pretense of discernment
...
all poetry begins with presumption
should you expect anything different here?
I would not hold a full lung's air too long
would not bust a bronchial capillary
in the waiting for its novelty...
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Categories:
ungenerous, extended metaphor, trust,
Form: Free verse
The Value of Reading
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"The Value of Reading"
messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?
"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late
when it...
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Categories:
ungenerous, betrayal, books, death, loss,
Form: Narrative
What of This Niggardly Miserable Earth
...What Of This Niggardly Miserable Earth
What of this niggardly miserable earth
this small plot awaiting a white tombstone
when she cares and asks what is it all worth
once enslaved a soul fades ...
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Categories:
ungenerous, art, conflict, creation, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Africa Has a New Weave
...Concrete cities of our converted land.
Currencies creeping along, Naira or rand.
This is Africa, should we take a stand?
Helping hands strip rich rocks into their bands.
Debtors demanding f...
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Categories:
ungenerous, africa, beauty, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Pillow Fight
...My handsome brown-skinned husband
was once again velvet-voiced complaining
just this morning
while I was staring
glaring at my overstuffed sock drawer,
"You are so consistently ambivalent
and...
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Categories:
ungenerous, games, health, humor, husband,
Form: Free verse
Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2
...DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my fem...
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Categories:
ungenerous, birth, body, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Folk Live On Their Wits
...All the ways you fought to earn a living
The recipes you tried to earn your bread
You found the world to be most unforgiving
Despite the schemes you cooked up in your head
Ungenerous, life took...
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Categories:
ungenerous, courage, philosophy, work,
Form: Sonnet
Values Ii
...In a modern life that is risqué
Pot mentality that grew and grew
One rides upon spacious freeway
With an ungenerous point of view.
The stratus to reach, man’s destiny
A monument to a nation’s ...
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Categories:
ungenerous, life, philosophy, power, work,
Form: Rhyme
Ungenerous Heart
...Your ungenerous heart forbear
Can not understand why
From me a generous reply
As from my easy chair
Face storms of life must them welter
Need warm heart to shelter
Don't understand in life ...
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Categories:
ungenerous, introspection, lifeheart, heart, life,
Form: Rhyme