Little Girl
...Just a little girl with brown hair and brown eyes.
She used to spin around, dressed up in her tutu and crown, back when life seemed easy.
Little brown-eyed girl, still waiting to be set free from...
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Categories:
spin around, august, change, for her,
Form: Free verse
Of Planet and Plague
...As if these lands were separate,
As if our minds weren't one,
As if land and sea were dichotomy, of darkness and the sun.
Pangea's cleavage tells the tale,
To fail here as but one.
All secede...
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Categories:
spin around, america, earth, life, political,
Form: Rhyme
Deja Vu
...Deja Vu.
Turns around with you.
Double vision turns to a single fiber.
Which grapples with you.
Deja Vu.
We count on this feeling.
Spin around like a speck of nothing.
Try to count aga...
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Categories:
spin around, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Spider Dance
...I feel a slight touch on my arm and look down
and………….it’s a spider
Despite the heavy circumstances in my life and a
migraine weighing me down
I fly to my feet and spin around trying to dislodge
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Categories:
spin around, life,
Form: Free verse
Who Are the Politicians
...I chuckle soft when people fume,
And blame the lot in suits and gloom.
“You see those leaders? All a scam!”
But who’s still selling free yarn?
Was it not your own cousin’s name,
On that campaign...
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Categories:
spin around, africa, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Staying Up, Not Down
...My emotions spinning around
My world's turned upside down.
I'm out of control
Confusion rules my soul.
Agony is reaching it's highest peak
My voice cracks when I try to speak.
Every hour ...
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Categories:
spin around, confidence, courage, dedication, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Enlightment
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We all have bad days, but sometimes worse than others
Sunshine isn't enough to brighten thoughts
The world may seem dim, as if the lightbulb of beauty is dying
Things may have happened that no...
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Categories:
spin around, inspiration, life, motivation,
Form: Narrative
Blurry Lines
...My eyes ache hard in a steady throb
A retinal crack…a nagging sob
I crave the words and lines which flow
The pain reminds me to take it slow
I reach for verses sharp and bright
My vision blurs...
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Categories:
spin around, pain,
Form: Lyric
For my sis
...The world inside of me
Is huge.
There are trees with twisted, open branches,
Like a thousand mom's,
Reaching for a hug.
There is music, and art, and
A tsunami of words,
Sent down stre...
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Categories:
spin around, blessing,
Form: Free verse
TalAngela JamIN- Dedicated VERSE FOR SHASTA SIMMS ANTHOLOGY 2
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TalAngela JamIN
Dance in the early 19th century
There’s s a woman named TalAngela, complementary
She was a pretty woman she wears a crown
And she surely knows how to get down
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Categories:
spin around, adventure, allusion, celebration, character,
Form: Lyric
- Magical Season -
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Long thoughts spin around
it can seize your breath away
On a glorious autumn day
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Categories:
spin around, autumn, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
It hides from the horror in your eyes, like a walking bell of desires
...It hides from the horror in your eyes, like a walking bell of desires,
Caught in a witch's mantra, faint but amused by your resounding echo.
The curse of reliving moments of excruciating idolizatio...
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Categories:
spin around, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Giggles in the Air
...Tinkling bells and bubbling brooks,
Giggles hiding in story books.
Peals of joy that fill the air,
Children's laughter everywhere.
It starts with grins and twinkling eyes,
Then burst forth...
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Categories:
spin around, children, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Fenced In
...Windows that aren’t real windows.
Outside is fake too.
The fence is real though, I tried.
Crayons aren’t sharp.
But maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be.
They turn the phones off at this time.
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Categories:
spin around, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
That is Not My Name
...the lunchbox moment.
I can feel the looks of disgust as I make my way to the table,
I sit down,
others stand up,
walk away.
kids grimace at the meal I’ve placed in front of myself,
“ew” and “wh...
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Categories:
spin around, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
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