Why us?
...Why as black women do we just have to accept everything
Can't complain just accept the bare minimum
Treated like mothers who didn't get a choice
Forced into a life of sacrifice
Treated like ...
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Categories:
scrutinised, discrimination, hate, jealousy, power,
Form: Free verse
Rummaged
...Rummage
If you must.
My presence here
Is based on trust
So dressed am I
In Summer svelte
Yet you're to check
My trousers belt;
I'm scanned
As if each cell is rogue
So scrutinised
Desp...
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Categories:
scrutinised, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Jeremiah chapter thirty five k j v
...The Lord is faithfull.!
Thesselonians ch 3 v 3-5
Jerimiah in the midst of the rebbelious people, had taken
Note of a sobdrly clad 'new group to his awareness' he made
Enquiry at the market stal...
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Categories:
scrutinised, appreciation, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Waiting for the storm to pass
...People started running,
for buses, taxis, trains,
with umbrellas no defence,
against the wind and rain,
a drowned rat cycled past,
then disappeared down a lane,
when lightening flashed, I dashe...
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Categories:
scrutinised, rain, storm, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Glamour a Freed Verse
...GLAMOUR
mores
shown off
ae moral
imperatives
symbolic
to its core s
emblematic
&superficial
a potential
put together
the spectaculare
scrutinised
embroidered
& paraded
insight...
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Categories:
scrutinised, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice Adventure
...Continued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on...
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Categories:
scrutinised, adventure,
Form: Narrative
The Waiting
...
“The Waiting”
eyes close
the new chapter
picks us up
we find ourselves
lost in the poetic dream
stranded in a desert
a lifetime away from home
we are in the wai...
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Categories:
scrutinised, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Not Moving On
...A crack will appear, a hole will grow
The truth will out just so you know
Many decades of men try to hide their crimes
Some are so conceited and up themselves that they even think that they can ...
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Categories:
scrutinised, absence, abuse, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Joy Continuum
...
awareness self aware
of dark veils of ignorance
shrouding our consciousness
rotates polarity of sentience
to view inner luminescence
the offered enablement
seen by periscope...
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Categories:
scrutinised, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Pandemic
...The silence hurt
The empty hours
Aching to be filled
With meaningful activity
With encouraging words
The office abandoned
The empty desks
Unread bookcases
Files to be scrutinised
Would thing...
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Categories:
scrutinised, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Tannoy Operator
...This free verse was written from an agnostic point of view
so may appear biased, against organised religions
I assure you this is not my intention, and it is simply a poem
For the record, I have...
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Categories:
scrutinised, allegory, god, humanity,
Form: Free verse
War On the Plebs
...No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that English lives were being culled by evil powers from the timeless worlds of hell. (No’ 10)
No one would have dreamed that they...
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Categories:
scrutinised, abuse, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Immense Condenesd
...I M M E N S E C O N D E N S E D
I Instructed by a plot, broken into paltry portion
M Mauled into small, mammoth to screaming speck
M Mountain range cramped, meandering cancelled
...
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Categories:
scrutinised, integrity, poetry, writing,
Form: Acrostic
If I Ruled the Red Cross
...IF I RULED THE RED CROSS
If I Ruled the Red Cross,
many changes I would make
It would be required
that our Movement is understood
By everyone without excuses.
If I Ruled the Red Cross, ...
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Categories:
scrutinised, adventure, confidence, courage, destiny,
Form: Couplet
Fabrics Finding Fabrications
...A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst of becoming...
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Categories:
scrutinised, animal,
Form: I do not know?
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