The Twilight of Fantasy
...I was walking down a lonely street,
wondering where everyone had gone.
It was still daylight,
My footsteps echoed as I journeyed along the empty road.
As I walked, the road stretched further ...
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Categories:
unsoiled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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:
unsoiled, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Plagued By Memories
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In the splendorous sapphire space of my pristine heart,
shimmering in the sanctified radiance of the indigo night,
you gleamed like seraphic sequins of argentine moondust,
making me feel fas...
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Categories:
unsoiled, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Alternate Universe
...The women sing songs to the moon,
Praising its beauty.
They dance and sing when it’s in its full glow,
Their souls ascending and descending,
Transformed into priestesses.
The men ven...
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Categories:
unsoiled, moon, mystery, sun, universe,
Form: Free verse
Fresh Paint
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New walls, inviting
colors crisp and…
Clean, washed
bright, beautiful and…
Fresh, renewed
by cheery colors, so…
Neat, energetic
like the unsullied, and…
Different, un...
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Categories:
unsoiled, appreciation, christian, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Lotus and the Bird
...In Chambers Grand, where silks and laughter played,
A voice within, a question soft and low,
"Tell me, dear Yashodhara, what ails your heart?
Your eyes, once radiant, now seem weighted by sorro...
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Categories:
unsoiled, absence, betrayal, conflict, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Memory Montage Mirror
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"The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which
images of infinite beauty are reflected"
In splendorous devout space of my pristine heart,
shimmering in the sanctified radiance of indigo n...
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Categories:
unsoiled, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Wishing enemies well
...Day and night we toiled but some aims were foiled
by souls who opposed us, thwarting our goal
but we wished all well, since our heart’s unsoiled
and detractors merely play their life role.
Mad...
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Categories:
unsoiled, forgiveness, joy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Drawn In Rapture
...time cloaked fierce wrath
I gave up the past or the wind
wipe the chill off my flesh
bury the sun in brine
watch the warped beams
an intricate mosaic
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Categories:
unsoiled, analogy, appreciation, character, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Clearing
...Within the cave of our heart
Is a domain of vibrant emptiness
It is the pristine inner sanctum of soul
Where only childlike innocence may enter
Bliss magnetism hums with potent power
God’s pr...
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Categories:
unsoiled, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Reach
...In the tranquil of the night,
In a vision in his bed,
He sees her haloed with light,
Running through the field,
She stops and waves at him,
He’s captivated by her beauty,
Unsoiled by life's vi...
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Categories:
unsoiled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Home Medicines
...Invincible craving for the relish from home,
Laughter in deep dimples sets as lava, seats silently with desires.
Mother’s medicines rejuvenate,
Food, Bring them from Africa.
Especially from M...
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Categories:
unsoiled, africa, allusion, desire, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Back To the Beginning
...Back to the beginning,
at the time we were born,
connected with spirit,
till mind-body cravings
began judging merit.
Back to the beginning,
when childlike heart was pure,
we forgave easily,
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Categories:
unsoiled, childhood, innocence,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
I Am African
...I am African, I affirm that i am Original African
untainted, unblenched, unsoiled.
I am African,
with all the dignity of the first human.
unashamed, unbowed, undaunted. I am African.
unique...
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Categories:
unsoiled, africa, age, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse
Unsoiled White Pages
...Unsoiled white pages attract like magnets
Waiting for words like silvery bits of iron filings
Words and phrases seeking recognition,
Hungering for an emotionally satisfying place
Of ...
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Categories:
unsoiled, space, writing,
Form: Free verse
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