The Lion of Burkina
...In the dust and drums of a battered land,
Rose a flame from the heart of golden sand.
Ibrahim Traoré, son of the soil,
With hands unbought and feet unsoiled.
Not born of palace nor Western mold...
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Categories:
unbought, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Unlit Candles
...We bide our time upon the cusp
Twixt what may be and surely must
From evenings hush till morning hours
Begging chase through moon lit bowers
Where gleans the will in blissful trance
And leads th...
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Categories:
unbought, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Teacher
...A teacher,
A strange identity,
Nameless, without a surname,
Wordless, without recognition.
A shared identity,
A heartfelt tale in silence,
A rebellion hidden within words.
He, the veiled rev...
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Categories:
unbought, discrimination, education, freedom, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Unfinished Archive
...In lacquered boxes, six feet down,
Rest whispers of the unbought crown -
The paintings left in mental drafts,
The kindness stored away in crafts.
Between the satin folds they place
The morning...
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Categories:
unbought, poetry, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Burdened Poet
...The poet stands in the court of thought,
Accused of wielding the pen as sword,
Charged with crafting truths unbought,
With words that strike and chords that chord.
Guilty of exposing the soul’s...
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Categories:
unbought, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss
...she leans back and points bare toes at clouds
chains creak their rhythmic squeak, hypnotic loud
taken aback, her hair sails slipstream flung
downstream freedom for a moment hung
in mid-air - eart...
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Categories:
unbought, growth, introspection, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Colour Is Vitality
...Once you were a plundered people,
your ancient culture an excuse
for vainglorious swords to take by force
Yellow gold, Aztec Blue,
that rightfully belonged to you.
Your faces are now sometimes l...
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Categories:
unbought, appreciation, beauty, color, culture,
Form: Free verse
Dark House Effect
...We've lived here so long
Making fairy tales of normalcy
Existing in perpetual dormancy
Where did God go?
Left Him in pews
and dog eared passages
These are wider passages
with nowhere to grow
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Categories:
unbought, anxiety, home, house, pain,
Form: Free verse
Heart's Distress
...Upon an evening's heart distress
I bereaved the lass of palm caress
Of all the consolation sought
Nil dare allay that which death wrought
Amidst my ponders of seclusion
Logic's veiled of dolor...
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Categories:
unbought, lost love, lovedeath, death,
Form: Rhyme