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Unlettered Poems - Poems about Unlettered

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Off kilter
...Off kilter Yup I sobered up despite expressing regular (unleaded and unlettered) urge to shtup expunged courtesy system of a down with shuga (mush) and everything nice. The following......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme



There Is
...In unlettered eyes too language there is, World would read, hope-mixed mirage too there is. In breath of death breathlessness too there is, Wish to live by paying wage too there is. There’s ......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, anger, death, irony, language,
Form: Ghazal
Tough Love
...You don't need a listener, let your heart muscles pound out a blind-folded poem. Practice hand to hand combat with your unlettered soul until it lays down defeated. Marshal the words, art......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dialogue Between Thunder and the Lamb Part 2
..."I am the wisdom of Greeks I am the gnosis of the savage barbarians I am the shrewdness of Greeks I am the prudence of the lawless barbarians I am despised everywhere I am loved everywhere,......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, i am, identity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gramps
..."He made a difference." Gramps, my mother's father, Dave Luke -- my grandfather, a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) Louisiana man -- was born August 1888. He lived 87 years. He gr......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Emancipated Proclamation
...Thou asks how far the wind blows in fact I cannot tell Or then how high the heavens my prayers deep in the well Thou asks if love comes truly to one in greatest need My answer spoken duly of......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clever Fool
...Do not tell me I am but a clever fool I have sought truth entirely unfettered, Finding rules for better living as a tool Among the educated and the unlettered. I have used my brain ......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, education, image, perspective, self,
Form: Quatern
Thoughts of An African Young Child
...I regret having been born to forlorn in this noxious, wicked world. I distaste that I was born in a biased, impovershirished, corrupt society. I was born to careless; unloving parents. I am livi......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, child, childhood, children, community,
Form: Free verse
A Prayer's No Piece of Art
...Be frank; tell me if ye feel lost, alone, I shall be thy moving shadow for life, I'll bathe and groom thee and soothe thy tired bone, Let me pick lice from thy hair, hirsute rife, A shepherd ......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, prayer,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Response To Rude Darts
...Keep me blocked, you cowardly wench, Provoking but allowing no fair retort Considering the Soup like killer sport, Where the star is relegated to the bench. While you continue to hurl your rude d......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, anti bullying, endurance, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Threat of Extinction
...Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning Letters ......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, poems,
Form: Free verse
I Arise Today
...Pursue joy in itty-bitty thing A faith like mustard seed If move the mountain Little love is indeed a greater love Wherein a biggest bliss. Hunt time to acknowledge You’ll earn the wisdom fo......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, cheer up, courage, recovery
Form: I do not know?
God Is Dad
...dialog with myself invariably involves others we are all perceivers nobody escapes no really and truly trust me on this no manufacturing of childish evasions maybe it is best to be born into a fa......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Pride and the Prejudice
...With a pride she denied his love.... She wanted a romantic man but she couldn't see that in him - she saw arrogant in the way he talks and the way he react... She shut him down without giving him a......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, confusion, devotion, love, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Osama Bin Laden
...OSAMA Obdurate Sadistic abductor as Machiavellian now abashed Senseless Saboteur with Sabre sword, Ablutions of wickedness as apology from vagrant Mercy and peace mixed fleetingly against unprovoked ......Read the rest...
Categories: unlettered, angst, religion, satire, peace,
Form: Burlesque

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