Sitting in the Sun
...warmth floods over me
when blue flowers are climbing
sage red rose timing
sitting on the stairs
in sweet caress of warm winds
gold noon never ends
sitting among scents
under lemon ...
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Categories:
wealths, bird, flower, nature, nice,
Form: Haiku
Beauty perches on your face
...Everything good appears in your life in pairs,
'God has special interests in your affairs,
That's why showers of blessings pour on your life,
And immuned you against your enemies strifes.
Beaut...
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Categories:
wealths, appreciation, emotions, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Wrongs
...The way it is today
I must say
So much hate
Of late
Such a sad fate
People crying over wrongs in the past
Things that did not even then last
Lifes that were torn
Before we were even born
Fi...
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Categories:
wealths, conflict, corruption, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Crossroads II
...our December
In the twilight before the morn
Scattered over grass unashamed alowed
Silence in the air ash for clouds
A Fire burnt out and twilight at dawn
Life in vain for a purpose not known...
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Categories:
wealths, anger,
Form: Free verse
Crossroads
...
Crossroads to where life began
Fear of dark cold round me again
In the twilight before the morn
Scattered grass iced, forlorn
Silence in the air ash orangy dawn
Fire burnt out like clouds in...
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Categories:
wealths, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Oh Black Americans
...Oh! Black Americans,
Africa is your motherland
And most Africans love you
Not because you are called African Americans
And lost your African mother tongues
And cultures.
Being called Amer...
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Categories:
wealths, africa, america, black african
Form: Free verse
Our Legacy
...Opening our eyes to the desolation before us
Understanding how things have got this far
Remember we can blame others than just us
Look at how we squandered the true wealths
Educating our childr...
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Categories:
wealths, conflict, earth, earth day,
Form: Acrostic
Africa Is Not Poor
...Africa is not poor,
Do you know why?
There are lot of minerals that are,
Form within Africa.
Just that Africa problem is Africans.
Oh Africa!
You're wealthy with vast minerals.
You're not po...
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Categories:
wealths, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
If I Were A
...IF I WERE A .....
If I were a ballerina,
I’d have the most graceful moves,
I’d be richer then Katrina,
I’d have shod with gold my horses shoes.
If I were an astronaut,
Which I’m planning to...
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Categories:
wealths, 6th grade, car, horse,
Form: Prose
Setting a Place Apart
...The shaded lane leads to the estuary
and mud banks sculpted by the constant sea,
expose their drying backs beneath the sun
before once more in ebb and flow are gone.
Over a sty a path leads fr...
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Categories:
wealths, destiny, discrimination, eulogy, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Comedy House
...He'd return after decades
Spent in imagination. Month
spent in reality. He'd return to the
House of comedy,here,to crack
an heart-taking,wits-arresting,Emotions-
devouring,Land-quaking joke.
He...
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Categories:
wealths, allusion,
Form: Lyric
Not Such Great Expectations
...Paraphrasing Dickens
speaking of Great Expectations
through Pip's distraining voice,
Our worst religious weaknesses
and political meannesses
and self and other deprivations
are usually committe...
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Categories:
wealths, caregiving, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Book Is Not Enough
...All books can drain earthen's faith; getting hook in just knowledege. Learning must not oppress principles' quest, recoiling set times under vulnerable wealths. X-ray Your zeal!...
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Categories:
wealths, allegory,
Form: ABC
" of Africa "
...So may have been that we who thought ~
Lands afar 'cross sea swift we'd ought ~
Shores held for us such wealths o'mind ~
O'which we'd never thought we'd find ~
Yet in doing that we'd desired ~
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Categories:
wealths, adventure
Form: Rhyme
His Wealth 2
...our children dacing
dacing at the sight of lighted bulbs
like when the eclipse occured
but their hope dashed
but his wealth is intact
for his greatest grand children
children that are more e...
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Categories:
wealths, art, confusion, devotion, history,
Form: Ode
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