The Wrong Train
...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories:
tainting, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse
Pandora’s Box
...(“Pandora’s Box”, 2014, original pen and ink and oil)
Pandora’s Box
I don’t know who she was,
What she did or how she did it,
And maybe as the first it was sublime
Or maybe she was ju...
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Categories:
tainting, corruption, culture, mythology, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
self-directed
...I’m new to ‘self directed study,’ it’s a construction I’ve never known. It’s kind of a faustian bargain that resembles another self-paced activity—treading water. The program’s like an immersive plun...
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Categories:
tainting, education, humor, music, school,
Form: Free verse
Tilted Laments
...Is it my grief?
That i behold?
That i knoweth ongoing sorrow
Waterless doves?
None other, a city?
Just? As a city dweller?
Dwelling, in mired filth?
Unconquered mime, play!
At once! Be tainti...
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Categories:
tainting, allegory, america, class, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Ups and Downs
...A Simultaneous Existence,
Exists Within us.
Making a difference,
Different than you Think.
Connecting Emotions and Energy,
Silently driving Society.
Quietly Implying words you Say,
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Categories:
tainting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Another pastor viral
...#Another_Pastor_viral
Ancestors exchange grave turning with Christ, shame and tabooed, religion painted, men claiming and looting from the poorer, shaming and tainting the believe
From calling t...
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Categories:
tainting, abuse, africa, allah, baptism,
Form: Haiku
ADDICTION'S WEB
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Casanovas slipping into the red-light tangle;
Forbidden fruits, where temptations dangle.
A carousel sequelae of transient fun,
Shoving precious life through a darkened dungeon.
Herpes, a s...
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Categories:
tainting, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Hands
...Slime covers esily
It’s engulfing, digesting
Like an acid dissolving with a noticeable hiss
Diffusing into the brain
And just not leaving, Never leaving
It spreads from the handprint
It dampe...
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Categories:
tainting, analogy, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Shock on us
...What manner of vengeance
As a stench invading fragrance
The kind unlike princes and kings
Worthy to be denied pedestals and wings
To never be beheld when people look up
For it shall be bile in...
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Categories:
tainting, introspection, prayer, social, society,
Form: Rhyme
When All Was Still
...The battle of the heart ablaze with fire,
The battle for the soul still yet to come,
Who could foresee the things that would transpire?
Who could foretell which side there would have won?
When al...
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Categories:
tainting, anger, angst, betrayal, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Anxiety
...Anxiety
A mental condition characterized by excessive apprehensiveness about real or perceived threats
Anxiety is such a fickle thing
It can wrap around my throat like a noose, choking me until I ...
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Categories:
tainting, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
THE COLOR OF HATE TRAIL OF TEARS
...THE COLOR OF HATE UNLIKE ALL
THEE OTHER BRILLANT COLORS
OF THE WORLD I MEAN YOU SEE
IT IT'S STUNNING CAPTIVATING
EVEN CAUSING STRANGERS TO
GATHER TOGETHER SHARING THE
VERY SAME FAMILIAR T...
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Categories:
tainting, allah,
Form: Marsiya
LIFE
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Living in the world today, we're faced with drama and frustration
It has become brother against brother and nation against nation
Flawed governments, people who are greedy fo...
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Categories:
tainting, life,
Form: Acrostic
Person Non-Grata
...("Blue Egg In Red Sea", 2020, original oil)
Person Non-Grata
Call me old-fashioned,
but I’m glad my mother was a woman.
I’m glad about a lot of things actually,
the little things in l...
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Categories:
tainting, hyperbole, perspective, satire, society,
Form: Narrative
Hieroglyphics
...The said hieroglyphics drove into the night,
Racked up its mystery, then parted and swiped,
Bellowed at suspicion and candid eye sight,
To foster fomented a reasoned parallax, piped.
Left to ri...
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Categories:
tainting, art, culture, education, history,
Form: Quatrain
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