Hidden histories: herero and Nama
...The holocaust.
A historical event known worldwide
Taught in every history class
The point being is its known
Why is that important?
It overshadows
It takes the spotlight
It is also white hist...
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Categories:
separations, africa, conflict, discrimination, history,
Form: Free verse
inner and outer
...We all have inner and outer lives.
They’re messy, hopelessly intertwined, and more
than mere mannequins to hang our word-art upon.
I’m supported, in my unwritten life, by a structure
of moods, ...
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Categories:
separations, boyfriend, conflict, humor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Road Of Life
...In this road of life
Meetings and separations keep happening
We always like to calculate a so called good result
Ignore the process of companionship
That's what we should experience with our hear...
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Categories:
separations, business, life, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels
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My hand splits the deck, divides the weight
of galaxies and shadows, halves of fate.
At a drive-in, the Cutlass grows hot; glass bursts
like safety-grade stars scattered between laps,
a...
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Categories:
separations, allusion, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Same Day, Different World
...Same Day, Different World
This Kinda' Seems Like the
Same Day All of the Time...
If We Didn't Sleep
Would We Still Have Days and Nights?
Days and Nights are Generally Considered
As Separat...
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Categories:
separations, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
the dark skies
...the dark skies
Ambushing in the woods to my joys and pleasures
Becoming my life's mess and unwanted passions
Calling my name and his to torment me in the roads for him
Daring to cross my hous...
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Categories:
separations, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Abecedarian
Music of Directness
...Directness
This word
Occasionally
Pops up..
Seeming as
Absorbing all
Separations and
Unities on a
Path which
Is no path..
Processes and
Promises seem
Beautiful ...
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Categories:
separations, heaven, peace, words,
Form: Light Verse
The Senior City Center
...When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance
I could hear no music,
see no dancing.
The quilting room
and the ga...
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Categories:
separations, age, america, community, education,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Under the heavy and ash-gray wing of the evening
...Under the heavy and ash-gray wing of the evening,
In the melancholic waltz of memories awakened in rains,
Through the night stretching its hand like an old bell-ringer,
Ringing the bell of departu...
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Categories:
separations, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Mirror of fire
...Felt you coming to take the breath right out of me
Replaced; with your soft essence reflectivity
You are my mirror of fire, my heart's twin flame
Had I never come about you in this life; I...
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Categories:
separations, beautiful, deep, passion, romantic,
Form: Prose Poetry
Neurosystemic Passions For Peace
...We have come into this epic time
for survivors of dispassion
to age into sacred communion
we can all share,
monotheist
and atheist
and pantheist
and all non-anthrosupremacists
in-between left...
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Categories:
separations, culture, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Going To the Land of Long Ago
...Going to the Land of Long Ago
Somehow, someway
Many years hence from today
Will I feel myself unraveling,
Unraveling and traveling
To the Land of Long Ago?
What will leave and what will sta...
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Categories:
separations, emotions, farewell, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Compartmentalization
...Haven't the brains of beings fractioned into lobes various?
The hearts of creatures have dissections multifarious;
My physique and psyche got several separations,
Like a train or a shelf, yet, the...
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Categories:
separations, conflict, discrimination, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Song For You
...Flowers, butterflies, sky, and stars,
All are old expressions of love
I compare thy likeness with a fresh spring
Melodies as if they are Divine, and a longing to live
Filling "the" void...
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Categories:
separations, i love you,
Form: Romanticism
D a T e S
...I have a thing with dates
I have a date with dates
I have dates with deadlines
Some dates are treasured
While some are dreaded
Memorable dates looked upon
with relish
Some dates are ...
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Categories:
separations, analogy, anniversary, bereavement, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
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