When I Was a Chambermaid
...When I was twenty-two and lived
In Israel for a spell,
I needed cash and got a job
In a small seaside hotel.
We worked in teams to clean the rooms;
We vacuumed, dusted, scrubbed -
The hardest...
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Categories:
subbed, change, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Eyes Like Yours Set All Apart
...Set smoke, so sweet, so delicate
Something fuliginous, so intricate
Ocher bronze is all that I can see
You're beautiful, a dime to me
Spheres of the purist maple syrup
Sums them up; affectionate...
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Categories:
subbed, love,
Form: Free verse
Stances
...Game of chances,
World of stances,
Where lies the rope of happiness...
The issues of life sided with sadness,
Everyone seems to cope with it all,
But nothing is left for the world anymore.
I'...
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Categories:
subbed, adventure, analogy, day,
Form: Free verse
What Dad Did
...What Dad Did
Friends from the nearby projects bike over e'er since we had hit-it-off
and dad atop his makeshift throne, food aplenty, points to the nearby ladder.
Time is October 1973, it was ...
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Categories:
subbed, baseball, fathers day, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Sensual Play
...It’s early morning and you’re still in sleep
And I’ve woken up to the miss of your skin
Your hair with the lingering smell of your neck
That has drifted too far away in bed
Although it is still t...
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Categories:
subbed, fantasy, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
A Goldstone
...Here she approaches, dark in complexion…
Exposed majestically in a catwalk,
Principle looking personality considered for deliberation.
Optimistic to achieve the world most valuable models award.
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Categories:
subbed, adventure, analogy,
Form: Classicism
Ghana the Warrioress
...“She lies in the western region of the black race territory apportioned back from generations,
Within the 11th century era,
Filled with typical black men with strong melanin,
Who lives semi-primit...
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Categories:
subbed, africa, , western,
Form: Dramatic Verse
February 13th
...Sharp teeth incising my neck,
It's uncontrollably going on trek,
Intimate vampire whom can't be seen,
From his wounded mouth slowly drip my flesh and blood,
Assasination pinned to mortify the e...
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Categories:
subbed, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Proficient Mama Africa
..."Super credence...!"
Coming from the west,
Known by many;very popular and people's figure,
Qualified with soft speech,modified with prominent smile,
Dressed with simplicity,but very focal,
The...
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Categories:
subbed, africa,
Form: Dramatic Verse