KENSINGTON'S LAMENT
*This poem was written for "Kensington Avenue Poetry Contest, Anthony Biaanco, sponsor, July 20, 2025
KENSINGTON'S LAMENT
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Her city streets are grey and worn, with a denim sky overhead. Birdsong trickles out in fractured waves, as if feathered friends cried while flying her way. Engines sputter; horns blare. People hurry by her in silence, eyes down, broken
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Categories:
revitalization, 12th grade, city, drug,
Form: Personification
The Wonderer
Just over the next mountain I journey
past the horizon of my history-
going past that which I have known
where knowledge lies in the next sudden sunrise
to follow the next bright illuminating moment
harnessing an untouched, untrampled day
bringing breathlessness in stirring breezes
of new beginnings blowing across
my epiphany of exploration and discovery
Where my vision of unviolated beauty
pure
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Categories:
revitalization, desire, dream, nature, visionary,
Form: Verse
Uncle Rosebush Revitalization
the rosebush grew
until the days became new
still change is precious and few
the notice of your precious memory is long overdue
at times i feel guilty
now that i have outlived you
i still feel that you are older than me
for your understanding of the world far outranks mine
the rosebush died
modern forwardness is now satisfied
however this old soul is
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Categories:
revitalization, change, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
The Revitalization of Detroit, Michigan
Abstrusely they spoke about things unknown.
They figured she understood because she responded within knowledge given by the Lord.
Never could she state what was meant.
She countered innately.
She rejoined her past.
Her findings were that someone, other than herself, revamped yesterday.
How does history repeat?
Atrocious is this cruelty.
What went before is not to be.
However, a reality has formed from
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Categories:
revitalization, anger, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Couplet
The System Needs Revitalization
the system needs revitalization
in order for new creations to be vital creation
knowing this and more, i wonder if we could talk
then afterwards find a new root of renewal via a quiet walk
when we become reenergized, we can bask in the new ebb and flow
no matter the temperamental tendencies of real life, you are still the
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Categories:
revitalization, emotions, life, love,
Form: Couplet