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The Making of a Teenage Tragedy

...I live, letting life’s events blow along with the wind; inhaling the scented, crisp breeze. I seldom sit down and question my purpose, instead I flow from the water which I arose from. Though the wat...

Categories: unrepressed, abuse, age, depression, for
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Writer's Quill

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The writer's quill, a humble thing it seems, 
A feather plucked from some forgotten fowl, 
Yet dipped in ink, it spins a world of dreams, 
Where heroes rise and empires rise and fall. 
Wi...

Categories: unrepressed, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme Royal

From Every Patriots Grave

...From the patriots grave there comes a disturbance
a sound so faint it is distant less. It floats in on the wings of absurdity.

It defies the continuity of human expiration, upending the status qu...

Categories: unrepressed, america, grave, hate, hero,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Leave Me Alone-Not For Contest Judgement

...I'm plagued by memories I'd rather forget,
and with shadows that linger, I'm often beset.
They hover around me, leaving me daunted
in my waking hours and in dreams ill-haunted.

I've sho...

Categories: unrepressed, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

A Life Unrepressed

...A Life Unrepressed

Lighting surges through a war of 
disrespectful words, tears 
descending, wet.  In times of 
uncertainty, an unknown sadness 
is out of control, a smile, a gesture; 
or fea...

Categories: unrepressed, absence, analogy, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse

A Bittersweet Experience

...I was in my backyard sunning, while lost in warm daydreams,
Enjoying red raspberries, while listening to the birds sing.

Lying on afternoon chaise, in the golden midst of hot July,
As I watched ...

Categories: unrepressed, adventure, fantasy, friendship, imagery,
Form: Couplet

I Would Like To Listen

...I would like to hear
with no urgent need to speak
and to respond
without reacting,
over-acting.

I would like to hear
your experience with faith and faithless communities,
theistic
and athei...

Categories: unrepressed, analogy, happiness, health, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse

When I Love

...~~~ Love is not Lustful~~~ 

I love your spirit... I love your mind... I love the way you handle your business! 

I love the woman in you when you speak to women. I love the man in you when you s...

Categories: unrepressed, love, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form: Classicism

New Day

...its a new day i've gotta make a million today

and either way they gon hate so never mind what they say

i look in the mirror to move past the passe

i work to turn fear into yesterday

my am...

Categories: unrepressed, africa, age, black african
Form: Lyric

Desire Doesn'T Belong

...Desire doesn’t belong........

Desire dives into the ocean of the heart
Like high waves rushing to sweep the sand
Like grey clouds all roaring in unison
Gushing to douse the drought ridden land
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Categories: unrepressed, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Flickers of Life

...Sometimes to look inside
Takes more than calming highs
Sometimes there’s cyanide
And sometimes I’ll have to die

Oceans of vivid worth
Mixed in with delusion’s birth
I just want to feel the ea...

Categories: unrepressed, faith, introspection, life, me,
Form: I do not know?