Short Nin Poems

Why such a dumb 
nickname?  From Mom's, 
"Nin! Come poop!" screams....

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May we all be blessed to grow old in love…
doing so can certain fears assuage….
Although Age does not protect us from love
As Anais Nin says:
Love, to some extent, protects us from age.
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin

with people saying
theirs is the right religion
or right politics 
and only they can be right -
evermore will nations fight

Feb. 4, 2020
for Maureen McGreavy's She Inspires Series - An Poetry Contest...

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Amanda Gor-man
Influ-en-tial wo-man
Black-nifi-cent
Great with her pen
Mic in her hand
Recite her Po-em
"The Hill We Climb” en
Joe Biden inaug-uration 
Our Sis-tren
Choclate Mel-a-nin
 highly com-mend
Ancestor's applaud from hea-ven

©Copyright January 29, 2021 by Brian Pierre-Alexander
© All Rights Reserved...

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i am thinking of you, until when.

when. not seeing you.

i stretch out my hands (like a blind man)
stepping on sounds -
pieces of glass underfoot

keeping you pierced in my heels. until

when. i can't hear you.

i soften your steps with my lips

when. i don't touch you.

i don't touch yourtouch.  

until

i cry...

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Nishkalankathe nin aavasamekkalathum
Sushkamaam manassilo thamassin Guhayilo? 

Iniyethra naazhika ponamee vazhitharayin 
neelamethra.....
Paathayorathilayorathani undakumo,
chumalile bhaaramirakkan?

Enthinee ormakal than koombaarathe 
en munnilekkittu chirukkunnu nee? 
Vedhana mathram tharuvaan njaan ninnodu 
Enthu thettu cheythu?...

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