Nothingness
...It wasn't bad
it wasn't good
it represented everything
I feared so much before...
that unattainable grace
tornados of stone
a bad written story
with a desolating end.
It wasn't bad
It wasn...
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Categories:
represented, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Succuss and Influence
...Incurred a higher price
we couldn't resist they were
unquie and near perfect
the cost of hiring this Musicail Marvel
could, should and would
prove to be Musicail genius.
the skill level of the ...
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Categories:
represented, analogy, character, music, song,
Form: Bio
As a submissive and passive lad
...As a submissive and passive lad...
and boyish looking sexagenarian
with similar disposition,
I revel(ed) reading in general
(and spent carefree idle summer days
squirreled away with tomes
of ...
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Categories:
represented, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
The radicalism of a black main character
...She always wondered how it would be
If she, a black girl starred in a romantic comedy
Where she wouldn't just be used as comic relief
And she would be desired by the male lead
She dreamed of b...
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Categories:
represented, character, children, discrimination, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Heaven Is For Real
...
Heaven is a place where only through the eyes of hope,
can it truly co-exist !
Heaven is a special place where innocent children,
...
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Categories:
represented, analogy,
Form: Free verse
That Toothpick was like a emoji
...What became of the elderly man who habitually lingered outside the pub, a toothpick perpetually perched between his lips?
I often pondered the significance of that toothpick—it seemed to serve as a...
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Categories:
represented, allusion, anxiety, appreciation, black
Form: Dramatic Verse
MALCOLM X FORWARD
...Reflection past with an after effect prove
Civil Rights powerful
A voice of meaningful words
“BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THEORY”
Knowledge and Wisdom of principles
Set the stage for foundation
I ha...
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Categories:
represented, appreciation, care, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
resolute resilient responsible Capricorn
...resolute resilient responsible Capricorn
represented by sea goat
born December 21st-January 20th
an earth sign
Capricorn always obtains his goals
smart, hardworking, persevering
fully in co...
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Categories:
represented, birthday,
Form: Free verse
An Interview with the Color Purple
...
Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show.
Hello. I’m so happy to be here.
So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?
Ha!...
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Categories:
represented, color,
Form: Narrative
when the ancient goes wild
...When the ancient goes wild
Our hotel in Porto was at the highest point
although we had been promised a room downtown we
didn’t have to walk so far, s then I had paid in advance
across the street...
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Categories:
represented, age, allusion, baptism,
Form: ABC
Baal god of Fertility and Rider of the Clouds
...Baal spent time in the underworld with the lesser gods
Learned how to make man miserable with the weather
Thunderbolts and lightning announced his earthly arrivals
Baal relished in the misery of l...
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Categories:
represented, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Ashes
...Let us start at the end because that is where it all began
Ashes
I clinched my fist because I did not want to let go
I literally watched you slip through my fingers
I cursed the day
The day I lo...
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Categories:
represented, absence, bereavement, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Wreath of Chives Celebration
..."The Wreath of Chives"
is believed to originate from
the story of Lovers.
They remained nameless and only
...
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Categories:
represented, analogy, music, sports,
Form: Ballad
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
... MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS
She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner...
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Categories:
represented, character, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Epic
The Slip-ins
...
"The Slip-ins"
Why should I continue to write
these feathery songs,
these blanched banjo tomes,
these wilting poésies
of a lost little life ever circling
like a me...
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Categories:
represented, muse,
Form: Free verse
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