My African heritage
...#My_African_heritage
In my ears, I hear a drum beat, the sound points my listening ear to Congo, its effects echoing with my heart beat, although I'm taking a walk, this beat want me to sit down an...
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Categories:
trickiest, africa, black love, culture,
Form: Free verse
dEDAN eCHAPPE
...Half concealed her devotion
and desire to be with me
half disclosed she curses
to have me hear her
might I
remedy her need
The confusion of Introduction
The havoc of struggling
to find the ri...
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Categories:
trickiest, character, leaving, music, star,
Form: Bio
Dreamy dream
...Wavering winds,
Wearing woolen clothes
Waiting for the destiny to disclose
Winding winds of illusions from my mind
In the tapestry of universe
Thinking of infinite possibilities
Which will ...
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Categories:
trickiest, destiny, dream, imagery, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Binary Math Rules
...Binary Math Rules.
Let me tell you a tale, my friend,
Of ones and zeros that never end.
A world of binary, simple and true,
With rules to help guide you.
First, addition is easy as can be,
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Categories:
trickiest, 12th grade, graduate, graduation,
Form: Narrative
Mrs Billingsfesh Prepares Herself
...Shame and years of tears have hardened like
asylum bread and now the children want
to know of your intricacies Mrs. Billingsfesh.
Along the hallways of this home for wayward
children, how fast ...
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Categories:
trickiest, fire, gothic, history, horror,
Form: Free verse
La Mama
...The first time we tackled 'The Nipple' which is also known as La Mama
The leader said "Today’s walk's a toughie", We replied "No Problema"
It was really a pleasant excursion till we dropped from ...
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Categories:
trickiest, mountains, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Changing the Clocks
...Certain clocks obeyed
By springing forward on their own –
The ones on the computer
Or the TV or the phone.
But my old-fashioned watch
Required a turning of the stem
And clocks around the hou...
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Categories:
trickiest, time,
Form: Rhyme
That Is Your Job
...That is your job, the mama tells us at school.
We feed her child breakfast, lunch, and an after school snack free of charge.
We give her child a safe place to be, while she has seven hours of freed...
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Categories:
trickiest, children, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Prose
Gain the Power From Within
...When life pushes you to the edge..
Sometimes you don't realise why there is no opposite traffic !!
For when you walk still farther and cling on to the wedge..
With all the your might you dredge,
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Categories:
trickiest, best friend, emotions, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Wonders
...The unknown of "WHAT IFS"
Sets the mind into confusions
It twirls and twists into knots
and explodes into madness... Walking
like a zombie,
Heartless of emotions but walking aimlessly
to the...
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Categories:
trickiest, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse
Seasons
...fall, the trickiest of them all,
is pretending
-again-
to have fallen in love with summer
taking her to dinner each evening,
giving her the room
to play during the day
summer, the purest...
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Categories:
trickiest, autumn, celebration, cheer up,
Form: Verse
The Trickiest Mistress
...Desire is the trickiest mistress
A strange unpredictable beast
Tickled by fancy and circumstance
Afflicted by famine and feast
A delicate matter to master
An unruly monster to tame
Lightening ...
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Categories:
trickiest, lust, metaphor, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme
How To Read Your Pal's Mind
...Getting confused between the two
Wondering what they think about you
Who thinks you are trustworthy friend
And who thinks that you will bring his friendship to an end
Although you can’t say wh...
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Categories:
trickiest, children, kids, friendship, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Private Cellar
...I crept through the night just like a creepy crawler.
The smell of dust mixed in the reek of wine.
Lo and behold there was a crack in a mighty fine line.
Dripping and drooling with many more pleas...
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Categories:
trickiest, adventure, funny, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Personification
Adages Pt. 2 (Darkness)
...Adages Pt. 2 (darkness)
Everything is spinning
A place so dark with insolence
Ignorance
The trickiest joke for man to bear witness
Soon drawn into it himself
If not one extreme then int...
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Categories:
trickiest, angst, art, confusion, loss,
Form: Free verse
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