Mother
...Tell them i was here
I carried them in my sack for nine months.
Tell them the ugly pains I encroached.
The fire that was in my chest.
The belly aches, the back pain, heartburn and headaches.
Tel...
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Categories:
teethes, africa, birth, celebration, death,
Form: Lyric
Caught Up Inside This Prison Cell Yet On the Outside Someone Still Prays--
...CAUGHT UP INSIDE THIS PRISON CELL Yet On the Outside Someone Still Prays--
I find myself within the cross hairs
My life is just a pen rail
Circumstances got me tied to a chair
Persist can’t I ...
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Categories:
teethes, anxiety, change, engagement, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Lion
...There’s a lion in my throat
braving the wilderness that
I’ve been terrified to release.
He teethes my tongue-
draining the words from the darkness
he prowls, hunting for the utterance
of a pr...
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Categories:
teethes, africa, analogy, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Drowning
...Under the immersion of raging seas
in the middle of the waters unforetold,
My heart is a distant from its desires
and I am overwhelmed
I am succumbing, with fear of the unknowns
Great Barracud...
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Categories:
teethes, crush,
Form: Abecedarian
Old Age
...Of age she becomes now
Old and weak she appears
Grey has her hair grown
Shrunk and dwindled she turns
Fallen are the boobs of hers
Broken are the teethes but two
Day and night on the couch she ...
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Categories:
teethes, age, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form: Bio
Tongue and Teeth
...English tongue of Queen and King
English tongue is Global sing
English tongue in up and down
English tongue goes down the town
Twenty six teethes,tongue around
Capital,simple same in sound
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Categories:
teethes, community, language,
Form: Light Verse
A Father In Love
...PART I
The Joy of a birth, his own shine penetrating his eyes,
The new out born fruit of a long spend love,
Her hands rubbing against her red shiny chin,
Her legs crossed, the beauty that sings t...
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Categories:
teethes, birth, dad, daughter, death,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Rebels
...Christmas Rebels
It was about a weak
After that night walk
The unknown dangers,
Made known, turned me weak,
I was managing myself,
After my heart was pulled,
From where it sank,
I was yet in...
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Categories:
teethes, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
By Nightfall Luminary
...The sun enlightening at the front house
two old armchair-in places by the postal —
the vicinities were dinners in cycles’ ...
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Categories:
teethes, faith, hope, love, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative