The fear of nothing changing
...The rush of emotion stilled
The air once consumed by an undiluted energy
Now eerily quiet
Something lingers in the air
Justice?
No something louder but hidden
A violence so silent
It could...
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Categories:
undiluted, change, discrimination, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Undiluted Feeling
...In my mind's eye, your light appears,
every day, then as now,
fraying a quick smile of mine.
I whisper silent blessings for your day,
a prayer, I hope you hear.
To hold this love and not be torn...
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Categories:
undiluted, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
temet nosce
...
“I have dreamed a dream … and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.” (Daniel 2:3)
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TEMET NOSCE
that place …
I know it not -
now, then or ever
the darkness that dwells t...
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Categories:
undiluted, analogy, dark, introspection,
Form: Free verse
THE JEWEL IN THE FOREST
...Africa,
The undiluted genealogy of humanity and humility
The undisputed abode of nature
Surrounded by wild bushes, forests, winding rivers,
Uncountable mountains, endless valleys, sacred hills
...
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Categories:
undiluted, africa, allusion, hope, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Bad Sick Brains
...Bad sick brains/ A jolt to the soul Energy raw, untamed, a primal scream/
Then Blink-182, "First Date," pop punk dreams, sixty million views, a digital stream, what a bad dream/ is anybody makin’ ...
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Categories:
undiluted, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Deprived of your love
...Like a raging river barreling toward an arid basin,
sediment collects inside a hardening heart.
Weighing heavy, eyelids flutter over drowning maculas;
all that can be seen are murky ript...
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Categories:
undiluted, angst, dark, poetry, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...
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Categories:
undiluted, courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word
SONIC HENDERSON
...JOE HENDERSON’S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/
IS SHEAR SONIC VELOCITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN' MIND/
NO HALF-STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE’S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT Y...
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Categories:
undiluted, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
divine madness
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stirred and utterly shaken
I used to find my olive friend
in a bottle of madness
always tried to be a seeker
yet was under the illusion
that this time it would be different
from an outcome o...
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Categories:
undiluted, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Earth Interval
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Typecast pivot rips past apart
Scars inflicted by the furnace
Scatter derma with war stars
Astronomy faraway magnifies
Little shards of light filaments
Filter...
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Categories:
undiluted, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
In the tapestry of my thoughts, where shadows dance with light
...In the tapestry of my thoughts, where shadows dance with light,
I wander through the memories of mobs, where fear is a dense fog,
Narrow-mindedness cloaks the minds, and pessimism bites like winter...
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Categories:
undiluted, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tree of Light
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In A Place Beyond Time and Space
The 9th Realm, Cradle Of Existence Sacral Untainted Place
A Paradox, An Enigma with no Beginning nor End
Beyond the Ultra Violet Ray Forrest lies the Secret Gard...
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Categories:
undiluted, light,
Form: Free verse
MY FATHER SO SPEAKS TO ME--For God is Speaking Ministries Janeen Brown
...Through the still small voice, God speaks to me;
Through horizon skies, God speaks to me;
From the face of a small voiced, child
God speaks to me;;
From a mountain top,
From a dew ...
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Categories:
undiluted, blessing, character, devotion, engagement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I felt ashamed when I realized that, in fact
...I felt ashamed when I realized that, in fact,
Life is a masquerade party, where I stood without a mask,
I wandered with my uncovered face beneath the chandeliers,
Among specters and shadows hiding...
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Categories:
undiluted, life,
Form: Free verse
Path of War
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The rain arrives
As forecast.
War pays no attention
To the rain.
Rivers of blood
Flow undiluted to the sea.
Ocean tides
Pay no attention to war....
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Categories:
undiluted, war,
Form: Free verse
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