Becoming
...Time casts a heavy glow
On the world I left behind,
Transfixed on a new tomorrow,
All the new seeds I’ll sow.
Emerging is a new day,
How the light blinds my eyes.
Focus on the bright cascade
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Categories:
thralldom, courage, hope, inspiration, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate
...Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...
after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman...
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Categories:
thralldom, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Walls ana wails
...WALLS AND WAILS
I am confined within these four walls
For far too long and pray a wall falls
And the guns jam with wardens asleep
As I take a walk of freedom, a leap
To a new world without gun...
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Categories:
thralldom, 12th grade, depression, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
The Snake and the Charmer
...He has made his own reed gourd pipe
To play on and allure his captive -
The stray serpent, in his basket inactive ,
And rendered a fangless, servile type .
Being a lazy sot, gets his d...
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Categories:
thralldom, irony,
Form: Lyric
A Poem
...As I wondered what I should write
And floundered in my own confusion
I thought – why not write about poems
That set me thinking what poems are
A poem could be anything, we know
At ...
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Categories:
thralldom, birth, confusion, image, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Fermata
...You are a sustained landscape
one that changes only when you smile or frown,
a fermata, an endless note
something akin to love strung-out,
pulled thin
until it vibrates at the same tone
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Categories:
thralldom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Country of Cowards
...fettered frightened multitude at our backyard,
wailing in sombre sigh, waiting for beckett's “godots”
multitude with talents begs their oppressor to survive,
dying amidst plenty with multitudin...
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Categories:
thralldom, africa, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unspoken Vitriolic Wickedness Woke
...(alternatively titled eldest daughter despises us)
Eden (beloved eldest daughter) icy
flat tone of voice spoke volumes,
when she talked with the missus and me
courtesy cellular telecommunicatio...
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Categories:
thralldom, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Thralldom Etched In *****Sapiens Mine Dna
...Thralldom etched in *****sapiens (mine) DNA
Though your true blue stated civilian
never enlisted nor impressed,
nonetheless I own an opinion
originally embarked on poetic quest
to express purp...
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Categories:
thralldom, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Mirage of Freedom
...The rosy mirage of freedom
Is like a scarlet evening light
That paints the clouds with fiery hopes
Which fade in thralldom to the night.
From: Bedouin
Date: 9/17/2019
Poetry Contest: Arbitrium ...
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Categories:
thralldom, freedom, imagery, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Bedouin
...Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea of dunes,
Rides slowly along in the dusk.
The singing of rababah strings
Mimic the cooling ev...
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Categories:
thralldom, change, destiny, freedom, journey,
Form: Free verse
We Are the Legacy
...We are the legacy
We are the prime time
We are the heroes’ of our time
The continual legacy of our fore-fathers
We are the seeker of truth that unshackle the false
We are the seeker of know...
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Categories:
thralldom, mum, society,
Form: Free verse
Soldiers of Light and Love
...We are soldiers of light and love
With fresh fire we fight for freedom;
Freedom from the thrones of thralldom
We strive for salvation and not stardom.
This shall forever be our anthem;
We are ...
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Categories:
thralldom, devotion, love, prayer, religious,
Form: Quatern
Ode To a Terrific Teacher
...He opens learners’ hearts with the key of kindness;
passionately plant in them the seeds of success
and watch them grow in the garden of greatness.
Talk about a terrific teacher.
He wields word...
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Categories:
thralldom, high school, student, teacher,
Form: Monorhyme
Fear of Death
...Fierce, fiery, forgotten, forever
Enthralling, endless, elegant, enraged
Agitated, angry, anxious, autonomy
Resentful, release, rhythm-less, repent
Over, old-fashioned
Flash, finished
Des...
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Categories:
thralldom, death, humanity, leaving, life,
Form: Acrostic
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