Give Them The Price They Want
When folks accuse or blame you,
just stay calm, keep quiet.
They run the world, it seems,
and there’s really no winning against their words.
So just keep going forward.
Give them the price they want.
Let go of whatever makes them mad.
Step back when you need to,
stay out of their sight and reach.
That’s the reality—if you’re open enough to see
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Categories:
self love, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The poems I should've never had to write
The poems that weep with grief
The one that bleeds a sadness unnoticed
The ones that grieve the erasure of colour
I wish I didn't have to write poems
To convince you of our pain
The one that stains every word on every page
The ones that can't bleed out of existence
The ones that break and
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Categories:
self love, discrimination, grief, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A black girls stance on self love
A black girls stance on self love
Is one not often understood
One that take years of healing
One that understands the process of feeling
Because in a world that shoves hate down our throat
You can't be surprised when we swallow the bare minimum
The relationship between a black girl and herself
Is one not
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Categories:
self love, discrimination, joy, mirror, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Being Happy With Yourself
They always have said become one with your self
Be your own happiness instead of needing someone else
Don't allow anyone to be your strength or your lifeline
Be content with yourself by having good me time
When you think about it those statements are true and less stressful
Less drama and misunderstandings which are painful
No need to
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Categories:
self love, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Time In Heaven
A bouquet of fresh air never fades.
In an intimate setting.
The ocean is veiled in secrecy.
Murmuration's breathtaking patterns.
Starlings moving as one entity.
The ego is a third party.
Your secret admirer.
Harmony without effort in nature,
dreaming up a vast green pasture.
This is no ordinary slumber.
Sweet, rose-colored winds of change,
The ocean is an incompatible weather vane.
Dread and dream
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Categories:
self love, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The invitation of love into a black woman's heart
Deep down she was a hopeless romantic
Masked with hate because she thought she couldn't have it
After all she was a black woman
When she asked the world for love it laughed at her
It's why she gave up, a story so tragic
Growing up in a world where white was the beauty standard
And being black was
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Categories:
self love, black love, discrimination, longing,
Form: Free verse
Strawberry Girl
Pretty
Is a concept
You'll never
Understand
If you think
I see you
Through endeavours
Of the hand
I love
You make the effort
Appreciate
Your style
I love you
Past the surface
Just deeper
All the while
You paint
Just like a rainbow
With hues and shades
And stuff
Yet beautiful
Has found you
Already
You're enough
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Categories:
self love, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Her journey to self love
She sat in front of her vanity mirror
Her reflection felt unfamiliar
The girl in it didn't look how she pictured
She felt like a visitor
In a body that should be familiar
Yet somehow she felt like a prisoner
Not knowing how to feel about the person in the mirror who reflected her
She wasn't
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Categories:
self love, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
God Gave Me You
We both jumped off a cliff,
I fell
You flew
We both went for a dip,
You swam
I sank to darker hues
Each night my dreams play
On replay
These similar troublesome tales
Yet the day brings the light
Which reflects the words I only dare believe
From your eyes
And the rhythm of your heart
Beats several strides slower
Just so
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Categories:
self love, god, love, miracle, religion,
Form: Free verse
The art of letting go
She wouldn't let the guilt warp her mind into believing its perception of her
She knew who she was
And she was is a girl who's been deeply hurt
She knew deep down no one was coming to save her
That she would have to see herself
Hear herself
And listen to her self
The pain ached
It felt
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Categories:
self love, depression, discrimination, mental health,
Form: Free verse
SELF LOVE
Love yourself my loves.
Loving yourself will set you free, just like a bee, flying freely in the air we breathe.
Free to enjoy all of life’s sweet moments, like a love in a dream.
Make a plan that you can achieve all of your dreams.
Loves may come and go, but you will always have yourself to love.
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Categories:
self love, america, encouraging, god, writing,
Form: Rhyme
She wore the wrong thing that day
That day she decided to speak
For too long they had called her meek
She woke up early
Decided she'd wear something that would compliment her curvy
Spent hours on her hair making sure each and every follicle was extra curly
She wore dark red lipstick to cause a lot of controversy
Her mom saw her said
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Categories:
self love, growth, inspirational, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Our crown
Our skin shines like gold
A story waiting to be told
Our eyes like chocolate
And nothing can top that
Our hair the halo we wear
Whilst they stop and stare
Totally unaware
Of the black power we share
Our skin loved by the sun
Our beauty a vision
We are golden
Something that can't be
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Categories:
self love, appreciation, beautiful, race, sun,
Form: Free verse
Moon of the Wild
She came in silence where the cedars sway,
A lunar hush beneath the argent trees.
The serpentine wind curled words she wouldn't say—
Just breaths and bow and coolness on the breeze.
Her sisters moved like stars in cascade flight,
The Hunters, free of longing, fierce and far.
Their eyes held depths no lover dared to write,
Each step a hymn beneath
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Categories:
self love, animal, moon, myth, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
The little girl at the muesum
Museums
A place full of stories
Of art
Not just in the paintings
But in the people too
A little black girl walking hand in hand with her mother
Her eyes lit up in wonder
Wandering what she would discover
While she walks around
Spinning around
And jumping up and down
She doesn't see
That everytime she jumps the light reflecting on her beautiful
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Categories:
self love, childhood, daughter, innocence, mother,
Form: Free verse
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