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Zora Poems - Poems about Zora


Premium Member Zora Zebra Gets a Boob Job
...Zora Zebra does not know how to be subtle does she? I looked at my cousin, who is snotty notoriously. What’s going on? I asked this uppity Georgia peach. Look down there she said, nodding toward t......

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Categories: zora, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Magnum Opus
...Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs, feeling A Love Supreme after two weeks King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue Malcolm, By Any Means ......

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Categories: zora, absence, career, courage, creation,
Form: Rhyme



One Silent Strike
...Z-one O-f R-abid A-ilment B-rings E-erie R-isk's N-asty I-nfection C-arrying E-pidemic M-ystery A-s Y-ucky C-oronavirus R-eleases O-ne S-ilent S-trike Topic: Birthday of po......

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Categories: zora, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
A Tall Tale On Love
...*this was inspired by 'tall tales' that were collected and written by Zora Neale Hurston...this is meant to be humorous* I knew a woman who loved a man so much she couldn't hardly take his t......

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Categories: zora, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Bertha's Coming Home Tonight
...The old ones have all gone now up those Golden Stairs. There's hay stacked for the horses in the barn. They're grubbing up potatoes and stacking corn stalks high 'cause Bertha's coming home toni......

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Categories: zora, character, courage, endurance, environment,
Form: Prose



What Do I Do
...I come up with a melody when I read Zora Langston stops me Baldwin is a hot Summer sidewalk baking under my waffle soles what do I do I sit down and write Jack sends in all direction i'......

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Categories: zora, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Flood
...THE FLOOD Sun pours through the window, a shower of light to strike the sheer white pages of my mind, a stark reminder of emptiness mocking me like the faces on the wall. I ......

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Categories: zora, inspiration, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Side Friends
...I wrote this about my friends on the social web sight zombie-station.ning.com In Van Gerren's mind Tied up tight with twisted twine Is a dusty old book If we could just take a look ......

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Categories: zora, friend, nonsense,
Form: I do not know?
Tell the Stories
...Zora Neal saw that Their Eyes Were Watching God, when Toni Morrison heard The Song of Solomon, and James Baldwin Told It on the Mountain, while W.E.B. DuBois embraced The Souls of Black Folks Ric......

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Categories: zora, bird, peace, song, sun,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Come Glory This All Hallow's Eve
...As I drive by the end of days I see a pumpkin and a happy witch on the doorstep of my joy, As I pass by my four year old’s awe toward friendly ghosts down the street of nostalgia, I am reminded of Sa......

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Categories: zora, happiness, holiday, mother, africa,
Form: Blank verse
My Black History Poem
...I want to lead you to safety like Harriet Tubman, While we are on our way, I want to stop traffic like Garrett Morgan, Before we get there, I want to right all wrongs like Supreme Court Justice ......

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Categories: zora, black african american,
Form: List

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