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A Crown Forged Bright
...A Cage Forged Bright: A Hymn Against Gold They say gold is pure. They say gold is holy. They say gold crowns kings, anoints gods, carries prayers. They do not say: gold is a shackle. They do not sa......
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Julian Barnes
Categories:
shackle,
money,
Form:
Free verse
A PERCEPTIVE VIBE FROM ME TO YOU
...Come sit and vibe with me, With an open mind receptacle; Listen to my pouring out of positivity And to what you may find acceptable:- Oh, in the challenges of life, We must put all things in p......
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Millard Lowe
Categories:
shackle,
allegory, encouraging, inspirational, life,
Form:
Rhyme
UNLOCKING THE *****
...The new becomes old, and no one notice When the old was new, there was a motive To plan ahead and take liberation back When negros were mistreated and under attack Before then, we were royalty ......
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Melvin Johnson
Categories:
shackle,
anger, black love, discrimination,
Form:
Rhyme
A Love That Hurts
...She wears her silence like a veil Stitched with echoes of nights unseen, Where shadows whisper fractured tales, Of love that turned to something mean, A heart once full, now torn between. His vo......
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Oriana Lezama
Categories:
shackle,
perspective, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Saying Grackle
...There are some birds I'd like to talk about today - a cardinal, hummingbird, robin, and blue jay; but, put me on a chain, put me in a shackle, you can never spoil my fun. I'm saying "grackle".......
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David Crandall
Categories:
shackle,
bird, silly,
Form:
Epigram
A witch you called, a witch you fervently cursed
...A "witch" you called, a "witch" you fervently cursed, and a witch you shall see, for my eyes pierce the darkness of your ignorance, this neck is not for your cutting, these wrists are not for your ......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
shackle,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Almost Time
...If you say my mind is dark, then wait until the light goes out I write about the earth's pain and suffering that's coming about The happiness that we once had was an afterthought I'm just a wok......
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Melvin Johnson
Categories:
shackle,
care, courage, family, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
A Valentine In London
...My Valentine has a ticket to ride, So London town beware! New wings will carry her up north, A pass to Leicester Square. Let Big Ben toll and chime aloud, St James Park should prepare, The hu......
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Emmanuel Paul
Categories:
shackle,
valentines day,
Form:
Free verse
Etched in Stone
...If you thrust a dagger into my heart Lay me on a bed of thorns Give me a chalice of hemlock Thrash me with a flail Haul me over the smoldering coals Hang me over a precipice by the skin of my t......
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Abdul Malik
Categories:
shackle,
love, magic,
Form:
Free verse
A Throne of Despair
...A Throne of Despair In a room where whispers coil and fade, A figure lingers, their story unmade. Loneliness drips from the ceiling’s decay, Each drop a memory slipping away. The chair b......
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Jackie Watts
Categories:
shackle,
dark, deep, loneliness, lost,
Form:
Free verse
My Indomitable Soul
...My Indomitable Soul Once upon a time; yet not so long ago, When my innate innocent days were taking wings toward adventurous adolescence, The golden rays of my life were smitten by fate’s deris......
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Saptarshi Mukherjee
Categories:
shackle,
depression, encouraging, endurance, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bomb II
...To boil with all the energy of Hell may set aflame untethered wherewithal, for once expended nothing can foretell the limits of demise that may befall. A single match may flicker to a flame or s......
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©
Mark Massey
Categories:
shackle,
world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Understanding Love
...No one can wholly understand love Love is never what one thinks it is Love often comes as a snippy surprise As a starry shock stemming from above. Love is a hieroglyphic puzzle Love has the po......
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Hebert Logerie
Categories:
shackle,
cute love, i love
Form:
Rhyme
Oppenheimer
...~ Such irony Creation would devise a mind that holds the secrets Hell conceals. ‘Tis blasphemous that man would improvise a conduit that prophecy reveals. ‘Tis but a curse to be the chosen one ......
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Mark Massey
Categories:
shackle,
world war ii,
Form:
Sonnet
A New Day - Wildflowers
...Roads long squandered, Routes trained to memory. a crack in the long unyielding concrete unremarkable. Then, a wildflower A peculiar pink. Leather, nostalgia. Cinnamon, mellow. Stop dead ......
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Kama Elwal
Categories:
shackle,
appreciation, aubade, beautiful, change,
Form:
Free verse
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