Short American Life Poems

In the waiting room
The broken clock sits...

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I want freedom!
I want freedom!
I want freedom!...

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The universe spins
Eyes swirl around a cup of tea
The spoon is patient...

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Suddenly it does.

This rapid thing that ticks and tocks.

Look up and it's gone...

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thing do get ruff
going thur stuff
got brush off the dust
and not get decuess
this do you must
DON'T GIVE UP...

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In the music of life there will be sound and rest,
In every day there will be work and rest,
The contrast is important,
Finding the balance is the test....

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Get off this estate,
What for?
Because it's mine!
Where did you get it?
From my father.
Where did he get it?
From his father.
And where did he get it?
He fought for it.
Well,I will fight you for it!...

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Warrior raised to do battle
In search of a meaning to his life
Love always on his mind
Lonely until the end of time
Imminent anger beneath the surface
A man that keeps his word
Mindless romantic...

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(for George Ehusani)

When minority
Threatens majority;
Self-solidarity
Divorces reality,
These in a community
Depict dilapidation of the society
And decadence of integrity
Of humanity
In every country!...

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- women dressing themselves up to resemble meat
-misinterpreted holidays
-chasing other people's dreams
    (and humping their works)
-Failing hearts
     (and collapsed lungs)
-blood flaked spit
     (in dirty ashtrays)...

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Digging my nails into my skin
as a tear slowly drip down of my face 
while I anticipating the dreadful news 
I pence my self hoping its a dream
but i didnt wake up
holding my lower stomach
thinking it might be something growing in me
i peek over and look at the 5.00 stick
and i saw to lines...

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The Soul of Man
                        Authored by Chuck Keys


I saw the pond on the water glaring
was it upside down or right side up
either way, it talked to me of changing times
where men of hate saw only a colorless blend
sightlessly accepting any differences
man was still man, the same....

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Sitting on top of the world,
With her legs folded elegantly,
Is the black woman,
Coming from nothing,
Determined, underestimated, and in control,
Created to overcome,
Destined to over-acheive
Secretly admired,
By those two jealous to admit,
The strength,
The love,
And the beauty of,
The black woman....

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I love you so, 
I’m sorry if it does not always show, 
You’ve taught me how to be true in all,
How not to let things bother me,
How not to fall,
I know it is a rough world now, 
But time is all we have to give, 
To make love as we grow,
Baby, don't be afraid of me, 
I love you,
I will never let you go....

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Understanding you, under standing me. 
Passion frozen, life proposed.
Mounting less than mountains be
Time and temperature disposed.
Wading through a frosty sea. 
Dreaming of what it may suppose
Saving you and loosing me. 
Crazy life surely be. 
Dying you and burying me. 
Closing doors never opening free....

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I gotta get mine.
You gotta get yours
Mc Breed said it
Take heed to it

You can’t take 
Nothing from me
I’m making history
I’m getting mine.
I’m doing fine.

I’m almost to 
My last line
With haters
I don’t waste time
I’ve got open doors.
Stop hating, flaking,
And faking.
Get yours.


wrote 3-4-10...

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'Black Lives Matter'
  the perfect 'PC' slogan
to mask criminal activity
  to 'Defund the Police'

For if black lives truly matter
  the group's aims
  and its violent means
are the height of hypocrisy

Just ask law-abiding black folks
  screaming for police protection
for their families and their community...

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Why do we die in these streets
blood is shed by the heat
brothas shake head to feet

our fear makes us blast on
homes empty children gone
R.I.P. under lawn

So is this why we bleed
to nurish corrupt seed
keep them from the haze of weed

We fail cause they blow
the flames tool when we go
to ever change our flow....

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UNCOCOONED

In this hive of American life
are lifetime workers engaged
in labors of love and good trouble.

But there are also evil drones
seeking to permanently cocoon
justice, liberty, and equality.

Thus, we must be as butterflies:
Metamorphosed ebony beings destined
to breathe and soar in liberation’s free air....

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strength of a thousand
does this one person have
to stand up
with pride in his stance
and fire in his eyes
agree or disagree
he has his say
with great courage
he speaks of tomorrow
and the day after
declaring his secret hopes
while the world looks on
with a jaundiced eyes
to watch this man and
The fire in his eyes...

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 Hatred flowing,
People on a spree of stealing & car-towing.
Having the mind of positive wants,
Then Children acting as if they don't know the do's or the don'ts.
Jobs are hard to find,
I think I'm losing my mind!
Helping others but no one helping me,
Can I please just flee?
From Being in this world,
In a World,
of All of this & More!! ...

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Love is but a rope wrapped tight in various knots.
Just when you think you have one undone; the next is a bit harder
to undo.
If not careful it becomes tighter and the moment of anticipation
begins to fade.
This hurricane of twisted thread, bind as rope.
Willful to this release.
Time is key to those deserving;
Creating a memory that will last forever....

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Cherokee Warrior,
   so proud and free...
Tell me young warrior,
  what do you see?

A beautiful girl
  long hair of gold,
A carefree heart
  so tempting to hold.

Both young and so daring
  full of life and fun.
Each seeking happiness
  a place of your own.

A life of past hurts,
  could they overcome?
This Cherokee Warrior
  and the proud Golden One......

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You always try to find a loophole in the game
But instead of getting ahead, things remained the same
Even though you try to live your life righteously
Only to find yourself in total disbelief

Because you know you can’t make it the traditional way
So you ask God for forgiveness and continue to pray
That one day you will find a legal way to pay
Because you don’t want your freedom taken away...

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I am not handsome
So my love is not in my physique
Am not rich,
So my love is not bulging in my pocket
Only my brain is wild
And my mind is mild
A fanciful tunnel links both
Its walls,
Romance lurks and links close

Where a man’s treasure is
There you search out his heart
Mine locked you in as its treasure
A drop of tear from your eye
Is twin to a sword thrust through my heart.
My love is in you
......

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