hustler
...coconut-
man gambling his way
walks tightropes
subjugates
gravity, among the fronds
grabbing water seeds...
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Categories:
subjugates, appreciation, food, men, money,
Form: Shadorma
He Rules in Splendor
...He knows his splendor
would be too much
to take in all at once,
and so he announces his coming
by revealing little bits of himself...
A sun drenched tree in the distance
a building all lit up...
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Categories:
subjugates, happiness, how i feel,
Form: Personification
Wounded Sigh
...
A wounded sigh, an expression evincing the pain of hurt,
A bawl in solitude, turbulence of inner emptiness stirs,
When emotions clamor, simmering in angst of regrets,
When mute demeanor, of inju...
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Categories:
subjugates, angst, grief, lost love,
Form: Verse
Nigeria's Flawed 2023 Polls
...Well, so they tell us-
the political gladiators and
heavy weights. That in permanent
servitude we must remain.
They create a void in our stomachs,
which they momentarily fill with
what they c...
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Categories:
subjugates, political, satire,
Form: Free verse
I Love You
...The crimson sun reminds your saffron blob
My loving thoughts twirl like incessant waves.
In my heart, your splendid memories throb
Your charming mien, for, my soul longs and craves.
Is my l...
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Categories:
subjugates, love,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Inspiration
...Oh sapience of musings, oh savior of poetic art!
How longingly I seek you out to inspire my ballad
When lassitude of the night envelopes my mind
And grimace of dawn darkens shrouded in fog.
Oh ...
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Categories:
subjugates, inspiration, literature, poetry,
Form: Ode
Akunna the Osu Goddess
...Sweet Akunna of the forbidden caste,
with breast erect and succulent to taste.
She has marble eyes that blossom by day,
and ivory teeth worth a millennium's pay.
Her rare curves dangle to her fee...
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Categories:
subjugates, culture, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Fables
...Degenerates & subjugates
Nothing really deteriorates
Living life in magenta & chartreuse
Trying to cover over the bruises
Inflicted by white lies
Negating the ending
For the sake of...
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Categories:
subjugates, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Deep Down the Throat
...DEEP DOWN MY THROAT
Judging by what man see
yes, intertwined memories slumber
and gorgeous silver linings a feel
deep down the throat it stagger
Universally my man kills
and subjugates my l...
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Categories:
subjugates, africa, anger, city, community,
Form: Light Verse
Regenerate Degenerates
...Degenerates & subjugates
Nothing really deteriorates
Living life in magenta & chartreuse
Trying to cover over the bruises
Caused by silver-white lies
Negating the ending
For the sake of fee...
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Categories:
subjugates, baptism, bereavement, encouraging, heaven,
Form: Free verse
From One Poet To Another
...From one poet to another
Your words in me are a thunder
That fills my soul with great wonder
As my open heart you plunder
Though, in truth, I can't see your face...
I peek through- my rhyme co...
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Categories:
subjugates, beautiful, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Quatrain
Riddle
...Tyrant and friend
I keep buried deep
To cease your incessant
Reminding
Your intricate machinery
So finely cut
Your delicacy
Subjugates my freedom...
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Categories:
subjugates, mystery, time,
Form: Free verse
Luscious
...Love,
Unending,
Scintillating,
Crystalline,
Intrepid,
Overflows,
Unfeigned,
Subjugates !
Written on 4/7/14
Contest- Acrostic time #1
Sponsor- PD A
Now for contest ' How's your acrost...
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Categories:
subjugates, addiction, love,
Form: Acrostic
Duality of Man
...The duality of a man?
the inner beast of the outer man,
aeons ago were quite unplanned,
the spirit surfer entered a beast,
took control and enjoyed the feast,
when it killed some ...
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Categories:
subjugates, adventure, planet,
Form: Ballade
Earth
...In frozen space there spins a marveled sphere
On balanced perch with fettered care, aglow
An artful system shields a fragile show
And skillfully adjusts to nature’s veer
Both land and sea wor...
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Categories:
subjugates, earth, environment,
Form: Sonnet
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