Scouting the Derp
...We need a scout.
Someone with eyes for the derp.
Someone to run the arc of this rolling whirl’d,
looking hither and thither,
with eyes that switch-back from the blind spot…
…you know the one.
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Categories:
visionaries, art,
Form: Free verse
SMALL RECALLS
...Each morning You lift Your gleaming golden crown
And awaken me with a divine and pristine light.
So now I thank You Lord for allowing me around,
Relaxing in Your comfort for this long night.
You ...
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Categories:
visionaries, happiness, love, parents, remember,
Form: Quatrain
The Entrepreneur
...A recent share on a post, that is so relevant to poets writing in a world seeped in instant self gratification.
Title.
The Entrepreneur
(A lone voice whispers)
We do what we do, because...
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Categories:
visionaries, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Mountain View
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Mountain View
With the ascended smoke
the sky was gloomy
Darkened times
creeping up
stealing the era
Killing the resolve
rhyming another song
Playing discordant tunes
ragging the...
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Categories:
visionaries, betrayal, corruption, longing, political,
Form: Narrative
A Visionary's Vitality
...Verily do I separate myself from her celestial face; seems thorough that symbolically setting the tune
For a ceremony of God's grace
Acting only by reacting to what's enate
As if I've been lifted...
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Categories:
visionaries, break up, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Do we as writers create emotional bridges
...As writers, are we all but seducers of the minds of others
We silently kiss in friendship
As they read one of our poetic gifts?
(À lone voice whispers)
Do we as writers create emotio...
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Categories:
visionaries, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Scripture
...Your ‘calling’ strings you out
into a gospel
of all that you were and are.
A written scripture scrolls on.
You are a witness. The poet that watches,
the one who shows up late in your own story...
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Categories:
visionaries, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ode to all African Dreamers of the Written Word
...In the vast and verdant landscape of African literature, a constellation of luminous stars once shone bright, their radiant light illuminating the complexities of a continent’s soul.
O Achebe, A...
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Categories:
visionaries, art, beauty, black love,
Form: Free verse
Through a world of wax and shadows they ever wander
...Through a world of wax and shadows they ever wander,
Secret auditors of inner voices, clear as crystal,
Following them like music throbbing through the veins of a slumbering city,
Whispering hidde...
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Categories:
visionaries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ancient guardian of the sacred essence
...Ancient guardian of the sacred essence,
You wander through the taciturn void of slumbering souls
Where the shadow of truth gravely trickles into hieroglyphs,
An affection imprinted,
Upon the whit...
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Categories:
visionaries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
We are but transient breezes, subtle specters
...We are but transient breezes, subtle specters,
On this ancient soil, so dense, so tangible,
Yet fleeting seagulls of smoke in nature's hands,
A curtain's sway when the final act concludes,
Depart...
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Categories:
visionaries, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
So Far, the Wizard Has Shown Great Qualities!
...We found the silver lining
buried underneath all the stones we left unturned
But we're prevailing at a time like this
We're stronger with our ambitions on the line
Why can’t I be the proble...
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Categories:
visionaries, appreciation, courage, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Artefacts
...ARTEFACTS
recreated
as
a colossus
in time
using
dimensional depiction
extended
into reality
a glimpse
of the past
with
the possibility
of consolations
begetting beauty
melanchol...
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Categories:
visionaries, poetry,
Form: Verse
Song of the Poet
...*Note - I posted this some time ago on PS and it got POTD, resulting in over fifty comments of support. Social media is a fickle animal, sometimes dangerous. We poets like to imagine ourselves artist...
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Categories:
visionaries, love, song,
Form: Lyric
Years
...the big chock in life , It is when you meet some successful folks who cry from years and you don't know their hidden problems.
Quote by poet
How many years,
good visionaries don't count years...
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Categories:
visionaries, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
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