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North and South
wings catch the wind's plea, ancient calls across the miles, new lands greet the sun. ...

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Categories: south, animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
Poem for The Black Hills
They bore the winds of time as they rose from arid lands. They sun poked past one peak while my work crew waited to move to another place on the highway, and we knew the day would fade. We knew highways must always be mended and the same with our lives. We spoke in hushed voices among these hills made when the earth shifted. Somewhere beyond rested a...

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Categories: south, appreciation, history, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse



We fell in love in ole Dell Rio
Wear something nice Not to fancy Check the heels On those shoes Tonight I feel like dancing This is a lovers Interlude Iwe feel in love in Ole Dell Rio Under a Strawberry Moon It ain't that complicated It's our destiny I assume She's such a sophisticated Lady Darling can I hold your Hand It's a privilege to say Your my lady I'm so proud to be your man Now and then I would Answer If only you would...

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Categories: south, happy, music, song, sound,
Form: Ballad
MAKE POWER LOVE AND IT CAN BE SHARED
What truly is power Is it control or the silence that follows it? Is it born from bullets and broken promises Or from the love we dismiss as weakness? Can power ever be shared like bread split between hungry Sudanese hands as if leadership were a meal the poor can taste in equal halves? Or is power what poisons the soil the reason Sudanese...

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Categories: south, 12th grade, africa, poverty,
Form: Free verse
WTC Remember Temba
Lovingly lauded.. they marauded.. rightly applauded Saffa gaffers did thrill Willow wielding wizards of Oz Yielding…lampooned..marooned..jaffas Festooned spill just like Seville . Must remember..the ember burning Yearning of Temba Bavuma Kept his sense of humour Despite being the victim of flimsy whimsy Many a nasty rumour I implore you to ignore the tumour That is Michael Vaughan…dim..grim Pompous pig or obnoxious prig Having a...

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Categories: south, sports,
Form: Rhyme



I am Black and on Death Row In Florida
they said justice but meant just us and here I sit— a roach in a cage of light, the hum of the air thick with bleach and lies. my skin was the evidence. my eyes—guilty. no rich man ever came this far south to die in a room this cold. I write with broken pencils and dream of rain, the kind that doesn't stop. ...

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Categories: south, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Poles Apart
Polar bear at the north pole, floating on a lone ice floe, thinks to himself, 'What happened to my world, where did all the ice go?' If to the south pole he did depart, penguins to compare, would he then be, a well-traveled bipolar bear? ...

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Categories: south, animal, bird, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Regression Whispers
Regression Whispers ancient almond wild stood still stark in dark forest through which moved determination a quick tobacco roll cold beer AK the companion whispers in jungian depths puffed from psyche fumes of struggle, lymph floated across eyeballs camp was porridge, malaria, madness heart opened a tendril a shudder of brilliant focus how far was freedom ? and...

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Categories: south, africa, allusion, animal, character,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member 6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO HEAVEN
THE UNSEEN TERROR BEHIND MY WEARING PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE LIVING AT 6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO WE LIVED ON THE FIRST FLOOR THE BUILDING OWNED BY PAPPA DUKES LONGTIME PILAR OF CHICAGO HE WAS LIKE THE FOSTER FATHER OF THE SOUTHSIDE ON THE COUNT HE OWNED THE SOUTH BALL TEAM BASEBALL IN...

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Categories: south, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Buffalo City
He took a plane to Rapid City Hoped the bike trip would be pretty Took a cab to where the trail began— He had the spark of a younger man. Next day he cycled on the Mickelson Trail Though he knew he was in a moving jail Higher ups told us he must be kept down If left alone, he'd gain a...

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Categories: south, allegory, allusion, crazy, culture,
Form: Lyric
The haze of the South
the warmth in the eyes is how the mountain outlines left in me, unspoken by sunsets by the ghosts of what never happened the echoes measured the distance still not having found a form, they wander just like you and me through our valleys the saddened silence in me I'll enshrine as an aftertaste of the grape sun look at who you are...

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Categories: south, feelings, imagery, longing, nature,
Form: Free verse
It All Went South
Into me When will they see I shall let myself be Inertwine in revolution Searching for peace Why has it become so hard Almost 50 years to the day Alone I sit Ponder it all I need it to end This insecurity No longer a child Don't want to be an adult Time is slipping away Running out of life Will I be this way for all my days Where is...

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Categories: south, age, childhood, loneliness, remember,
Form: Free verse
The Echo Returns Not
The Echo Returns Not Sponsor : Unseeking the Seeker [ Poet’s note : SOLOMON MAHLANGU was a South African Freedom fighter & cherished leader in revolutionary army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was sentenced to death by hanging, by the Apartheid Government on 2 March 1978 & hung on 6 April 1979. Though he was not actually...

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Categories: south, adventure, africa, angst, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member south american dandy
orange cock of the rock south american dandy wooing females...

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Categories: south, bird,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member south
south facing fluffed dove standing on garden gray fence.... north wind plays windchimes ...

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Categories: south, bird, weather,
Form: Haiku

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