The survival and demonisation being black
...Acceptance equals survival
Survival equals safety
Comfort equals invisibility
And invisibility is vital
For us to live a somewhat peaceful life
'Somewhat' because they even kill us in silence...
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Categories:
rulebook, discrimination, evil, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
New Reign of Terror
...The government is no longer farcical
Most intelligent ones have ceased laughing
Mein Kampf is in the rulebook now
Our new dictators have it down pat
Censor anything they do not believe or advocat...
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Categories:
rulebook, usa,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts That Won'T Go Away
...In retrospect you can never
make sense as to why it happens.
A minute late sets a sequence loose
towards some catastrophic event,
or if you miss a step taken to complete
a simple task, you'll be...
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Categories:
rulebook, life, stress,
Form: Free verse
A Brain Bleed Arrow Pointing Left
...take a look around
and you will find my head
sitting in the middle of the floor
not thinking
the rest of my body is strangely
intact, surprising the present, dark
company due to the way that ...
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Categories:
rulebook, blue, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Love
...Love doesn’t have a rulebook,
There are no rights or wrongs,
There’s poems that describe it,
And plenty of love songs.
It doesn’t always feel the same,
Though clear when it arrives,
Cos all you...
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Categories:
rulebook, love,
Form: Rhyme
What Qualities Make a 'successful Man'
...What qualities make a ‘successful man’,
Is it the tambor of his voice,
Some lofty goals, a lifelong plan,
A steering hand, his knowing choice.
Can compassion play a part
Or is that interpreted...
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Categories:
rulebook, appreciation, bullying, husband, men,
Form: Quatrain
Rulebook
...we look
with anchored heart
rule book
sail boat
in lock and key,
both float
let's go-
want to say yes...
said no.
12th April 2020
Sponsor Joseph May
Contest Name Finding You...
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Categories:
rulebook, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Misfired To Our Detriment
...Wouldn’t marry you if your true colours I knew
But the best of me infatuation took
Thinking all about you I had a clue
Playing by ear the amateur’s rulebook
Taking for granted I had you figured...
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Categories:
rulebook, poems,
Form: Free verse
When Love Disappoints
...When love disappoints, does it mean that you're failure?
I've found more than once I just needed retraining!
Your heart feels a chill? Must their love be a surfeit
Does failure seem real though tr...
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Categories:
rulebook, growing up, love,
Form: Rhyme
First Base
...Hi, hello, I'm not writing this to be cold or
condemning, considering I've politely
played by your rulebook since the beginning
Before you asked and i started giving.
Ive struck out twice, me the b...
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Categories:
rulebook, adventure, allegory, confusion, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Poor Young Paul
...Goodbye Paul, my dear young friend,
even thought it wasn't you're end,
I still get those messages you send.
You burned so bright you lived so fast,
surely that pace could never last,
you lived l...
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Categories:
rulebook, death, loss, sad,
Form: Narrative