought
It was freedom at last
We embrace ou...
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Categories:
redemptions, abuse, africa, betrayal, dedication,
Form: Epic
Primordial
...Redemptions long road
promised aphrodisiacs
spark kama sutra breezes...
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Categories:
redemptions, addiction, desire, fantasy, love,
Form: Haiku
Political Antichrist
...With Temptations
Is redemptions
Here be within fear courage
With the weakness
Is strength
I sense tomorrow one last war
Lingering on Sorrows just before the evil man praises
And follows...
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Categories:
redemptions, absence, adventure, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
A Haven Safe
...I write for the
aberrate visitor,
that stumbles upon my words
A buried shaft
for them to mine,
a voice that can be heard
Each poem baptized
as a child,
redemptions holy source
To comf...
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Categories:
redemptions, words,
Form: Rhyme
I Love You
...Shades of rufous and crimson oared between the eyes and the mind,
Vestured the feelings that rip the heart as a nagging memory
Overshadowing the pilgrim’s intentions, desires, and dreams.
The peti...
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Categories:
redemptions, lost love, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
With Heart Aglow
...Tapping into redemptions dream,
I put my smaller dream aside
And reveled in its greater power,
reclaiming truth from lies
So blessed in this light ablaze,
than by candlelight unknown
In t...
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Categories:
redemptions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Human Rights
...Human Rights
We struggled more
With these rights which are the rights of humanity
We cried for our rights
We cried for our rights as humans
Our rights for education, sustainability ...
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Categories:
redemptions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
The Great Interchange
...Jesus Christ incarnate became a man
lived on this earth thirty and three years
showed to all who and what is God
faced man's opposition and all his smears
This Jesus the God-man took on our fle...
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Categories:
redemptions, christian, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
There's Blue All Around
...So many people love it blue
there's much of it all around
look up at the deep blue sky
behind that golden sun, it's found
Go swimming down at the beach
there you go in the deep blue sea
the w...
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Categories:
redemptions, blue, color, life,
Form: Rhyme
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